Best 2018 plugins for WordPress

WordPress is an easy-to-use platform to create websites quickly and the most powerful CMS in the world also supports plugins and themes to add features and change the theme.
Thanks to WordPress plugins you can expand the functionality of your blog, have more options to control access and statistics, block spam comments, allow your readers to contact you more clearly, direct and simple and much more.

There are thousands of plugins to download and install on WordPress, some free and others for a fee. Since there are so many and, especially for novice users, it is difficult to understand which ones are the best, most important and indispensable, in this article I show you what are the 100 best WordPress plugins that you can use to do a lot of things and add features to your website.

By clicking on the name of each plugin you can download it directly from the official WordPress directory.

The best 100 WordPress plugins for 2018

Category: SEO

• Yoast SEO is the ultimate plugin for doing SEO. It has a lot of features. Absolutely to have.
• All In One SEO Pack Like the previous one even if with some less function.
• SEO Friendly Images SEO for images, can not miss to automatically complete the ALT tag and Title fields.
• Google XML Sitemaps Generate a sitemap of your site to send it to search engines. Integrated in Yoast SEO.
• All In One Webmaster This also generates a site map in XML with lots of features.

Category: Performance

• WP Super Cache Allows you to have a copy of the cache to speed up the display of content to users.
• W3 Total Cache Like the previous one with several interesting features.
• WP-Otimize Optimize the DB by removing post revisions, trashed comments and other unnecessary things.
• WP-DBManager DB management in a complete way, backup, restore and cleaning in a single plugin.
• BJ Lazy Load With this fantastic plugin, you optimize the loading of the pages, leaving the last load of heavy content and that are loaded only when they are to be viewed by the user.

Category: Maintenance

• WP Maintenance Mode Put the site under maintenance by customizing the screen in a professional way also setting a countdown.
• Sunrise With graphics already made by professional appearance.
• Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd Customize the all-round maintenance screen.

Category: Navigation

• Breadcrumb NavXT Great to show breadcrumbs ie the site structure on all pages.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Show related content in the article.
• Related Post by Sovrn Like the previous one with less functionality.
• Advanced Recent Posts Adds a sidebar as a widget with previews of your last posts.
• List category posts Create lists of posts to be inserted in posts and pages via shortcode.
• Uber Menu Create beautiful mega responsive menus.
• WordPress Mobile Pack Create a mobile or responsive version of your site.
• WP-PageNavi Add and customize page numbers.

Category: Security

• Akismet The number one anti-spam plugin. Unblock all spam without problems. Absolutely to have.
• Login Lockdown Locks access to the login page. Useful for protecting against hackers.
• WordFence Security Monitor the security status of your site.
• iThemes Security Add over 30 features for the security of your site.
• Captcha Add the captcha on your site and avoid spammers.
• WP-CopyProtect Protect your content from copy-paste.

Category: Analytics

• Google Analytics by MonsterInsights Monitor traffic on the site beyond those provided by Analytics.
• Redirection Manage the 401 error redirect when a page is not found with 301 redirect on other pages.
• Broken Link Checker Finding Corrupt Links.
• ManageWP Amazing all-in-one suite to update the site, backup, move site and much more.
• WP-PostViews Monitor the visits of each article and page.
• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) Analyze how much a plugin slows down the site.

Category: Backup

• BackWPup Useful for configuring automatic backups even on Dropbox.
• Duplicator Duplicate, clone and backup WordPress.
• WordPress Importer Imports and exports pages, articles and all media between two wordpress sites.

Category: Gestion backend

• JetPack It is a fantastic plugin that integrates the functions of at least 20 plugins in one. Optimize images, speed up the site, social buttons and much more.
• Visual Composer WP Bakery Incredible plugin to create pages and posts via drag-and-drop with many elements available.
• TinyMCE Advanced Adds function to the text editor.
• Custom Login Allows you to customize the login screen with your logo, change the background and much more.
• Advanced Custom Fields Add fields to the bulletin board.
• Custom Sidebars Set widgets based on the various pages.
• Simple Page Ordering Change the order of post and page with the drag & drop on the bulletin board.
• Post Types Order Change the order of pages and post.
• Better Search Replace Search and replace phases or words in the WordPress database.
• Header and Footer Allows you to add custom codes in the header and in the footer.
• Editorial Calendar Perfect for managing the calendar of publications.

