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The Top 5 plugins in 2022

Wordpress is known as "Open source," meaning that anyone may write software for it to keep the possibilities endless, including plugins. But which plugins are worthwhile and really add something to your website? We have made the top 5!

Anyone can create a plugin and upload it to the WordPress plugin library. Sure it has to meet requirements and everything has to be within the framework of the terms and conditions for real publication in the library but at least the possibility is there. So what are useful plugins? Which plugins have good impact on your website? And what are useful plugins that will take some work off your hands? We made the top 5 for 2022.

Wordfence

In addition to our previous blog, this is an important one. Wordfence has been around for several years and specializes in keeping your website secure. This includes options for 2-step verification, malware scanner, a firewall etc…
In short, to optimize the security of your website this is definitely an important one to have. Wordfence has been able to optimize a lot over the past few years so their technologies are fully optimized and the plugin will have little impact on your load time. Price: Free, Premium version from $99

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is still the ideal plugin to use as a guide for your SEO. They offer the possibility to make your page as good as possible for Google, Yoast SEO indicates if the texts are easy to read, if your keywords are used enough and a number of other points that Google values.
Yoast SEO also has a Premium version in which you have access to even more tools and resources to optimize your site for Google. Price: Free, Premium version from €99

Imsanity

Imsanity is an optimization plugin that takes care of resizing images. There is a limit you set and each new image is checked for size. If the image size is larger, Imsanity automatically resizes it for you! Do you suffer from a slow website, large images or storage problems? Then give this plugin a try. Each new image is optimized, but there is also an option to retroactively resize all other content to a better size as well. Price: Free

Woocommerce

Woocommerce is still one of the best e-commerce plugins; in some ways Woocommerce even beats Shopify (That doesn’t mean Woocommerce is better ). Also, Woocommerce offers a great range of add-ons to expand. So you can use some add-ons to build your shop exactly the way you want it.
For Woocommerce you often need some coding knowledge. If we can help you with this? Please let us know! Price: Free

Duplicate Post

By default, there is no option to duplicate posts. Sometimes it can be convenient to duplicate a page or a blog post because you want to keep the same structure. Then this plugin is ideal to help you. This way you can duplicate pages and keep the content that is on the page. Price: Free

 

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