Must-have WordPress Plugins
WordPress officially powers over 1/3rd of the entire internet – making it the content management system of choice for millions of business owners all over the world. The popularity of WordPress has opened up the possibility for it to cater to a large range of needs with a plugin repository that has grown to over 50,000.
But finding the right WordPress plugins for your website isn’t easy, which is why we’ve created this page – please feel free to refer to it if you’re looking for a WordPress plugin.
Layout
Modula
Modula is the best WordPress gallery plugin for adding custom, unique and responsive galleries to your website.
Custom Sidebars
A utility that lets you add any number of sidebars to your site. Pick a specific set of pages, and you will be able to choose which widgets to display on them. Our themes are fully compatible with this plugin.
Content
Elementor
Elementor is the world’s leading page builder. It is the only complete design platform to offer pixel-perfect design, and produce 100% clean code. Take your design vision and turn it into a stunning custom-made website.
Contact Form 7
Create contact forms easily and embed them anywhere on your WordPress site. Our themes will provide the necessary styling for your forms, so they will look consistent.
WordPress Related Posts
Easily add a set of related posts at the bottom of each of your blog posts, increasing the time visitors spend on your website as well as simplifying the process of internal linking.
Visual Composer
Build completely custom page layouts with this page builder, making use of shortcodes to construct complete landing pages using drag & drop interfaces. We fully support this plugin and let you create blank pages for a completely custom look.
CoBlocks
CoBlocks is the most innovative collection of page building WordPress blocks for the new Gutenberg WordPress block editor.
With additional blocks and true row and column building, CoBlocks gives you a true page builder experience for Gutenberg.
CoBlocks is powerful but lightweight: it adds functionality to the WordPress editor without bloat. This is the plugin you’ve been waiting for, and it will make you rethink what WordPress is capable of.
Revolution Slider
Lets you create fully featured slideshows full of animated elements. Each slideshow can be placed anywhere on your site, giving you great flexibility. Our themes let you add a specific slider to each page, which will make it appear on the header.
WPML
A multilingual WordPress plugin that lets you translate your WordPress site to any number of languages. Our themes are fully compatible and provide the necessary tools to translate your site. Spanish translation is already included.
Weglot
This is one of best-rated WordPress multilingual plugins available. All of our lite and premium themes were thoroughly tested with it and they are fully compatible with WeGlot. It is an amazing solution for creating multilingual websites.
E-Commerce
WooCommerce
The most complete plugin for WordPress eCommerce, which lets you sell any kind of product online. Our themes integrate and provide support for the store pages, so you can start selling upon plugin activation.
Easy Digital Downloads
A lightweight eCommerce plugin for selling digital products. Provides great functionality while staying simple and easy to use. Our themes provide pre-styled product pages with a clean layout.
Security
Akismet
Protect yourself against spam comments, which can come in the hundreds every day.
iThemes Security
Harden the security of your WordPress installation by blocking some of the most vulnerable parts of your server, and taking measures to avoid 90% of malware attacks.
Search Engine Optimization
WordPress SEO by Yoast
Lets you handle all the metadata that search engines look out for, and gives you all the necessary tools to optimize your on-page SEO. Our themes integrate with this plugin’s breadcrumb navigation system, letting you swap the default one.
Rank Math SEO for WordPress
Rank Math is the Swiss Army knife of SEO tools for WordPress. It gives you complete control over your entire website’s on-page SEO.
Performance
WP Rocket
WP Rocket is the only cache plugin that integrates more than 80% of web performance best practices even without any options activated. This means that you only need to install it and activate it: WP Rocket will automatically start caching your pages, without any need to tweak the code!
ShortPixel
ShortPixel is an image optimization and compression API and WordPress plugin that helps improve your website’s performance. Not sure if ShortPixel is right for you? Find out by taking a look at this in-depth analysis of the best WordPress image optimization plugins.
W3 Total Cache
A cache plugin that will accelerate the load times of your WordPress site while minimizing the load on your server. Highly recommended for any site that needs to load fast.
Perfmatters
The main way this plugin helps speed up your site is by disabling things that might not be used on your site. For example, by default emojis load on every single page of your site. If you don’t use them, this is simply slowing it down. By disabling it, the script no longer loads and so it reduces your overall number of HTTP requests and your page size. Another great optimization is to limit your post revisions. These can quickly fill up your database and slow down your site. By limiting them you can ensure a fast and snappy database.
Image Compressor
Compress PNG/JPG is an online free tool whose aim is to help you compress your image (jpeg or png). Basically, you have a few solutions to reduce the size of an image but most of the time it will decrease the quality too. It will allow you to keep the quality as is while decreasing the size.
Utility
Redirection
Create redirects by specifying any URL within your site and sending visitors to a different location. Great for fixing broken links and managing affiliates.