Top 5 Free Plugins To Use

The internet is full of many cool and nifty plugins. See our top 5 free plugins to use at the moment.
Going on Google and looking up top plugins would be anyone’s knee jerk reaction, but since we have the advantage of first-hand experience we decided to share with you our go-to plugins when creating a website!

- Register website property on Google Search Console website – for more information follow this link.
- Setup the Yoast SEO configuration wizard – mostly check step 2 (site type), step 4 (name of organization or person that your website represents), and step 6 (website name and title separator).
- Check which pages will be indexed on search engines by looking at the XML sitemap (see more). If needed, manually remove certain pages, posts or others from being shown in search results by going to your WP admin panel -> SEO -> Search Appearance -> Content Types.
- Finally, do SEO optimization for each page, post, and portfolio you have by adding a focus keyphrase, title, description, and attaching a featured image. Keep in mind that you can fill them out differently for Facebook and Twitter.

Seeing as GDPR and privacy have become major issues every website creator has to tackle, inevitably we have come across many plugins with similar features.
We believe that the Cookie notice plugin is simultaneously the most user-friendly and GDPR compliant free plugin out there, plus it’s updated regularly. It is important to mention that they do not state that your website will be fully GDPR compliant with this plugin, neither do we, they actually say “helps you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations”. There are other paid plugins that state this, but this is for another article 🙂
Some of its features include:
- Customizable message and button text & design*
- Multiple cookie expiry options
- Link to Privacy Policy page
- Option to refuse the consent
- WPML and Polylang compatible (translatable)
*Keep in mind though that you can only choose from 3 button styles and change the text and bar background color. For further customization, you will need to use some code.
Again – we set up this plugin for every website we create, free of charge, since we consider it a “below the line” tool you just need to have.

The Easy Coming Soon plugin allows you to create and launch a Coming soon page in just minutes!
This plugin is one of the first we install – it comes in handy for the period during which you’re still working on your website, while making some major changes or experiencing technical difficulties and you don’t want outside visitors to see your website’s content.
It’s easy to set up and works with any WordPress theme, allowing logged-in users to have access to the website and work undisturbed behind the scenes.

After extensive research and testing regarding backup plugins, this free plugin came out the winner.
UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest-ranking and most popular scheduled backup & restoration plugin. It allows you to backup your files and database into the cloud and restore with a single click! You can backup directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, email, etc.
It’s key features are:
- restores and backs up content
- direct back up to more cloud options than any others
- allows you to set up automatic backup schedules
- available separate backup downloads for database, plugins, themes, uploads, and others
- has been tested on over 1 million sites

One of the best free plugins for caching you can find!
The reason you might need this plugin is because it can significantly improve your website speed.
To put it simply, a cache is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. A cache hit occurs when the requested data can be found in a cache, while a cache miss occurs when it cannot. Cache hits are served by reading data from the cache, which is faster than recomputing a result or reading from a slower data store; thus, the more requests that can be served from the cache, the faster the system performs.
A website’s speed is also used in Google’s search ranking algorithm so cache plugins that can improve your page load time will also improve your SEO ranking.
Some of its most useful features are:
- All cache files are deleted when a post or page is published
- Admin can delete all cached files from the options page
- Admin can delete minified css and js files from the options page
- Block cache for specific page or post with Short Code
- Enable/Disable cache option for mobile devices
- Enable/Disable cache option for logged-in users
- Preload Cache – Create the cache of all the site automatically
WP Fastest Cache also has a premium paid version that includes more performance optimization features. Learn more here.

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The internet is full of many cool and nifty plugins so if you have any that you think we missed don’t hesitate and share your knowledge with us in the comments below! We’re always open to testing new things and improving our work process.
Stay tuned for our next plugin-related article where we’ll share our top paid plugins.
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Bistra Georgieva
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