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I have been a WordPress developer for a very long time, every time I’m looking for popular and free plugins for my projects, I always spent so much time in searching through Google, WordPress plugins list or some websites.

So today, I’m gonna make a "keep-growing" WordPress plugin list by category which I will be using it from now on and continue updating it, and I hope it will bring values to all the WordPress website owners or developers who are facing the same problem. Cheers!


A+ Most Popular (Top 10)

Contact Form 7 — Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

Yoast SEO — Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using…

Akismet Anti-Spam — Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to…

Classic Editor — Enables the previous “classic” editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes,…

Jetpack — The ideal plugin for stats, related posts, search engine optimization, social sharing, protection, backups, security,…

WooCommerce — WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Sell anything, anywhere and make…

WordPress Importer —Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

Elementor — The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at…

Really Simple SSL — No setup required! You only need an SSL certificate, and this plugin will do the…

Duplicate Post — Copy posts of any type with a click!


Booking

Events Manager — Fully featured event registration management including recurring events, locations management, calendar, Google map integration, booking management…

Booking Calendar — original 1st booking plugin for WordPress. Easily receive reservations and show availability in clean and powerful booking system.

Modern Events Calendar — WordPress event calendar is a free plugin that allows you to manage your single and recurring events and present them in different, modern style…


Cache

WP Super Cache — A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.

W3 Total Cache — Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support.

WP Fastest Cache — The simplest and fastest WP Cache system.

Autoptimize —Speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.


Coming Soon / Maintenance

Coming Soon Page by SeedProd — The #1 Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress.

WP Maintenance Mode — Adds a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance. It’s perfect for a coming soon page.

Under Construction — Super-easy to use Under Construction Page, Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page. Enable Under Construction Mode in seconds!

Maintenance — Great looking maintenance, coming soon & under construction pages. Put your site under maintenance in minutes.


Duplicate and Backup

Yoast Duplicate Post — The go-to tool for cloning posts and pages, including the powerful Rewrite & Republish feature.

Duplicator — WordPress migration and backups are much easier with Duplicator! Clone, backup, move and transfer an entire site from one location to another.

UpdraftPlus — Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!


E-Commerce

WooCommerce — a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Sell anything, anywhere and make your way.

Easy Digital Downloads — The easiest way to sell digital products with WordPress.


Form

Contact Form 7 — Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

WPForms — The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop online form builder that helps you create beautiful contact forms with just a few clicks.

Ninja Form — The 100% beginner friendly WordPress form builder. Drag & drop form fields to build beautiful, professional contact forms in minutes.

Formidable — The most advanced WordPress forms plugin. Go beyond contact forms with our drag & drop form builder for surveys, quiz forms…

Popup Maker — Everything you need to create unique popup user experiences. Insert forms & other content from your favorite plugins to create custom responsive…

Brave — the most powerful and intuitive Conversion widget builder for WordPress. You can visually create popups, lead generation forms, sitckybars, sidebars in minutes and convert your visitors like there’s no tomorrow.

FormCraft — a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG form builder to create and embed forms, and track submissions.


Image Optimization

Smush — Compress, Optimize and Lazy Load Images.

EWWW Image Optimizer — Speed up your website to better connect with your visitors. Properly compress and size/scale images. Includes lazy load and WebP convert.

Imagify — Convert WebP, Images Compression and Optimization.


Page Builder

Elementor Page Builder — The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.

Page Builder by SiteOrigin — Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.

Beaver Builder — The best drag and drop WordPress Page Builder. Easily build beautiful home pages, professional landing pages, and more with Beaver Builder.


Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery by 10Web — a powerful image gallery plugin with a list of advanced options for creating responsive image galleries with beautiful lightbox.

Module Image Gallery — an advanced solution for Photo Gallery users. Create beautiful image galleries in minutes or less.


Security

WordFence Security — Secure your website with the most comprehensive WordPress security plugin. Firewall, malware scan, blocking, live traffic, login security & more.

iThemes Security — the #1 WordPress Security Plugin.

All In One WP Security & Firewall — A comprehensive, user-friendly, all in one WordPress security and firewall plugin for your site.


SEO

Yoast SEO — Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using…

All In One SEO Pack — The original WordPress SEO plugin, downloaded over 50,000,000 times since 2007.

Google XML Sitemaps — This plugin will improve SEO by helping search engines better index your site using sitemaps.


Useful Tools

Advanced WordPress Reset — Reset your WordPress Database back to its first original status in order to make a fresh installation without going through WordPress traditional installation.

WP User Avatar — Enable you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar.

WooCommerce Schedule Stock Manager — manage the stock quantity automatic increase throughout daily, weekly, monthly, hourly and yearly.

Quiz And Survey Master — the easiest WordPress Quiz Plugin which can be used to create engaging content to drive traffic and increase user engagement.


Conclusion

Thanks for reading. I hope you gained new ideas from this.

The list will be updated from time to time, stay tuned!

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The original article from my Medium post.

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