Wordpress Plugins reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 155 Reddit reviews across 21 subreddits and 39 posts to rank the best Wordpress Plugins brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/Wordpress, r/SEO, r/EcommerceSuccess, r/WordpressPlugins, r/AskReddit. Top-rated brands include WordPress (4.6/5), Yoast (4.9/5), Rank Math (4.6/5).

Stats
Reviews155
Subreddits21
Posts39
Brands73
Products44
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#1

WordPress

4.6
(24)
"This Reddit post provides excellent WordPress plugins that can enhance the overall performance, speed, security, and search functions of a website."
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"Here is the list of the top 10 free WordPress plugins that are completely free and essential for beginners."
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"The plugin helps to optimize a WordPress website for search engines."
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"WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress to add e-commerce functionality to any website."
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"WP Smush is a WordPress plugin that compresses and optimizes images without affecting their quality."
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"WPForms is a drag-and-drop form builder that helps to create creative contact forms, payment forms, surveys, and more."
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"OptinMonster is a lead generation plugin that helps you grow your email list."
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"A great plugin that helps to track a WordPress website's traffic, improving website performance and user experience."
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"You should activate the Activity Pub plugin for WordPress which provides an Activity Pub endpoint that every service on the Fediverse can follow."
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"There is a WP plug-in to publish your WP on ActivityPub and your WP blog can now be followed from Mastodon."
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#2

Yoast

4.9
(12)
"This plugin will help you optimize your website, making your website more accessible to search engines."
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"Evergreen 'Yoast SEO'."
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"I would prefer to suggest Yoast SEO, All In One SEO WP plugin."
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"Yoast SEO is pretty much amazing."
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"Yoast."
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"Yoast is invaluable. We transferred from All In One and I much prefer Yoast."
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"Yoast SEO is free, it's a must-have. It's good for setting on page metadata, title, url, etc... Plus it has some ranking metrics to let you know how optimized your page is."
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"The best plugin is Yoast SEO or you can try All in One SEO."
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"Yoast all day long..."
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"Yoast SEO."
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#3

Rank Math

4.6
(11)
"RankMath won me over. It’s super versatile and shows up when and how or should."
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"I always recommend rankmath"
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"I always recommend rankmath"
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"I vote rank math. It has so many features and is easy to use"
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"Rank Math"
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"Both plugins are great for eCommerce, but if you prefer a free option, Rank Math is the better choice."
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"Rank Math. Excellent SEO plugin. Tons of features for free."
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"Rank Math is very good, and is completely free."
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"I like Rankmath and how they work together with Elementor."
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"Big fan of the paid RankMath and the new update is pretty good."
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#4

Yoast SEO

4.0
(12)
"I would recommend for you to start with Yoast SEO, because its the most proven plugin on the market."
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"Yoast seo is pretty solid but lately ive been struggling with getting it to work the way i want."
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"Yoast is the easiest option for general SEO."
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"Yoast SEO, the best seo plugin to optimize blogs and websites."
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"For an all-around SEO boost, check out Yoast SEO, it's a solid choice for overall site optimization."
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"Yoast SEO if you are looking for something easy to use / user friendly."
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"Yoast or All in one SEO. However, I prefer Yoast. Have had few first page results."
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"In my opinion, Yoast SEO is better than any other"
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"I use Yoast, a lot do, I use Contact form 7 for my email forms."
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"WordPress SEO (instead of Yoast)"
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#5

WooCommerce

4.3
(6)
"I use WooCommerce to sell directly from my website."
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"Woocommerce."
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"Woocommerce + Woocommerce Subscriptions"
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"For the reservation, you can try WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin... its a date and time calendar-based reservation and bookings plugin.."
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"For the reservation, you can try WooCommerce Bookings and Appointments plugin... its a date and time calendar based reservation and bookings plugin.."
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"The Woocommerce returns plugin is open source and customizable."
#6

Wordfence

4.2
(5)
"I would recommend trying Wordfence, WP-Optimize, SearchIQ, WP Smush, and Google Analytics."
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"My standard setup is: Wordfence, WP Rocket, WebP Express, Updraft, SEO Framework, ManageWP"
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"Security plugins: wordfence, cerber, anti malware"
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"Wordfence"
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"Firstly, get a security plugin like Wordfence."
#7

