Top 10 WordPress plugins Review

Choosing the right WordPress plugin can seriuosly (and tremendously) improve the efficiency, functionality and aesthetic of your website. As there are so many different WordPress plugis available, it is very challenging to find the best.

Do not worry, during our carieer we have tested several different plugins and we really believe that we know which ones are worth your time.

Let´s jump in, here is our list of the top 10 WordPress plugins for 2019.

1. Contact Form 7

This plug in allows you seamlessly create and manage multiple contact forms. For example use reCaptcha verification, and ensure that all spammy submissions are filtered out with Askimet. Contact Form 7 is the WordPress plugin you always need.

Basically this plugin allows you quickly create and publish beautiful contact forms while skipping all the extra codings.

Contact Form 7 has more than 5 million active installations and 1,200 5-star reviews.Remember, its absolutely free and our experience shows that it is impossible to find a better contact form plugin anywhere.

Get Contact From 7 from WordPress.org

2. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is one of the most effective and functional plugin when it comes to on-page search engine optimization

Installation of the Yoast plugin is rather easy and they will guide you step by step through the process of optimizing your new content for the search engine gods.

They will go through from the density of your target keyword to the optimization of your title and h2 tags, to basic readability and metadata. Once again, the setup process is easy, do not worry!

You can download the free version and click here to learn more about the Yoast premium plugin.

3. Akismet Anti-Spam

Developed by the genius team behind the software of WordPress itself (the good folks of Automattic).

Askimet Anti-Spam is the only plugin that helps you maintain the long-term integrity of your site and keep control over the spammers. Askimet Anto-Spam is developed by the WordPress software team.

Basically the plugin reviews and filters every comment that is shared on your website, providing a status history for each comment. Based on that, the plugin identifies which comments are considered spammy.

You also have the possibility to view the amount of approved comments for each user, look at the URLs in the comment body, and remove any less-than-useful links you may find.

Askimet is free to download and use for all personal websites. They also have premium version which comes with a slew of additional security goodies and is priced reasonably, allowing you to keep your site beautiful and spam-free regardless of your budget.

Get Akismet from Akismet.com

4. WooCommerce

For those of you who opted to take a slightly less conventional route with your eCommerce adventures (a.k.a. not using Shopify).

WooCommerce is the all-in-one open source eCommerce platform for WordPress webmasters.With a tons of features, extensions, and customizations built into the platform, WooCommerce makes selling on your WordPress site easier than ever before.

WooCommerce is one of the best plugin in terms of usability or price (just $12.95/month for their most advanced package). From thousands of different themes,to the ability to sell physical, digital, services and affiliate products. They also provide countless conversion optimization tools. Basically we could say, that it’ll be very hard to find a single plugin that can match all these futures.

Get WooCommerce from WooCommerce.com

5. TinyMCE Advanced

TinyMCE allows you to dramatically streamline and simplify your backend WordPress experience, meaning that you can focus on what you do best and leave all of that tiresome “button searching” behind you.

TinyMCE Advanced is a simple free-to-use plugin, that allows you to add, remove, and rearrange the buttons shown in the Visual Editor toolbar, giving you the ability to configure up to four rows of buttons that include font sizes, font family, text/background colors, tables, and much more.

Get TinyMCE Advanced from WordPress.org

6. WordFence Security

Nowadays website security is more important than ever before. If you’re concerned about the security and integrity of your website then WordFence Security is the plugin for your website.

WordFence Security gives you access to plenty of tools including:

• WordPress core file integrity verification and repair
• Malware, virus, and backdoor scanning
• A firewall that includes rate limiting, blocking fake Google crawlers, IP whitelisting and IP blocking
• Real-time traffic that includes Google Crawlers, RSS feed readers and all other crawlers and bots
• Email alerts of warnings and critical problems
• Brute force hacking protection
• And a whole lot more

They offer both free and paid versions. WordFence Security will allow you to rest easy knowing that your website and customers are in good hands.

Get WordFence Security from WordFence.com

7. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemapsis another useful SEO plugin for WordPress. It helps search engines like Google, Bing, etc. to better index your website with a special XML sitemap.

After activatation of the plugin, it will automatically create an XML sitemap that makes it easy for search engine bots to view, crawl, and index your site so that you can enjoy a boost in your rankings.

Get Google XML Plugin from WordPress.org

8. WP Super Cache

Nowadays the speed of your website is cruical. And with WP Super Cache, you can quickly increase your website’s baseline speed.

WP Super Cache is a free and easy-to-use plugin, that generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress site meaning that the web server will use that file instead of processing the heavier and slower PHP scripts.

WP Super Cache is an essential plugin for any site owner who is looking to increase their site speed and enjoy all of the benefits that come with it. It is easy to configure and it has reasonable prcing.

Get WP Super Cache from WordPress.org

9. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics

The Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by Exact Metrics helps you to track the real-time traffic details of your website without logging into and attempting to navigate the labyrinthine Google Analytics website. It is simple and easy to use.

This plugin allows you to monitor on top of real-time traffic stats and acquisition channels but also the:

  • • Sessions, organic searches, page views, bounce rate analytics stats
  • • Locations, pages, referrers, keywords, 404 errors analytics stats
  • • Traffic channels, social networks, traffic mediums, search engines analytics stats
  • • Device categories, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, mobile brands analytics stats

It’s free to use for both personal and commercial sites.

Get Google Analytics WP from WordPress.org

10. Smush Image Compression and Optimization

Smush Image Compression and Optimization helps you to compress, resize and optimize all your webistes images. Please keep in mind that nothing will bog down your website or slow your load times faster than oversized and unoptimized images.

Smush Image Compression and Optimization is considered the best free image compression plugin in the WordPress marketplace.

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