useful but no must by Athletia
some plugins i found useful in various projects but aren't a must-have
WordPress.org plugins
Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by MonsterInsights
by MonsterInsights
updated yesterday
75.2 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (2034 ratings)
Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced)
by Automattic
updated yesterday
26.5 million downloads
2 million active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (309 ratings)
Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images
by WPMU DEV
updated 2 days ago
24 million downloads
1 million active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (5235 ratings)
Jetpack by WordPress.com
by Automattic
updated 14 days ago
196.9 million downloads
5 million active installs
Rating: 78 / 100 (1543 ratings)
EWWW Image Optimizer
by Exactly WWW
updated 15 days ago
19.3 million downloads
800,000 active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (874 ratings)
WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache.
by David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft
updated 15 days ago
16 million downloads
900,000 active installs
Rating: 96 / 100 (1196 ratings)
Admin Columns
by AdminColumns.com
updated 21 days ago
1.6 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 98 / 100 (1329 ratings)
Embed Plus for YouTube – Gallery, Channel, Playlist, Live Stream
by Embed Plus for YouTube Team
updated 38 days ago
5.1 million downloads
200,000 active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (480 ratings)
Shortcode Widget
by Gagan Deep Singh
updated 41 days ago
335,421 downloads
30,000 active installs
Rating: 98 / 100 (33 ratings)
White Label CMS
by www.videousermanuals.com
updated 77 days ago
1.3 million downloads
100,000 active installs
Rating: 92 / 100 (86 ratings)
Velvet Blues Update URLs
by VelvetBlues.com
updated 572 days ago
2.5 million downloads
300,000 active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (239 ratings)
Per page add to head
by Erik von Asmuth
updated 1380 days ago
109,105 downloads
20,000 active installs
Rating: 100 / 100 (36 ratings)
Better WordPress Minify
by Khang Minh
updated 1844 days ago
658,614 downloads
40,000 active installs
Rating: 84 / 100 (138 ratings)
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
by GoDaddy.com
updated 1990 days ago
1.5 million downloads
70,000 active installs
Rating: 72 / 100 (365 ratings)
Video.js – HTML5 Video Player for WordPress
by Dustin Lammiman, Steve Heffernan
updated 2349 days ago
218,988 downloads
10,000 active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (26 ratings)
WPDBSpringClean
by WPSolutions-HQ
updated 2608 days ago
64,259 downloads
3,000 active installs
Rating: 90 / 100 (51 ratings)
WP System Health
by Heiko Rabe
updated 2805 days ago
79,798 downloads
7,000 active installs
Rating: 94 / 100 (6 ratings)
Ambrosite Body Class Enhanced
by J. Michael Ambrosio
updated 3378 days ago
6,686 downloads
800 active installs
Rating: 100 / 100 (5 ratings)
Custom plugins
There are no custom plugins in this collection.