Category: Forum & Community

• Buddypress Add functionality as a social network on WordPress.
• bbPress Create a forum.
• WP-Polls Create polls to publish on your site.
• Disqus Comment System Here is the number one comment system on WordPress.

Category: e-commerce

• Easy Digital Downloads Create an ecommerce of digital products and files.
• WooCommerce The best plugin to add a complete shop and expand the functionality with the many available plugins.
• WordPress Download Manager Manage file downloads from your site.
• Easy Pricing Tables by Fatcat Apps Add price tables.

Category: Landing Page and Optin Form

• JustLanded Create responsive landing pages.
• Premise Create landing pages using 6 preset templates.
• OptinMonster Create popup and box optin.

Category: Contact Form and Newsletter

• Contact Form 7 The number one to create contact form and more.
• Fast Secure Contact Form An alternative to a very complete Contact Form 7
• Gravity Forms Allows not only to create forms but also to personalize them with modules.
• MailPoet Newsletters An alternative newsletter service to the most famous MailChimp.

Category: Social Media

• Shareaholic The best plugin to add social buttons on Wordpres. Also useful for making related posts appear.
• ShareThis Add customizable social buttons in the graphics.
• Share Buttons By Add To Any Great alternative to add social buttons.
• WP to twitter Post your articles directly on Twitter.
• Facebook Auto Publish Publish your articles directly on Facebook.

Category: Multilingual

• qTranslate X Good free plugin to enable multi language on Wordpres.
• Polylang Excellent free plugin to create site in multiple languages.

Category: Themes and design customization

• Use Any Font Load personal fonts in .ttf format.
• Easy Google Fonts Add Google Fonts to your site.
• Theme Test Drive Test WordPress themes before finally activating them.
• ThemeTweaker Customize the colors of your theme without knowing the CSS.

Category: Image Management

• EWWW Image Optimizer Reduce the weight of images already loaded and those you upload.
• Image Widget Add an image as Widget.
• NextGEN Gallery The perfect plugin to create spectacular galleries on your site.
• Responsive Lightbox by dFactory Add the enlarged effect to your images.
• Regenerate Thumbnails Allows you to generate the thumbnails inserted in posts and pages.

Category: Slider

• Slider Revolution The best plugin to create professional sliders with lots of options. It is paid.
• Layer Slider Create professional sliders quickly with many features.
• Meta Slider Allows you to create responsive sliders for free.

Category: Events and Reservations Management

• Booking Calendar Perfect for managing appointments, events and reservations on a convenient calendar with your users.
• Bookings Adds reservations even on an hourly basis.
• All-in-One Event calendar Organize events easily.

Category: Advertising Management

• AdRotate Add and manage banners on your site.
• Advanced Ads Add advertisements easily.
• Inline Banner and Ads Manager Valid alternative to the two previous ones.
• Post Layout Useful plugin to insert ads and code on WordPress. Support multi author.

Category: Various and possible

• WP Google Maps Add custom Google maps.
• WP Review Useful for inserting reviews and ratings on your site.
• Rating-Widget: Star Rating System Great for leaving ratings and comments on your content.
• WP Live Chat Support Added a chat to your site to contact you.
• Logo Slider Create a comfortable slider with the logos to insert for example in your portfolio.
• Shortcodes Ultimate Adds many shortcodes to create buttons, boxes, sliders, and more.
• Pretty Link Shortens large URLs.
• All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets Useful for increasing the number of clicks on the Google SERP page by customizing the content to be shown to search engines such as Google, Bing and others.