The WordPress plugin library can be a pretty overwhelming place to be if you don’t know what you’re looking for – there are thousands upon thousands of plugins (and not all of them are good quality or property supported and updated).

I have a handful of plugins that I install on virtually every client site, including:

SEO

• Yoast SEO

 

Analytics

• Google Analytics by Monster Insights

 

Caching

• Hummingbird
• WP Super Cache
• WP Fastest Cache
• W3 Total Cache
• WP Rocket

 

Security

• WordFence Security
• iThemes Security

Backups

• UpDraft Plus
• Backup Buddy
• VaultPress

Under Construction Pages

• Seedprod

Contact Forms

• Contact Form 7
• Ninja Forms
• Gravity Forms

eCommerce

• WooCommerce

Image Optimisation

• EWWW Image Optimizer
• WP Smush

Membership Sites

• ActiveMember360
• WishList Member
• MemberPress
• AccessAlly

Payment Gateways

• ActiveRelay

Migrating

• Duplicator
• Updraft Plus Pro

Image Gallery

• Essential Grid
• FOO Gallery

Miscellaneous

• Akismet (blocking spam blog comments)
• Jetpack
• Law for Websites (privacy policy/terms & conditions via http://lawforwebsites.info/)
• WPS Hide Login
• Instagram Feed WD
• WP Optimize

Try and keep the plugins that you install on your WordPress site to a minimum – to help minimise the load speed of your site, and also to minimise the potential security breaches that can come from using outdated/unsupported plugins.

Do you have any plugins that you swear by? Feel free to tell me about them below!