AIOSEO

5.0
(4)
"I always recommend AIOSEO."
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"First thing I do after creating a website is install AIOSEO."
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"We also use AIOSEO on every site we can. It's integration with Elementor / WP admin is very nice."
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"AIOSEO without a second thought. Been using it for a while now and I have used Yoast as well, I can easily say that AIOSEO is more adaptive to modern tech and WordPress SEO challenges."
#8

WP Rocket

4.7
(3)
"WP Rocket is def worth trying, especially for lazy loading + caching combo."
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"And WProcket"
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"Caching plugins: wp super cache, w3 total cache, wp rocket"
#9

SEO Framework

4.7
(3)
"SEO Framework."
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"Free version of SEO Framework has been guiding me on getting sites to page 1, ranks 1-3 pretty consistently with little resource overhead."
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"SEO Framework"
#10

SEOPress

4.3
(3)
"I recommend SEOPress."
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"SeoPress"
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"SEO Press hands down"
#11

Elementor

4.3
(3)
"Elementor is the best plugin to use when designing the website."
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"I'm working with WordPress for years and still use one Elementor, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer and Divi Builder for my client websites."
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"Elementor"
#12

Slim SEO

5.0
(2)
"Slim SEO and SEO Framework are the best solutions for 99% of websites."
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"Slim SEO with Schema addon is perfect. Most of the rest are too heavy for simple websites"
#13

Freemius

5.0
(2)
"Freemius us the best all in one solution, that can even handle free to pro upsells from WordPress admin panel."
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"Freemius rocks. Does it all with minimal coding required."
#14

All-in-One WP Migration

5.0
(2)
"The migrate / backup tool that never failed me so far."
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"All-in-one WP Migration is the best opinion."
#15

BookingPress

5.0
(2)
"Save up to 80% off on BookingPress WordPress Booking Plugin"
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"BookingPress is the best plugin for appointment booking."
#16

MonsterInsights

4.5
(2)
"This will help integrate your site with popular traffic analysis solutions."
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"MonsterInsights is handy for seeing article GA data."
#17

Beaver Builder

4.0
(2)
"Beaver Builder's page builder and theme builder together."
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"The free version of Beaver Builder would work: https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/"
#18

Smush

3.5
(2)
"Smush can automatically resize and optimize images as you upload them and also supports background images."
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"Smush is good but don’t rely on it alone...try compressing images manually before upload too (TinyPNG helps)."
#19

Crocoblock

5.0
(1)
"Crocoblock’s jetengine is my fav"
#20

MalCare

5.0
(1)
"MalCare for Security. Best and fast customer service."
#21

Oxygen Builder

5.0
(1)
"Oxygen builder for page and theme building, also to quickly insert custom html, css, js & php. Really powerful."
#22

JetEngine

5.0
(1)
"JetEngine is excellent if you build a lot in elementor and want to build custom post types/taxonomies."
#23

Gravity Forms

5.0
(1)
"Gravity Forms"
#24

Advanced Custom Fields

5.0
(1)
"Advanced Custom Fields"
#25

Classic Editor

5.0
(1)
"Classic Editor rocks!"
#26

Elementor Pro

5.0
(1)
"I use Elementor pro for almost all my sites now"
#27

TablePress

5.0
(1)
"I use TablePress for a similar repository of documents related to our ODS system."
#28

EasyAzon

5.0
(1)
"EasyAzon."
#29

All in One SEO

5.0
(1)
"Also, redirection for redirections. That's literally what it's called. Very useful."
#30

Truepush

5.0
(1)
"We recently hit our 1Bn notifications/day milestone too. It's totally free."
#31

Fiverr

5.0
(1)
"Hiring a WordPress developer on Fiverr is super cheap and effective for adding CSS code."
#32

Site Origin

5.0
(1)
"Site Origin has a plugins bundle that lets you do banners."
#33

SiteOrigin

5.0
(1)
"This is the tool you're looking for. It's an extension of the SiteOrigin Bundle."
#34

