WPMU Dev is a good resource. They provide a nice bundled solution for WP users for $588 per year.
But there’s a cheaper way to get the solutions offered by WPMU.
Here’s the Top 16 WordPress Plugins you need to replace WPMU Dev:
1 Snapshot
BackupBuddy – backups, migrations, staging/dev environments = $300 for unltd sites for life ($225 w/ coupon)
BackWPup – Free
WP Staging – free
2 Hustle
Bloom – more customizable, comes with Elegant Themes membership for $80/yr
3 SmartCrawl
Yoast – free, industry standard
4 Defender
Wordfence – free, 22 million users, open-source
5 Hummingbird
WP Fastest Cache
WP Super Cache
6 Smush Pro
ShortPixel – free (100 images/month), $5/mo for 5000 images/mo
PicMonkey – free editor (resize large images usually cuts them by more than 50%)
7 CoursePress
WP CourseWare – $100 (2 sites), $125 (10 sites), $175 (25 sites)
8 Membership 2 AND Affiliates
MemberPress – $199/yr for unltd sites ($99 for 1 site)
9 MarketPress
WooCommerce – free, super supported, tons of tutorials and people using it
10 Events
Included with BuddyPress
Businesses: The Events Calendar – Free / $150 for 1 site / $300 for 10 sites
Modern Events Calendar – $29 from CodeCanyon
11 Appointments
Bookly – $59 from CodeCanyon
Booked – $49 from CodeCanyon
12 Jobs and Experts
WP Job Manager – Free
BuddyPress Job Manager – $50 for 1, $100 for developer
– front end jobs, social profiles submit for jobs, etc
13 Google Analytics
GA by MonsterInsights
14 Support
Awesome Support – Free ticketing plugin
Drift – Free for up to 1000 active visitors.
Better service with real time chat enabled. Best for teams.
15 Social
Monarch – with Elegant Themes
16 Users and Messaging
BuddyPress – free
UserPro – $29, works with BP
Other Plugins to Install
CleanTalk
WP-SpamShield
WP-Optimize
In summary,
For about $250, you can have everything you need from plugins not built by WPMU Dev.
Save $300. Spend it on a new phone and headphones.
WPMU Dev is a nice one stop shop for a developer getting started, but there are better solutions if you weave them together properly
Super collection,
But I propose a more powerful plugin to optimize the image and to open the page much faster,
See here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/way2enjoy-compress-images/
Its totally free and no need to registration.
Yep – I hear you. However, as a designer – WPMU DEV is amazing. I get all those things…for $533.00 a year….instead of getting all those things for each and every single client…..I have 120 clients… and I pay… 533 a year 😉
Hey,
you’re doing it wrong. Don’t get a subscription and keep paying remembering how excited you were when you signed up. If you’ve got a few good plugins out of WPMU, cancel the subscription as soon as you doubt it’s worth it. The plugins are licensed under GPL (??) anyway so it’s more like regular update fees than a subscription because you can keep what you’ve paid for once you cancel your membership. (Assuming you didn’t get it for their newsletter and all-capslock-titled forums.