As the time passes, every year WordPress is getting much better. Lots of WordPress Developers are working hard to create different WordPress plugins which could help us implement new, user-friendly and more secure website features. In 2017, WordPress plugin directory got flooded with awesome new plugins by developers from all over the World. Here are some of the best and useful WordPress plugins which will help you improve your WordPress website.
Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall, Cleaner by CleanTalk is the best anti-spam WordPress plugin for your WordPress website. This plugin stops spam for each form of WordPress and provides support with almost all popular WordPress plugins.
Features of Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall, Cleaner by CleanTalks:
- Stops spam comments, Stops spam registrations, Stops spam surveys, polls, Stops spam in WooCommerce, Checks and removes the existing spam comments and spam users, Compatible with mobile users and devices.
- Compatible with Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, MailChimp, Formidable forms, WooCommerce, JetPack comments and contact form, BuddyPress, bbPress, Fast Secure Contact form, S2Member, MailPoet, any WordPress registrations & contact forms and themes. Just setup and forget the spam!
TablePress is the best WordPress plugin to add beautiful tables to your website. You can embed table using the shortcode in your posts, pages, custom post types, text widgets, mega menu and almost anywhere on your WordPress website. You can add data to excel like spreadsheet format, you don’t have to add code to the table.
Features of this TablePress WordPress plugin:
- Shortcode to embed table anywhere on your website.
- Add Search and Filter option in the table.
- Enable Pagination in the table.
- Horizontal Scrolling in the table.
- Show Table description on top or bottom of the table.
- Use the datatable jquery library to enable features like Pagination, instant search and multi-column ordering.
- Import and Export from/to CSV, HTML, JSON, XLS, and XLSX formats.
- Customize table design using custom CSS.
WP User Avatar is the only WordPress plugin that provides the feature to add your own Avatar image instead of Gravatar. WordPress default displays images from Gravatar as user Avatar on the website. WP User Avatar enables you to add any photo by uploading into your Media Library and set it as an avatar.
Features of WP User Avatar WordPress plugin:
- Upload your own Default Avatar of the website.
- Disable default Gravatar and use only local avatars.
- Use shortcode [avatar] to display Avatar in your theme.
- Allow Subscribers to upload their own Avatar image.
Widget Importer & Exporter provides the feature to export and import Widgets from one WordPress website to another WordPress website. Using this plugin you can create a JSON export file of the widget which you can use to import using the same plugin on the same website or other websites. This plugin is specifically useful for developers to reuse the same widget in different environments of development (Local, Test and Live version of the website).
Using PHP Code Widget, developers can add PHP code in WordPress widget. WordPress text widget allows us to add HTML and text in widgets. Using this plugin you can add PHP code in widget with standard PHP tags (). This plugin will parse PHP code and execute code.
- 16 advertisement blocks.
- Code preview with CSS editor.
- Insert anywhere you want on the website like before and after post, content, paragraph, header, footer, comments etc.
- Insert HTML, CSS and JS code.
- Ad rotation
- Desktop/Mobile device detection.
- Shortcode to add anywhere on the website.
- PHP function to display advertisement in theme templates and files.
- Widget to display advertisements in the sidebar on the website.
AMP is the only WordPress plugin which enables implementation of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for WordPress websites. Using AMP, you can enable AMP version of your website pages which will provide mobile-optimized content that can load instantly everywhere. All posts will have its own auto-generated AMP version of the page. Right now the plugin doesn’t provide support for pages and archive pages. Plugin developer team is working on future enhancements, so hope to receive the support of pages and archive pages soon.
Responsive Lightbox by dFactory is the best WordPress plugin to add lightbox to image and display your full-size image in a popup.
Following are features of Responsive Lightbox:
- 7 different responsive lightbox scripts.
- Automatically adds lightbox to images, gallery images, and videos on WordPress website.
- WooCommerce product gallery support.
- Visual Composer compatibility.
- Multisite support.
WordPress Download Manager is a file management plugin to manage, track and control file downloads from your WordPress Site.
Following are features of WordPress Download Manager:
- Drag and Drop File Upload.
- Control who has access to download.
- Download Speed Control.
- Captcha Protection.
- Password Protection.
- Download Counter.
- IP block option to prevent downloads from unnecessary IPs.
- Short-code for the download link.
- Option to ask for an email when user downloads file.
Newsletter is one of the best WordPress plugins for your WordPress blog. You can send and track emails with effective list building.
Following are features of Newsletter plugin:
- Responsive Email Template builder with Drag and Drop.
- Unlimited Subscriber lists with statistics.
- Single and Double Opt-in options.
- Compatible with Postman, WP Mail SMTP, Easy WP SMTP, Easy SMTP Mail, WP Mail Bank.
- Newsletter Subscription checkbox in default WordPress registration form.
- SMTP ready.
- Customizable themes for Newsletter templates.
