Top 11 Best Wordpress Plugins 2018 | Must Have Plugins For Wordpress!

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[Music] hey guys my name is darl and in this video I'm going to share with you guys my personal top 11 plugins now there's a lot of plugins out there guys so it's kind of hard which ones to use or not so I'm going to share with you guys my top 11 plug-in list so stick around all right so number 11 on my list is the access press social icons plugin now the reason why this made my top 11 list is because not only is this a free plugin it comes with pre-designed layouts icon sets and you can even upload your own now let me give you guys an example of how you guys can customize these and what you can do with it so over here on my dummy websit I made the icons really big but that's just because I want to show you guys that you guys can do anything you guys can have it vertically or horizontally or you can just have a complete set so let's go ahead and show you guys the dashboard so over here's the dashboard and you guys can choose from all these available icon themes so for example we can have this theme 4 with this really cool uh shade they have behind the social icons and all you guys need to do in order to customize it simply say I want this 100 by 100 you can add in the link uh right there and you guys can scroll down here you can set them vertically or horizontally you can even set the icon animation so it gives it more of like a a flavor right so over here we can have it bounce we can have it flash pulse all sorts of good stuff you can actually design the tool tip color text as well and um like I said it's a great plugin so this is why uh it made my top 11 list so let's go on to number 10 all right so number 10 on my list is going to have to be the contact form 7 plugin now the reason why contact form 7 is so highly rated and so amazing is because you can create really simple contact form Pages just like this and the best part about it is that it goes straight to your inbox in fact you guys can even make certain Fields required so right here I have your name and your email is required your subject is not your message is not so let's give you an example of this plugin so this is the plugin this is the dashboard and right here it says your name required your email required text your subject and let's just say I wants to put in a phone number so I can click on Telephone right here here and I can go ahead and say yeah I want this to be telephone and this is a great way to get girls numbers because you can make this a required field and they will be required to put that telephone number in so this is my number 10 list for contact form [Music] 7 so number nine on my list is coming soon page and maintenance prod by seed prod now the reason why I chose this to be number nine is because it's actually easy to use and it actually works trust me there's a lot of plugins out there that don't work work or actually are really difficult to use this plugin is very simple to use so over here we have the dashboard and all you have to do is basically say Okay I want this plugin disa You' click right there coming soon mode right there enable maintenance mode right there you can put in your logo or a picture you can put in a headline and a message as well you can also add more media to your message right here if you want to get creative and just click on Save changes and that is it that's all you need to do to create your coming H page because I've tried a lot of them and a lot of them were really bad and didn't work this one is very easy to use and that's why it's so highly rated so this one made my [Music] list all right and number eight on my list is going to be the Google analytics plug-in by Kevin Sylvester right here this has over 600,000 active installs with very good ratings and guys you have to have Google analytics installed because how are you going to know who's coming to your website Google analytics tells you everything who's coming coming from what country what page are they visiting so it's almost required and the reason why this plugin is great is because you don't have to mess with any HTML code no script none of that stuff so over here this is the plugin right here all you have to do is enter in the web property ID that Google analytics gives you so if you go to your Google analytics dashboard it's going to look something like this where they give you this tracking ID all you need to do is just take this tracking ID copy it and just put it in right there just like this just like this and you're done and just click on Save changes now the reason why it's more convenient to do this because you don't have to mess with this script you don't have to use any of this PHP stuff mess with metat tags none of that stuff so it's very simple to use I use it so that's why I recommend it for all of my [Applause] viewers now guys this is a very important plugin cuz what this does is that it actually SM mushes all of your images so if you have very large images and have large loading times this will drastically reduce it so it optimizes all your photos and it reduces the image size without actually affecting the actual size and it has over 400,000 downloads and I mean just look at those Stars so let's show you guys what this does so over here I am on the wp smoosh dashboard and it says Daryl you have 31 images that need smooshing and they can go ahead and give me more space and make my website much more faster cuz trust me those large images do uh slow your website down so I'm going to click on bulk smash now and I'm going to go ahead and maybe pause the video cuz this probably does take maybe uh a few minutes all right so that finished smooshing now you guys can see right here the total reductions around 6% of my website and it's reduced this much space on my website so guys it made my website much faster than it used to be and if you're uploading hundreds of images uh I highly recommend uh this plugin [Applause] number six on the list is the wp fastest cash so what this plug-in does is that it makes your website much faster so when people go to