What is Your Number One Wordpress Plugin That You Use

10 years ago

For what purpose?

It's not real smart to fill your platform with plugins that people recommend but they have no benefit for you.

I say the fewer you use judiciously, the better.

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Dyk Estrada

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve B

For what purpose?

It's not real smart to fill your platform with plugins that people recommend but they have no benefit for you.

I say the fewer you use judiciously, the better.

Steve

I agree. We tend to think that more plugins are good but it can somehow take its toll on the system and can sometimes make your site slower. I just choose the essential ones and even rethink if I need certain plugins before I install them.

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  Wordfence. Hands Down.
  
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ryanbiddulph

10 years ago

Hi HM,

Akismet saves me hours over the course of weeks

#1 in my blog. I don't use many plug ins though. I prefer speed, a simple platform and although functionality rocks no blogger needs more than a handful of plug ins to succeed with blogging.

Happy blogging!

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rohit36

10 years ago

The First two plugins I install on any blog I create are TinyMCE Advanced and ITheme Security Pro.

TinyMCE Helps me the format Content on Pages Easily and ITheme Security Pro is a must have for any Wordpress Blog as security always comes first.

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10 years ago

I get a lot of mileage out of Wordpress and I'm a big fan of plugins like Yoast, Simple Share Buttons Adder and WP Super Cache.

But, if truth be told, I'd have to say that my favorite of all time is Simple Google News. Their heading reads 'Easily add Google News search results to posts, pages, or sidebars on your WordPress site."

'Easily' is the key word here and the plugin is a snap to setup. Just install the plugin and enter a simple line of short code to your 'News' page or whatever you choose to call it.
Wordpress Plugin

Say you want some news on 'Social Media' for your visitors.

Add this line:

[google_news query="Social Media" limit="15"]

And you have the latest headlines from Google (with images) for your blog readers.

Just an extra added section for you blog that will be of interest to some readers and occasionally the news item link from your site will show up on the top of the search engines.

You can find the plugin at wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-news/

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iangh

10 years ago

I used Pretty Link very often to create my affiliate links. I agree with the Steve B above, only use what you need to use and make sure you keep them updated to help with security.

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John Hocking

10 years ago

If you are looking for a great SEO plugin, I highly recommend Yoast SEO https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

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JohnMcCabe

10 years ago

I use as few plugins as possible, preferring to do as much with code as possible. That said, there are a handful of plugins that go on every install:

> Akismet
> Bad Behaviour
> Yoast SEO

Once the site warrants it, I'll add a caching plugin to keep load times faster.

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hitman007

10 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

I use as few plugins as possible, preferring to do as much with code as possible. That said, there are a handful of plugins that go on every install:

> Akismet
> Bad Behaviour
> Yoast SEO

Once the site warrants it, I'll add a caching plugin to keep load times faster.

I have never heard of anyone using a caching plugin. Which one do you recommend and how big do you let your blog get before you install it?

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cybernac 10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Hocking

If you are looking for a great SEO plugin, I highly recommend Yoast SEO https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

I agree! This is the one plug-in that I could not live without!
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dadamson

10 years ago

Hello Dolly is my staple plugin.

But in all seriousness, I use a variety of different awesome plugins depending on the project and functionality I need.

Almost all my sites have;

1. Ninja Forms
2. All In One SEO Pack
3. Revolution Slider

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10 years ago

Thrive Leads... That's all!

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Brent Stangel

10 years ago

A Captcha and Limit log-ins.
First thing.

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Iale

10 years ago

WordFence is what I initially install

Then... YOAST SEO
Then... UpDraft Plus

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Amer A

10 years ago

Hi hitman007

The plugin I am using is optimizepress to create all the marketing pages.

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JohnMcCabe 10 years ago

Originally Posted by hitman007

I have never heard of anyone using a caching plugin. Which one do you recommend and how big do you let your blog get before you install it?

I've used WP Super Cache. It works by creating and serving static html files rather than dynamic files. It's really only useful if you get spikes of heavy traffic (like a front page digg or something) or your server is severely underpowered.

I'm not using it at the moment because WP hasn't verified that it works with the current update as I'm posting this. I expect it will be, though.

I don't have a hard and fast rule. I activate it as soon as I notice load times creeping up or if the spike hits.
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webinvestar

10 years ago

Hi,

When creating a Wordpress site or blog I tend to use basic plugins and then add on from there depending on the sites needs.

