One of the greatest things abut WordPress is the thousands of excellent plugins available. During our many years of working with WordPress we have tried and tested many, many plugins and we've gotten pretty good at spotting the good ones.
Here's a list of some of our favourites. Most are from the WordPress Plugin Repository and are completely free to use, though we have included some of our favourite premium / paid plugins as well.
Backup / Migration
- BackupBuddy (Paid / Premium only)
- Duplicator (Pro version)
- WP Migrate DB (Pro version)
- UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration (Pro version)
Content Creation / Page Builders / Layout / Sidebars
- Divi Builder
- Advanced Custom Fields (Pro version)
- Visual Composer
- Slider Revolution
- Custom Post Widget
- TinyMCE Advanced
- WP RSS Aggregator
- WP Page Navi
- Post Duplicator
- Simple Yearly Archive
E-Commerce
- Bloom Email Opt-In
- Custom Emails
- WP Email Template
- WP Mail SMTP
- Easy WP SMTP
- WP Mail SMTP
- Postman SMTP / Email Log
Forms
Holding Page / Maintenance Mode / Coming Soon
- LaunchPad
- Ultimate Coming Soon Page
- Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode
- WP Construction Mode
- Maintenance Mode
- Hide My Site
Maintenance / Optimisation / Database
Media / Images / Galleries
- Regenerate Thumbnails
- Nivo Slider
- Showcase
- Ideal Image Slider
- Media Manager Plus
- Simple Image Sizes
- Custom Image Sizes
- Enable Media Replace
- FancyBox for WordPress
- jQuery Colorbox
- Imagify
- AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
- Imsanity
- EWWW Image Optimiser Cloud
Mobile
Performance / Caching / CDN
- WP Super Cache
- WP Super Cache - Clear all cache
- W3 Total Cache
- WP Offload S3
- WP Rocket
- WP Fastest Cache
Security
SSL / HTTPS
SEO / SEM / Social Media / Search
- Yoast SEO (Premium version)
- Google Analytics by Yoast (Premium version)
- Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
- Monarch
- Relevanssi - A Better Search
- Better Search
- WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration
- Simple 301 Redirects
Theme / Plugin Development
WordPress Admin / Dashboard
- Admin Columns (Pro version)
- Admin Menu Editor (Pro version)
- Admin Toolbar Menus
- Dashboard Notepad
- Dashboard Directory Size
- File Unattach
- Reveal IDs
- Members
- User Role Editor
- Uber Login Logo
- Options Framework
- White Label CMS
- IP2Location Redirection (GeoIP)
- Custom Login Creator
- Search and Replace
- Better Search Replace (Pro version)
