16 Best WordPress Plugins Every Website Owner Needs

WordPress contains about thousands of plugins, both paid and free, and the site owner hesitates to choose the most appropriate plugin for him, whether he knows that he needs to do a specific task on his site and is looking for the most appropriate plugin to accomplish that task, or he does not know that there is an extension working on that task.

But it is not only important to choose the add-on that does the job, but you must ensure the reliability of that add-on and ensure that it performs the required features optimally. So in this article I will share with you the most important WordPress plugins that website owners need to do a lot of basic or complementary functions

 

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Yoast SEO -1

It is one of the most popular and most common plugins to perform basic SEO tasks, through which you can create SEO-friendly content, which makes the site acceptable in search engines, and its most important characteristics are:

• It gives you a tool to create a map of your site and update it automatically to improve crawling from search engine spiders.
• Through it, you can measure the quality of your site pages in terms of improving the visitor’s experience in reading the article, as it gives you some instructions that help you formulate your article in an easy-to-read manner (such as writing short sentences and short paragraphs)
• Through it, you can measure the most important factors of SEO within the page in terms of title and description
• P, link, image…etc.

. The add-on link can be found here .

You can also use the Rank Math add -on, which is an excellent alternative and provides many useful features in preparing the site for search results through the free version.

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W3 Total Cache -2

w3 total cashe is one of the important add-ons that help you improve the speed and performance of your site, which enhances the user experience and improves the appearance of your site in the search results, as it works on and among its most important characteristics:

• Speed ​​up your site: Serve compressed and cached files to your site visitors, which reduces server load time and improves overall site speed.
• Save Bandwidth: Saves you bandwidth and reduces HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and feeds.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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JetPack -3

It is a free add-on developed by Automatic and has more than 5 million installs. It helps you improve the performance of the site in general, and its most important features are:

• Improve site security
• Improving user interaction with the site
• Keep your site running
• Adding social share buttons, contact forms, CDN services, email subscription forms, and many other services built into the plugin will help you improve the overall performance of your WordPress site.

The add-on link can be found here .

Read also: 9 Most Important WordPress Plugins Every Website Owner Needs

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4- Contact Form 7

This, in turn, is an excellent addition that enables you to communicate with your visitors easily by creating a contact us page, and everyone knows that it is the best page on any website because it forms a direct link between you and the visitors, where you specify the email you want to receive messages to, and then start communicating with them. And listen to their complaints and suggestions. By means of a contact form that the user fills out and then you will receive a message on your e-mail. The add-on link can be found here .

Also, you can use WP forms to do the same and other tasks in creating forms by providing many properties in the form design.

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Redirection -5

It is very likely as a site owner that you change the link of your page, but the problem is when the visitor wants to enter the page from the old link; Then a 404 error page will appear, and this is the role of this add-on, and among its most important features:

• Simple: Easily control 301 redirects, track 404 errors on your site, and ensure that the user experience on your website is excellent.
• Page audits: With redirection, you can also see which posts and pages aren’t loading properly so you can fix them right away, preventing visitors from being frustrated.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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MonsterInsights -6

MonsterInsights addon enables you to track all your efforts and work on your site, there is no doubt that tracking data across your site is important, it motivates you to give more or force you to make a better effort to improve your site, and this extension allows you to easily view basic statistics such as sessions and bounce rate with Google Analytics, You can also track internal and external links, downloads, and many other features that this extension offers such as:

• Dashboard Reports: Where you see real-time statistics via an easy-to-read report located in your site’s dashboard.
• Comprehensive Tracking: Your stats are never misrepresented thanks to the global tracking system in place; In other words, if your visitors switch from mobile to desktop, you’ll still be able to get accurate data numbers.
• Robust Pro Features: The premium version lets you track e-commerce stats, traffic sources, and ad efforts, and you’ll have access to the MonsterInsights Forms addon, which lets you see form conversion rates so you can make improvements and grow your business online.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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OptinMonster -7

It should be remembered that this add-on is paid, and works to convert visitors into subscribers and customers, and one of its most important features is that it is integrated with all popular marketing tools such as MailChimp, and it supports A/B tests and works with a drag and drop system, in addition to many other features such as :

• Exit-Intent Technology: This turns site visitors who were destined to abandon your site into email subscribers instead.
• Geo-targeting: You get more potential customers by customizing campaigns based on the location of the visitor.
• MonsterLinks Technology: It allows you to convert any link or image into an Optin model and increase conversions by 785%.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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Juices -8

This add-on is specialized in protecting your site from any form of penetration, as you receive an email through which it tracks all the activities taking place on your site, and it also performs a thorough cleaning of the site to ensure that there is no virus or penetration vulnerability; In addition to other features:

• Speed: Sucuri’s plugin is lightweight so it doesn’t slow down your site’s resources and doesn’t take long to load.
• Heavy Monitoring: sucuri enables you to check for DDoS attacks, malware threats, brute force attacks and even XSS attacks so you can rest assured of your site data.

The extension link can be found here .

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WP Rocket -9

This add-on speeds up the loading time of your site, and this means that everything you need to speed up the site is available in one package, and the importance of this add-on is that the speed of the site is the most important factor for its success and bringing new visitors and maintaining its original visitors, because the slowness of the site leads to the alienation of visitors, In addition to other features:

• Caching your dynamically generated pages.
• Improved end-user browser caching.
• Enable slow loading for faster load times.
• Integrate your caching solution with a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

The add-on link can be found here .

