WordPress plugins are very useful when it comes to optimising a website, you can perform various tweaks and actions with the help of these plugins and can make your website user friendly and robust. In this article you will find 25 Best WordPress plugins which you should use for your website, following plugins include premium features and functions and are easy to use.
So, without further ado, let us explore them one by one.
1. Under Construction Page
While redesigning a website, fixing things or simply preparing a new blog to launch, it is important to have a maintenance page for your visitors. Creating such a page can be a lot of work – if you’re creating one on your own.
But with Under Construction Page plugin which is entirely free, you can set up a custom page in a matter of minutes. The plugin lets you choose a design that you like, add content and social media icons that will help you connect with your audience. After selecting a few more settings, you will end up having a professional under construction page without spending time or money on it. Once you try this plugin, we guarantee that you will activate the maintenance mode each time you have to do work on your site. Doesn’t it look fantastic?
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2. Visual Composer
Visual Composer is one of the best and most popular WordPress plugin in history with maximum sales. Visual Composer is easy to use drag and drop page builder that will help you to create any layout you can imagine fast and easy without any coding.
Visual Composer comes bundled with 2 types of editors allowing you to choose your preferred view. Create your WordPress website with backend schematic editor or move your page building process to frontend and see your results live.
With Visual Composer you can work on new or existing websites as it will recognize your existing content and adapt to any WordPress website. Forget about page builders tailored for a specific theme to get you locked up – Visual Composer works with any WordPress theme.
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3. LayerSlider
LayerSlider is another popular WordPress slider plugin which includes drag and drop visual editor for everyone to get started using LayerSlider. This plugin is jam packed with numerous features like keyboard shortcuts, multi select layers, image editor, and much more.
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4. UberMenu
UberMenu™ is a user-friendly, highly customizable, responsive Mega Menu WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.
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4. Ultimate Addons
This plugin adds several premium elements in your Visual Composer on top of the built-in ones given by WPBakery. Every single element in the package is crafted with utmost attention to details and a simple objective to provide you an ultimate experience.
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5. Ninja Popups
This is one of the best and most useful WordPress popup plugin which includes 60+ themes, 8+ optin panels, animations, translation ready, A/B testing, Google analytics, and many other useful features. A must have plugin for your WordPress site.
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6. EventOn
This is a useful WordPress calendar plugin, includes unique shortcode generator that makes it super easy to customize calendar options, various repeating event options, location maps & directions, multi day events, add event images, add events to user calendars, event categories, custom time format and social share icons and much more.
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7. Essential Grid
Essential Grid is an all-purpose grid building solution for WordPress that allows you to display different kinds of content in a highly customizable grid. Possible applications range from portfolios, blogs, galleries, services, product sliders, testimonials and anything else you can imagine. With its various supported media types like images, youtube & vimeo videos, html5 self- hosted videos and even iframe content.
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8. Royal Slider
Royal Slider for WordPress is responsive image gallery and HTML content slider plugin with touch swipe navigation. Plugin is mobile-friendly and allows creating completely custom slideshows and css3 banner rotators with images, videos or HTML content in slides.
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9. Quform
Quform is an advanced WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily build multiple forms with total control. If it’s a complex quote or booking form or just a simple contact form, Quform will allow you to do this without touching any code. In a few clicks you will have a fully functional form. It’s that simple.
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10. UserPro
It is simply an all-in-one plugin to help you create a complete community site. UserPro offers beautiful front-end profiles, login and registration for WordPress. Besides these, UserPro comes with loads of other features like social connect and integration, viral marketing, user badges, verified accounts, content restriction, public/private activity feed, and more.
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11. Mailster
Mailster is an easy to use Email Newsletter Plugin for WordPress. Create, send and track your Newsletter Campaigns without hassle. This plugin provides multi language ready, smtp support, revisions support, retina ready, quick preview, sidebar widgets, forward via email and many other nifty features.
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12. WordPress Social Stream
WordPress Social Stream will combine all of your social network feeds into one single network stream or create a single feed for multiple social network profiles. Display using a filterable jQuery isotope powered Social Network Wall or a rotating feed list.
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13. Media Grid
Media Grid is an unique tool to create unlimited responsive, filterable and paginated portfolios with ease, taking advantage of masonry engine. Using advanced techniques allows you to create your own layouts and adapt them to any container. Adaptive and mobile optimized for responsive themes.
