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The Most Popular WordPress plugins

WordPress has over 55,000 plugins in its plugin repository. Plugins in WordPress are software that adds features to sites, enabling customisation. There are many types of plugins which add different features to a website. These plugins are a few of the most popular ones, which can be especially useful when having your own website built by WordPress developers.

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Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is one of the oldest but most popular contact form plugins for WordPress. This plugin is used to create multiple contact forms which are customisable. It is simple to use and easy to manage. It also allows users to filter out spam across multiple forms. It can be used by everyone and is free, which is why it has over 5 million installations. Contact forms are an essential part of sites as they make businesses more reachable.

Yoast SEO

This plugin is used to improve the overall search engine optimisation (SEO) score of all pages across a site. Using this plugin allows you to set many elements which will help with SEO, such as your main keyword, meta descriptions and alt attributes of images. It also has recommendations of the best practices for readability, and offers statistics and advice of how to improve your website. It essentially is used by anyone who wants to get their site to rank better in the search engines. This is important as it will increase the amount of traffic that your website gets.

Elementor Website builder

Elementor Website Builder is a visual drag and drop plugin. The plugin allows website builders to build custom pages, which are independent of what the theme you use allows you to do. It gives a visual design interface when you can create your own page from scratch, or use one of the templates that are available. This will give full control over the design of your website, and is an easy way to create your website.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the plugin which will let you turn your website into an e-commerce site. It is for business owners as WooCommerce was built for commercial purposes. This will allow you to sell products to your customers through your website. It has had many extensions created, in order to make selling online as easy as possible. WooCommerce lets business owners sell physical and digital products, add variations of products and extensive payment methods.

Jetpack

Jetpack is a plugin built by Automattic, and is another very popular WordPress plugin. It is a multipurpose tool that brings lots of benefits to your website. It helps with marketing, design and website security. Alongside the main features it has site analytics, automated social media posting, span filtering and more. Some of these features are not free of charge, as Jetpack has three paid subscriptions. This plugin is suitable for many types of sites, including personal blogs, for startups and corporate businesses. So there is a subscription suited to many types of businesses.

WPForms

WP Forms is another popular plugin, which adds contact forms to your site using a drag and drop builder. There are a variety of forms which can be added in a few clicks, with a simple interface. This plugin is intended to be used by those who do not want to hire web developers, but wish to have contact forms. There is a free version of this plugin, which is limited to three types of forms. WP Forms Pro, is a paid version which has advanced features that allows users to create survey forms, payment forms and more.

Google Analytics Dashboard

Google Analytics by MonsterInsights is a plugin which connects Google Analytics with your WordPress site. It gives so much insight to website owners, such as tracking conversions, gaining data on users of your website and how people find your site. All of this helps to grow your website and your business. Adding the Google Analytics plugin will allow you to monitor the statistics of your website, all from the WordPress admin area.

Akismet

Askimet is an anti-spam plugin. It is another plugin developed by Automattic, that is made to block spam comments. This can protect your site from many types of spam, such as promotional links, irrelevant stories or even malicious content. It can become difficult to filter spam by yourself, especially if you get lots of comments. This plugin will help to manage this. It also will check any contact form submissions in the Askimet database, so that only the relevant and safe information is sent to you. This plugin is essential for those who receive lots of comments daily.

All in One SEO Pack

Another plugin that relates to search engine optimisation is the All in One SEO Pack. This is an alternative to the Yoast plugin. It can allow you to experiment with SEO more, and is suitable for both beginners and advanced users. An important feature of this plugin is that it provides SEO integration for e-commerce sites, which Yoast does not have. It also offers Google Analytics which is essential for SEO
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