12 WordPress Plugins You Should Consider for Growth

Isaiah Bollinger

WordPress is taking over the Internet powering almost 30% of all websites! Its main reason for success is the massive community powering its innovation. There are over 50,000 plugins, however, most are probably too risky to use. Here are 12 very trusted plugins that can help you grow on WordPress!

Yoast SEO

The Yoast SEO plugin is the most popular SEO plugin that also offers improvements to actual technical SEO such as the ability to write page titles, meta descriptions, and many other SEO elements on your website. This is a must have for anyone looking to optimize their site for organic search.

Advanced Custom Fields

Advanced custom fields is one of the best plugins out there because you can use it to create custom fields on any page template or post type in order to create highly customizable pages by simply using the admin panel. We can control every piece of content on our entire website leveraging Advanced Custom Fields!

Gravity Forms or Contact Form 7

Technically these are two plugins, but both offer you incredible ability to add forms to your website with ease. You can easily customize and create new forms in the admin panel with these plugins so that you can add forms to pages or posts without being a developer. Almost every website needs a form in today’s world, so it’s likely these plugins could help you achieve that functionality. Contact Form 7 is more popular because it’s free.

Akismet

Akismet is maintained by Automattic the company that founded WordPress so you know you are in good hands here. Akismet is simple, it stops spam from destroying your blog by pooling all spam comments into spam so you can easily delete them rather than being bombarded by new spam comments.
Akismet

Wordfence:

Wordfence is an incredibly useful plugin in that it can help protect your WordPress site from hackers. Hackers love WordPress because it is literally everywhere. It protects against brute force attacks trying to attack the admin panel, malware and many other things. It is certainly a plugin you should strongly consider for WordPress security.
wordfence

Shortcodes Ultimate

Shortcodes Ultimate is a great plugin because it offers unique functionality for non-coders to be able to add to pages and posts via shortcodes. There are many shortcodes available so marketers can use it to create useful things on a page without having to go to a developer.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is now the most used eCommerce software in the world. Pretty incredible right, considering it’s just a plugin for WordPress. It can handle all the basics of eCommerce such as products, categories, payments, shipping, user login, etc. There are many WooCommerce plugins to increase WooCommerce functionality. If you have a WordPress site and need to add light eCommerce functionality, WooCommerce is certainly a great option to explore.

Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress

Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress is a great plugin that allows you to customize and control the ability of where you want to add social sharing buttons to different pages, post types, and overall WordPress content. You can also customize how the content being shared is displayed so that it auto-populates content you want to share.
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress

Top 10 – Popular Posts Plugin For WordPress

This is another great simple plugin that allows you to easily add the top posts to wherever you want, typically a blog post sidebar or location on a page in which you want to promote your top posts is a great place! You can also easily adjust the settings in the plugin to determine how you want to calculate the top 10 posts.
Daily Top Ten

WP Super Cache

WordPress does not come with caching out of the box. This is a popular plugin that can speed up your site by serving basic static HTML files rather than serving the more costly PHP pages that WordPress normally presents that can load slowly. One cached file can be served thousands of times! With over one million active installs, you are in good hands.
WP Super Cache

Mailchimp for WordPress

Mailchimp is one of, if not the most popular email marketing platform for small businesses. Mailchimp for WordPress is great because it allows you to easily integrate WordPress with mailchimp so newsletter subscribers and other types of forms can sync with Mailchimp.