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14. wpDataTables
wpDataTables is a best-selling WordPress plugin which makes your work with tables, charts and data management easy. 9000+ companies and individuals already trust it to work with financial, scientific, statistical, commercial and other data. wpDataTables allows to create individual filters for your dataset, which is quite a handy way to quickly narrow down the results. It is possible to highlight cells, rows, columns depending on their content – in Excel this feature is called Conditional Formatting. Each table can be used as a data source for creating charts. Charts are rendered by 3 powerful engines and can change in real-time.
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15. WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts
When we are talking about best WordPress plugins how can we forget about WooCommerce. This plugin lets you manage product pricing rules and cart discounts easily. Features and flexibility are not matched by any alternative. You can create long term pricing strategies to keep your best customers engaged. Reward customers that reach specific lifetime goals (money spent, orders completed). Use one store for both retail and wholesale sales and much more.
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16. Interactive World Maps
This is a WordPress plugin to create as many maps as you want, with interactive and colored markers, continents, countries or regions. You can use a shortcode to include the maps in posts, pages and even in sidebar widgets! You can also add the maps to your template, with a simple php function.
There a few features that the Google Geochart API doesn’t provide by default, but the plugin provides a ‘Custom CSS Generator’ to help implement some features like hover colour change effect, implement font icons as markers, change border colour, among others.
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17. CSS3 Responsive WordPress Compare Pricing Tables
This plugin is a pack of pure CSS3 Web Pricing Tables with 2 table styles and 20 predefined color versions that comes loaded with tons of options like extensive admin panel with live configuration, responsive mode configurator, plenty of options for table, columns, rows and table cells, sliding columns feature, expandable rows feature, active (popped-up) columns, hover states, table cell tooltips, columns ribbons, tick / cross icons and a lot of more.
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18. Private Content
PrivateContent is a powerful, yet easy, solution to boost WordPress, turning it into a true multilevel membership platform. Take advantage from advanced users management features and restrict any part of your website.
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19. Flow Flow
is premium social media plugin to display social feeds in beautiful responsive grid with filters and live search. Make any combinations of social feeds with Flow-Flow! For example, you can have Facebook feed, Instagram feed and Twitter feed mixed in the same grid. For its price, this plugin is a great alternative to web services that charge monthly payment for similar functionality.
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20. Slider Revolution
Slider Revolution is an innovative, responsive WordPress Slider Plugin that displays your content the beautiful way. Whether it’s a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene or even a whole Front Page, the visual, drag & drop editor will let you tell your own stories in no time.
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21. WordPress Automatic Plugin
WordPress Automatic Plugin posts from various sources to WordPress automatically. The plugin can search extracted content for any text/area and replace with specified text. The plugin can verify the extracted content and skip posts if it has not content. The plugin have the option to check the extracted content and skip if it does not contain images.
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22. Go Portfolio
This plugin is the ideal solution for creating portfolios, showcases or teasers. You can create new custom post types or use your existing blog posts, custom post type posts or products. If you would like to create a portfolio or looking for a complete solution managing portfolios, this product is a useful tool for you. It’s very easy and fast to create stunning portfolios and integrate them into your WordPress site using Admin Panel.
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23. eForm
eForm (Previously FSQM Pro) is an advanced and flexible form builder that can be integrated into your existing WordPress site. This is a complete form management solution, for quizzes, surveys, data collection, payment / cost estimation and user feedback of all kinds.
With the quick and easy drag and drop form builder, you can build unlimited forms and manage them from your admin dashboard. All submissions are stored in your eForm database, so you can view, track, analyze and act on the data you have captured.
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24. WP Pro Advertising System
The “WP PRO Advertising System” WordPress Plugin allows you to manage advertisements on your WordPress site. It has many powerful features to put ads on your website, manage advertisers, campaigns, banners & adzones all in just a few seconds.
Besides adding normal banners this plugin allows you to create Corner Peel Ads, Popup Banners and you can even transform your post/page backgrounds into advertisements. It also tracks clicks, impressions & CTR to give you very clean and detailed statistics.
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25. Ajax Search Pro
Ajax Search Pro for WordPress was designed to boost the user search experience to the maximum. It provides a live ajax search, which makes the WordPress search experience more comfortable. The results are presented with images (if any found), so they look more attractive and less flat. The search works with mobile devices, let it be Android or IOS powered.
The search can override the default WordPress search results – so the Ajax functionality is extended – replace your default theme search with only a click of a button. The search can return posts, custom post types (like WooCommerce products, BBPress forums, topics, and replies), Categories, custom taxonomy terms (like product categories), users, buddypress groups and buddypress activities as results.
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