We share 100+ WordPress plugins, categorized under social, security, e-commerce, sliders galleries, speed optimization, SEO optimization, comment and form builders and much more. Just take a look at the table of contents below.
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Who doesn’t love WordPress? According to W3Techs, WordPress has a huge 58.5% market share of all content management systems! Yep, WordPress is popular. From small personal blogs to the largest of eCommerce sites, WordPress completely dominates the Web.
So, what do you need to transform your WordPress-powered site into a feature-rich powerhouse? You need the best WordPress plugins!
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WordPress Social Plugins
WordPress eCommerce Plugins
WordPress Slider Plugins
WordPress Gallery Plugins
Security And Backup WordPress Plugins
WordPress Speed Optimization
WordPress SEO Optimization Plugins
WordPress Comment And Form Builder Plugins
WordPress Ads & Affiliate Marketing Plugins
WordPress Membership Plugins
WordPress Plugins With Misc Functionality
WordPress Plugins For Social Sharing
WordPress Live Chat Plugins
WordPress Social Plugins
Social media is one of the crucial components of online marketing. So, choosing the best social plugins for your WordPress site is important. From simple to richly featured, below are some of the best WordPress plugins for social media.
1. Social Network Tabs For WordPress
Social Network Tabs For WordPress combines all of your favorite social network profiles & feeds into slick slide out or static tabs. Each social network tab is loaded using AJAX only when required, making the plugin very fast loading!
2. Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress
Add social buttons to encourage visitors to share your content.
We are using this plugin ourselves, because it looks really great and it allows visitors to see total number of shares in a beautiful way. With this plugin you can use up to 20 of major social networks and encourage readers to share your content.
There are 19 templates, 12 display locations, 4 button display styles, 9 counter styles and after share actions you can add to your website. You can also add social media sharing to images and have social fans counter added. Check the full feature list here.
3. SocialBox – Social Profile Showcase Plugin
Add a social media widget to increase your social following.
With SocialBox you can add a widget to your sidebar, that will help you increase social following as well as increase brand trust if you have a healthy following.
We are using similar feature ourselves, because for the first time visitors, when they see 1WD has more than 200,000 followers, they take a notice that this website is being trusted by many other people.
There is support for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dribbble, Forrst, Youtube, Vimeo, Mailchimp, Pinterest and more. You can either display following for each of these social networks as well as the total number of followers.
Pick between premade designs or create your own. Check the live preview for more.
4. Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin
Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate Lightbox featuring social media buttons (Facebook Like, Facebook Send, Pinterest ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’ and now LinkedIn, StumbleUpon & Tumblr) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!
5. Ultimate Social Meta Pro
This plugin is the ultimate solution for your Social Meta Data problem by automatically grabingb social meta data enriched with Google+ Snippets, Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Card.
6. Social Traffic Pop for WordPress
Social Traffic Pop combines 4 of the most powerful social media tools to make one of the best social media marketing tools ever. Social Traffic Pop builds on everything that made the original Facebook Traffic Pop such a hit and takes it to the next level.
7. Ultimate Social Deux
Ultimate Social Deux is a plugin that gives you 10 popular custom-styled social media sharing buttons with counters.
WordPress eCommerce Plugins
More and more people are buying things online so it is a great idea to add e-commerce functionalities on your site. With big names such as Amazon and eBay already doing great business, the web has evolved to become a great platform for product and business exposure. Good thing WordPress can now integrate e-Commerce plugins. The following are some of the best e-commerce plugin you use for your business site.
13. WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates – WordPress Plugin
Keep track of Amazon products you promote and analyze your conversion rates.
WooZone Report is a cool plugin, that you will want to use if you promote Amazon products in your WooCommerce shop. You will be able to keep track of the Amazon products and see how many views, how many products were added to cart and redirected to Amazon. You can receive reports straight in your inbox.
14. WooCommerce Plugin – excelling eCommerce
Add shopping cart and store to your WordPress website with WooCommerce.
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress plugin for eCommerce solutions. With this plugin you will be able to transform your WordPress website to eCommerce store.
Note that all the promoted themes and most add-ons there are paid, and only WooCommerce plugin itself is free, but it’s still a great deal.
15. WP e-Commerce Car/Parts Filter Plugin
WP e-Commerce Car/Parts Filter Plugin is the best plugin for a vehicle or vehicle parts website. With this plugin, the administrator can show filter plugin on the sidebar or footer widget. He can also add car models, products at the backend.
16. WooCommerce e-Commerce Bundle Rate Shipping
The WooCommerce e-Commerce Bundle Rate Shipping allows you to provide special bundled shipping rates when a customer purchases multiple items. The plugin is designed to be flexible, so you can define bundled shipping rates based on the shipping destination, the categories of the products being sold, or their shipping class.
