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
Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
by Yoast
updated yesterday
837 million downloads
10 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (27771 ratings)
Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
by Strategy11 Team
updated 6 days ago
24.6 million downloads
300,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (1315 ratings)
Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection
by SolidWP
updated 7 days ago
34.4 million downloads
800,000 active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (3975 ratings)
All-in-One WP Migration and Backup
by ServMask
updated 7 days ago
157.4 million downloads
5 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (7558 ratings)
MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)
by chriscct7
updated 19 days ago
232.3 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (3062 ratings)
Smush Image Optimization – Optimize Images | Compress & Lazy Load Images | Convert WebP & AVIF | Image CDN
by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
updated 21 days ago
59.6 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (6015 ratings)
Schema
by Hesham Zebida
updated 31 days ago
1.4 million downloads
40,000 active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (217 ratings)
Redirection
by John Godley
updated 81 days ago
62.5 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 88 / 100 (672 ratings)
WP Sitemap Page
by Tony Archambeau
updated 91 days ago
3.3 million downloads
300,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (202 ratings)
Better Search Replace
by WP Engine
updated 92 days ago
16.5 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (536 ratings)
Code Snippets
by Shea Bunge
updated 103 days ago
13.8 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (477 ratings)
Termly – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner
by davidtaroko
updated 168 days ago
2.9 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 72 / 100 (202 ratings)
Slide Anything – Responsive Content / HTML Slider and Carousel
by simonpedge
updated 845 days ago
2.5 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (141 ratings)
BulkPress
by Jesper van Engelen
updated 2786 days ago
117,949 downloads
10,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (52 ratings)
Custom plugins
There are no custom plugins in this collection.