Your Must-Have WordPress Plugins

WordPress is the most powerful platform used by more than 60 millions people. It gives you everything you need… whether it’s a website, online store, portfolio or blog – Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want.

IMPORTANT! Don’t add too many plugins because they will slow down your website or break it! Be careful and keep it simple and clean!

Bear in mind that WordPress has updates every two weeks so you will have to update your plugins as well.  Here are the widely used and most secure plugins we recommend:

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The most convinient website builder that we recommend to you is Elementor. Create stunning landing pages, design a blog, customize your online store.

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Sometimes Elementor requires you to disable Gutenberg Editor and actually, we think the Classic Editor is a better option. /Only if you don’t like new Gutenberg Editor/

Add more flexibility to your website! Fields can be added all over WP including posts, users, taxonomy terms, media, comments and even custom options pages!

Comprehensive collection of various visual and functional elements, which you can use in the post editor, text widgets or even in template files

ALWAYS keep a backup of your website! It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over two million currently-active installs.

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SEO Optimization, Keywords, Description! Yoast SEO does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders.

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Super fast, light-weight plugin for adding schema.org structured data. Enhanced Presentation in Search Results by including structured data appropriate to your content, your site can enhance its search results and presentation.

Most trusted and reliable Contact Form! Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

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Protect your website from spam through the contact form. Invisible reCaptcha for WordPress is an extremely powerful plugin which integrates the new Invisible reCaptcha by Google with your WordPress site.

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Speed up your website and have a higher rank in Google. W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing load times.

Resize, optimize, optimise and compress all of your images. Smush has been benchmarked and tested number one for speed and quality and is the award-winning, back-to-back proven crowd favorite image optimization plugin for WordPress.

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Add more security to your website and prevent viruses. Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.

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If you are collecting data on your website, Don’t forget to add a notice. Cookie Notice allows you to elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and to comply with the EU cookie law GDPR regulations.

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With over 2 million active installs, MonsterInsights is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

We update this list all the time, so check back often!

/Last modified on: December 2nd, 2024/