The basic ones I use are:

All In One SEO Pack

Contact Form 7

Add To Any Share Button

Google XML Sitemaps

Jetpack by Wordpress

ManageWP-Worker

WP Backup Plugin

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Jennifer Boyatt

10 years ago

Wordfence
Akismet which comes with VaultPress
Google XML Sitemaps

I also have a visitor counter and an image compressor. But I'm only moderately happy with those.

I also have a contact form plugin. Also not quite sure if I like it completely either, but is getting the job done so far.

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stackman

10 years ago

Yoast SEO
WP Super Cache
PHP Code for Posts
Quick AdSense
Jetpack
404 to 301
Google Analytics Dashboard

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galleonhosting

10 years ago

Secure Lockdown (prevents viruses and other crap)
Yoast SEO
DDoS protection (blocks bogus requests to admin URL)
Contact Form 7

There are other very good plugins for caching, https and emails. We actually always use https plugin as we offer free SSL certificates.

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SShaikh

10 years ago

SumoMeBar (not a Wordpress plugin per se, bit of coding you add to the HTML) is my favourite. It's got call to action bar, analytics, heat maps, share bar, and few others.

Other than that I've had fun with SEOPressor, but I have to disable it when I'm done as the loading time for a text based page can take up to 19s to load.

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hitman007 10 years ago

Is SEOPressor similar to Yoast SEO? If anyone has used both which do you prefer?
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hitman007

10 years ago

I tried Yoast SEO. This is a good plugin but you guys are right it can slow your site down. But it's worth using.

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LisaGrocke

10 years ago

got impressed by your question.

You know There are so many plugins being used nowadays that its very difficult to figure out the best one. but you can check this one:
CM tooltip glossary is one of the best plugin to change your website content readbility and also help your site SEO ranking.

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Alex The Lion

10 years ago

Yoast SEO
Pretty Link
W3 Total Cache

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moravian

10 years ago

Google XML Sitemaps
Google+ Plugin
Wordfence
WP Mobile Detector

We also use others, however, these are standard ones.

Hope this helps.
George

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hitman007

10 years ago

Has anyone here used optimizepress? Or is there any other plugin like it that you like?

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Manish Sapkota

10 years ago

I create all my sales page, jv page , download page, bonus page, squeeze page, hone page, etc with wp profit builder plugin. I can't live without it.

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Banned 10 years ago

Google XML Sitemaps
Google+ Plugin

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Philok

10 years ago

Just to name a few of them.

Wordfence Security
Fantastic Content Protector
Video XML Sitemap Generator
Yoast SEO
WP Hide Post

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TheOne26

10 years ago

For all those fancy squeeze pages and sales pages... I pick Instabuilder 2.0

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hitman007

10 years ago

I also use Instabuilder 2.0 it makes everything I do so much easier.

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felisitie 10 years ago

I use jetpack to post blog posts automatically to social media sites and check on my website visitors statistics and much more...
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Nexstair

10 years ago

Here are few i frequently use for almost all sites:

1- Yoast SEO
2- Wp Super Cache
3- Wordfence
4- Contact form 7

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10 years ago

Digi Developer

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Tim Franklin

10 years ago

custom plugins...

The plugins I like the most are usually the ones that are used the least, also they do not interfere with the day to day operation of the website.

That is the real test of a good plugin, If it works and does not create an undue burden on the performance of the website, then its a good thing. A good plugin should save you time and money if possible.

I know some people believe (wrongly) that you should have almost no plugins, but that is not a good modus operandi, If you look at plugins as tools that can be used to help you succeed at what you want to accomplish then you can gain an understanding into how to best utilize a plugin to help you succeed.

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10 years ago

i think yoast is the best ever plugin for wordpress.

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Platt

10 years ago

This is what I use:

- Akismet
- Jetpack
- Contact Form 7
- Yoast SEO

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kindsvater

10 years ago

#1 plugin depends on what use the plugin has:

Stopping Spam - NospamNX - works great and has an option to use an external file to list IPs to block. With the external file all of your sites can refer to it. A single update to the file updates all of your sites IP blocks.

Making Money - Elf Links - Far and away the single most profitable technique I use. Someone earlier mentioned Pretty Links but PL just makes your links "pretty" for visitors and has zero SEO impact. You need to remove affiliate links for SEO.

