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Antispam Plugins
Akismet
It is the spam protection plugin par excellence. It is responsible for reviewing all your comments and detect which ones are spam thanks to the database that has this plugin. One of its great features is that it keeps a history of the comments that have been detected and if they do it again it will automatically block it.
In WordPress has a rating of 4.5 stars.
Anti-Spam Bee
This is another plugin with which you can block spam and spam trackbacks, without the need for captcha and without sending personal information to third parties, so it complies correctly with the RGPD.
It has a 5-star rating on WordPress.
Hide My WP
The main feature of this plugin is that it has over 100,000 websites that are secure, over 1,600,000 attempt protection and over 9,000 email alerts.
In addition, it also has filters and security layers to prevent SQL scripts and injections, XML-RPC attacks and more.
It has a 4.5 star rating on WordPress.
Security Plugins
NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced Security
This is a WordPress standalone firewall. Any administrator can have all the security offered by this plugin. It has the ability to scan, sanitize or reject any HTTP / HTTPS request sent to a PHP script before it reaches your WordPress.
It is one of the best security plugins you can install on WordPress.
It has a 5 star rating on WordPress.
Wordfence
This plugin is a high quality firewall that blocks malicious traffic. With this plugin you can be 100% safe. It has over 3,000 reviews and a 4.5 rating, so you can sense that it is one of the best security plugins.
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
This plugin blocks and identifies attacks on your website, so you don’t have to pay to fix your online project.
The installation and configuration is very simple, it won’t take you more than 10 minutes and your website will be secured.
In addition, it has different templates so that depending on the website you have you can use one or another.
In WordPress it has a 4.5 star rating.
SEO and Analytics Plugins
Yoast SEO
This plugin does not have much explanation, it is the reference in terms of leading seo plugins for many years.
It has over 25,000 reviews and an overall rating of 5 stars.
With Yoast SEO you can get an idea of the SEO factors that are wrong and you can easily fix them. Without a doubt, I recommend this plugin as a support for the SEO of your website.
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
If you don’t want to mess with coding or hiring a developer to install Google Analytics for WordPress, this plugin is for you. It has a dashboard that will help you see the most important Google Analytics stats inside your WordPress dashboard.
MonsterInsights
Another very good way to measure the statistics offered by Google Analytics that you can see from a very intuitive dashboard from your WordPress.
Monster Insights is a plugin that many people know, and there are already more than 2 thousand people who have left their review. It works very well and you can make the best decisions with the synthesis of information offered in the control panel.
WPO Plugins
WP Rocket
With this WPO plugin you can process JS or CSS files (depending on which plugin you download) online. You can automatically optimize third-party services.
It has a WordPress rating of 4 stars.
WP Super Caché
With this plugin you can create static html files and process the heavier WordPress PHP scripts.
This is one of the best plugins to optimize WPO and make your page load fast. Also, it is very easy to configure.
It has a WordPress rating of 4.5 stars.
W3 Total Cache
With this plugin, in addition to doing everything discussed above with the other WPO plugins, you can also optimize some factors that should be improved for Core Web Vitals.
If you need to exponentially improve the speed of your website, this plugin is the most advanced of the 3 and you can optimize more fundamental factors.
Form Plugins
WPForms
The developers of WPForms, have created a plugin so you don’t have to hire anyone to create effective contact forms.
The creation of forms is very simple and intuitive, we can say that it is one of the top plugins for creating forms, along with contact form 7.
Form Maker by WD
This form maker is less known, it is also very simple, you just have to drag and drop to create a new form. However, it has less functionality, it’s more basic but very powerful.
It has a WordPress rating of 4.5 stars.
Contact Form 7
You can create multiple contact forms and modify them to your liking, as well as the configuration of the emails that will be sent to the customer.
It is worth noting the support service they have, because if you need something or there are things you do not understand, they give you the solution to your problem.
It has a WordPress rating of 4 stars.
Plugins for Multilanguage websites
WPML
This well-known multi-language plugin is a very good solution to translate your website into other languages. It’s easy, intuitive, but quite basic.
This plugin is useful for small websites that need to translate small content.
It has a WordPress rating of 5 stars.
TranslatePress
With this plugin you won’t have any problems translating your website. It uses a visual translation interface that allows you to translate all your pages at once, including shortcode output, forms, and page builders. It also works with WooCommerce directly.
It has a WordPress rating of 4.5 stars.
Plugins to optimize photos
Regenerate Thumbnails
Allows you to resize thumbnails or images that are already uploaded to your WordPress library. If you need to resize, resize, adjust… this plugin is made for you.
Imsanity
The good thing about this plugin, apart from resizing images whenever you want. It is that you can set some dimensions by default and when you upload an image, it will be resized to the configured size.
Plugins for online store
WooCommerce
This plugin is the reference when it comes to e-commerce. It offers you a simple, easy and intuitive solution very viable to make an online store.
Of course, it is not a solution for professionals, since you have PrestaShop to make a proper ecommerce. However, if what you want is a basic store, this plugin is for you.
Easy Digital Downloads (EDD)
This ecommerce solution is more complex than the previous one. It has a lot more features and is a great option if you want to get more involved in the functionality.
Cart66 Cloud
The differentiating part of this plugin with respect to the others is that it opts for security in the purchasing process. They also ensure that all digital products are protected.
I hope you liked this article about the best plugins for WordPress, are there any that you use and are better? I’ll read you in the comments!
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