7 Essential WordPress Plugins to Install After Building Your Website

Plugins play a big role in a website. They extend its features, improve performance, give visitors a better experience and bring many other benefits you might not expect.

Here are 7 plugins that help make your website more professional and engaging:

Yoast SEO/Rank Math

These plugins help you optimize each post for on-page SEO. You can create and edit the relevant settings right from your site’s admin area, so your content is easier to find on search engines. They also help optimize the whole website, including pages, tags and categories.

Smush

Smush optimizes the images on your website. It uses compression techniques and strips out unnecessary data to reduce file size while keeping quality. The result is faster page loads, better SEO and a better experience for your customers.

WPForms/Contact Form 7

An easy-to-use contact form plugin. It helps you run surveys and collect information from the people who visit your website.

WP Rocket/LiteSpeed Cache

These plugins improve performance, reduce the load on your server and optimize your site’s files. They let visitors load your site’s resource files from the browser cache. They also create a cached copy of each page, so return visits are faster. Faster pages mean higher conversion rates.

Elementor

Elementor lets you build better-looking WordPress pages. You design pages directly on the front end and edit them with clear, easy-to-read layouts.

Solid Security

Solid Security protects your website from malware, blocks bot attacks, sends attack alerts by email and keeps track of file changes when something is modified.

WP Mail SMTP

WP Mail SMTP makes it simple to send email through your hosting’s SMTP server. Emails sent this way are much less likely to land in spam, and your business’s messages are properly authenticated.

These are our recommended plugins. You can also explore and install other plugins that fit the way your business uses its website.