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Announcements Make sure your copyright year is updated. You can use to make certain it automatically updates. Is there a plugin for that? With more than 43,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook. Direct Stripe allows you to add Stripe buttons to your site for donations and payments without leaving your site. 17 Things to Remove From Your Site in 2017 Move social icons out of the header Stop playing suggested videos after your videos on your site Long paragraphs. Break your text into smaller paragraphs Remove stock photos of people, visitors can sense they are fake Remove PDF documents from your site Ads for your own products Testimonial page. Move your testimonials on different pages of your site Remove email addresses from website Long submission forms “Submit” as call to action. “Get Free Report” is much better Anything flash, it’s 2017 Autostarting video Low quality guest posts Things people don’t care about using CrazyEgg Too many ads / ads that aren’t making money Page count views Long category or tags lists Thank You! Thank you to those who use my affiliate links. As you know I make a small commission when someone uses my link and I want to say thank you to the following people. For all my recommended resources, go to my Resources Page Call To Action Fix all the violations 🙂 View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com