35+ Best WordPress Plugins

With over 5 million active installations, Yoast SEO is the most popular SEO plugin since 2008. They have premium add-ons called Local SEO, Video SEO, News SEO, and WooCommerce SEO to further improve the SEO of your WordPress site.

All-in-One SEO is also a popular WordPress SEO plugin with more than 3 million active installations. But if you are looking for only the free version, Yoast and Rank Math’s free version is better than this.

SEO Press is a simple, user-friendly, and flexible WordPress SEO plugin and you can integrate it with many popular 3rd-party apps like Google Analytics.

Rank Math is a fully completed SEO solution for WordPress and it seems like this plugin is the biggest(features-wise) SEO plugin in the market.

All in One WordPress Security is a powerful WordPress security auditing, monitoring, and firewall plugin, but even name said “All-In-One Security”, there is no firewall in this plugin.

Bot Protection, Real-time Firewall, and Brute-Force Protection are the main features of Malcare security plugin. Usually, Malcare blocks 2 billion attacks each month.

This plugin is also a good security solution for WordPress, but iThemes Security does not include a website firewall.

Sucuri is just not for WordPress, you can use Sucuri firewall for any website. If you have a WordPress site, they provide an additional WordPress plugin that provides more features like Security Activity Auditing, File Integrity Monitoring.

If you looking for either a free or pro-WordPress security plugin this may be the best choice. There are more than 4 million downloads in the free version and the pro version needs to use if you need real-time updates to the threat defense feed which includes a real-time IP blocklist, firewall rules, and malware signatures.

With over 1 million downloads, W3 Total Cache is the most popular free WordPress plugin and if you are looking for a free WordPress performance solution, this may be the best option for you.

This plugin is a tool for optimizing the performance of your WordPress website by minifying and concatenating code and optimizing images. The pro version comes with CDN and the pro version can automatically create rules for critical CSS.

Perfmatters is another WordPress plugin for optimizing the performance and speed of a WordPress website. It offers a range of features and tools for improving the loading speed of a website, such as an asset optimization, server-side caching, and the ability to disable unnecessary WordPress features and scripts. Nowadays, most WordPress developers believe that Perfmatters is the best WordPress performance plugin.

WP Rocket is one of the most popular premium popular WordPress performance plugins for optimizing the performance and speed of a WordPress website. WP Rocket is designed to be easy to use and requires minimal configuration just activating the plugin you can get 80% of web performance best practices applied.

The main advantage of this plugin is you will get lifetime support and updates because you need to pay only a one-time payment Other almost all page builders you need to pay a yearly fee to get support and updates.

Do you more concerned about WordPress performance? This may be the best WordPress page builder plugin for you.

A few years back this was the most popular WordPress builder in the market, but now popular builders like Elementor, and Beaver are used by more developers than WP Bakery.

This plugin is a feature-rich page builder that allows you to create custom page layouts using a drag-and-drop interface and It includes a large library(2,000+ pre-made designs) of pre-designed templates and website elements.

This plugin is a user-friendly and intuitive page builder that allows you to create custom page layouts using a drag-and-drop interface and most developers mentioned that this is the most solid WordPress page builder in the market.

This plugin is a powerful and flexible tool for creating a variety of forms, including contact forms, registration forms, and payment forms. There is no free version of this plugin.

WS Forms supports 60+ integrations like ACF, AMAZON S3, Google sheets, etc. There are 100+ templates and 55+ field types in WS forms.

You can find more than 40 input fields in the Fluent forms plugin. You can find some unique features like repeat fields, SMS notifications from this plugin.

This is one of the oldest WordPress contact forms but now this is not user friendly as new WordPress form plugins because this doesn’t come with drag and drop builder, but still this is very popular with WordPress developers because you can customize forms as you want with programming knowledge.

WP Forms is a popular WordPress form plugin that is user-friendly and easy to use, making it a good choice for beginners. The free version has been downloaded more than 5 million times. The pro version supports creating contact forms, payment forms, survey forms, newsletter forms, registration forms and there are more than 500 templates.

The toolset also allows you to create very complex advanced sites without programming. There is no free version or trial, but they have 30 days money-back guarantee so you can try it without risk.

Jet Engine is a very powerful dynamic content plugin for Elementor that allows you to create complete dynamic WordPress websites. There is a considerable learning curve, but it is fully worth investing some time to learn it.

This plugin is a tool for creating custom meta boxes and fields and displaying dynamic data. It allows you to create custom fields for posts, pages, and other custom post types. But you need the pro version also to get the maximum out of this plugin.

ACF is the most popular WordPress plugin for adding custom fields to your WordPress website and displaying dynamic data. There are more than two million downloads for the free version and the pro version is also very popular because of the repeater option, ACF Blocks, and Options Page feature.

Custom Post Type UI is used to create custom post types and taxonomies, most WordPress users use this plugin with ACF to build dynamic websites.

This plugin is a powerful and flexible tool for creating create custom post types, taxonomies, and custom fields. You have almost all the features in the free version, you need paid version only if you need to integrate Pods with WordPress page builders like Elementor, and Beaver Builder.

This plugin is a tool for backing up and restoring your WordPress website and pricing starts from $99 per year. It allows you to schedule automatic backups and includes options for storing backups in the cloud or on your local computer. It also includes a migration tool for moving your website to a new domain or host.

This plugin is a tool for migrating or cloning your WordPress website and there are over 5 million downloads in WordPress’s official WordPress plugin directory. If you are looking for a free solution, this may be the best one. If you need to back up to cloud storage like Google Drive and restore from them, you need pro addons from them and those are a little expensive.

VaultPress(now this is a part of Jetpack) is a premium backup and security service from Automattic, the company behind WordPress. It includes real-time backups, security scanning, and one-click restores.

This plugin is a powerful and feature-rich tool for backing up and restoring your WordPress website. It allows you to schedule automatic backups and includes options for storing backups in the cloud or on your local computer. It also includes a migration tool for moving your website to a new domain or host.

This plugin is a popular and user-friendly tool for backing up and restoring your WordPress website and you can run from WP_CLI also. It supports multi-sites and you can backup non-WordPress files and databases also

Most WordPress designers/developers believe that Elementor is the best WordPress page builder, it comes with a drag and drops editor, 300+ ready-made templates, 100+ widgets, kits library, header & footer builder, pops-up builder, and many more.