I created this list of the 100 best plugins for WordPress. To make it easier for you to find what you need, I organized the plugins by categories. To make your choice easier, I also included the link to each one of them, so you can just choose and install what you need. Enjoy!
- Advanc iFrame Pro – you can create custom iFrames and embed them directly on your blog (Paid Plugin).
- Easy Google Fonts – You have access to all the Google Fonts that exist, greatly increasing the ability to personalize your texts.
- Enable Media Replace – you can exchange an image you have already published for a new one, without having to make changes to the post itself.
- Envira Gallery – is one of the best plugins for creating an image gallery on WordPress.
- FooGallery – allows you to create image galleries and has lots of customization options, adapting your reading to any device.
- NextGEN Gallery – allows you to create image galleries and has different animations and customization options.
- Page Builder – plugin for creating content organized by columns using various available widgets.
- Regenerate Thumbnails – allows you to resize image thumbnails, something that is not always easy with WordPress.
- Rock Convert – Facilitates the management of CTA banners, this makes it possible to create personalized CTAs for each category on your blog.
- SeedProd – allows you to have a huge possibility of customizing your Landing Page.
- Simple Author Box – Add a small photo of the author at the end of each post.
- Shortcodes Ultimate – Add shortcodes to WordPress so you can have more customization options.
- Soliloquy – creates highly customizable image slides without needing to enter a single line of code.
- Spectra – very similar to Elementor, it has several templates, lots of customization options and different blocks and animations.
- Tiny MCE Advanced – creates greater control when editing text, greater customization, and more information presentation options.
- WordPress Popular Posts – counts the reading of your posts and creates a menu where they are displayed in an organized way.
STRUCTURE
- Advanced Custom Fields – very important as it allows you to create custom fields within blogs.
- CoSchedule – recommended for when a blog has several authors, among other things it allows you to create editorial calendars (Paid Plugin).
- Editorial Calendar – Create a calendar in your WordPress so that you can maintain regular publications.
- Jetpack – This extremely complete plugin allows you to configure all the functions of your blog such as security, images, and text, among others.
- LinkPatrol – creates a menu with all the external links you have on the blog so you can organize them (Paid Plugin).
- Pretty Link – you can rewrite the links on your pages to make them simpler and more appealing.
- Redirection – important plugin for those who have many pages redirected to each other, it allows you to organize them all.
- Rel Nofollow Checkbox – adds attributes to external links.
- Sugar Calendar – creates a calendar on your website, notifies you of upcoming events, and allows you to manage publications.
- TablePress – the best option for those who want to create tables in their blog posts.
- UpdraftPlus – creates automatic backups of your WordPress to prevent you from losing information.
- Uncanny Automator – creates connections between your blog and other applications, including ChatGPT and other AI resources.
- WordPress Importer – with this plugin you can import any element into WordPress such as a page, comments, custom layouts, and much more.
- WPCode – creates the possibility of adding code snippets to WordPress without running the risk of creating problems with the site’s own files.
- WP-PageNavi – allows you to determine how to navigate between pages and posts, something that many themes do not have.
- WP RSS Aggregator – the best plugin for creating automatic content, that is, it copies content and information from other blogs.
FINANCE
- Advanced Coupons – creates the option to place discounts, promotions, and coupons associated with your products.
- AffiliateWP – probably the best plugin for those who do affiliate marketing as it allows you to create a specific eCommerce program linked directly to your blog.
- Easy Digital Downloads – essential for those who have e-commerce because it allows WordPress to make sales, all managed through the plugin.
- e-Commerce Product Catalog – greatly simplifies the sales process through your blog.
- Forminator – creates forms on your blog as well as managing your readers and payments.
- LearnDash – creates the possibility of teaching online courses, monitoring, and creating contact lists from these courses.
- PushEngage – helps increase your blog/website’s sales volume through push notifications.
- RafflePress – offers the possibility of creating contests on your blog.
- Wholesale Suite – combines three plugins that allow you to add wholesale to your WooCommerce website.
- WooCommerce – is the best plugin for creating e-commerce on WordPress, with lots of customization options.
- WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart – allows payments to be made through PayPal.
- WP-Insert – gives the possibility of using HTML, CSS, or JavaScript codes to place advertising in any area of your blog.
- WP Simple Pay Lite for Stripe – for those who have a Stripe account, this plugin offers the possibility for your customers to pay on this platform.
COMMUNICATION
- Akismet – an anti-spam plugin that automatically eliminates repetitive and automated comments.
- Disable Comments – closes the possibility of comments on your blog so that you do not receive any spam.
- Disqus – is the best option for organizing comments, adding images to comments, and creating a greater connection with the public.
