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Ryan ShookCreative Director · Written
Usually the first plugin I install
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Advanced Custom Fields

Karol KrakowiakProduct Designer · Written
Custom fields for WordPress made in way that should be built in.
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Ben CousinBewod.com, founder · Written
This is the easiest way to improve WP core functionalities : you can add custom fields (another WYSIWYG editor, an image upload field, repeating fields and so on).
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Qards by Designmodo

Responsive Page Builder Plugin for WordPress

Edvard KhondkaryanManaging Partner at Designmodo · Written
It's powerful WP plugin for creating landing pages
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Gravity Forms

Sebastien BarrauCo-founder, htmlsig and passpass · Written
We use it on all our websites, it has an easy drag and drop form builder and allows you to do anything with the data collected, it also has a huge list of plugins including support for MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, stripe, PayPal and more. You could even use it to allow visitors to create posts from a front end form.
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SumoMe is one of my favorite Wordpress plugins. It comes with so much... From heatmaps to social sharing, lots of useful features to play with.
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Jevin SewRails / iOS developer · Written
Jetpack comes with a bunch of free features that are total timesavers. Their brute-force attack prevention is pretty much essential for any Wordpress site doing decent traffic.
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Best tool to accept and manage comments on your WordPress site
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Custom Twitter Feeds

AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Written
I've tried a few options for adding a Twitter feed to WordPress, and this is the simplest, most customizable, most reliable one I've found.
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Wordfence - WordPress Security Plugin

AkhilSinghTEngineering+Products+Usability+Wirk · Written
WordPress gets attacked, a lot, and with an open system like WP an attack multiplies in seconds. Wordfence has worked great for me for basic as well as advanced security features.
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WPCore

Manage and share Wordpress plugin collections

AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Written
I love that this plugin let's you bundle all your fav WP plugins and one click install them all. It's like a trojan horse (but in a good way). I do so many WP projects and use the same core plugins each time that this is a huge timesaver.
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Duplicate Post Plugin

AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Edited
It's not sexy, but it's super helpful if you're building a site. Allows you to clone posts, pages, etc. so once you create a template or favorite format you can just clone and edit vs. rebuild from scratch.
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WP Backend File Search

AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Written
Austin made this product
I'm a bit biased because we made this, but I've needed this functionality so many times when building and editing WordPress sites. I couldn't find a reliable, convenient option so we made one. It's perfect for those times when you know the code you're trying to find or edit, but don't know where it's hiding. Before, you had to open each css or php file one-by-one to search for it, but with this plugin, you can search them all at once instead. It's a big time saver and I legitimately use it on every WP site I build.
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Beaver Builder

Ben CousinBewod.com, founder · Written
If you're looking for an easy and clean page builder. You can combine a classic custom made WP website and simply add this plugin to give your users tools to set their layout quickly, or completely build a website based on Beaver Builder (and add it to your theme).
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