Cut to the Chase
New to WordPress? Looking for helpful plugins to get started?
You can choose from over 55,000+ WordPress plugins available. Have a wide choice can bring huge possibilities. But if you are new, more choices can create confusion and dilemma about which one to choose.
We often find our-self in commotion about new things. Especially when we have no idea about the essential aspects of a website like, SEO, Social Media, Performance, backup, etc.
Having right plugins in i your WordPress website will help you and your business grow. In this article, you will be learning about some of the best and useful plugins that are easy to use as well as are efficient in their work.
Note: Jetpack will not be in this list since you get Jetpack installed in your WordPress website the moment you start your site.
1. WP Forms
WP form is a drag and drop online form builder allows you to easily create all type of forms that are essential in a website.
For Example, Contact form is an important page of any website. It helps your audience to connect with you.
Just like that, you can create email subscription form, online order form, online payment form, polls, surveys, stc. Basically, you can create all type of forms with the help of just few clicks.
WordPress integrates with all famous marketing and payment platforms. So all you have to do is drag your desired block and place it the way you want in lesser than 5 minutes.
You can even create custom user registration form or login page or any type of form you like.
If you have any doubt on WPForms, so let me tell you, WPForms is used by over 3 million websites. And for the past 3 years, they have maintained their average rating to 4.9 out of 5-stars.
Their is a free version of this plugin known as “WPForms Lite”. It give you enough authority to create a stranded form the way you like.
But if you are willing to grow your business through it, then i’ll recommend you to get the pro version of the plugin. It comes with all the powerful features that helps you boost efficiency and gives you creative freedom.
Alternatives: Everest Forms, formidible forms
2. MonsterInsights
MonsterInsights is the very best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. It helps you connect your website with Google Analytics efficiently. So that you can get the exact details about your traffic and how people are approaching your website.
What makes it special is that is shows you the exact and important stats directly on your WordPress dashboard.
Having the proper info does helps you in increasing your traffic, subscribers and revenue.
MonsterInsights does have a free version, but its true potential will unlock once you upgrade it to the premium version.
And yes it is trust worthy, since over 2 million websites are using MonsterInsights.
3. Constant Contact
Email service is the most successful and most reliable marketing tool for your website. It allows you to stay in touch with your website visitors even after they leave your website. This is the reason every website should start building an email list.
Why Constant Contact? Because it is one of the most popular and effective email marketing service provider in the world. This plugin helps you building an Email list. It also helps in sending attractive newsletters to your subscribers.
It have a very user friendly interface which is easy to use for non-technical users too. Constant contact is compatible with popular plugins like WPForms and OptinMonster.
Alternatives: SendinBlue, MailChimp, ConvertKit
4. OptinMonster
OptinMonster is pretty famous for its service. It is a conversion rate optimization software. It helps convert your long gone visitors into email subscribers and customers.
OptinMonster is a WordPress plugin that helps you get more email subscribers and customers.
It comes with a predefined opt-in forms. These pre-made structures are high-converting forms which are easy to customize with their drag and drop builder. Their amazing display features helps you in personalizing the module for each and every user, so that you can show the right message at the right time.
This plugin is very handy for bloggers, business websites and eCommerce websites. In other words, if you are looking for an income out of your website, then OptinMonster plugin is a must for you.
It allows you to recover lost/ignored cart sales, it helps you in converting website visitors and increase your email list.
5. Yoast
Yoast is a SEO (search engine optimizer) that helps you get more visitors from search engines to your website. It has user friendly interface which is easy to understand for a non tech guy too. It helps you in so many ways to increase your website traffic.
Yoast is one of the best and most popular WordPress plugin of all time. As compared to other WordPress SEO plugins, Yoast offers the most fulfilling solutions. It provides you all the features and tools that you need to improve your traffic.
It helps your website in adding meta tags, generating sitemaps,connecting to social medias and connecting your site to google search console, and a lot more.
One of its most powerful features is Redirect. It allows you to easily create about 300 redirects which is very helpful. It helps detect change in URLs and create auto redirects. So that you wont find any broken links on your website.
Alternative: All in One SEO pack
6. UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus is probably the most popular WordPress backup plugin on the market. Its job is to create automatic backups and store them on any of the remote location (cloud storage) like google drive, Myspace, FTP, oneDrive, etc.
Restoring the data from the backup is very simple. they have a free plan, but their premium plan is more exotic since it has more features and also provides priority support.
Alternative: VaultPress (jetpack backups), BackupBuddy. both are paid only.
7. Beaver Builder
Beaver Builder is the best drag and drop builder plugin for WordPress. It gives you an easy customization ability for your website’s design. It helps you create custom pages without writing any code.
So you don’t have to be a developer to create a page, thanks to this plugin.
Alternative: Divi page builder, Elementor.
8. WP Rocket
WP Rocket is the very best Caching plugin for WordPress. It helps you boost your website instantly. It helps increase the speed and performance. No skills required to do that.
It turns on recommended WordPress caching settings automatically. Like page cache, pre-loadingand gzip compression. It also have features like lazy loading images, CDN support, DNS pre-fetching, minification and many more to help improve speed of your website.
But what makes your website instantly fast? WP Rocket doesn’t wait for anyone to make a request on a page to save it in the cache Instead of that, it automatically crawls and build your website cache which helps in giving instant boost.
It also offers an amazing feature known as Imagify which is a free image optimization service. Another service to help speed up your website.
The only drawback it has is that it’s paid only.
Alternative: WP Super Cache. free but not easy to operate
9. Sucuri
Sucuri is a WordPress security plugin and a firewall that is a must have service for your website. It is a top priority plugin should be used by everyone.
It helps protect your website from DDoS, malware, XSS attacks, basically every type of attack. You need a firewall on your website at all cost.
It does help in blocking thousands of attacks every month on well known websites.
10. Akismet
Akismet is a comment spam filtering service. The name is defined as Automatic and Kismet. It was founded by the company Automatic, which is founded by the WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
It catches the comments and pingback spams using their algorithms. Popular websites often face spam comments. Akismet helps in finding these spam comments. This saves your time and efforts. Now you don’t have to deal with the spams, just focus on moderating the comments by real users.
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