Top 5 WordPress Plugins You Need To Know

 With more than 50,000  available plugins in the WordPress plugin directory, it can be quite difficult for site owners to find just the right plugins to improve their websites. Choosing the right plugins is crucial for the speed, security, and user-friendliness of your website. Luckily, there are some plugins that will help you achieving your tasks for just about any type of WordPress site. Here in this post you will find the best 5 WordPress plugins available right now.

Top 5 WordPress plugins of all time

Based on the actual download numbers from WordPress.org, these are the top 5 most popular WordPress plugins of all time from the 55,000+ plugins that are currently available. Not in any particular order

1.Jetpack 

Jetpack is a multipurpose tool that’s good for (almost) everything. It is useful for marketing, design, and security. Among its various features, you can find site analytics, automated social media posting, multiple WordPress themes, spam filtering, downtime monitoring, malware scanning, login security, lazy image loading, CDN, and more. Jetpack comes in one free and three paid plans, so not all of its features are free of charge. The plugin is suitable for personal blogs, and for both startups and corporate businesses. It fits all the basic needs and all budgets.

2.Yoast SEO

This plugin is used by (almost) everyone who has a blog or site on WordPress. So, if you’re one of those people who hasn't used this plugin yet , it helps you improve the SEO score of your articles and pages. With it, you can define your main keyword, t you the keyword density ,the meta description, slug, SEO title, the alt attributes of your images, along with that it also tells  and it also recommends the best practices for good readability. It’s nice because the plugin offers stats and actionable advice on how to improve your work and, when everything is done by the book, you get the green light. Yoast Seo can be used by everybody because we all want to perform better in SERP, don’t we?

3. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution. With WooCommerce  you can turn your WordPress site into an online shop, so you can sell your products to your clients on the web. What’s nice about WooCommerce is that it’s very flexible in terms of customization options. Apart from the built-in settings, lots of developers built a community around it and created extensions, so that selling online can be as smooth as possible. With WooCommerce you can sell both physical and digital goods, add product variations, use affiliate links, and extensive payment methods. We have discussed about setting up woocommerce in our previous post. You can check that

4.  Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is the most popular and free contact form plugin for WordPress. As the name suggest it is used as a contact form which allows users to interact with you, The plugin was developed by Takayuki Miyoshi and can handle multiple contact forms on the same site; it also integrates Akismet spam filtering and lets you customize the styling and fields that you want to use in the form. The plugin provides CAPTCHA and Ajax submitting. Again, this is one of the plugins that can be used by absolutely everyone, irrespective of the fact whether you’re running a personal blog or you’re having a business that you monetize. Why? Because it’s free, easy to configure, and efficient.

5.  Elementor

Last but not the least is our page builder plugin 'Elementor' With this plugin user can design various layout and pages starting from a beautiful landing page to custom blog post section, The advantage of using this plugin is that you build custom pages independent of what your current theme allows you to do. How does it work exactly? It gives you a visual design interface where you can craft your page from scratch or use one of the available templates. This plugin is one of those that you must install on your website because it helps you big time, especially if you want full control over your design. There are a lot of free templates in the Elementor library that you can use for creating a page straight away.