Your essential wordpress plugins

[jocajoca]

Howdy

What are the plugins you consider essential for a website that is just starting? newbie hereee

(Apologies if this is not the right thread)

[universal4]

There are a lot of threads here that discuss the various plugins and seo tools to use in wordpress.

Try searching using the keywords plugins or plug-ins.

You will also get a number of recommendations in responses here.

In my opinion, the least amount of plugins you use are better in most cases. When making decisions of what plugins to use, watch that you are not using plugins with overlapping functions.

Rick
Universal4

[chaumi]

Start off with All in one WP Security

[universal4]

My personal choices are:

WPCerber (security)
Easy Affiliate Links (for links that are not hard coded or from a custom widget)
WP Migrate (for quick and easy search and replace when needed)
Ad Rotate (if you need a banner manager)
Yoast (seo)
Advanced Custom Fields

Classic Widgets
Classic Editor (personally dislike block editor)

Rick
Universal4

[dannyx]

If too few plug-ins affect UX and usability, it is worth increasing the number of plug-ins if necessary. With today's fast hosting and security-enhancing plugins, there are no speed concerns.

I myself have a medium hosting, a site with many sections, images and has a speed that is optimal and independent of the number of plugins. This means that the speed does not decrease with the number of plugins.

Of course, better less than more. I am not talking about having 30 plugins at once. But, for example, to have 10 by force where, for example, two more will increase the usability of the site....
I myself don't like to have a lot of plugins and try to have the fewest, but for another reason, for compatibility reasons, problems with updates with a large number of plugins can cause headaches.

It's important to keep plugins up to date, it's not worth downloading plugins that haven't been updated for years, it's a recipe for disaster.
Also, it doesn't make sense for them to overlap in features.

I find it so that I have 1 plugin from each section.

In my case, the starter package is

Wordfence (security)
Elementor (page creation, preferably with a simple Hello Elementor theme)

Then some plugin for optimization, links, seo, sitekit google etc.

[AnnaAbram]

As a newbie and wordpress design for your business website you can consider, Yoast SEO, WP Form, All in one SEO, Jetpack etc. for plugins. Rest I can suggest you to contact a professional website design company for more professional information and website design.

[patras]

• Gambling Affiliate Link Checker - gave it a try last week, love the email and slack integration.
• Yoast - If you're going for organic as the main traffic source. You can cloak your links with the redirections.
• Wordfence for basic security

[NoDepositCasinos]

My top 3:
- Yoast SEO: Helps you improve your search engine rankings (but it's not a replacement for experience, so don't depend solely on it).
- Elementor: It makes it easier to design your website than the WordPress editor. You just have to drag and drop the content and you can see the result as you build without having to update your website over and over again. It also has a ton of integrations with marketing tools.
- Wordfence: Protects your website, and you can start with a free plan that is quite good.

[ARZ]

I am a fan of AdRotate, Yoast of course and I have good experience with Mailpoet for email communications..

[wonderpunter]

Yoast SEO.. mostly for the redirects and title changes, aff link plugins to make changing on large scale easy.. and of course cache plugins

[robyroy]

Hmmm, let's see:

Yoast (wordpress seo) its a must have
BulletProof Security - is one of the best security plugins
ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)
Classic editor (because i really hate block editor)
Litespeed cache - best cache plugin (if you have litespeed on server)

[CasinoYetis]

Many great suggestions in this thread for me too, thanks

[CasinosBroker]

My top 3 are:

- Classic Editor
- WPCerber
- Rank Math SEO

[chaumi]

Not essential, but can be valuable/useful for a number of reasons...

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-googlebot-visit/

[misters]

I require the following: We focus on security, multi-staff login and SEO. I often receive inquiries from readers.

Akismet
Allow Multiple Accounts
EWWW Image Optimizer
Shortcodes Ultimate
Word Balloon
Classic Editor
Classic Widgets
Table of Contents Plus
All In One SEO Pack
Category Order
Contact Form 7

[universal4]

To add a plugin to allow multiple accounts is redundant since wordpress already allows multiple accounts, a plugin is not needed to manage what WP already does.

Rick
Universal4

[Libor]

Yoast SEO it is essential part of every my website

[John Smith]

Backup buddy for sure is one of my top WP plugins

[yesindeed]

My main plugin is Elementor. All others are just security and SEO checkers. Namely akismet and yoast.

[petimi]

WP Rocket (premium), Wordfence, Yoast, Pretty links, Tablepress