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Hello everyone!
I’m curious to find out which plugins you consider essential for a WordPress site. I’m not looking for anything specific, just interested in seeing what others are using and why.
What are the plugins you always install on every new site you create? And why do you consider them indispensable?
Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences and recommendations!
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ACF Pro
FluentForms
Bricks / Oxygen
ACSS
Wordfence
Perfmatters
CookieYes-Easy way to have cookie banners
Copy and Delete Posts-great for testing pages
Elementor/Pro-my go to page builder
No login by email address-For security/hacking protection
Smush-compresses images
Wordfence-great security plugin
WPS Hide Login-Protect your website by changing the login URL and preventing access to wp-login.php page and wp-admin directory while not logged-in
The must haves plugins
– Gravity forms
– perfmatters
– fluentsmtp
– seo framework
– ACF
Speciality plugins
– Woocommerce
– WPML
– Profile builder Pro
– Elementor (if customer wants a page builder)
We dont use backup or cache or security plugins as those are handled at the OS/hosting level.
SVG Support
Duplicate Page
WP Fastest Cache
301 Redirects
Classic Editor
Gravity Forms
WP File Manager
Nothing for front-end/presentation. We build websites, we don’t configure templates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1bsvit5/what_plugin_do_you_consider_a_gem_and_have_been/
Recently added ASE to my stack and it replaced multiple plugins.👍
– **Wordfence**, because security is important.
– **UpdraftPlus**/**BackWPUp**, because redundancy is important.
– **WPCode**, because low/no code solutions aren’t always good enough.
– **ACF**, because efficiency is important.
– **WP Migrate**, because when I move, you move (just like that).
– **WPForms**/**Gravity Forms**, because for some reason, WP doesn’t have baked in form functionality.
– **Redirection**, because dead links aren’t fun or functional.
That is a loaded question. I completely depends on the purpose of the website.
Some websites might not require a single plugin.
Others might require 2,3 while even some might even need 20.
It depends on the purpose of the website and what functionality you are trying to achieve.
With that said, in my line of work, and the type of niche I am focused on.
I use Both Formidable Forms as well as WPDataTables and its add-one which one of them, allows me to integrate the Forms with WPDataTables.
I also use SiteKit and Duplicator Pro, on almost all my sites.
But I have met people who don’t even care about Metrics or backups, so that Is why I said, it all depends.