Congrats to Elementor on winning Torque's Plugin Madness competition two years in a row! Thanks to all of the developers and fans who helped make this another fun year for the tournament. We'll see you next year.
Round 1
Round 4
Semi-Finals
Championship
Round 1 | Matchup 1 of 32
Event Tickets
Event Tickets provides a simple way to sell tickets using PayPal or collect RSVPs for your event. As a free standalone plugin, it enables you to add ticketing and RSVP functionality to posts or pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-tickets/
ATUM Inventory Management for WooCommerce
The Dashboard Statistics or the breath-taking Stock Central, the heart of ATUM, gives you the full control of your WooCommerce stock. Get the ability to quick edit every aspect of your WooCommerce inventory, suppliers, SKUs, locations, weight or even prices.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/atum-stock-manager-for-woocommerce/
Round 1 | Matchup 2 of 32
BigCommerce for WordPress
Scale your business with WordPress on the front-end and free up server resources from things like catalog management, processing payments, managing fulfillment logistics and more with BigCommerce on the back end.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bigcommerce/
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.
Round 1 | Matchup 3 of 32
Event Espresso
Event Espresso is a WordPress event manager which makes it easy for you to sell tickets for events, workshops, events, training, conferences or concerts, register attendees for classes, all from your WordPress website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-decaf/
Knowledge Base for Documents and FAQs
Professional WordPress Knowledge Base plugin for articles, documents and FAQs is easy to use, works with any theme and has predefined layouts, styles, and colors.
Help your users and customers find documents and FAQs with one of the best and most professional-looking knowledge bases.
Round 1 | Matchup 4 of 32
Advanced Flat Rate Shipping Method For WooCommerce
Using this plugin you can create unlimited shipping methods based on your shipping rules. You can create shipping rules for – products, category, country, cart subtotal, shipping class.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-extra-flat-rate/
WP Product Review Lite
This review plugin helps you to interact with your users with improved comments, you can expose your reviews in an easier to read way and will help you generate money by adding a buy now button in your post. Rich snippets are also supported.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-product-review/
Round 1 | Matchup 5 of 32
Simple Partnerships
Simple Sponsorships is a complete Sponsorships manager plugin where you can:
- accept sponsor requests
- receive payments from approved sponsorships
- manage and display Sponsors
- create different sponsorship packages
TI WooCommerce Wishlist
WooCommerce Wishlist is a simple but powerful tool that can help you to convert your site visitors into loyal customers. There are many situations when customers can’t buy a product at this time or simply don’t want.
Round 1 | Matchup 6 of 32
WC Vendors
Create your own marketplace and allow vendors to sell products just like etsy, Envato, eBay, or Amazon!
WP EasyCart
WP EasyCart is a powerful FREE WordPress eCommerce store & WordPress Shopping Cart plugin that installs into new or existing WordPress blogs and websites.
Round 1 | Matchup 7 of 32
Patreon WordPress
When a patron pledges, they can then head over to www.yourwordpresssite.com and click your “Unlock with Patreon” button to let the site know they are a patron. When you create content on WordPress you will be given the option to limit it to only paying patrons.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/patreon-connect/
ACF: Better Search
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Round 1 | Matchup 8 of 32
Post to Google My Business
The new posts functionality in Google My Business is a great way to improve the presence of your, or your clients’ business on Google. It can be a hassle however to have to log in to Google My Business every time you want to create a new post, likewise it can be an easy thing to forget.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-to-google-my-business/
Adminimize
This plugin will help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area. Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 1 | Matchup 9 of 32
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
WordFence
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
Round 1 | Matchup 10 of 32
All in One WP
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins and themes with no technical knowledge required.
Upload your site to a different location with a drag and drop in to WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
UpDraft Plus
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over two million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
Round 1 | Matchup 11 of 32
Advanced Custom Fields
Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your WordPress edit screens and custom field data. Previous Plugin Madness winner.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Duplicator
With over 15 million downloads Duplicator successfully gives WordPress users the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility. Duplicator handles serialized and base64 serialized replacements. Standard WordPress migration and WordPress backups are easily handled by this plugin as are zero downtime migrations.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
Round 1 | Matchup 12 of 32
Manage WP
So you’re looking for a better way to manage WordPress websites? We have you covered! ManageWP is a dashboard that helps you save time and nerves by automating your workflow, so you could focus on things that matter. It is fast, secure and free for an unlimited number of websites.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/worker/
Sucuri
The Sucuri Security WordPress plugin is free to all WordPress users. It is a security suite meant to complement your existing security posture. It offers its users a set of security features for their website, each designed to have a positive effect on their security posture.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
Round 1 | Matchup 13 of 32
Enable Media Replace
A free, lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to seamlessly replace an image or file in your Media Library by uploading a new file in its place. No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files!
WP Migrate Pro
WP Migrate DB is a WordPress migration plugin that makes exporting and migrating your database easy, fast, and straightforward.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/
Round 1 | Matchup 14 of 32
Defender
Defender adds the best in WordPress security to your website with just a few clicks. Stop brute force attacks, SQL injections, cross-site scripting XSS, and other WordPress vulnerabilities with Defender malware scans, firewall, and two-factor authentication login security.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
Microthemer Lite
Microthemer is a light-weight yet powerful CSS editor for responsively customizing the appearance of any WordPress theme or plugin content (e.g. contact forms), down to the smallest detail. Microthemer caters for both coders and non-coders.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/microthemer/
Round 1 | Matchup 15 of 32
MalCare Security
MalCare comes with an inbuilt smart and powerful Firewall for real-time protection from Hackers and bots.
