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
- 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minimise the load speed of your site, and also to minimise the potential security breaches that can come from using outdated/unsupported plugins.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!