I love WordPress. It's a great platform with endless possibilities but there are some limitations that can be fixed with plugins. The problem is that there are literally thousands of plugins available for WordPress users, and it can be difficult to know which ones will work best for you.
So I did some research and I'll share my favorite plugins that will help turn your WordPress site into an unstoppable moneymaker!
WooCoommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform for WordPress and for good reasons. It is highly customizable and compatible with most plugins you might use it with.
Right out of the bat, you have all options to set up your online store. It offers flexible and secure payment options with integrations like Stripe, Paypal, and Amazon Pay.
Yoast
Yoast is one of the best SEO plugins for your WordPress site. With Yoast, you can set a focus keyword, add a meta description. It also analyses your content and recommends how to improve it. Yoast has a free version that covers most essential features.
TranslatePress
TranslatePress is an easy-to-use translation plugin with intuitive controls that can be used straight from the front-end. TranslatePress also offers automatic translation, so your site can be translated instantly.
CaptainForm
CaptainForm is a plugin that lets you create any type of form and survey. It has features like an intuitive drag and drop editor, a library of form templates, reports, and advanced security. You can also extend the plugin with services like PayPal, Stripe, and Dropbox.
Smush
Smush is a plugin that compresses images on your site without losing their quality. A helpful feature is the bulk smush, which allows optimizing an unlimited amount of images with a single click.
There are also features like automatically converting PNG to JPEG, automatic resizing and scaling, lazy loading, and many more.
OptinMonster
OptinMonster is an email optin form plugin that promises to turn visitors into customers. Some of its most popular features are turning any link or image into a popup campaign, personalizing campaigns based on location, and their exit-intent technology.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a safety plugin. Its main features are malware detection and removal, protection of potential site attacks, speed improvements, help for hacked websites and backups.
LearnDash
LearnDash is the leading LMS for WordPress. It allows creating online courses using an intuitive drag and drop builder, engaging users with certificates, assignments, and course points.
LearnDash also makes it easy to sell your online courses by ensuring one-time purchases, subscriptions, shopping cart, memberships, and more.
WP Rocket
WP Rocket is a caching plugin that will speed up your website. It will also your SEO ranking and conversions. It offers features like page and browser caching, web page compression, and compatibility with the most popular WordPress themes and plugins.
Visual Composer
Visual Composer is an intuitive drag and drop website builder. It is a powerful all-in-one tool for creating a website. It has more than 500 templates to choose from, a header and footer builder, as well as a popup builder.
You can adjust every aspect of your site with a large number of content elements, like a simple text block, post grids, countdown timer, and many more.
Duplicate Post
Duplicate Post is a plugin by Yoast that allows one-click post and page duplication. It copies everything including featured image, metadata, and SEO optimizations if you use Yoast for that.
Custom Post UI
Custom Post UI is a plugin that allows managing custom post types and taxonomies for your WordPress website.
Slider Revolution
Slider Revolution is a plugin that allows creating responsive slideshows and presentations. It is easily customizable and has over 75 example sliders.
GiveWP
GiveWP is a WordPress donation plugin. It has all the tools necessary for fundraising. They offer multiple payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, full reports, set custom goals, and more.
Easy Digital Downloads
Easy Digital Downloads is a service that helps to sell digital products. With EDD you get payment flexibility, can create discount codes, download activity tracking, and many more useful features.
BlogVault
Blogvault is a reliable backup plugin for WordPress. It has features like multi-site backup support, WooCommerce backups, and more.
MashShare
MashShare is a popular social media share button plugin. It gives you multiple ways to promote your social media accounts.
Toolset
Toolset is a suite of tools that help to extend WordPress with custom post types, custom fields, custom taxonomies, and more.
Advanced Custom Fields
Advanced Custom Fields is a plugin that allows adding custom fields to WordPress. They can be added anywhere, including posts, users, media, and comments.
Social Champ
Social Champ WordPress plugin allows you to directly publish your WordPress blogs to social media channels from the dashboard with custom titles, feature images, and content snippets. The plug-in supports all the social media networks that Social Champ does.
Conclusion
We hope you’ve found this list of WordPress plugins useful. Whether it’s for social media, security, or content creation, there are many good options out there to help take care of your various needs.
If you have any favorites that we didn't mention in our post, please let us know in the comments section below!
