Top 10 Free WordPress Plugins

WordPress provides more than 50,000 plugins you can have installed on your website. We decided to help you to choose the plugins that are very important to have. Below you could find our list of top 10 free plugins you should have installed on your website.

First of all, the best things to know when you want to download plugins are :

• Check the number of downloads: More a plugin is downloaded more it will be a good and efficient plugin.
• Check the reviews: You could check the user reviews to see if it is a good plugin. If there are too many negative reviews, you shouldn’t download it.
• Check the updates: You could check the frequency of the updates. If the date is more than 2-3 years, it shouldn’t a good idea to download it.

1 – Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins with more than 5 millions of download. If you want to optimise your website it is one of the top plugins you need. This plugin helps you with the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Yoast SEO helps you to define the meta description, the SEO title, and the slug of your pages or blog posts. This plugin helps you too to optimise the readability and if the keywords are well distributed on your page.

There are different versions of this plugin, free ones and paid one. The free one is very good however it does limit how many keywords you can have within a post/page. Even though there is this limitation, Yoast SEO is still an amazing plugin that can help with the SEO on your website. If you don’t want this limitation then you can get the paid version however it depends on your budget.

 

2 – WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a plugin which clears your cache. It means that it helps you to optimise the load on your pages. The fact that your pages will load faster it will help you to be in a better Google rank for your SEO. Furthermore, the speediness of a page is an important element of the website’s optimisation.

The fastest a website is the most its will be appreciated by your users.

 

3 – Duplicator 

Duplicator is a migration plugin. It means that you could “migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility.” This plugin is very useful in case you would like to copy something from your website to another or simply create a backup of your website. Have a backup of your website is essential in case you have any trouble with your website, you will have insurance to keep it safe.

It is a plugin that could hold your attention.

 

4 – Elementor

This plugin is a theme builder. A theme builder helps you to create pages in a very simple way. The only things to do is to drag and drop modules and place them as you want on the page which let you express your creativity easier.

Elementor propose different modules and features that could let you customise your website. If you opt for the paid version obviously you will have more possibilities.

It is a plugin that could help you a lot.

 

5 – Smush

Smush is a plugin which compresses and optimises all the images from your website. This plugin is very useful because Smush helps your website to be faster in load and this plugin keeps the quality of images.

It is very important to take care of the images. If an image is too big or too heavy it could slow down the website. This plugin ensures that all the images aren’t too heavy and compressed them to optimise the speediness of the pages.

There are different versions: free and a paid version. Obviously, there are more options on the paid version.

If you are building a website you should download this plugin.

 

6 – Loco Translate 

This plugin allows you to translate your website in any languages directly from your dashboard. This plugin is very handy because it is a time saving for your website. If you want to give access to more user in different languages it could be possible thanks to this plugin.

If you want to expand your business to different countries this plugin could interest you.

 

7- Akismet

This plugin will help you to filter the undesirable comment. Through the web, you could be the target from robots or malicious people which will try to spam you with comments that aren’t relevant to the content.

Thank Akismet you could detect easily the spam and that could save a lot of time for you.

This plugin is very interesting furthermore it is already installed with your WordPress, you just have to activate it.

 

8 – All in One WP Migration

This plugin allows you to export all your website with everything that goes around: database, media files… This is very handy when you want to export your website in another location.

This plugin is very useful you should download it.

 

9 – Child Theme Configurator

Child Theme Configurator allows you to create a child theme from the original theme, the parent theme. This child theme is exactly the same than the parent theme, in this case, you can customise the CSS of your theme with the insurance that you have the original one. To know more about Child Theme you could read this article written by our lovely team.

This plugin is very important, you should have it.

 

10 – Easy Google Font

This plugin allows you to have access to Google Font without coding. With this, you could ad any font from Google Font, a huge library of fonts. There is already a variety of fonts in your theme setting but with this plugin, you will have a lot of choices.

This plugin could be interesting if you want more choice.

 

To sum up, all these plugins are very useful and some of them are very important for your website. If you are thinking about building a website with WordPress you should take into consideration all these free plugins.

 

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