Popular and Must Use Plugins for a WordPress Site

written by Jason Roiz on November 12, 2014

Plugins are a crucial components of a WordPress powered website and can be used for multiple purposes. They improve the back-end of a website and provide powerful solutions related to caching, security, SEO and add any other improvement that help in building the WordPress core.

There are tons of plugins available in WordPress repository, which users can download and perform a variety of tasks with ease. In this article, we have provided a list of essential plugins, which you should know about. All of them are chosen on the basis of their usefulness, quality and popularity.

So, without further ado, let’s know what they are in detail.

Mailchimp

Mail Chimp (link) is an extremely useful plugin for the companies who actively writes newsletters, run email based campaigns, or in any way involved in two way communication with their customers based on subscription. The plugin does all the work perfectly in assisting all the campaigning work for you.

Mail Chimp comes compete with an excellent set of features such as providing options to customers for selecting between communication mediums, how an information is to be received, and a lot more. Companies can decide intuitively on scheduling communications, their replies, and several other options.

This highly reliable plugin is a great marketing tool, which consequently help in lead generation and improved sales. The major objective of this plugin is to determine the right time of contacting people and thus turn them into loyal customers.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 (link) is a simple to use plugin that helps you create and edit multiple contact forms on your WordPress powered website. The plugin offers an easy way of creating and optimizing forms with the help of simple mark ups. It supports Ajax-powered, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and a lot more.

Delete Me

The all new Delete Me (link) is a newest plugin in the list that allow users with specific roles to delete their roles from the User-> Your Profile subpanel or anywhere with the help of shortcodes.

Broken Link Checker

Broken links (link) can create a bad experience to your visitors by redirecting them to a page that no longer exists or simply displayed a 404 error. These links not only cause inconvenience to them but also reduces your chances of turning them to customers. And, Broken Link Checker is an extremely reliable plugin that closely monitors the links on your pages, posts, comments, and custom field. The plugin works greatly in notifying the owners the moment it encounters any dead link available on the website. It effectively scans the database and immediately displays the links that broken or not valid.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics by Yoast (link) is a popular WordPress plugin that helps you track the traffic of your blogs. The plugin provides an easy way to determine the traffic patterns, mobile usage, and visits made by the visitors on the basis of location and other search optimization results. Companies can easily find out the source of their traffic and also generate interest reports using this plugin.

Author Box Ultimate

Author Box Ultimate (link) is an ultimate WordPress plugin for styling the author bio in an easy way. The plugin boasts a different set of themes to spruce up the look of your author bio box. The design is absolutely responsive, you can also integrate social media icons, change background colors, and also filter post type to seamlessly display the author information.

Popup Domination

Automated popups have become extremely popular these days in a way they ask to sign up to avail an offer or to provide a feedback from the visitors. This way companies can achieve a greater level of rapport and interaction with their customers.

Popup Domination (link) is a great plugin that helps you design popups which not only communicate effectively to your customers but also make it compatible with the appearance of your website. It helps design beautiful popups and locate it at any point of the website.

So, there we have it all, choose any of the plugin we have provided for you. All of them are great and will definitely come handy to meet your ongoing business needs.