{"id":92,"date":"2021-10-30T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdarko.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2021-11-08T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:54:15","slug":"best-wordpress-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdarko.com\/blog\/best-wordpress-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Best & Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Business Websites in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you’re building a WordPress site for your business and need to add new features to it, you’ll inevitably need to use plugins<\/strong>. This sounds like a pretty easy task but choosing the right ones for the task isn’t as simple as it seems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing about plugins is that there is a considerable amount to choose from; WordPress.org<\/strong><\/a> counts about 60,000 plugins<\/strong> in its official directory, but this isn’t everything. There are other platforms to source them from, including for instance, CodeCanyon<\/strong>, with around 6,000 premium plugins<\/strong> (we do not <\/strong>recommend CodeCanyon<\/strong>, for reasons we will discuss in a future article).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many plugins from the official directory have premium versions<\/strong> that bring new features to the free ones; it is the case for several of our plugins<\/a> at WordPress.org<\/strong>. Note that you don’t necessarily need to upgrade to the premium version when using a free plugin. At WP Darko<\/strong>, we have over 100,000 people<\/strong> using our free plugins as we speak (and way over a million downloads).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is to say that choosing a particular WordPress plugin over another isn’t always an evident task, especially for beginners who haven’t yet tried any of the available options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress, being as popular as it is, benefits from a vast community of developers<\/strong>. While this is an advantage over other frameworks (there’s probably nothing you can’t achieve with WordPress today), it also opens the door to unmaintained, sluggish, and scammy plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We won’t talk about scams and how to check for abandoned and slow plugins in this article, but we’ll go over several great options<\/strong> that your business can rely on when building your website. We have sorted these plugins by category to make things easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that we are not <\/strong>using affiliate links; we make recommendations because we believe they will help you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every business (or even personal) site will have to collect data<\/strong> from its users at some point, whether it’s in the scope of online shopping, feedback gathering, inquiries about a product or just a simple contact form<\/strong>. There are several plugins that allow you to do just this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We recommend: Gravity Forms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nForm plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n