My Favourite WordPress plugins

There are many WordPress plugins available, and it can be difficult to know which ones are the best. These are my favourite WordPress plugins at the moment.

SPEED

WP Rocket – Smart, works with lots of different hosting companies, always innovating.

Siteground hosting users – SiteGround Optimizer – it does all of the main things caching providers do but more importantly is the only way to really clear the cache that occurs before the WordPress part starts.

IMAGE OPTIMISATION

Imagify : Part of the WP Rocket family so works great with it. Also very reasonable pricing for single sites and developers.

SEO

Yoast SEO: – Donates more time to improving WordPress than any other WordPress company other than the one owned by the WordPress founder.

This means they also have the most insights into what’s coming and they also work with Google on this too.

FORMS

Gravity Forms – Compatible with most things in the WordPress ecosystem. Has so many things you can add to it to do almost anything involving collecting data.

WSForms – for really complex forms

SECURITY

Ithemes Security Pro – least intrusive, great dashboard, works.

Siteground hosting users – SiteGround Security is made for your hosting, has all the main staple features of a security plugin and is free.

ADDING HEADER AND FOOTER CODE

Tracking Code Manager – this is perfect to add code for verifying Google Search Console for example or other things that need code added to header, body etc.

BACKUPS

UpdraftPlus – the most reliable backups tool I’ve used and it’s free.

GENERALLY HANDY

Duplicate Page (by mndpsingh287) – this makes life easy when you want to just copy a page, post, product, custom page set eg ‘Events’ you already made perfectly and just want to use the same design again instead of starting from scratch.

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