Design your way

The great majority of web designers and web developers have a few choice creative assets that they turn to, again and again. Each and every one of us is trying to find the best products and services that are available on the market, and use them to our professional advantage.

What are the plugins that you find most useful when you’re building your websites on some CMS or another? This autumn, I’m settling for nothing but the best. So, I took the liberty to research my options, and made a compilation with the most notable premium plugins.

LayerSlider Premium Multi-Purpose Slider Plugin

Content sliders, image galleries, and slideshows are must-have for most websites. What you need is the right plugin to get them by. You are most likely acquainted with the solution that I’m about to recommend.

Yet, just in case you aren’t, allow me to introduce you to LayerSlider, which would be my prime choice in this situation. It’s multi-platform, SEO-calibrated and responsive to all types of modern devices.

You can start by choosing one of 13 skins and so set the stage before you get to work. Then, I hope you’re ready for a supremely friendly drag-and-drop builder, which also includes timeline view and the function of live preview for everything you decide to do.

And the options are manifold: from 200 preset slide transitions with 2D and 3D effect, to a transition builder to make glorious animations with, and the ability to add content like videos, images, text, HTML, and Google Fonts.

PrestaNitro Product Inline Editor

Next, I would really like to mention a world-class module that enables creatives to edit products for the Prestashop online stores they’re making – directly from front office. This approach has its perks, like the fact that you would find it much easier to manage a catalog by getting a full view of the changes you make to your template.

Available fields include name, reference, short/long description, stock,and price. PrestaNitro was designated the most wanted back-end module by Envato, and it fully deserves these laurels. Did I mention that it has multi-language support and is multi-purpose? Take this module for a spin, and you will surely be content to have discovered it.

Madhai – Responsive Prestashop Megamenu

Speaking of Prestashop projects, how would you like a module that helps you make easy work of setting up complex megamenus? Madhai is based on Bootstrap, much the same as the Prestashop theme in its default form.

Besides, Madhai is the epitome of beauty: its design looks stunning. Not to mention, the module is cross-browser compatible, and completely responsive – being particularly optimized for touch-screen devices.

Even further, Madhai offers a flexible 12-columns grid, together with more than 50 animation effects that you can implement in your drop down. Customization opportunities are infinite, really. Besides, the customer support is very professional and quick to act.

Shortcode Ultimate Plugin for Joomla

Moving on to Joomla-based websites, I knowjust the right plugin to generate essential shortcodes with.

It’s the Ultimate Shortcode Plugin for web developers and web designers, and a handy tool that wears a friendly user interface and proposes a drag-and-drop functionality, so you can take your pick from over 60 shortcodes and create virtually infinite varieties thereof.

It’s possible to work either from an admin standpoint, or through the front-end, and the plugin also enables a live preview feature.

Magento Customer Attributes Extension

If you’re making a virtual shop using Mageno, then how well do you and/or your client wish to know about the people who buy those products? Collecting data about customers is important, because it helps create a better supply for their demands.

This logic explains why you need to include customer attributes, and ask relevant questions – either at checkout registration, or through the customer account area. Use the Customer Attributes Extension for Magento, and you will have yourself an easy way of creating an unlimited amount of customer attributes.

WPAdCenter

Seeing as we are all part of Consumer Society, advertising plays an important role in our lives and has come to influence a large part of our decisions. When you are in the business of forging websites for all types of clients, conducting reasonable advertising is a lesson you have to learn – sooner, rather than later.

If you are working on WordPress websites, and your advertisers need to run ad programs like Google AdSense or Chitika, go for WPAdCenter. It’s a wholesome ad management software, to put ad slot packages up for sale and monitor stats.

UserPro

Sometimes, all that matters is for your websites to deliver an authentic and optimum user experience. User interaction should not be perceived as a required criterion of a job well done, but as an actual opportunity of making your website visitors engage with your creation, thus giving it meaning.

