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
Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN
by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
updated yesterday
66.1 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (6041 ratings)
MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)
by chriscct7
updated 4 days ago
268.4 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (3142 ratings)
Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection
by Nexcess
updated 5 days ago
38.5 million downloads
700,000 active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (3987 ratings)
Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
by Strategy11 Team
updated 6 days ago
26.8 million downloads
300,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (1367 ratings)
Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
by Yoast
updated 6 days ago
958.1 million downloads
10 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (27813 ratings)
Code Snippets
by Code Snippets Pro
updated 35 days ago
20.8 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (501 ratings)
All-in-One WP Migration and Backup
by ServMask
updated 55 days ago
178.9 million downloads
5 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (7652 ratings)
Redirection
by John Godley
updated 93 days ago
72.3 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 88 / 100 (704 ratings)
Termly – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner
by davidtaroko
updated 144 days ago
2.9 million downloads
90,000 active installs
Rating: 72 / 100 (203 ratings)
Better Search Replace
by WP Engine
updated 176 days ago
17.6 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (543 ratings)
Schema
by Hesham Zebida
updated 352 days ago
1.4 million downloads
40,000 active installs
Rating: 86 / 100 (221 ratings)
WP Sitemap Page
by Tony Archambeau
updated 413 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 1167 days ago
2.5 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (141 ratings)
BulkPress
by Jesper van Engelen
updated 3108 days ago
117,949 downloads
10,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (52 ratings)
Custom plugins
There are no custom plugins in this collection.