PHP Scripts - PHP Code - I'm still looking for the perfect plugin to run php code within posts, but PHP Code is good. When you learn some programming on your own, instead of relying on someone else's plugins, you can start doing amazing things with your websites.

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JohnMcCabe

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Tim Franklin

I know some people believe (wrongly) that you should have almost no plugins, but that is not a good modus operandi, If you look at plugins as tools that can be used to help you succeed at what you want to accomplish then you can gain an understanding into how to best utilize a plugin to help you succeed.

I firmly believe that if you can add a snippet of code to a template, or copy/paste a function into that file, rather than add a plugin, it's better to do so.

If the plugin truly helps you succeed without doing harm in the process, fine.

The problem is that too many people install random plugins because they are cool, or Guru X recommends/promotes them. They end up with a long list of plugins that do very little for them.

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extrememan

10 years ago

All in one seo, google xml sitemaps (seo plugins), pretty link lite (track clicks and mask affiliates links).

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hitman007

10 years ago

What are the factors that make a plugin slow your site down?

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time4vps

10 years ago

On my personal blog I'm using Q2W3 Fixed Widget (Sticky Widget), Limit Login Atempt, Wordfence: WordPress Security (which is also good for caching), All in 1 SEO.

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10 years ago

All in One WP Security is great and easy to use.

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Banned 10 years ago

I use aMember since I have many membership sites in different niches outside the IM world.

Other than that, there are many great plugins but my #1 favorite would be the one I mentioned above.

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ShirleyShis

10 years ago

I can suggest you - Google Analytics, Snapshot, Ultimate Branding and maybe Akismet.

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AshTJ

10 years ago

These are all of the plugins I'm currently running on my Wordpress sites:

Contact Form 7 - for my contact us page
Disqus - for my blog post comments
EWWW Image Optimizer - to (drastically) reduce the file size of my images without impacting the quality
Hybrid Connect - for my sidebar/post footer opt-in forms
Login Lockdown - added security
Monarch - social sharing buttons (they look very nice)
Simple 301 Redirects - creating 301s for my affiliate links
W3 Total Cache - for caching
Yoast SEO - for SEO

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10 years ago

You can try profit builder plugin. It's an awesome tool

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ElGuapo 10 years ago

I recently put the finishing touches to a membership site.

Before I started building it, I made a vow to myself that I would only add new plugins as a clear need for them arose. I was going to discipline myself and keep myself to the minimum required.

I still ended up with 20! All I consider essential to achieving the look and function of my site, but yeah, I reckon it's pretty tough to get by on just a few if going for an enterprise solution.

Anyway, a few favourites:

Beaver Builder plugin. Fantastic for designing on the front end. Makes it super quick to develop a custom design, and easy to create/replicate particular elements you've seen elsewhere. Very little coding needed.

Erident Custom Login and Dashboard. Simple way to add some customised pizzazz to the standard WP login page. Add logos, choose background and box colours, fonts, sizes, etc.

WP Courseware. Hands down the best WP plugin for running courses. Three tiers (courses/modules/units), quizzes, certificates, and drag and drop functionality. Also integrates with a bunch of membership plugins.

Nav Menu Roles. A really nifty little plugin that allows you to display different menus to users depending on their status (logged in, logged out, everybody). For example: for non logged-in users, you can have a menu displaying links to pricing, login, FAQ, etc. For logged-in users, that can be replaced with a menu with logout, support, etc.

Limit Login Attempts. Super-easy security plugin.
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tasman 10 years ago

Wordfence
Profit Builder
Yoast
W3 Total Cache
Simple Captcha
Limit Login Attempts
Contact Form 7
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DoubleOhDave 10 years ago

All In One WP Security & Firewall

Better Click To Tweet

CloudFlare

Disqus Comment System

NewStatPress

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

Rapidology By LeadPages

rtSocial

WP Dynamic Links

WP Smush

WP-Optimize

Yoast SEO

ZenCache
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Marvin Adam 10 years ago

Regarding free options: Google Analytics
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Jon Crimes 10 years ago

Yoast, of course!

But I think my favourite now has to be 'Backup Creator' after a little misshap with my main site...