16. WP eCommerce Authorize.Net
WP eCommerce Authorize.Net is a WordPress Plugin which allows the WP e-Commerce Store owners to accept credit cards. It can take less than 5 minutes to set up. This is, by far, the quickest way to integrate Authorize.net.
17. WorldPay Gateway for WP E-Commerce
WorldPay Gateway is a payment service provider for all sizes of business. Accept debit and credit card payments online and in multiple currencies.
18. Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce
Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce provides an easy-to-use and flexible way for you or your client to process orders directly from the WordPress back end without having to go through the payment process necessary on the front end of the site.
Sliders
Sliders provide a great way to display images, videos or other content in an engaging way. If your theme doesn’t have one built-in or you would just like to add something a bit more exciting then take a look at these premium plugins.
19. Metaslider WordPress Slideshow Plugin
This plugin is the most popular WordPress slider plugin with over 2 million downloads, 500,000 active installs, and 250 five star ratings. There are four different slideshow types – Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive Slides and Coin Slider. Check out their website to see live demo.
With Metaslider you will be able to create responsive and SEO optimized slideshows in seconds. You also can crop images, drag and drop reorder slides, preview slides within admin panel and configure your slideshow a lot.
20. RoyalSlider – Touch-Enabled jQuery Image Gallery
RoyalSlider is an easy-to-use jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. For its menu, you can use thumbnails, tabs or bullets. Use it as image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery, carousel or even presentation.
21. Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin
Slider Revolution is currently the top-selling plugin on Codecanyon. It is widely-used by theme authors on Themeforest. It is a responsive (mobile friendly) or full-width slider with must-see-effects. It also keeps or builds your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines).
22. LayerSlider Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin
LayerSlider Slider Plugin is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that’s possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions.
23. Slider PRO – WordPress Premium Slider Plugin
Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress in the market. The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. It provides 150+ options, 100+ possible transition effects, from simple ‘fade’, ‘slide’ or ‘swipe’ effects to more complex ‘slice’ effects, 15+ skins and much more.
24. Showbiz Pro Responsive Teaser WordPress Plugin
Showbiz Pro is a responsive teaser displaying solution that allows you to show WordPress posts or any custom content with a set amount of teaser items.
25. Accordion Slider – Responsive WordPress Plugin
Accordion Slider is a fully responsive and touch-enabled WordPress plugin that combines the functionality of an accordion with that of a slider.
26. Soliloquy Lite – Responsive WordPress Slider
WordPress Slider Plugin
Soliloquy is a very popular WordPress slider plugin, which is paid, but now there is also available free and lite version of this plugin. What makes this plugin special is that it is really simple to add sliders wherever you want with just a few clicks.
By utilizing custom post types, this plugin allows you to create as many sliders as you want with as many images as you want. You can do all of this with just a few clicks.
WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
Gallery is a cornerstone of many websites today, allowing you to showcase pictures, illustrations, videos and more. If you’re looking for the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress to help you display your images for maximum effects on your blog or website. The following I listed are the best WordPress gallery plugins that will surely blow your mind.
27. NextGen Gallery WordPress Plugin
NextGen Gallery Plugin
This plugin has been around for a very long time; it has over 12 million downloads, and it has over one million active installs. One red flag is that it has received quite a bit 5-star and 1-star ratings, but still active installs are the highest ever seen on WordPress repository for gallery plugin.
28. Responsive Photo Gallery WordPress Plugin
Responsive Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery is an advanced plugin, that allows you to to add and edit images for different views. You can create image galleries and albums to posts, pages and add them as widgets.
This gallery is fully responsive and has several gallery views you can choose from.
29. Essential Grid WordPress Plugin
Essential Grid Building Solution
This is one more plugin similar to Justified Image grid, but functionality and design preview look different. Live preview for Essential grid is really great, since they have collected all the best user works, you can use as base for your own designs.
The plugin also has lots of included skins you can use to display any content on grid-like portfolios, price tables, service listings, product sliders, video grids and more. You can easily import or export your grid, skin or meta date later to use for another WordPress installation.
30. Justified Image Grid – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin
This plugin aligns thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, just like Google image search.
This plugin will take existing WordPress galleries and display them, the way you want. You can alternatively load images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram or use NextGen (image manager) as a source for images. You can also pull image RSS feeds and videos from Youtube or Vimeo and much more.
You can also control every aspect how the gallery will be displayed, there are lots of options. You will also get 87 pages of PDF documentation to learn how to use this plugin.
