This post is a guide to recommend WordPress plugins.
In this guide
- 10 Best WordPress Plugins Recommendations
- Recommendations for each plugin and how to use them
- How to install plugins on wordpress
- The description of WordPress plugins
- Other descriptions of plugins
If you are not sure which plugin to use when getting started with WordPress, this post will help you.
What is a wordpress plugin?
Add functionality to your site through WordPress plugins
A WordPress plugin is an element that adds functionality to your website. Payment function, SNS sharing function, page decoration function, and gallery function. You can add all the features you want to add to your website through plugins.
Just as apps on your smartphone can add features, plugins add features to your website.
How many WordPress plugins do you currently have?
As of 2022, more than 60,048 free plugins are officially registered with WordPress. Also, since you can purchase plugins from other places and install them on WordPress, it is estimated that there will be more than 100,000.
There is also a space where you can download Premium WordPress plugins, You can download various plug-ins for premium wordpress item from www.gplplace.com or www.gplgood.com.
You just need to install plugins in WordPress for the features you want to add to your website. Unlike themes, you can install multiple plugins and apply them at the same time. However, there are some things to be careful about.
The more plugins are installed, the heavier the site will be, which may increase the loading time of the site.
In fact, from my experience,
the number of plugins is not important, but there are plugins that eat up the speed of the site.
In other words, installing one plugin may increase the loading speed significantly, or installing more than 10 plugins may have little effect on the loading speed.
When you install , measure your website speed to see how the plugin affects your website.
Top 10 WordPress plugins to recommend
Rank Math SEO (SEO Plugin)
SEO (search engine optimization) helps you get more visitors to your website. While WordPress itself is Google SEO friendly, it can boost your SEO score significantly, depending on how you build your posts and site.
A plugin that checks your website’s SEO score is called an SEO plugin. The SEO plugin that Optimer recommends is the ‘Rank Math SEO’ plugin .
RankMath SEO gives you the current SEO score of each page of your website and gives you detailed information about what needs to be fixed. It also integrates with the Elementor Page Builder plugin, so you can check your page’s SEO score from within your Elementor page.
You can access the RankMath SEO dashboard from the WordPress admin page. Here you can configure a number of factors that affect your SEO. Moreover, this plugin does not significantly affect website speed in my experience.
Other SEO plugins : Yoast SEO, All in One SEO.
Elementor (Page Builder Plugin)
When you create a post in WordPress by default, you create it using an editor called ‘Gutenberg’. Then you can create an article just like a Naver blog. You can create a post in the form of a list of photos, articles, links, etc. You even have to make it like this for your homepage.
But with the Page Builder plugin, you can put the elements you want and the design you want wherever you want. So, Optimer thinks that, no matter what kind of site you build, a page builder plugin is a must.
You have to design it yourself, so you can make your visitors move the way you want them to in the online space. Among the numerous page builder plugins, Optimer’s most recommended plugin is ‘ Elementor ‘.
Elementor is an active plugin for over 5 million WordPress. It boasts the No. 1 market share in the page builder plugin category. There are 5000 reviews in WordPress reviews, and it maintains a score of close to 5.
Elementor is a plug-in that works in a drag-and-drop method. You can configure the page by dragging and dropping specific elements where you want them. Usually, using page builder plugins will slow down your website. Because of this, some people don’t use the page builder plugin.
Elementor is probably the only page builder plugin that has almost no speed impact. This is a plugin that Optimer is also using, and it is a plugin that I recommend to you as well.
You can use it for free, and if you want to use the page created in advance by Elementor or use more features on the page, you can use the premium (paid) version.
Similar plugins : Beaver Builder
Elementor’s share is overwhelmingly high, making it very easy to learn features while browsing.
WPForms (Contact Forms Plugin)
In order for visitors to contact you, every website needs a contact form. Among the contact forms, Optimer recommends WP-forms. WPforms is an active and used plugin in over 3 million WordPress plugins. In addition, it is a plugin that maintains a rating of almost 5 out of 5.
WPforms allows users to create all forms that can be created online, such as email subscription forms, inquiry forms, payment forms, questionnaire forms, and login forms, using a user-friendly drag-and-drop method.
It can be used for free, and if you want to integrate more functions and other plugins, you can use the premium (paid) version.
Similar plugins : Ninja forms, Contact Form 7
WP Rocket (Optimization Plugin)
Did I mention above that I need to be SEO friendly to increase the number of visitors?
There are countless factors that affect this SEO score. That’s why I recommended that you install the SEO plugin as a must. One of the most important factors in your SEO score is how fast your site loads.
And this is not a problem that SEO plugins can solve. You need to use an optimization plugin to make your site lightweight and reduce the loading speed of your site as much as possible.
