Creating an ad-free experience

Both WooCommerce and Jetpack, a plugin we’ll install later in this chapter, include promotions. And these promotions make it less clear what’s going on. And if you’re developing this site for a client, you want to recommend plugins—you don’t want your plugin doing that for you.

As an example, in the following screenshot, there’s a promotion for premium functionality:

Figure 1.2 – An ad from Jetpack

Note

Throughout this book, I’ll include several screenshots. To make sure these are valuable to you, I’m going to make sure they’re showing you what I need you to see and I’ll try and get rid of the extra content.

To make this book clearer, I’m going to install two plugins that remove these ads, which lets me share more useful screenshots and will give you and your clients a much cleaner user experience.

Let’s first install something...