Wordpress
Post date 03.01.2025
Post date Author: Natalia Prochowska

5 most useful WordPress plugins

WordPress is one of the most flexible platforms, offering thousands of plugins available to users! WordPress claims that there are as many as 58,000 of them, but the number may be even a few thousand higher today. 😉 Choosing the right ones can significantly improve the functionality of your website. In this article, we will present you with five plugins that make life easier for every WordPress website owner!

1. WooCommerce – an online store management plugin

WooCommerce is undoubtedly one of the most important plugins, although many people forget that it is still a plugin! It is such an extensive tool that it is often treated as a separate e-commerce platform. WooCommerce allows you to run a full-fledged online store with physical products, digital products, and even subscriptions. What’s more, it also offers a lot of integration options with payment gateways, marketing tools, and warehouse and accounting systems.

Advantages:

  • Huge flexibility: Perfect for both small startups and large enterprises with hundreds of products.
  • Modular expansion: Possibility to add hundreds of plugins to extend functionality.
  • Easy store management: One of the greatest advantages of WooCommerce is its intuitiveness and ease of management! Even people who do not have advanced technical knowledge can easily manage their online store.

  1. WPML – translating websites has never been so easy.

  • Creating multilingual websites can be complicated and often time-consuming, but WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin) makes it much easier and more enjoyable! With this plugin, you can manage multiple language versions of your website. This is a key feature if you plan to expand your business globally. WPML also supports manual translations, collaboration with translators and automatic translations – which of course speeds up the work.
  • One disadvantage: WPML is unfortunately not free – but it is worth remembering that thanks to this plugin, you will definitely save on the work of translators. 🙂

  1. Yoast SEO – nothing without SEO!

  • If you want your site to be visible in search results, Yoast SEO is the basic tool you need to install! This plugin has become a standard in search engine optimization. Yoast SEO analyzes your content and helps optimize keywords, meta tags, internal links, and also improves text readability.
  • Most importantly: this plugin saves you a lot of time because it shows us what to improve to increase the visibility of the site. 🙂

  1. Contact Form 7 (CF7) – forms as the most important part of the website!

  • Contact Form 7 is the most popular tool for creating contact forms on WordPress. It is simple, flexible and allows you to create and integrate forms with various systems – from simple text fields to advanced security features. Importantly, this plugin offers spam protection tools, so you don’t have to worry about that!
  • Important! CF7 works great with simple forms (and there are a lot of them). However, for more advanced ones, at Weblo we use our own solutions.

  1. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – simple editing of texts on the website!

  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is a plugin that is especially useful for developers, but the Client also benefits from it! ACF allows you to create additional fields in the WordPress editor, which allows you to easily manage content without having to go into the page code. This allows you to create advanced layouts and functions that can then be easily edited in the administration panel. 🙂
  • You don’t have to worry that you don’t know how to navigate the WordPress dashboard! Each of our Clients receives a video instruction package after implementation, so that they can easily manage the content of their site themselves.

Summary

Although WordPress offers a huge number of plugins, more is not always better! Too many plugins can unnecessarily burden your site, which will negatively affect its performance. What’s worse, installing plugins that only use some of the features is a common mistake. Instead, it’s often a better idea to opt for custom, tailor-made solutions that are precisely tailored to the needs of your site and optimized for performance. This strategy ensures speed and stability of the store.

With Weblo, we understand that every site is different, which is why we select plugins individually, adapting them to the specific needs of your business!