your website they won't be stuck with loading times it won't be slow it'll be instant it'll be very fast and your website will be faster uh with this plugin than without it now the reason why I don't use WP super cach anymore which is his biggest competitor is because I always run into errors with this plugin and whenever I try to get support I don't get it and it has got uh a long uh reputation of no supports and it does have a lot of onear reviews compared to WP fastest cache where it has an overwhelming amount of good reviews and you know just a little bit of bad reviews here and there now let's goe and show you guys how this works so this is the wp fastest caps options all you guys have to do is just go ahead and just check the enable box go ahead and submit and this will drastically reduce the time it takes for your page to load you can go ahead from time to time and delete the cash and this will make it so visitors go to your website and won't be stuck with those long loading times because guys that's so important because that can create a bounce rate you know you ever go to a website where it takes too long to load you're like ah screw this I'm going to leave well that's why you need this plugin so this is why the wp fastest cach made my list number five on the list is the sumoi plug-in which helps you guys grow your email list and subscribers and guys this is probably the best free plugin that helps you uh grow your subscriber list and let me show you an example of what this plugin looks like so on my website right here I was hit with a popup so it says get free stuff enter your email now this is better than not doing anything guys and I'm going to show you guys my dashboard to show you guys that this plugin actually works so I'm going to go aad and click on login and I have a notification right here see that I'm going to click on that notification and it says this person and eight others subscribed around 13 hours ago so I've got probably nine subscribers within 13 hours and um you guys can go ahead and turn your list Builder on and what this does is that it shows you the statistics of okay 24 popups I had four subscribers which is around a 16.67 conversion rate so it basically gives you all the statistics so I've con collected 54 email addresses so this is a free plug-in guys and it's probably the one out there for you guys to use so um just download it try it if you guys want to actually uh design the uh form itself you will have to upgrade it but this is the standard free one and it's a great plugin guys it really works and I highly recommend uh this plugin uh by sumoi number four on my list is the yast SEO plugin now guys this is a very important plugin because what this does is that it optimizes your website for search engines like Google Google Yahoo in being it also helps get indexed and it also tells people what your website is about now let me give you guys an example of what this plug-in does so over here I typed in Daryl Wilson WordPress and my website comes up as number one and right here it says Daryl Wilson how to make a WordPress website how to start your own WordPress website so my keyword is WordPress website so WordPress website step by step start your WordPress blog or e-commerce website now this can all be done with the yo SEO plugin and guys I also have a comprehensive uh my video is right here it actually hit the front page it's not on the top so it's it's pretty valuable now uh what this tutorial does it covers all of the options in the yoast SEO plugin so uh this is my video make sure to check it out it's about a 35 minute video but let's go ahead and give you a quick summary of what this can do for your website so over here I have uh how to make a WordPress website and right here it's how to start your own WordPress website I can actually change all of this to what I want by entering in whatever description I want and it will show up right here and it also show up in the search engines now let's say you're a web hosting company right so you want to do like web hosting something like that type in your keyword and it will basically rank your website for that keyword now of course let's let's just say I want to type in like a dog callers dog caller something like that my website is not really going to rank high for dog callers because I haven't really optimized it for dog callers so if I type in WordPress like that WordPress website which is the keyword I'm trying to focus something like that it comes up as green so it's basically letting me know uh you know uh your keyword density is correct all this information is correct so you kind of want it in green guys but I want to make one quick notation about this plugin this plugin does not improve your ranking on the search engine guys that's what a lot of people tend to think they think oh I'll just saw Yos SEO plug-in and my ranking will go up as long as I produce content that's not the case guys you'll have to hire an SEO company and there's a lot of things involved like link building there's uh Forum posting there's um there's just so much involved with SEO and uh I would hire an SEO company I use it for mine but like I said this does not improve your ranking so that's all I really wanted to tell you guys uh uh there's like a myth out there saying oh I install yos R number one that's not true but the plugin nonetheless is still amazing and I highly recommend it cuz I use it as well number three on my list is the DV Builder now the DV Builder is the number one drag and drop page builder any other plugin that claims this drag and drop is not really drag and drop now the DB Builder is drag and drop literally drag and drop this is how you build stuff you know I can duplicate the row I can you know add it in another um I can add in a text module I can add in an image just like this I can switch it around guys this is the number one rated uh drag and drop Page Builder and actually have tutorials and you can make websites that look just like this with this plugin there's so much you guys can do with this plugin now this is the DV Builder and you can create pages that look just like