The WordPress plugin page
A plugin is a piece of software that adds a specific functionality to a website. Here is a list of plugins often installed on a WordPress website, devided into functionality.
| Plugin | Funtion | Description | Rating | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMP | Performance | Stand for accelerated mobile pages and it increaser mobile user experience by improving site speed. By minimizing CSS and Java scripts. | Excellent | |
| Askimet | Performance | Eliminates spam from your blogposts in the comment section. Good for keeping your posts clean. This plugin is installed by default when installing WordPress | Excellent | www.akismet.com |
| BackWPup | Backup | Easy to use backup plugin that allows you to backup your complete site and save it on a remote location or locally. | Good | |
| BBPress | Functionality | Sollution for creating a forum on your website without taking up a lot of resources. | Excellent | www.bbpress.org |
| Broken Link Checker | Maintenance | Checks post, pages comments, and other content for broken links, and notifies when they are found. | Excellent | |
| Contact Form 7 | Functionality | Most often used for creating contact forms on a website. | Excellent | www.contactform7.com |
| Custom Sidebars | Design | Allows you to create additional sidebars and set their location in the widget area. | Good | |
| Duplicate Post | Efficiency | Clones pages, posts and other items you have on your website in one click. | Good | www.duplicate-post.lopo.it |
| Elementor | Design | Powerful pagebuilder that enables you to create pages and posts, with the look and feel you like. | Good | www.elementor.com |
| Ninja Forms | Functionality | Lets you create signup forms and contact pages through a drag and drop architecture. | Good | www.ninjaforms.com |
| One Signal | Performance | Notification plugin that allerts previous visitors to your site that you have new or updated content. | Excellent | www.onesignal.com |
| WPS Hide Login | Security | Simple plugin that enables users to hide the default login url (wp-admin) to a custom extension. | Excellent | |
| Polylang | Translation | Enables a website to include multiple langauges. | Excellent | www.polylang.pro |
| Really Simple SSL | Security | Configures your website for an encrypted connection between your website and the server to have it operate over the https protocol. | Excellent | www.really-simple-ssl.com |
| Schema | SEO | Collects structured data from a website to create rich snippets from elements displayed on the SERP. | Excellent | www.schema.press |
| TablePress | Design | Creates tables on the page that can be ordered and sorted based on each column. | Good | www.tablepress.org |
| Updraft plus Security | Security | This is a backup plugin that allows you to make a back up of you website and have it stored in a location of your preference. | Excellent | www.updraftplus.com |
| WooCommerce | Ecommerce | Fully featured and most popular ecommerce sollution for WordPress websites. | Excellent | www.woocommerce.com |
| WordPress Popular Posts | Performance | Organizes and displays your posts sorting them from most popular to least popular. You can then add to your sidebar, footer or another location. | Good | |
| WP Optimize | Performance, Database Maintenance | Cleans up unused files in the database, optimizes images in the media folder and caches the website to increase speed | Good | www.getwpo.com |
| WP Rocket | Performance | Caching pluing that ehances website speed. | Excellent | www.wp-rocket.me |
| WPS Hide Login | Security | Lets you hide the login page on your website to a custom link extension of your preference. | Very Good | |
| Yoast SEO | SEO | Popular plugin that assits you for post and page optimization for SEO. | Excellent | www.yoast.com |