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WordPress has more than 50000 plugins. It is hard to describe which plugin is best for SEO, Web design, and security. You will do the operations easily in WordPress with help of plugins.
And we have no answer for how many plugins are free and trusted? However, in this article, we provide some Top 10 Essential WordPress Plugins for every business. These plugins are commonly used for all operations. And they all are trusted, reliable and effective.
What is WordPress Plugin?
The name of Plugins or Add-on means you will do any kind of operations in WordPress with a simple application. Such as speed optimization, cache clearing, security, cool image gallery, and so on. You can do improvement and site visibility on search engines.
How to Choose a Secure and Reliable Plugin?
While searching the plugin at WordPress, you can see multiple plugins with the same features, and you notice that each plugin is developed by different developers. So, how do you know which one is the best?
Here are the important tips to choose the right plugin.
- Pay attention to the “Last Updated” date, here you can choose the updated plugins with a date,
- See the Reviews and Active installations. If the plugin has more positive reviews and installations,
then you can use that.
- Check the plugin, whether it supports your WordPress version or not.
Premium vs Free Plugins
In WordPress, most of the plugins are free when comparing a premium. Generally, WordPress developers use free plugins for their web designing tasks. Some users earn money from WordPress with Premium plugins. This is a good earning. If you need to use premium plugins if it’s necessary. Otherwise, go to free plugins.
Top 10 Essential WordPress Plugins
1. WPForms
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Each website required a contact form for getting visitors. WPForm is a user-friendly plugin, you can simply drag and drop the contact form on the page. It provides contact forms, email forms, subscription forms, online order forms,s and payment forms. WPForms lite version is freely available at WordPress. If you need an alternate for this one, “Formidable Forms” is the best choice.
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2. MonsterInsights
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This is the best Google Analytics plugin that is available in WordPress. Generally, it is a free version. If you can buy premium, you can unlock and use all of its features.
3. All in One SEO
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It is one of the best tools for increasing website traffic while using SEO activities. This friendly plugin is used on over 3 million websites. AIO SEO provides good features to improve on-page SEO. In WordPress, the free version is also available. If you get the paid version, you get powerful features like WooCommerce SEO, Local SEO, smart schema, News sitemap, Video Sitemap, smart redirection manager, and so on. If you plan to use an alternate to this, Yoast SEO is a good choice.
4. OptinMonster
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It is the best conversion rate optimizer plugin. You can get the history of visitors, subscribers, and customers from your website. These plugins help with getting more email subscribers. OptinMonster is the best solution for bloggers, business websites, and eCommerce websites.
5. SeedProd
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SeedProd has been used in many web development operations. You can easily build a website quickly without using any code. It has pre-made templates for developing the home page, sales pages, coming soon pages, maintenance mode pages, and so on. The Beaver Builder, Divi page, and CSS Hero are good alternatives for SeedProd.
6. MemberPress
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This plugin is used for creating online courses, communities, membership websites, and so on. MemberPress plugin supports popular payments such as PayPal, Authorize.net, Stripe, and so on. Learndash is a good alter-one for MemberPress.
7. UpdraftPlus
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UpdraftPlus is the best site backup plugin. It automatically backups your website and store them in Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, Rackspace, and more. And you can easily restore that page. This plugin is free, if you plan to get more features, then you can buy the premium version.
8. WP Rocket
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It is the best and most widely used plugin in WordPress for deleting the cache and increasing the speed of the website. Once you can install WP Rocket, it will automatically optimize your website. WP Rocket is not a free plugin. WP Super Cache and W3 Total cache are free and alternate plugins for WP Rocket.
9. Sucuri
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Sucuri is one of the top plugins for business owners. It provides security and a web application firewall to protect your website. It monitors the malware, XSS attacks, brute force attacks, and spam attacks. It stops thousands of attacks every month. Wordfence and WP Activity log are the best alternatives for the Sucuri plugin.
10. SEMRush
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SEMRush is the complete marketing tool kit for digital marketing activities. This powerful tool will help you to improve SEO, paid traffic strategy, social media, and PR strategy. If you are a business owner, this tool is the best choice for your online tasks.
Final Word
In this article, we have discussed some essential WordPress plugins for the website and SEO-related activities. It is not necessary to install all plugins, the choice is yours. The best option is to choose the plugins depending on your website and business needs.
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