This plugin creates a full backup of your site which you can reinstall if everything goes wrong. Do it at least once a week now because I was that close to losing a whole years worth of work.

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OliviasDad

10 years ago

I've used Instabuilder 2.0 for page creation

I love Pretty Links for affy links

Wordfence for security

Yoast SEO for what it does

Akismet for spam blocking

Have been meaning to try Profit Builder as another page building option

In truth, there are so many plugins available, it's always wise to not get too crazy with too many active plugins at any one given time

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payaljoshi 10 years ago

Definitely gostats for best analytics
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samjaynz 10 years ago

W3 Total Cache for speeding up my sites (very important for rankings)

Ad Inserter for making it easy to swap out promotional material in my posts, add Adsense etc.

Yoast SEO for on-page tweaks.
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ShirleyShis

10 years ago

You can install all the plugins but the point is - what are you trying to achieve?

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10 years ago

Jetpack is the first plugin I install these days

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peterse7ven

10 years ago

I use for almost all sites
Yoast SEO
Akismet
Jetpack
Contact Form 7

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InternetMarketingSmarts

10 years ago

For me it's:

Thrive Content Builder (Drag and drop page builder that should be the wordpress default editor)
Thrive Leads (Provides so many ways to capture email leads and use it in other creative ways)
Anti-spam (Literally has stopped 99.9% of spam I received on my site.
Sucuri Security (Helps me secure my website from nasty hacks and such)

I dob't build a wordpress website without these plugins.

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingSmarts

For me it's:

Thrive Content Builder (Drag and drop page builder that should be the wordpress default editor)
Thrive Leads (Provides so many ways to capture email leads and use it in other creative ways)
Anti-spam (Literally has stopped 99.9% of spam I received on my site.
Sucuri Security (Helps me secure my website from nasty hacks and such)

I dob't build a wordpress website without these plugins.

I use all these as well.

Sometimes I use wordfence for security.

The plugins I use apart from those really depend on the function I want from the site.

Best plugin ever for migration is All-in-One WP Migration. So easy to move a site with that plugin.

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styoplotr

10 years ago

First, I always install TinyMCE and All in One SEO plugins

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usmantech

10 years ago

The first plugin that i must install is Akismet. Fortunaly that is already installed with vanilla Wordpress install. However, i must have a backup plugin and for that i use My WP Backup Pro for ensuring that i have backups in case a disaster strikes.

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BarrickBecca

10 years ago

For SEO purpose: All in One SEO & Yoast SEO Plugin
For E-Commerce: WooCommerce
For Security: WPSecurity
For Sitemap: Google Sitemap by Arne Brachhold
For Better Speed: WPCache

These are just few I remember right now

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10 years ago

akismet, other according to the requirement of my clients.
alloneseo is also one of the most commonly plugin installed.

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SShaikh

10 years ago

I use a few, but without repeating other posts, my favourite is SumoMe, as it shows me all the analytics, can add call to action bar (which is linked to my mailing lists) and popups, social media bar, heat maps.

Pretty smart for a free plugin.

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Bradley J Anderson

10 years ago

I'm not scared of using lots of plugins, if need be. If they are written CORRECTLY, the drag should be minimal. I've had as many as 40 active plugins on one site for testing purposes, and only lost about 1 second on load time.

The P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) plugin will help you determine which plugins may be causing you trouble.

Like @JohnMcCabe, though, I prefer to do as much as possible in the code before looking for a plugin.

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mjcole76

10 years ago

instabuiler, and contact forms

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Designmasterindia

10 years ago

prefer yoast plugin this is one of the my favorite.

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nathatlant

10 years ago

WP Courseware works for me perfectly. You should definitely try it!

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Alex The Lion

10 years ago

Prettylink

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ddev

10 years ago

No matter which one you install, stay away from those that replace the TinyMCE editor with other editors (i've seen many users doing this).

If you replace it, you won't be able to use the buttons that tons of plugins develop for TinyMCE.

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nathatlant

10 years ago

It’s difficult to decide what is the best one. Can definitely say that Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats, W3 Total Cache, WP-Polls are doing a great gob.

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Steve L

10 years ago

Originally Posted by hitman007

With there being millions of Wordpress plugins available these days. What are the best ones to use? I know its highly unlikely that people use just one, so let us know what plugins you are using.

I like the Thrive Content Builder plugin for creating sales pages real quick.