- LiveChat – as the name suggests, creates a chat to talk to your readers.
- MemberPress – is the best plugin for anyone who wants to create a website that requires registration to access.
- Restrict Content – creates pages that your readers must register to access.
- WP Call Button – offers the possibility of adding a button so that customers can make a phone call with you.
- WP Mail SMTP – helps ensure that all emails sent through WordPress reach their intended recipients.
SEO
- All in One SEO Pack – offers a wide range of settings to increase your SEO ranking.
- Google Analyticator – increases the amount of information you can obtain from your Google Analytics.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – mandatory plugin to define how Google Analytics evaluates your blog.
- Google XML Sitemaps – helps Google’s logarithm find your blog, improving SEO performance.
- MonsterInsights Lite – connects WordPress with Google Analytics to get the best optimization results.
- Rank Math – helps you search KewWords and shows your blog’s SEO integration.
- Rank Math SEO – one of the best plugins to measure your blog’s SEO ranking.
- Rich Snippets – Supports optimizing SERP results by showing more details of the results.
- Schema Markup – the function of this plugin is to help Google understand the content of your blog, causing it to increase views.
- Visualizer – gathers various information regarding your blog’s SEO results.
- WordPress SEO – great optimization setup to increase your blog’s Google SEO ranking.
EFFICIENCY
- Autoptimize – reduces the weight of codes used on your blog so that it is faster and has better SEO performance.
- BJ Lazy Load – automatically deactivates plugins that are not being used, making the blog run faster.
- Broken Link Checker – identifies which external links are not working.
- Lazy Load – loads images only when they appear on the reader’s screen, accelerating the blog’s speed.
- LiteSpeed Cache – pack with several tools to considerably speed up your blog’s speed.
- Optimole – compresses images from the moment they are uploaded to the blog, allowing you to speed up the site.
- Smush – increases the speed of loading images.
- Widget Logic – this plugin allows you to manage the remaining plugins, that is, with it you can define which plugins are active on each page.
- WP-Optimize – searches the server to find unnecessary information, deletes it, and increases the site’s speed.
- WP Super Cache – cleans old cache and allows you to increase your blog’s browsing speed.
- W3 Total Cache – very useful as it allows you to increase your page loading speed.
COMPATIBILITY
- AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages – accelerates the speed at which your page loads on mobile devices.
- Duplicator – for those who need to change the location of their WordPress site from one server to another, this plugin simplifies this work.
- Responsive Select Menu – helps you format your blog so it is easily visible on smartphones.
- WPTouch Mobile Plugin – automatically formats your blog to be read on your cell phone in the best possible way.
SHARE
- Better Click to Tweet – with this plugin, you can create content that is easily shareable on Tweet.
- Flare – Essential plugin for anyone who wants to share their publications on social media.
- Imsanity – allows you to customize the size of any image and for any device.
- PrintFriendly – offers the ability to print PDF documents from your blog.
- Simple Social Icons – as the name suggests, add social media icons to share your publications.
- Shared Counts – using a small code allows you to add buttons for connecting to social networks.
- Smash Balloon – a collection of multiple plugins related to social networks.
- TweetDis – mandatory for those who use Tweet as their main social network, allows readers to share their content, or part of it (Paid Plugin).
LEADS
- Contact Form 7 – allows the creation of forms to capture leads.
- Form Craft – used to create more complex forms without needing to know programming (Paid Plugin).
- HubSpot – organizes your contact list by lists, categories, and tags, it also allows you to create a chat to talk to your readers.
- LeadPages – allows you to create a Landing Page in which a form is integrated to capture leads.
- Mailchimp for WordPress – creates forms to capture leads, with the advantage of having lots of customization options.
- OptinMonster – allows you to increase the conversion rate by allowing you to create pop-ups that can be both informative and capture leads.
- Q2W3 Fixed Widget – allows you to force the capture of a lead, that is, even if the reader closes your form, when scrolling down the page it will appear again.
- Thrive Leads – in addition to allowing you to create pop-ups and forms, it allows you to create A/B Tests to evaluate the conversion rate.
- TrustPulse – creates notifications on your blog whenever you gain a lead or make a purchase, this way you can show social proof in real-time.
- WPForms Lite – creates multiple forms and pop-up windows to capture leads.
SECURITY
- Login Lockdown – is perhaps the best plugin to increase the security of your blog, website, or Landing page.
- Really Simple SSL – offers a free SSL certificate and even helps you migrate your website to another server.
- Sucuri – increases the security of your blog by providing several security strengthening options.
PS: NEVER use the “WP Social SEO Booster” plugin, the moment it is installed it is common for it to destroy your website, this happened to me and other people I know.
Ricardo D’almeida
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