Top 20 Most Popular WordPress Plugins for Entrepreneurs
Here is the list of the most popular plugins for your niche sites, blogs, businesses or simply your own personal branding site.
A good collection of plugins from Contact form to eCommerce to Sitemaps, Spam, SEO and Security, you will find everything you need here.
There is even a free newsletter or email marketing plugin, free for up to 2000 subscribers, it lets you manage your auto-responders, subscriber list and more.
Also, a new breed of plugins that help right the way content from your site is shared on the different social media platforms, to publish the right title, image size, add hashtags, author profile and more.
Most Popular WordPress Plugins for Your Business
Now that you have your website, make the most of it with the following plugins.
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
Downloads: 13+ millions
Our favourite SEO plugin that not only improves your website’s visibility but helps you write better content with things like snippet preview, suggestions for title length, sensible meta description, page analysis to help increase search engine ranking and more.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
2. Contact Form 7
Downloads: 20+ millions
A plugin that has been around for some time, the plugin lets you create multiple contact forms and customise the email contants with simple markup. It also supports Ajax-powered submission, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and more.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
3. Akismet
Downloads: 20+ millions
Nobody likes spam except those that come in tins, Akismet makes managing comments left your site a lot easier. Once activated, it will check for comments against Akismet Web service and automatically trashes spams so you never have to see it.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
4. WooCommerce
Downloads: 4.6+ millions
WooCommerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that turns your website into an eShop to sell anything. This is one of the most supported eCommerce plugin. You can find loads of premium and free extensions as well as themes to enhance your site.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
5. Wordfence Security
Downloads: 3.2+ millions
Wordfence Security is a free enterprise class security and performance plugin that makes your site up to 50 times faster and more secure. This is a two-in-one plugin, caching with Falcon Engine and security with features such as real time blocking of known attackers, vulnerability scanner, enforce strong password, scan files to ensure integrity, firewall, scan for backdoors and more.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
6. MailPoet Newsletter
Downloads: 2.8+ millions
If you are building an audience for your site and need an email marketing software you can either pay for one (Aweber, MailChimp, GetResponse) or start with MailPoet Newsletter. You can use the plugin to send newsletter, post notifications or autoresponders, manage your subscriber and more. Without paying for the premium edition, you are limited to 2000 subscribers but we think that is plenty to start.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
7. JetPack by WordPress.com
Downloads: 12+ millions
Here is a plugin that tries to do everything and there is plenty to like about it. For start, marketers and entrepreneurs gets a quick glance of what is hot on their website, number of visits, referrals and search terms used with the Stats module. Other useful modules for businesses are contact, social networking enabled comment, email subscription, likes, embedding videos and social media posting automation.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
8. Google XML Sitemaps
Downloads: 15+ millions
Use this plugin to generate XML sitemap which is submitted to Search Engines; Google, Bing and Yahoo to help them index your site for keywords and use this to send relevant search traffic to your site.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
9. All in One SEO Pack
Downloads: 20+ millions
This is the second SEO plugin in the list. It automatically optimises your WordPress blog for Search Engines. It supports XML Sitemap, Google Analytics, SEO on custom post types, Advanced Canonical URLs, fine tune Page Navigational Links and more.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
10. Google Analytics by Yoast
Downloads: 6.3+ millions
A second plugin from Yoast, this one enables users to enter tracking code from Google Analytics, allowing Google Analytics to track the visitors to your site. The plugin has an option to enable demographics and interest reports, track outbound links as pageviews or events, track downloads as pageviews or events and track internal links as outbound links (useful for affiliate links).
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