The optimization plugin that Optimer recommends is WP-Rocket. It is the only plugin that cannot be used for free among the plugins I recommend in this post.
I use it for free, but if it’s good for me, I think it’s stable to use a paid program, so I don’t try to recommend programs that are immediately used for a fee. Nevertheless, we recommend this because site loading speed is so important and WP Rocket handles that well.
Similar plugins : W3 Total Cache
Social Pug (SNS Sharing Plugin)
In this day and age, there are hardly any people who do not use social media. Recently, my parents also started Instagram.
When a visitor likes my article and wants to share my article on social media, it is an SNS sharing plugin that creates a button to help this process conveniently. If people share the article on SNS through this plugin, the number of visitors who see the SNS post and flow to my post will increase, right?
So, an essential feature to create more visitors is the social media sharing plugin. Optimer recommends the ‘Social Pug’ plugin among the SNS sharing plugins. Like other plugins, many social sharing plugins slow down your website a lot.
According to an experiment done by WP Rocket, activating the Social Pug plugin adds 0.3 seconds to the loading time.
It is the best plugin among social sharing plugins in terms of loading speed. In order for visitors to contact you, every website needs a contact form.
Among the contact forms, Optimer recommends WP-forms. WPforms is an active and used plugin in over 3 million WordPress plugins. In addition, it is a plugin that maintains a rating of almost 5 out of 5.
WPforms allows users to create all forms that can be created online, such as email subscription forms, inquiry forms, payment forms, questionnaire forms, and login forms, using a user-friendly drag-and-drop method.
Imagify (image optimization plugin)
Imagify is a plugin that is installed when WP Rocket, an optimization plugin, is activated. This is a plugin that optimizes images.
As you are well aware, images are much larger than text, and audio and video are much larger than images. Therefore, video or audio may not be included in the page, but images are an essential element. If you fill your posts with only text, users will find it difficult to read.
If you are a branding person like me, there are probably many people who are not familiar with web programming. Inserting and modifying code on a website is not an easy task for non-developers.
However, when running WordPress, there are times when you need to insert a few lines of code. In order to authenticate your website to a search engine such as Google or to use Google Analytics to view visitor statistics, you need to insert the code they provide.
The plug-in that easily inserts code like this is ‘ Insert Headers and Footers ‘. This plugin makes it easy to put code into your site without having to modify the main theme file.
Similar plugins : WP Smush
Custom Fonts (Font Plugins)
If you are just starting out with WordPress, you may be thinking, ‘Isn’t it enough to apply Google Fonts?’ You can use Hangul fonts provided by Google on the web . It’s free and you can use it without worrying about copyright.
However, I do not use Google Fonts. The reason is the loading time.
If you use Google Fonts, it takes a long time to load because you have to download the fonts from Google servers every time. In fact, there are many people in foreign countries who use Google Fonts. However, Hangul is not used well because there are too many characters required to use it.
In the case of English, only 26 alphabets need to be listed and displayed on the screen, but in the case of Hangul, a consonant X vowel and a consonant are required, so a total of 11172 characters are downloaded.
The font plugin that Optimer recommends is ‘ Custon Fonts ‘. The Custom Fonts plugin allows you to apply fonts to Elementor by simply uploading a font file.
Similar plugins : Use any font
Insert Headers and Footers (Code Insertion Plugin)
If you are a branding person like me, there are probably many people who are not familiar with web programming. Inserting and modifying code on a website is not an easy task for non-developers.
However, when running WordPress, there are times when you need to insert a few lines of code. In order to authenticate your website to a search engine such as Google or to use Google Analytics to view visitor statistics, you need to insert the code they provide.
The plug-in that easily inserts code like this is ‘ Insert Headers and Footers ‘. This plugin makes it easy to put code into your site without having to modify the main theme file.
It is a plugin that helps non-developers to operate WordPress conveniently.
WooCommerce (Online Commerce Plugin)
The best personal branding method I suggest is the SERM cycle™. In the final stage, M (monetize) stage, you should be able to return your value to profit.
Whether it’s a product or a service that you can sell to people, you need to get your customers paid. ‘WooCommerce’ is a plugin that helps you receive payments on your website .
WooCommerce allows you to earn money from customers by selling products and services on your website, and you can use your website as a shopping mall.
Similar plugins : Shopify
Broken link checker
The links you linked to in your posts are often broken. This happens when the linked page disappears or you insert the wrong link. A plugin that fixes these links is Broken Link Checker.
Do not keep installing the plug-in, and when you want to check the link, install it occasionally and then delete it. You can do it this way, as it won’t cause any major problems for your visitors to enjoy your website.
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