31. Responsive Lightbox by dFactory
This plugin allow readers to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox overlay effect, which is optimized for mobile devices. It has more than 100,000 active installs and have received 250 five star ratings.
32. Media Grid – WordPress Responsive Portfolio
A responsive and filterable portfolios with ease on your website. Media Grid comes with masonry layout; it is designed to adapt each portfolio to any situation and mobile optimized for responsive themes.
33. Video Gallery WordPress Plugin /w YouTube, Vimeo
Responsive, localized, awesome, fully featured and fast gallery. This is the most advanced stock video gallery in the world and, now, as a WordPress plugin.
34. Simple 3D Coverflow WordPress Plugin
Simple 3D Coverflow is a fully responsive media 3D coverflow WordPress plugin that allows you to display media content with an unique original layout from a 3D perspective. It’s perfect for any kind of presentation, for anyone that wants to deliver a great impact on their visitors.
35. Awesome Gallery
It’s another great gallery plugin that comes with a horizontal flow, vertical flow and classic grid. Especially helpful when you use both portrait and landscape images at the same gallery. Ideal for presenting your photographs and really close to the way images are presented in Flickr.
36. Thumbnail Gallery (WordPress Plugin)
This plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.
37. Mikado Grid Gallery for WordPress
Mikado Grid Gallery is a gallery for WordPress based on random grids with a lot of features. It’s responsive and images will adapt with a nice and smooth animation when the browser is resized. You just need to decide width (also percentage) and height and Mikado will create a random grid inside the rectangle.
Security And Backup WordPress Plugins
WordPress is pretty secure against hacker attacks, but since WordPress is being used by 20% of all world websites, you should take security precautions nevertheless. Better be safe than sorry, right?
All websites should have regular backups, in case something bad happens, but other things are just like icing on cake.
38. Backup WordPress Plugin
Premium WordPress Backup Plugin – BackupBuddy
This is the most popular premium backup plugin for WordPress and it is the best way to backup and move your WordPress website.
Backups come handy in case something troublesome happens to your databases or server.
Backupbuddy isn’t free, but if you are looking for high quality and reliability, and you can pay a little for that – BackupBuddy is the top choice.
39. iThemes Security Pro
Ensure your site is safe and protected at all times.
This is another plugin created by iThemes, they also have created BackupBuddy mentioned before. iThemes Security is a premium and comprehensive plugin, including all the things you will ever need to secure your website.
40. UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration
UpDraft Plus Backup And Restoration WordPress Plugin
This is the most popular free plugin on WordPress repository and with over 2.4 million downloads, more than 400,000 active installs and 1400 5-star ratings is a good choice. UpdraftPlus allows you to backup your data to the cloud to places like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive and much more. You can later restore this backup with a single click.
41. Wordfence Security
Wordfence security and performance WordPress plugin.
Wordfence is a free enterprise class security and performance plugin that makes your site up to 50 times faster and more secure. This plugin provides a complete anti-virus and firewall package and tools that will help you to recover from a hack. It has more than 900,000 active installs and more than 2000 5 star ratings.
42. Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening
Sucuri Security WordPress plugin
Sucuri Inc. is the most recognized company when it comes to website security. They were the ones who first discovered the HeartBleed bug, which haunted WordPress websites in 2014.
43. Login Lockdown
Simple security WordPress plugin protecting your admin area.
Login Lockdown is a simple plugin that records the IP address and time of every failed login attempt. Usually hack attempts rely on breaking into your website admin area buy inputting lots of password lists to guess the password. This plugin locks IP out for 1 hour after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes.
44. Hide My WP
Hide the fact you use WordPress for your site with Hide My WP plugin.
This handy security plugin lets you hide the fact you are using WordPress making it harder for anybody to breach your security.
You can use the plugin to control access to PHP files, which will protect your site from almost 90% of SQL-Injection and XSS attacks, which are caused by accessing PHP files directly. This means you can install unsafe plugins without worrying about security.
Install new plugins and themes on your website without worrying about being exposed to common web attacks and new vulnerabilities that are discovered within plugins.
45. Security Ninja
Security Ninja WordPress plugin
This plugin allows you to perform 35+ security tests including brute-force attacks. It will automatically scan your website for security vulnerabilities and holes, and you will receive notifications via email.
46. Core Scanner add-on for Security Ninja
Core Scanner add-on for Security Ninja can scan WP core files with one click. It quickly identifies the problematic files that occurs in your WordPress core files.
47. WP Security Manager
WP Security Manager is a WordPress plugin that provides all in one security solutions to your WP site.
48. Smart Security Tools
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