WordPress originally started out as a blogging platform and soon grew into a powerful, feature-rich, highly extensible content management system.
Over the years I’ve researched and used a wide variety of WordPress plugins to add more functionality to websites. Below is a top 10 list of must-have WordPress plugins.
Advanced Custom Fields Pro
Add extra functionality to just about any area of your website. Add custom and conditional fields, galleries, repeating sections and even theme options.
Contact Form 7
Manage multiple contact forms on your website. It doesn’t have drag and drop functionality, but it’s very intuitive and packed full of features.
Contact Form 7 Honeypot
This add-on for Contact Form 7 adds a hidden field to forms. If that hidden field is filled out then the form will not send. It’s a great alternative to using CAPTCHA.
Broken Link Checker
An indispensable tool for checking your website for broken links. This tool lets you update or remove links easily.
Yoast SEO
The developer of this plugin has been around a long time. This plugin allows you to do many things with your SEO including custom Meta Titles & Descriptions, Open Graph tags, adding breadcrumbs and creating Google sitemaps.
Sucuri Security
Secure your website with this popular plugin.
Simple Page Ordering
Adds drag and drop ordering of your pages and custom post types in the admin.
Simple 301 Redirects
Simple 301 Redirects allows you to easily add URL redirects into the system. This comes in handy when you need to make old URLs in Google’s index forward to the new pages until they get flushed from their index.
Events Manager
This is by far the best event calendar system I’ve used. It’s simple to setup and easily customized. The developer also maintains in-depth documentation on it.
Custom Post Type UI
Create custom post types in the admin area. This is very handy if you need to create a special section such as a portfolio.
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