27 Best Free WordPress Plugins For Business & Entrepreneurs

This five minute video simply covers what a WordPress plugin is and what they do to help you and your website.

Watch this video - finding the right plugin in WordPress is hard for a few reasons and I'll explain why and how best to use the search function given what you learn.

Watch this short video to learn how to delete plugins. WordPress does not make it obvious how to do this!

In this short video, I will show you an alternative way to keep track of all your plugins so you don't lose them and you won't have to search for them in the future.

This video shows students how to maintain the plugins after they are installed.

Download this file to get a link to each plugin discussed in the course!

In this video, I will show you a couple of the primary ways that hackers try to break in to WordPress websites - this gives you some background as to why the security plugins work and why you need them.

Introducing the two primary security plugins I recommend for every WordPress site. What they are called, how to find them, and finally, how to set them up properly.

Website backups are key. With this plugin, you'll have backups running on autopilot so if you something goes wrong - you can always just restore your website to the way it was before.

It never hurts to add one more layer of protection to keep hackers and malware away from your website. This plugin will help keep your WordPress file systems safe.

This surprising security flaw helps hackers figure out your username - which is a big part of breaking in to your website. Learn what the flaw is and how to fix it in this video.

This plugin automates the process of telling Google and other search engines about updates to your site's content.

This plugin basically gives Google and other search engines a roadmap of your website and what content is where. Plus it helps keep hackers and bots out of your WordPress files.

This is the first search engine optimization plugin option out of two that I will show you. This plugin is great for all around SEO and getting search engines to be clear on what your website is all about.

The second SEO plugin option adds the ability to get keyword ideas plus see how well your blog posts and pages rate for the keyword.

This plugin takes care of writing most of the content for a privacy policy and terms of service page. All you have to do is answer a few basic questions and the plugin will auto generate these legal pages for you.

In this video, I show you the best contact form plugin plus how to configure it and set up your contact us page for your website.

Take control of the pages on your website with this handy plugin.

This handy plugin will forever help you avoid having bad links on your website.

With this plugin, you will have an easy way to add tracking codes to the header code of your website - without having to log in to your hosting account.

Install this plugin and know that the only comments you get on your blog posts will be from legitimate readers.

Students will be introduced to a plugin that lets them easily clone pages and posts. This is great for split testing squeeze pages and sales pages. But if you don't use sales or squeeze pages, I'll show you a cool reason why you should still get this plugin and use it!

Finally, a plugin that lets you have control over whether you want to display the title on your posts and pages or not. If you've ever wanted to name your page something different than the title you want to use, this plugin is for you!

Students will know how to configure the caching plugin that now comes installed with WordPress!

After watching this lecture, students will have installed a plugin that lets them have complete control over how embedded YouTube videos look and play. It even helps make the video responsive for mobile devices.

One of my favorite plugins - students will be able to easily find and add images to blog posts in minutes.

Ever wished you could customize the toolbar in the visual editor? With this plugin you can! Plus it adds several more shortcuts to the standard WordPress toolbar!

Keep readers engaged on your website by leading them. This is the only plugin that will automatically present your readers with other related content on your site!

Most professional email newsletter services offer a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy for you to integrate newsletter sign up forms into your website. I'll talk about what to look for in these plugins.

After this lecture, students will have a plugin that integrates with many email services. Plus this plugin has a series of optin form templates to choose from that all look better than the ones that email autoresponder services provide.

After installing this plugin, students will have a way to easily add stylish new features to their site - regardless of what theme they use. Including things like buttons (great for sales pages), testimonial boxes, image sliders, and more.

Are you showing an advertisement or email optin form on your sidebar? This plugin will help increase your conversions by making the sidebar widget float with readers as they scroll down the page reading your content.

Give readers a pre-made tweet with this handy plugin! This plugin will get you more shares from every post.

The best social share buttons adder plugin for WordPress. This is one of the few that adds the buttons in a way that doesn't look like crap on mobile devices.

Why should your latest content get all the attention? This plugin automatically goes through your historical blog posts and shares them on social media for you - on autopilot! So you get more traffic to your website!