Essential Free WordPress Plugins for 2018 by sumnermic
Your Must-Use Free WordPress Plugins for 2018, at the start of setting up a website, to crack the bottle open and start Theming/Developing/Winning!
WordPress.org plugins
Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection
by Nexcess
updated today
38 million downloads
700,000 active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (3982 ratings)
Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
by Yoast
updated yesterday
948.8 million downloads
10 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (27805 ratings)
Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN
by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
updated 14 days ago
65.9 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (6038 ratings)
Code Snippets
by Code Snippets Pro
updated 15 days ago
20.5 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (500 ratings)
MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)
by chriscct7
updated 20 days ago
262.9 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (3137 ratings)
Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
by Strategy11 Team
updated 27 days ago
26.7 million downloads
300,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (1364 ratings)
All-in-One WP Migration and Backup
by ServMask
updated 34 days ago
178.2 million downloads
5 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (7645 ratings)
Redirection
by John Godley
updated 73 days ago
72.1 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 88 / 100 (699 ratings)
Termly – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner
by davidtaroko
updated 123 days ago
2.9 million downloads
90,000 active installs
Rating: 72 / 100 (203 ratings)
Better Search Replace
by WP Engine
updated 155 days ago
17.5 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (543 ratings)
Schema
by Hesham Zebida
updated 332 days ago
1.4 million downloads
40,000 active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (221 ratings)
WP Sitemap Page
by Tony Archambeau
updated 392 days ago
3.4 million downloads
200,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (205 ratings)
Slide Anything – Responsive Content / HTML Slider and Carousel
by simonpedge
updated 1146 days ago
2.5 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (141 ratings)
BulkPress
by Jesper van Engelen
updated 3087 days ago
117,949 downloads
10,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (52 ratings)
Custom plugins
There are no custom plugins in this collection.