July 25, 2024
One of the reasons we love WordPress so much is the incredible plugin ecosystem that surrounds it. The true power of WordPress lies in its extensibility through plugins. At Breakdance.com, we use a diverse stack of WordPress plugins to build a highly functional and efficient website. These plugins empower us to implement complex features, refine content with AI, gain valuable insights through analytics, operate our online store complete with an affiliate program, and much more. Achieving the same results with another CMS would be extremely costly, time-consuming and complicated. Thanks to the wide variety of high quality WordPress plugins available today, adding these advanced capabilities to our website is simple, easy, and inexpensive.
Purpose: Complete WordPress code snippets manager.
Usage: WPCodeBox allows us to significantly reduce the number of plugins we need by enabling us to manage custom code snippets efficiently. This flexibility is invaluable for customizing WordPress with advanced functionality. For example, we have a snippet that adds a button to the WP admin to automatically pull the post featured image from a YouTube thumbnail, which is a great time-saver when we post YouTube videos to the tutorials section of our website. Another snippet customizes title tags of our deeply nested documentation for SEO, integrating seamlessly with Rank Math. We also use snippets to prevent duplicate products in the cart, to allow technical writers to see draft documentation while keeping it hidden from end users, and much more.
WPCodeBox features the best code editor of any snippets plugin, offering functionality and an interface that feels like a dedicated IDE. It uses the Monaco code editor, the same powerful editor that powers Visual Studio Code by Microsoft, which is particularly beneficial when working with complex code, as it provides a familiar environment.
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Purpose: Analytics for WordPress.
Usage: AnalyticsWP gives us the insights we need to ensure that we are meeting our users’ needs and continuously improving our offerings. For our existing customers, AnalyticsWP provides us with aggregate data on various aspects of user engagement, including tutorial engagement, documentation engagement, and overall user interaction with our content. By analyzing this data, we can identify areas for improvement, understand what users find important, and make informed decisions to enhance the customer experience through better website content.
For those who are not yet customers, the User Journeys feature allows us to understand the paths users take as they navigate through our site, which is invaluable for conversion rate optimization. By analyzing these journeys, we can understand what people are doing on our site before they make a purchase.
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Purpose: Website builder for WordPress and AI-powered content creation.
Usage: Of course, we built our website with Breakdance! We design every part of our website using Breakdance. Without Breakdance, the Breakdance.com website would be a very complex build with tons of code and a highly intricate custom theme. With Breakdance and no theme at all, we can achieve far better results. This powerful builder allows us to do everything we need.
We also utilize Breakdance AI to write content faster and improve existing content. This integration enhances our workflow by leveraging AI capabilities to generate high-quality content efficiently. Whether it’s crafting new website pages to clearly explain the features in Breakdance, or refining our documentation to make it simpler and easier to understand, AI helps us maintain a high standard of content across our site.
Purpose: Customize WordPress with powerful, professional, and intuitive fields.
Usage: ACF allows us to create custom fields and custom post types, allowing us step beyond the default fields and tailor WordPress to our specific needs. We use ACF for the custom post types and fields used by our design library, experts network, tutorials, and much more.
ACF’s integration with WS Form is particularly beneficial, enabling us to easily incorporate user-submitted data onto the site. We use this integration to allow users to submit tutorials, design sets, experts network profiles, and other content directly through custom forms. The data flows seamlessly from WS Form to ACF.
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Purpose: Advanced form builder.
Usage: WS Form is an essential tool for creating versatile forms. We use it to allow users to submit content to our website. It integrates seamlessly with Advanced Custom Fields.
A WS Form is used to allow customers to create and edit their profile in our experts network. The fields and custom post type are set up in ACF, and the template that displays all this information is built with Breakdance. WS Form enables users to both initially submit and then later edit these fields, providing a user-friendly interface for profile management.
Similarly, we use WS Form for design library creators to submit their designs. The fields and custom post type are configured in ACF, and the submission forms are created with WS Form. The submitted designs are displayed using Breakdance templates.
We apply the same approach to tutorials and our website showcase. Custom post types and fields are managed with ACF, submissions and edits are handled by WS Form, and the content is displayed using Breakdance templates. Breakdance’s dynamic data integration makes it effortless to create designs that showcase the data from ACF fields filled through WS Form.
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Purpose: Build advanced grid layouts.
Usage: To enhance content discovery and user experience, we use WP Grid Builder. This tool allows visitors to easily search and filter through the experts network, design library, tutorials, and more by specific field values. The advanced grid layouts and real-time faceted search capabilities provided by WP Grid Builder make navigating our extensive content intuitive and efficient.
By combining ACF, WS Form, WP Grid Builder, and Breakdance, we enable content creators to submit and manage their content seamlessly while providing visitors with an excellent browsing and content discovery experience.
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Purpose: Comprehensive SEO tool and more.
Usage: Rank Math SEO is a powerful tool designed primarily for search engine optimization, but we primarily use it for its non-SEO features, such as redirects and social share images. These functionalities play a significant role in enhancing our website’s user experience and social media presence.
We use redirects extensively to prevent 404 errors when moving documentation around. As we are always striving to keep our documentation structured in an easy-to-understand way, managing redirects is crucial for maintaining a seamless user experience.
Additionally, we use Rank Math’s social share image settings. While not directly related to SEO, this feature allows us to set custom images for social media shares, ensuring our content is visually appealing when shared across platforms.
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Purpose: Sell digital products with WordPress.
Usage: Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) is essential for managing our digital product sales, including software licensing, recurring payments, invoices, and manual purchases. It provides a comprehensive platform tailored specifically for digital goods, and especially selling WordPress plugins, making it a perfect fit for Breakdance.com.
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Purpose: Affiliate plugin for WordPress.
Usage: We use AffiliateWP to manage our affiliate program, track referrals, and pay commissions. This powerful plugin offers extensive configuration options, allowing us to tailor our affiliate program to meet our specific needs. With AffiliateWP, we can easily manage and pay our affiliates, ensuring a smooth and reliable partnership.
The primary reason we use AffiliateWP is its seamless integration with Easy Digital Downloads, which is the platform we use to sell our products.While many users might prefer WooCommerce for their online stores – and Breakdance works great with WooCommerce – those using EDD will find AffiliateWP to be the best solution available. For WooCommerce users, we recommend Solid Affiliate as a robust alternative for managing affiliate programs.
We encourage you to join the Breakdance affiliate program and start earning commissions by promoting our products. To learn more and sign up, visit our affiliate program page.
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