Enlisting the aid of premium plugins like UserPro can work wonders. The complete profile management tool allows professionals to set up site member directories with tons of display options. Establish registration forms for any purpose, and give your users a one-click link to social networks.

Monarch

Since I mentioned the subject of your readers’ connection to social networks, I propose that you look for a proficient plugin to achieve that end. Monarch from Elegant Themes would be an excellent choice.

You can use it to style up social network sharing buttons, and display them however you see fit. Mark my words, with the help of a competent plugin like this one, news of your website content would spread like mad, and you would witness results in website traffic.

Chimpy – MailChimp WordPress Plugin

MailChimp is the finest way I know of to conduct e-mail marketing. However, the websites that bear your mark aren’t always tuned with it, are they? I wonder if you ever considered using Chimpy for this occasion.

The plugin can be used to devise registration forms and display them in pop-ups for your visitors to notice, as well as showing comment forms and synchronizing all WordPress users. Furthermore, Chimpy allows for exclusive website content that only becomes available once users have subscribed.

Lizatom Shortcodes Plugin

Working on a blog or an online shop in WordPress? Then, you should ensure the best resources that there are. Lizatom is a superb plugin for WordPress, which discloses a huge collection of shortcodes for anything that you might need.

Their total number goes as high as 5000, so your options are open. You can set a 3D shadow effect for images, or add pricing tables, reveal specific texts with accordions, and customize order lists. Some other features that accompany Lizatom are CSS3 buttons, tooltips, info boxes, pricing tables.

iMapper

Here is another wondrous plugin that I absolutely have to include in my top preferences over this autumn.

iMapper is quite useful when you’re building visual web stores, because when you work with product images, your viewers would appreciate a way to get more information about those products – with the minimum amount of effort.

In this context, creating pins anywhere on the product image could really pay off. Trust in iMapper and its pre-made pins, or use it to customize your own.

Subscriptio

When it comes to handing out woocommerce subscriptions, I have discovered an easy way to make sure they look well, namely an extension for the WooCommerce plugin: Subscriptio.

With this tool, you can set up all the details concerning your subscriptions and the manner in which they are dealt. Web developers will feel at home working through its easy-going interface, which is rich in hooks and filters. Decide how long subscription periods are supposed to last, and set the frequency of renewal/payment reminders.

Content Timeline

Any type of content has the potential to reach the audience. However, not all websites manage to do that. I believe that, if you chose to implement a content timeline into your projects, that would literally transform your website’s user experience.

And I know the perfect plugin for the job. Content Timeline offers 11 different customization options, so you can easily lay out your content in points that convey information to their right, and to their left. The numbers and groups you are free to add are limitless, and date in time is not the only available criterion.

FrontEnd Page Builder

Have you ever been so pressed by time, that you thought you’d never manage to complete your client projects in a satisfactory manner? We’ve all been there,and will probably face the same situation again, in the future. When this happens, you need to know about a premium WordPress plugin that can help you out.

I am referring to FrontEnd Page Builder, which exempts you from coding and spares precious time. Plus, should anything go amiss, its support team is very quick to respond.

Joomla On Exit Popup Box

As we are slowly inching towards the end of my list with friendly, yet advanced plugins for website creation, I need to usher in a simple tool. Pop-ups are, for the most part, a powerful force in terms of marketing. This astute plugin works for Joomla websites, and allows you to show a pop-up as visitors prepare to quit the page. Use it well!

WP Awesome Support – Responsive Ticket System

As far as I know, the best services and products are those that are joined with apt support. It makes sense for customers to give full rating when they were helped to make the best of their purchase.

With a responsive ticket system, everyone is happy. I recommend WP Awesome Support, a plugin for WordPress that is 100% responsive and compatible with all existing themes.

I had my say concerning a dozen or so premium plugins that really make the grade according to present-day standards. Any thoughts on the matter? How did you find my list of favorites?

Have you had a positive or a negative experience with any of these plugins, and would you like to share it with the rest of us? I would be much obliged if you voiced your opinions about the contents of this article, in the comment section.