WordPress Plugins

Did you recently install a WordPress website? Or are you a long-time WordPress user? Are you looking for a list of plugins that bring value to your installation? This article will cover some great WordPress plugins to make your life as a WordPress user or admin more bearable.

Better Search Replace

When moving your WordPress site to a new domain or server, you will likely run into a need to run a search/replace on the database for everything to work correctly. Fortunately, there are several plugins available for this task, however, all have a different approach to a few key features. This plugin consolidates the best features from these plugins, incorporating the following features in one simple plugin:

• Serialization support for all tables
• The ability to select specific tables
• The ability to run a “dry run” to see how many fields will be updated
• No server requirements aside from a running installation of WordPress
• WordPress Multisite support

Time-saving features available in the Pro version:

• View exactly what changed during a search/replace
• Backup and import the database while running a search/replace
• Priority email support from the developer of the plugin
• Save or load custom profiles for quickly repeating a search/replace in the future
• Support and updates for 1 year

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Better Search Replace Page: bettersearchreplace.com

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 helps you easily set up a contact form for your WordPress website.

To send the contact form, make sure to setup WP Mail SMTP
To capture the contact form, make sure to setup Flamingo

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Contact Form 7 Page: contactform7.com

Easy Table of Contents

A user-friendly, featured-focused Easy Table of Contents plugin that allows you to insert a table of contents into your posts, pages, and custom post types.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Easy Table of Contents Page: tocwp.com

Elementor

Alternative to the built-in WordPress editor with more customization features.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Elementor Page: elementor.com

Fixed Widget

Use Fixed Widget to create sticky widgets, sticky blocks, and other elements that stay in the visible screen area when a user scrolls the page up or down.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Fixed Widget Page: wpadvancedads.com

Flamingo

Flamingo is a message storage plugin originally created for Contact Form 7, which doesn’t store submitted messages.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org

Knowledge Base

Our Knowledge Base plugin is a powerful documentation tool that helps you create and organize your documentation, FAQs, and articles. It’s easy to use and includes many features to help you build a visually appealing Knowledge Base.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Knowledge Base Page: echoknowledgebase.com

Make Column Clickable Elementor

Simple: allow users to click on the whole column instead of individual elements.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Make Column Clickable Elementor Page: fernandoacosta.net

Nav Menu Roles

This plugin lets you hide custom menu items based on user roles. So if you have a link in the menu that you only want to show to logged-in users, certain types of users, or even only to logged-out users, this plugin is for you.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Nav Menu Roles Page: kathyisawesome.com

New User Approve

New User Approve plugin automates the user registration process on your WordPress website.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
New User Approve Page: newuserapprove.com

Organize Admin Notices

A simple WordPress plugin that lets users toggle the visibility of admin notices.

WordPress Plugin Page: Not Available; Download the zip from GitHub and upload the zip manually to WordPress
Participants Database Page: github.com

Participants Database

This plugin offers all the functionality needed to build and maintain a database of people or anything you want. The database is fully configurable, allowing you to define all the fields of information you want to store for each record. The records can be entered individually in the WordPress admin section, imported with a CSV file, or let the individuals themselves create their records. Display lists of records can be sorted and filtered by any field, and the result is exported as a CSV file.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Participants Database Page: xnau.com

Polylang

With Polylang fully integrated into WordPress and using only its built-in core features (taxonomies), keep steady performances on your site and create a multilingual site featuring from just one extra language to 10 or more depending on your needs. There is no limit in the number of languages added and WordPress’ language packs are automatically downloaded when ready.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Polylang Page: polylang.pro

Read Meter

The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar. It works great to give visitors a quick idea about the time needed to read a post and encourages them to go on till the end.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Read Meter Page: brainstormforce.com

Redis Object Cache

A persistent object cache backend powered by Redis®. Supports Predis, PhpRedis (PECL), Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.

Take note that this plugin requires a Redis server.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org

Site Kit by Google

Site Kit is the official WordPress plugin from Google for insights about how people find and use your site. Site Kit is the one-stop solution to deploy, manage, and get insights from critical Google tools to make the site successful on the web. It provides authoritative, up-to-date insights from multiple Google products directly on the WordPress dashboard for easy access, all for free.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Site Kit by Google Page: sitekit.withgoogle.com

Travelers’ Map

Travelers’ Map allows you to display your blog posts on a dynamic map using the Leaflet module and OpenStreetMap open data. This plugin is entirely free.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Travelers’ Map Page: verriercamille.com

UpdraftPlus

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore, and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
UpdraftPlus Page: updraftplus.com

WP Crontrol

WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the scheduled cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WP Crontrol Page: wp-crontrol.com

WP Dark Mode

Create a stunning dark-mode version of your website✨.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WP Dark Mode Page: wppool.dev

WPForms Lite

WPForms is a drag-and-drop WordPress form builder that’s EASY and POWERFUL. Create contact forms, feedback forms, subscription forms, payment forms (including Stripe, Square & PayPal), and other types of forms for your site in minutes with just a few clicks!

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WPForms Lite Page: wpforms.com

WP Mail SMTP

WP Mail SMTP fixes your email deliverability issues by reconfiguring WordPress to use a proper SMTP provider when sending emails.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WP Mail SMTP Page: wpmailsmtp.com

WP-Optimize

WP-Optimize is trusted by more than 1 million WordPress website owners to boost performance and reduce page load times to improve your site’s user experiences and SERP rankings in Google.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WP-Optimize Page: getwpo.com

WP Rollback

Quickly and easily rollback any theme or plugin from WordPress.org to any previous (or newer) version without any of the manual fuss. Works just like the plugin updater, except you’re rolling back (or forward) to a specific version. No need for manually downloading and FTPing the files or learning Subversion. This plugin takes care of the trouble for you.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
WP Rollback Page: givewp.com

Yoast Duplicate Post

This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.

WordPress Plugin Page: wordpress.org
Yoast Duplicate Post Page: yoast.com