Best Plugins For WordPress

Mark Harwood
4 min readSep 27, 2024

If you’ve ever setup a WordPress website before, you’ll have probably seen the dizzying amount of plugins and themes that are available to you. So today I want to go over what I think are the best plugins for WordPress

You can also read this on my website!

Introduction — Best Plugins For WordPress

So you’ve got a brand new WordPress website. Completely clean of any plugins and don’t know where to start. Let me guide you though how I setup each setup.

Whilst this isn’t something I can force for each of my clients — these are certainly my preferred plugins simply for ease of use and cost. Most of these are free!

Spectra

First of all, Spectra is the best free WordPress design tool I’ve found so far.

I think it’s far better than Elementor!

For one, it allows custom CSS per page and per post. This isn’t something offered to you by the free tier of Elementor and really allows you to be creative when building your website.

I like to pair this plugin with the Astra theme. Again, this theme allows almost anything to be changed and customized which is sadly lacking in a lot of free themes.

Hummingbird

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Mark Harwood

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