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Without looking too hard, you can find heaps of amazing WordPress plugins that add all sorts of valuable functionality to your WordPress site. Free WordPress Plugins can help you to create better content, market your website more efficiently, and keep it loading quickly and humming along smoothly and without you needing to spend a dime.

In this WordPress Wednesday I’ve collected the 10 free WordPress plugins for your site.

1. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress. With WooCommerce, you to turn your site into an online store and sell digital or physical products.

With WooCommerce you can also offer free shipping, flat rate shipping or make real time calculation’s with it. You can configure the shipping options to make them suitable for your needs.

The core of the plugin is free to download and use where as you can purchase the premium extensions to add features like online booking, memberships, subscriptions, etc.

Price: Free

2. Yoast SEO

Since people are using search engines for most of their queries, search engine optimisation (SEO) is important for every site. If your site gets highly ranked in search results, you’ll get higher organic traffic.

If you want to make your website content SEO friendly then Yoast SEO is the best tool and most known plugin as it will help you easily optimise your site for search engines. By using this plugin, you can create an automatically updated XML sitemap for your site, preview your content search snippet, set focused keyword for your content and add meta tags etc.

Yoast SEO also have a premium version which provides advanced SEO features like multiple focused keywords, redirect manager, internal linking suggestions, etc.

Price: Free

3. W3 Total Cache

Your site speed is a key factor when determining user experience for your site, and it’s one of the leading SEO ranking factors affecting your website’s rank in search results.

When it comes to speed optimisation, WordPress caching helps you a lot, using W3 Total Cache plugin you can serve compressed & cached files to your site visitors so the load on your server will be reduced and your website will become faster.

Additional, W3 Total Cache supports Google AMP, CDN services, and SSL to help you make your site faster and stronger.

Price: Free

4. Jetpack

Jetpack is a plugin that pack a bunch of features useful for WordPress sites. It includes services like access to hundreds of powerful WordPress themes, customisation tools, high-speed image and video content delivery network, lazy image loading etc.

In addition, it also provides services like website stats and social media sharing plus security services like spam filtering, daily backups, malware scanning, etc. It’s a composite plugin with different useful features for WordPress sites.

As it’s a WordPress.com product, so you’ll need to create a WordPress.com account to use Jetpack on your site.

Price: Free

5. Beaver Builder Lite

Beaver Builder is a drag & drop page builder plugin that works on the front end of your website, so no matter your skill level, you can build a site in a cinch.

Content modules include HTML, photo, text editor, audio, video, and the sidebar. It’s mobile friendly, works with pages, posts, and custom post types, and even comes with photo, colour, and video row backgrounds.

If you want additional modules like a contact form, tabs, a slider, social icons, and more you’ll need to purchase the premium version of Beaver Builder. You’ll receive expert support, access pre-made layouts, and even be able to save, export, and reuse full-page layouts, rows, and modules.

Price: Free

6. WPForms Lite

WPForms Lite is the most beginner friendly contact form plugin, it comes with a drag & drop form builder so you can easily create contact forms for your website.

Also, it has pre-built form templates, complete with the form fields you need, so you can customise your form as you see fit.

WPForms has a pro version that is more powerful solution that includes features such as collecting payments from customers, conducting surveys, job application form and even enable smart conditional logic with the feature packed pro version of WPForms.

Price: Free

7. Updraft Plus

There’s nothing worse than losing all your site’s content to a hacker, server crash, or other website malfunction. That’s why UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration.

Not only can you schedule automatic backups of your website’s files and database, and store your backups in a cloud service such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or Amazon S3, you can restore your website instantly using its one-click restore button.

Price: Free

8. Disable Comments

Some website owners don’t want a comment system enabled on their website, while WordPress let you disable certain comments on certain parts of your site, Disable Comments will gets rid of all comments on your site.

Lose the comments across your entire multisite network and remove all comment-related fields from edit and quick-edit screens. You can also get rid of comment-related items on your WordPress dashboard in widgets and the Admin Menu and Admin Bar.

Price: Free

9. The Events Calendar

The Events Calendar is useful for creating events and displaying an events calendar in WordPress. It works right out of the box and only takes a few configurations to match your individual needs. You can add information about the event organizer, venue, time, attendees, and more on your calendar.

Plus, it use the built-in Google Maps so people know how to get to your event, export events to Google Calendar and iCal, add a widget to display upcoming events, and even allow sorting based on events for an improved user experience.

Price: Free

10. WP Mail SMTP

Sometimes WordPress doesn’t send emails correctly. WP Mail SMTP helps fix this issue. This plugin helps to reconfigure the wp_mail() PHP function to use a proper SMTP provider so that your emails will be delivered correctly.

The WP Mail SMTP plugin solves the issue by reconfiguring the wp_mail() function to use a trusted SMTP provider. So, all your WordPress emails will get delivered properly.

Price: Free

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WordPress Wednesday – 10 WordPress Plugins for Every Website