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LiveChat -10

This add-on enables you to communicate directly and more comfortably with your customers and visitors to listen to their complaints and suggestions, which contributes to building deeper relationships with them and thus the success of the site, and we show you its features in detail as follows:

• Great Addition: Provides a beautifully designed live chat support app to add a chat box to your WordPress site.
• Work from anywhere: LiveChat is mobile responsive so you and your agents can chat with customers on laptops and tablets; It’s a great tool for remote teams.
• Surveys: Lets you know where to improve by adding rating surveys before and after your chat session.
• Integrations: LiveChat integrates with many other tools including email marketing services and other marketing software.
• Speed: It has a very fast loading time and provides an excellent user experience.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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Icegram -11

This add-on allows you to build mailing lists in a smooth and simple way by showing a pop-up window in different places that motivates the user to take a certain action, and its most important features are:

• Supports A/B . tests
• Geographical targeting
• It gives reliable statistics and effective data that includes all targeted options such as retargeting technology

The add-on link can be found here .

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Woocommerce -12

One of the most famous plugins on the WordPress site, as it is dedicated to e-commerce and through which you can create an online store and start selling what you want on your site comfortably and safely, and it has many advantages, including:

• WordPress Integration: This plugin gives you complete control over the design and functionality of your online store.
• Flexibility: Completely sell anything you want in different shapes, sizes, and product configurations, and the extension offers a wide range of shipping options such as free shipping or paid shipping.
• Payment options: Accept major credit cards, BACs, and cash on delivery, so people can make purchases the way they want.
• It’s all yours: You own it all, so you don’t have to worry about a third-party platform populating your store.
• Increase Sales: Use WooCommerce’s direct sales notifications to increase your online income.

Also Read: Learn about the most important WordPress site acceleration plugins

The add-on link can be found here .

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Akismet -13

Many editors complain about some annoying comments that may disappoint them on the site, but this add-on is the best solution to get rid of this problem, as it enables you to block comments and distinguish the good from the bad, and we leave you with the details of the features as follows:

• It automatically checks all comments and filters out comments that look like spam.
• Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were picked up or deleted by Akismet and which ones are random or spam.
• URLs appear in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
• Moderators can see the number of comments approved for each user.
• With an ignore feature that completely blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.

 

The add-on link can be found here .

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Wordfence Security -14

It is similar to the addition of Sucuri, which we said is a tool for protecting the site, as Wordfence is also specialized in fighting hacking with a slight superiority to Sucuri, but it is the same with regard to protection, both of them play an effective role in fighting viruses and hacking; And many other features such as:

• Scan for malware and block requests that contain malicious code or content.
• Availability of the firewall with all its settings and features, through which everything harmful to the site is prohibited
• Repair files that have changed by replacing them with the original version, and delete files that do not belong to Wordfence.

 

. The link to add Wordfence can be found here .

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Smush -15

Sometimes, as a writer, you have to add large images due to the quality, which may cause weight on your site, but do not worry, this addition will greatly help you to get rid of your problem, by compressing and reducing the image capacity, and the beautiful thing is that it compresses images without losing their quality, which It makes a great addition. In addition to several other features:

• Auto Enhance: This extension resizes, optimizes and compresses all your photos automatically.
• No quality loss: You do all this without sacrificing image quality, so your website runs at optimal speeds and ranks high in search results.
• Their servers use: Smush’s servers reduce additional stress and resource usage.

. The add-on link can be found here .

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Pretty Links -16

This extension allows you to shorten links and keep track of them by seeing the number of clicks on each shortened link you created.

• Links make it look great: The better the links and website, the more your URLs will be shared.
• Affiliate Marketing Organization: Great for those who engage in affiliate marketing to track clicks from emails and social media.
• Tracking: This extension tracks every hit on the URL you generate and gives you a full report on the hit source, browser, OS, and host.

The extension link you will find here .

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Tips before installing WordPress plugins

After choosing your desired add-ons, it’s time to install them; Installing the extension is not a difficult thing at all, but you should be careful with these extensions, and here are some tips to avoid getting into trouble for your site:

• Don’t install a WordPress plugin on your site unless you really need it.

• Never install more than one WordPress plugin to perform the same function, installing more than one plugin for the same function may cause problems for your site.
• It is recommended to take a backup copy of your site files before starting to install a new extension, in case of any problem you can go back to the old version.

How do you install a WordPress plugin?

After selecting the appropriate plugin that you decided to use on your site, you can install the plugin through simple steps in the WordPress dashboard.

In the toolbar, you will select (Extras) , then choose (Add New).

Then, you can install the plugin by searching in the built-in store for WordPress plugins, then you will see the plugin you need to install, then click on (Install Now) , then (Activate).

Or you can install manually, by downloading the add-on to your computer, then click on the (Upload Addition) button and then select (Browse) to upload the add-on from the computer, then after uploading the add-on you will click on the (Install Now) button.

With this, the plugin is installed on your WordPress site, and you can control all the properties and settings of the plugin.

Conclusion

In general, sooner or later you will need to enhance your WordPress site with many plugins, to get other features, such as: getting subscribers to the mailing list, adding social share buttons, compressing images to improve website speed, or improving your content for search results. . And so on.

WordPress plugins will help make this process easier, but the most important decision is to make the right plugin, and not to overload with plugins you don’t need right now.

We hope that this article will be useful to you in deciding which plugins are most suitable for you at the beginning, and if you have a vision of doing a particular task on your site, ask us in the comments and we will answer you with the most appropriate addition for you to do that task.