this these stunning layouts elegant themes is by far uh the number one rated company now this is actually included with the theme so in order to get this plugin you're going to have to pay for the theme the theme is around 69 or I think it goes down to like 49 bucks but um I use it to create all these websites or my websites and you guys can see you guys can create anything with the DV Builder plugin oh my boy just texted me sorry about that so uh like I said guys it's an amazing plugin um it's just drag and drop literally you can duplicate rows it's very easy to use I use it on my website so if you go to darl wilson.com and just check out this website this is all made with the DB Builder it's just um it's Limitless your imagination is uh the limit basically you can create anything you want so I highly recommend it and I have tutorials on it guys so if you guys get the plugin you guys can actually watch my tutorials and figure out how to use it but it's very self-explanatory I mean just give it like a few uh just give it like a month and you'll probably Master it and you'll be like I am never doing anything else but going to the DV Builder so that's my number three guys let's go to the next okay guys we're getting up there now number two on my list is the bloom plugin by elegant themes now let's wait one minute there it is you see that so the bloom plug-in it creates these optin forms that sort of pop up and they have really good design and it's very easy to just go ahead and put your email press subscribe it's very simple and it looks really good and there's a lot of layouts they have so these are some of the layouts that you guys can have that pop up and I'm sure you guys have seen this on other websites where you've seen um popups that look just like this this is actually done with the bloom plug-in so a lot of websites use this plugin because it's very clean and it's professional now let me show you guys the dashboard for this plugin so this right here shows that there was uh 3,300 Impressions 35 conversions which means people who signed up and I have about a 1% conversion rate now I'm going to show you guys the settings so you guys can actually just select your email provider and it integrates with all these email providers like a Weber mailchip Constant Contact so uh all these right here it integrates with it works really easily uh whenever whenever somebody signs up uh through this plugin it goes straight to my uh my mailchip account so it's really easy guys and you can change the design now I just chose one of their templates because they have really nice looking templates and for those of you who want to get more creative you can design the color the background the header font the body font uh it's almost Limitless on what you can do with this plugin and also for display settings you guys can choose if you want it to slide up slide down fade in um you guys can actually have it triggered as well so let's say for example somebody starts to scroll down the page or scroll up it can then trigger based off if you want you know people to um you know scrolling up scrolling down it'll pop up at you same thing at a Blog and also you can have which Pages do you want this displayed on so I have it displayed on everything but you can actually have homepage archives categories uh Pages or um any specific categories you can also do display on these pages and do not display on these so you can really have full control over uh what pops up on what page so this is why I rated this a very premium plug-in now in order to buy this you actually have to purchase the DV theme and you get this free with it or you buy this you get the DV theme DV Fram 3 so either way uh if you purchase this or the DV theme you're going to get both so you're basically getting access to their entire lot of Premium plugin so I use it I love it it's a very very good plugin so that is why it made my number two list and now let's go on to number one and we made it to number one guys congratulations guys I want to stress that security is the most important thing about your website if someone logs into your website like this they guess your email and your password guess what your website is history the cleft plugin is amazing let me show you guys what this does so I'm going to click on learn more now what this is it's an authenticator so you can only open your website with your phone by scanning a code and the great part about this plugin is that it's free I mean the New York Times rated this the number one plugin of all time because it is let me show you guys the dashboard so this is clef it's a two-way authenticator and you can only open up your WordPress dashboard with clef it doesn't even give people the access to enter in a password or guess your information you can actually have both so this is the dashboard you can actually have uh both so this will enable it to have a password or the bar or you can enable this right here and it'll only give users uh the option to run the code so I want to stress that security is the most important thing you know there's a lot of hackers out there if someone gets a hold of your website that's it you know all your hard work is gone it's that bad and trust me it happens all the time so with this on your website um you'll have your website protected and your phone will be the only way it opens up guys so this is why cleff made my number one list because I use it for my website because I think it's most important to have security because I don't like the idea of somebody having access like this they can just try to enter in my username and email my password I mean I don't want that I don't even want them to have options for for that you know I don't want some random person to have the option to enter in a user neighor password right like it's my website so that is why I have clef so it's an amazing plug-in guys feel free to rate this video if you guys have any other plugins that you guys want to talk about or know or I did not mention feel free to let me know in the comments section yell at me tell me this was a terrible tutorial thanks for watching guys