The 5 Most useful plugins for WordPress developers

Probably everyone who has been doing WordPress development for a while has come across one or more of the plugins. When creating features, these plugins form the bedrock of their development. I have tried to list free plugins, although we have no say in the world we inhabit we are expected to conform to its rules, therefore all these plugins offer paid for fetures.

Lets start with:

1: CPTUI

Custom Post Type UI provides a form based interface to create, edit and manage Post Types. In the past adding a new Post Type to WordPress required a fair amount of code and hours of work, but now it can all be done with simple form. The considerable amount af attributes can be generated automatically.

2. ACF

Advanced Custom Fields gives you the ability to add content to just baout anything. You can add fields to post types, categories, pages and, with the pro version, blocks (a powerful feature in block editing), as well as numerous other things. Used in combination with custom post types you can build reusable content.

3. WP Rocket

Unfortunately this one comes with a heft price tag. That price is probably worth if for enterprises and online stores that require fast loading and SEO. WP Rocket provides a broad range of optimisation settings.

4. Popup Maker

If you like popups as much as I do you will find this plugin of considerable use. It provides trigger events and cookies and can use multiple themes for the popup’s appearance.

5. Contact Form 7

While CF7 has been replaced by new and different form based contact form editing plugins, I still prefer CF7 over plugins like Gravity Forms and WP Forms which offer feature rich editors. CF7 can be easily integrated with Recaptcha, Mailchimp and a couple other other platforms. It is extra useful when combined with CF7DB which saves form entries in the database.