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Kherk Roldan

10 years ago

For me its

All in one SEO PRO
ITheme Security Pro
Backupbuddy
SEOPressor

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goldenone1

10 years ago

The most useful plugin for WordPress is Akismet (best guard against comment spam) and BackUpWordPress. I think it’s must have things

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Martin Salter

10 years ago

Free

Google Analytics Dash for WP
Edit Flow for Managing Content, Content Ideas and Publishing
Global Content Blocks (Handy for Re-Using Content)
iThemes Security
WP Dashboard Notes - Great for having a simple ToDo list when I login

Paid

Tracker.ly - Great tracking tool that is getting better all the time. Set up destinations and then keyword tracking in seconds, love it.

Thrive Themes/Leads - Hands down the best paid plugin I have purchased. Their support has been awesome and their product is just on point. I can set up a lead capture page, sales page, review page in minutes with drag and drop design. Plus their template library is now growing at a good rate too. Grabbed the Agency licence last year and it was worth every cent.

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dawoodkhan97

10 years ago

I would suggest using All In One Seo Plugin
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
Smush.it for reducing image file size

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counter2015

10 years ago

SEO Yoast, related posts plugin, social share plugin, disqus comments and ofc Gostats for website analytics.

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My Must Haves List: Wordpress, GoStats (website analytics), Google Trends

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sirtiman

10 years ago

I have very successful efforts with CB Goliath plugin. Thanks.

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dcmalk

10 years ago

Coming from a plugin developer, I have to say Query Monitor is hands down, my #1 used and recommended plugin. It's more for the technical crowd but it will help pinpoint any type of performance issue and give you an idea of what's happening behind the scenes in your WordPress intall. I can't remember life before it

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SeanSupplee

10 years ago

The cores

The must have sadly lol - Akismet otherwise you are just totally blasted with Spam

Social Warfare - Social share buttons
Google Analytics - Best tracking and its free

Heartbeat Control - Allows you to control the new heartbeat function on WordPress

Those would be my cores one must have Akismet otherwise your spending hours and hours trying to not let spam comments take over your site.

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phpbits

10 years ago

Yoast SEO and Better security plugin. With Extended Widget Options plugin released, it's been installed on my sites too.

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counter2015

10 years ago

There is no number one as such from plethora of plugins available my fav ones are AIO SEO, wordpress fence, and gostats for analytics

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Omarkenawy

10 years ago

In fact there are numerous wordpress plugins strongly recommended for launching a new website.

However my first and ever best one is Jetpack

Jetpack will automatically take the published content from your website and share it instantly with third party services like search engines which increases your traffic and reach.

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Augustinus

10 years ago

for me it is yoast seo , for obvious seo optimisation

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Mairaj

10 years ago

Each plugin is use for specific purpose their are some great plugins which are useful for Wordpress and i am also using these for batter results.

SEOPressor plugin it is a premium plugin which can help you out to take care and look after the on page SEO of your wordpress website or blog.

Yoast SEO Plugin

Jetpack

Login Lockdown

Wordfence

TinyMCE

Floating Social Bar

WP- Smushit for Image Optimization

Google XML Sitemaps

WP Super Cache

Contact Form 7

Akismet

Pretty Link for dealing with your ugly affiliate links

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sorinv 10 years ago

I use ShortPixel for image optimization, its better than WP Smush it but other good alternatives are:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-i...timizer-cloud/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/
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HelpingYouBeAnExpert

10 years ago

I use multiple but the one that I use the most is OptimizePress plugin.

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johnlagoudakis

10 years ago

My fav Wordpress plugins are:

Yoast SEO - for SEO of course

Broken Link Checker - checks to see if any of your links are leading to websites or web pages that don't exist anymore
Facebook - to display my Facebook page on the sidebar
Google XML Sitemaps
Popup Maker
Pretty Link Lite
Profit Builder - paid plugin for creating sales pages, optin pages, etc
TinyMCE Advanced - more WYSIWYG editor options for when creating a post

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vishwa

10 years ago

Its really hard for me to say which is my number 1 plugin. Because every plugins has it own requirements and benefits. So, I cannot rely on a single plugin to manage my whole WordPress blog.

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niffybranco

10 years ago

Depends on what the task is but as site creation is the core of all my websites then visual composer is a plugin i use on all my websites .

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