6 Killer Wordpress Plugins You Must Have For Your Business Website
Tags: wordpress, webdev, beginners, tutorial
Published: 2020-08-10 11:51:50

Wordpress offers more than 55.000+ plugins for customers to choose from. With this huge number of choices available, are you still confused and overwhelmed as to what plugins best suit your website? In this post, I will list 6 of the best plugins recommended by experts that will help you monetize and grow your business quickly and effectively.

But, first what is a good plugin? 
A good plugin has at least one of the following characteristics:

1. Should be easy to install
2. Should have an uninstall option (deleting all content previously associated with the plugin)
3. Should be secured (Protecting your information against XSS, for example)
4. Should have some localization support (not every user out there is a proficient English speaker/reader)

**Plugin 1: MonsterInsights**
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**MonsterInsight** is deemed the best Wordpress Analytics Plugin. It's used by more than 2,000,000+ clients to grow their business remarkably.MonsterInsights is very interesting because it allows you to link your Wordpress website with Google Analytics. This in turn makes it easy to discover what population of clients visit your website and how they find it. Based on these data, you'll be able to optimize the services you offer to guarantee you keep your clients and attract many others.

Main features include:

**1. Providing Real statistics**: these include information about visitors (country, age, gender, which device they are using, etc), how people find your website (who referred them, the words they used to search for your website, where and how much they clicked on a specific icon,etc), which content is most viewed (and also which is less viewed),your website's Google Rank, and much more detailed information. Building on these meticulous stats, you'll be able to better create content that will appeal to a larger audience.
**2. Woocommerce Analytics**: Woocommerce tracking system will allow you to see what products get the best sales, amount of revenue and transactions, total adds to cart, etc. These are basically the most powerful and practical Wordpress features.

**3.Ads Tracking**: Ads tracking can easily allow you to track your Google Adsense directly with Google Analytics.

These are only some of the features made available by MonsterInsights. 

With that said, you can now get a preliminary idea of why MonsterInsights is the best and most reliable in the market.


**Plugin 2: WPForms**

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**WPForms** is one of the most popular contact form plugin. It's a must for any business website because visitors will need to get in touch with you at a certain point. WPForms is easy-to-use,user-friendly, and powerful.

 Main features include:

1. Drag and Drop form builder: this feature renders it easy to build Wordpress forms quicly, add and remove fields, get attractive form templates,etc.

2.Form Templates: Instead of having to spend much time creating form templates from scratch, WPForms equips you with a number of already-made templates that you can use for your purposes. You don't need to keep the template the way it is, you have the options to add, remove, or re-arrange fields as much as you want to.
3.Response Mobile friendly: You forms will look extremely attractive on whatever device they are accessed (not only from a computer).Working on a mobile phone is still possible and you can easily manipulate your form without having to worry about its potential breakdown .

4. Install notifications: With this practical feature, you'll no longer have to worry about not responding to inquiries on time. Once a user submits a form, you'll immediately be notified via email. You can turn off this service at any time for any individual forms. You can easily add that in the settings.

These are just SOME of the amazing features offered by Wpforms. If you want to grow your business faster, the Pro version is usually recommended.

**Plugin 3: Smush**
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**Smuch** is an award-winning, best-quality image optimization  plugin for Wordpress. Smush compresses images without any decrease in quality and without much loading time. It meets clients' requirements for simultaneous speech and quality services.

Features inlude:

1. Preserves original image quality

2. can compress images stored in other directories: Smush allows you to compress images stored in any Wodpress plugin, not only those stored in your media uploads.

3.Can detect and help improve incorrect size image.

This is a review by one of the customers: “I had no idea that my page load time was being dragged down by the images. The plugin nearly halved the time it took.” – karlcw 

If you're done with time-consuming plugins and still want to preserve the quality of your images, then you should give Smush a try.

**Plugin 4:  WP Mail SMTP**

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Many Wordpress complain about having problems with either email sending or reception. This can be very problematic, and may seriously affect your business reputation. To avoid any inconvenience coming from that, you can use **WP Mail SMTP**. What WP Mail SMTP basically does is that it ensures a 100 % guaranteed email deliverability.

Main feature is that it's actually fully functioning. You now no longer have to worry about missing emails from clients, or not sending emails appropriately. It keeps the procedure professional and protected.

**Plugin 5: Sucuri**

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You don't want your website to end up getting hacked each and every month, do you? **Sucuri** takes up the burden of fully protecting you website from hacks and cleaning up malware.

Main features include:

1. Detection: Sucuri has a highly alert system. It consistently scans your website for any potential threats (malware, blacklist, hacks, etc), and would inform you of any alerts.

2.Protection: Sucuri's Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) ensure the protection of your website against any risk of intrusion.

3.Website Malware Removal and Protection: You can resort to Sucuri in case you have been in a situation in which your website has been hacked or damaged. Because of the quality of the service, Sucuri allows clients a 30-days money-back guarantee (which should be very relieving; if they cannot fix it, you get all your money back).
4. The last thing is that it's very easy to use, and usually delivers services pretty quicky.

**Plugin 6: LiveChat**

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A more rapid and effective tool you can use to respond to clients than an email or a phone call is **LiveChat**. LiveChat is easily installed, and provides  excellent Networking opportunities to market your services, and expand your business.

Main features include:

1. Attractive and reliable chat tools.
2. Guarantees Customer Engagement: It allows you to share announcements, introduce new products, and connect with potential clients.
3. Customization: You can easily change the theme and colour of the chat widget so that it reflects the services you offer and the person you are. It also has a translation feature than can allow you to expand your marketing to non-English speaking clients.

These are 6 of the best, most popular and practical Wordpress plugins that you can use to grow your business drastically. Have you tried any of these? Let us now in the comments' section.