A list of 5 best WordPress plugins essential to start the design of your new website / blog WordPress.
Custom Post Type UI
We know that by default WordPress post types are page, post, attachments and navigation menu. what if we need to something different than a post or page post type. Let’s say we are creating a website for portfolio or property real estate or hotels. we will need to create custom post type for that. Custom Post Type UI plugin can create Custom post types in no time. it is just few clicks and you will have your custom post type ready to work on.
You can read this article how to work with custom post type in WordPress and display its content. Or you download the plugin here.
Advanced custom fields
ACF is the second most helpful plugin for me in all WordPress plugins directory. If you ever worked before with custom fields in WordPress. You will know how important are custom fields in WordPress. Creating them with code is a little bit of job. But with ACF plugin it is just a matter of seconds and you are all set.
Read documentation or download the plugin. I am sure now whenever you need to create custom fields for your custom post type or even the default WordPress post type you will use the Advanced custom fields plugin.
Visual Composer
Creating different layout for pages or your posts is hard. Here is the best WordPress layout builder plugin the visual composer. You can create different page layout and style them beautifully. It is drag and drop system. You don’t have to be a coder to design the page. Just drag few things here and there and your page is ready.
This plugin comes with a free version which they introduce recently. You can check free version here. Or you can check their Premium version.
All themes are not compatible with it. If you want to make your theme compatible with Visual Composer. Please read this article.
Yoast SEO for everyone
If you are looking for your website to give a boost. Whether you are a blogger or real estate you can use this this Yoast SEO. It will help you optimize your website for search engines like google, yahoo and bing and all other favorite search engine. It helps you engage to your visitor more. It can boost your traffic follow and optimize your website and much more. This is one of best SEO plugin I have been using for years myself.
Woocommerce
It is e-commerce open source WordPress plugin. Free of cost and very easy to use plugin. You can make online store and sell your products online. You don’t have to be a programmer to make a store online with this plugin few clicks and you are set to sell online. The world is changing and everybody shops online. It is easy to setup and use Woocommerce. If you are new to Woocommerce you can follow this getting started help documents.
Download Woocommerce from WordPress directory.