All In One SEO

5.0
(1)
"I would prefer to suggest Yoast SEO, All In One SEO WP plugin."
#35

Imagely

5.0
(1)
"Imagely offers gallery plugins that can be set up specifically for proofing."
#36

ARForms

5.0
(1)
"ARForms is the best form builder for a website."
#37

Wordfence Security

5.0
(1)
"It helps to improve your site’s security."
#38

WPForms

5.0
(1)
"This plugin allows you to add an interactive form to your site."
#39

Optimole

5.0
(1)
"This plugin helps you optimize your images."
#40

OptinMonster

5.0
(1)
"They have a direct plugin. Very easy to use."
#41

Client Portal

5.0
(1)
"Creates a customizable dashboard for each user."
#42

Plugin Organizer

5.0
(1)
"The ability to turn on and off plugins on a per page basis does wonders for page speed."
#43

WPMU

5.0
(1)
"WPMU has a lot of features and is only $49/month."
#44

RankMath

5.0
(1)
"It's better than Yoast, IMO."
#45

W3 Total Cache

5.0
(1)
"I like W3 Total Cache plugin the most."
#46

What WP Theme Is That

5.0
(1)
"You can analyze WordPress sites to find out what themes and plugins are being used."
#47

Easy Digital Downloads (EDD)

5.0
(1)
"I’d suggest Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Software Licensing. It’s simple to set up, reliable, and covers license key verification, updates, and free trials all in one."
#48

Digital License Manager

5.0
(1)
"I use Digital License Manager, it rocks;"
#49

Chatbase

4.0
(1)
"I use Chatbase."
#50

AI ChatBot for WordPress

4.0
(1)
"You can try AI ChatBot for WordPress"
#51

Theme Co

4.0
(1)
"I use the Pro Theme/page builder from Theme Co. It's very powerful, perhaps too powerful for a lot of users."
#52

MakeWebetter

4.0
(1)
"So, here are the list of must have plugins, fromMakeWebetter 1. Points and Rewards for WooCommerce"
#53

Astra

4.0
(1)
"Choose a theme with a neat page builder, such as Astra theme with Elementor Page Builder."
#54

Elegant Themes

4.0
(1)
"I like Divi builder from Elegant Themes"
#55

The SEO Framework

4.0
(1)
"SEO: The SEO framework, SEOpress, apparently Rankmath is quite good now as well"
#56

UpdraftPlus

4.0
(1)
"Backups plugins: updraftplus, all in one migration"
#57

Imagify

4.0
(1)
"Image optimization: imagify, shortpixel"
#58

WPScan

4.0
(1)
"Must have: wpscan, and a brute force protector."
#59

WPBakery Page Builder

4.0
(1)
"I would recommend Visual Composer (now called wp bakery)."
#60

Zendesk

4.0
(1)
"Zendesk is one of the most preferred chat-box."
#61

OptimizePress

4.0
(1)
"For landing pages I use optimize press"
#62

Flying Pages

4.0
(1)
"They are very new, but make your site a lot faster."
#63

WP Box

4.0
(1)
"I would recommend my framework WP BOX. But it requires you to be a developer, its not a visual builder."
#64

Picu

4.0
(1)
"I'm quite pleased. It's near perfect in the free version."
#65

SEMrush

4.0
(1)
"I also use the SEMrush plugin for writing."
#66

WooZone

4.0
(1)
"It automatically inputs the products with price and updates them every day. It really is a great buy for $30."
#67

Alex Reservations

3.0
(1)
"Try this plugin: https://alexreservations.com"
#68

Unbounce

3.0
(1)
"Unbounce, leadpages and launchrock are OK but its not your domain."
#69

Leadpages

3.0
(1)
"Unbounce, leadpages and launchrock are OK but its not your domain."
#70

LaunchRock

3.0
(1)
"Unbounce, leadpages and launchrock are OK but its not your domain."
#71

SEOPressor

3.0
(1)
"I bought SEOPressor from several years ago. Is that still effective?"
#72

MyBookTable

2.0
(1)
"It limits customization."
#73

Divi Page Builder

1.0
(1)
"I don't recommend it (also I don't recommend Elementor, the other current favorite builder."

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