With WordPress, there are many free plugins that are necessary for a website. In this post you will find the basic basics. With these free plugins you can easily build a site.

How to install plugins on WordPress

In the left menu bar you will find "Plugins", there you can view and manage the installed plugins or install plugins.

Elementor Page Builder

Elementor is a very simple plugin to create the content of your website. This is available as a Free version but also as a Pro version. You can not only create the content, but also create the design.

Advantages:

• Easy to use
• Large selection of templates
•  Many widgets
• Free version but also Pro version

Yoast SEO

This plugin is for being on top of Google. With Yoast SEO you can easily add a Meta Title and Meta Description. But what are Meta Title and Meta Description? Should you Google something, you will find various pages in the search bar where a title, as well as a short description about the page. It is important that with snippet optimization you convince the user to go to the page.

Advantages:

• Higher position in search engines
• Free version but also Pro version
• The customer is made curious
• Very uncomplicated

WP Rocket

Cleaning the cache of a page is very important. This ensures to improve the loading time of your website. WP Rocket not only improves page speed, but also the overall performance of your website.

Advantages:

• Improves PageSpeed
• Free of charge
• Easy to use 

WP Forms

If you are building a website and users should reach you somehow, you can use WP Forms to create a simple contact form. This is because it is very inconvenient for the user to copy out the email to get in touch with you. For this reason, a contact form is a recommended musthave on any website. Many arbitrary contact forms can be created.

Advantages:

• User friendly
• Many forms can be created
• Features spam protection
• Free version but also Pro version

Duplicator 

If you build a website and there are subpages that look the same from the structure and are only different from the content, with this plugin you can easily duplicate the pages and adjust the content. So you save time and don't have to ponder how it looks like on the other side.

Advantages:

• Easy to use
• Free of charge
• Powerful
• Trustworthy

UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup

Always make sure that you create a backup on a regular basis. It can always happen that after updating the plugins or theme, something breaks on the website and thus after the backup, you can bring the website back to how it looked before the update.

Advantages:

• Restores the old one
• Secures the website
• Free of charge
• Is fast and easy to use