Essential Wordpress Plugins - All Encompassing List
Plugins on the list:
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Categories: Forms
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin.
Categories: Seo
Everything you need to launch an online store in days and keep it growing for years. From your first sale to millions in revenue, Woo is with you.
Categories: Ecommerce
Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. Fully customizable.
Categories: General
Firewall, Malware Scanner, Two Factor Auth, and Comprehensive Security Features, powered by our 24-hour team. Make security a priority with Wordfence.
Categories: General
Backup, restore or migrate your WordPress website to another host or domain. Schedule backups or run manually. Migrate in minutes.
Categories: General
Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.
Categories: General
The most popular gallery plugin that lets you create galleries and albums in seconds.
Categories: General
Essential elements for modern websites. Add buttons, sliders, heroes, maps, images, carousels, features, icons, more. Create dynamic pages easily.
Categories: General
Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
Categories: General
Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type. Multisite friendly.
Categories: General
The 100% beginner friendly WordPress form builder. Drag & drop form fields to build beautiful, professional contact forms in minutes.
Categories: General
The #1 Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. Allows you to add a multitude of newsletter sign-up methods to your site.
Categories: General
Slider, gallery, carousel plugin for WordPress. Build your image slider, video slider, post slider, YouTube slider, or WooCommerce product slider.
Categories: General
Optimize images & bulk compress images with lossless compression, lazy load, convert WebP, and properly size images via CDN for incredibly fast sites.
Categories: General
Redirection
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Manage 301 redirects, track 404 errors, and improve your site. No knowledge of Apache or Nginx required.
Categories: General
A comprehensive collection of visual components for your site
Categories: General
Make email delivery easy for WordPress. Connect with SMTP, Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Mailgun, SES, Zoho, + more. Rated #1 WordPress SMTP Email plugin.
Categories: General
Use Google Analytics on your WordPress site without touching any code, and view visitor reports right in your WordPress admin dashboard!
Categories: General
Backup, transfer, copy, and move a site with 1-click. Quick, easy, and reliable.
Categories: General
Embed beautiful, accessible, and interactive tables into your WordPress website’s posts and pages, without having to write code!
Categories: General
The Events Calendar: #1 calendar plugin for WordPress. Create/manage events (virtual too!) on your site with the free plugin.
Categories: General
🤩 Make popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales - #1 most popular popup builder plugin! 🚀
Categories: General
The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop form builder to create beautiful contact forms, payment forms, & other custom forms.
Categories: General
Cookie Notice allows you to you elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and helps you comply with GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy laws.
Categories: General
Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.
Categories: General
Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate.
Categories: General
An easier path to great Page Experience for everyone. Powered by AMP.
Categories: General
Flexible sidebars for custom widget configurations on any page or post. Create custom sidebars with ease!
Categories: General
Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress.
Categories: General
Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend
Categories: General
The Elementor Website Builder has it all: drag and drop page builder, pixel perfect design, mobile responsive editing, and more. Get started now!
Categories: Page Builders
Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing
Categories: General
Create, print & automatically email PDF or UBL Invoices & PDF Packing Slips for WooCommerce orders.
Categories: General
Translate WordPress with Google Translate multilanguage plugin to make your website multilingual. Complete multilingual SEO solution for WordPress.
Categories: General
A simple way to change a post's type in WordPress
Categories: General
Membership & community plugin with user profiles, registration & login, member directories, content restriction, user roles and much more.
Categories: General
The only complete toolkit for all ad types. Grow your revenue with AdSense, Amazon—or any affiliate network. Get pinpoint targeting and best support!
Categories: General
Accept donations and begin fundraising with GiveWP, the highest rated WordPress donation plugin for online giving.
Categories: General
Add posts, pages, categories and custom post types and taxonomy terms in bulk! Managing vast amounts of content made a walk in the park!
Categories: General
Anti-Captcha is a transparent spam solution that does not require any end-user interaction.
Categories: General
Health Check identifies common problems, and helps you troubleshoot plugin and theme conflicts.
Categories: General
Count the words on your WordPress site instantly.
Categories: General
Reading Time WP creates an estimated reading time of your posts that is inserted above the content or by using a shortcode.
Categories: General
PublishPress Planner has all the tools you need to plan WordPress content including a Content Calendar, Content Overview, and Kanban Board.
Categories: General
Send verification links to newly registered users and ask them to confirm their email address to activate their account.
Categories: General
This plugin is meant to assist with the GDPR obligations of a Data processor and Controller.
Categories: General
Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA
Categories: General