It is the simplest WordPress Security plugin that doesn’t need any technical knowledge. You can get set and ready in just 50 secs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
NS Cloner
The NS Cloner will take any existing site on your WordPress multisite network and clone it into a new site that is completely identical in theme & theme settings, plugins & plugin configurations, content, pictures, videos, and site settings.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ns-cloner-site-copier/
Round 1 | Matchup 16 of 32
WP Reset
WP Reset quickly resets the site’s database to the default installation values without modifying any files. It deletes all customizations and content, or just chosen parts like theme settings. WP Reset is fast and safe to use thanks to the built-in snapshots which provide 1-click restore functionality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reset/
WP Security Audit Log
WP Security Audit Log is the most comprehensive real time user activity and monitoring log plugin. It helps thousands of WordPress administrators and security professionals keep an eye on what is happening on their websites.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 1 | Matchup 17 of 32
Yoast
This WordPress SEO plugin helps you with your search engine optimization. Are you not entirely convinced? Yoast SEO is the favorite WordPress SEO plugin of millions of users worldwide!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
The Events Calendar
Create an events calendar and manage it with ease. The Events Calendar plugin provides professional-level quality and features backed by a team you can trust.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
Round 1 | Matchup 18 of 32
Modern Events Calendar Lite
WordPress event calendar plugin is a trending FREE tool used for managing events in websites. Modern Events Calendar is a responsive, mobile-friendly, FREE, and comprehensive events management plugin which is extremely user-friendly and well-designed for displaying the events calendar on the websites, ever easier.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Round 1 | Matchup 19 of 32
Formidable Forms
We built Formidable Forms to offer the “first-ever” solutions-focused WordPress form plugin on the market. You can use our drag & drop WordPress form builder plugin to create contact forms, surveys, quiz forms, registration forms, payment forms, purchase forms, email marketing forms, calculator forms, and just about anything else you can imagine.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/
FooGallery
Stunning image gallery layouts, responsive, retina-ready, lightning fast, easy to use. Gutenberg Ready! Built to be highly configurable and extensible for developers or freelancers.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/
Round 1 | Matchup 20 of 32
YARPP
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) displays pages, posts, and custom post types related to the current entry, introducing your readers to other relevant content on your site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
Easy Social Feed
The easiest and beginner-friendly plugin for Custom Instagram Feed(Display photos, gallery, and videos), Custom Facebook Feed (posts, links, status, photos, videos, events), Facebook Page Plugin (previously Facebook Like Box) and Auto PopUp.
Round 1 | Matchup 21 of 32
HubSpot
HubSpot enables you to grow your business better. It helps turn visitors into leads, nurture them into customers, and measure your business growth.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/leadin/
Shareaholic
Shareaholic is the world’s leading suite of Audience Growth & Engagement tools. It allows you to add Award-Winning Social Share Buttons, Related Posts, Content Analytics, Ad Monetization, and more to your website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/
Round 1 | Matchup 22 of 32
Social Warfare
Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Public Post Preview
Share a link to anonymous users to preview a draft of a post (or any other public post type) before it is published.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview/
Round 1 | Matchup 23 of 32
Kadence Blocks
This plugin adds custom blocks and options to extend Gutenberg’s editing capabilities so you can create custom layouts and more engaging content. This plugin is meant to be a toolkit that makes the WordPress block editor capable of creating content usually only possible through popular page builder plugins.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kadence-blocks/
Feedzy RSS Feeds
The most powerful WordPress RSS aggregator, helping you curate content, autoblog, import and display unlimited RSS feeds within a few minutes.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedzy-rss-feeds/
Round 1 | Matchup 24 of 32
Weglot
Weglot Translate translates all your content into any language and provides a one-stop dashboard to edit translations or outsource to professional translators, to ensure that your translations are of the highest quality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/weglot/
Otter Blocks
Gutenberg Blocks and Template Library by Otter is a lightweight WordPress plugin that brings extra Gutenberg blocks to your site. So if you want to create complex pages and posts optimized for e-commerce, business, social media, blogs – you name it -comes with dozens of Gutenberg blocks that are all you need to build beautiful pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/otter-blocks/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 1 | Matchup 25 of 32
Smush Image Compression
Smush has been benchmarked and tested number one for speed and quality and is the award-winning, proven crowd favorite image optimization plugin for WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Autoptimize
Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML.
Round 1 | Matchup 26 of 32
LiteSpeed Cache
LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection of optimization features.
EWWW Image Optimizer
The EWWW Image Optimizer will increase your page speeds by way of image optimization. Increased page speeds can result in better search engine rankings, and will also improve conversion rates (increased sales and signups).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
Round 1 | Matchup 27 of 32
Kirki Optimizer Framework
Using Kirki theme developers can create rich experiences for the WordPress Customizer using best coding practices.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kirki/
Rank Math
See the features which are exclusive to Rank Math SEO plugin and to understand why Rank Math is possibly the Best SEO Plugin for WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/
Round 1 | Matchup 28 of 32
Custom Sidebars
Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what widgets display on each page or post of your site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
Hummingbird
Hummingbird makes your website faster by adding new ways to boost Google PageSpeed Insights with fine-tuned controls over file compression, deferring CSS and Javascript styles and scripts, minify for .CSS and .JS, Lazy Load integration and world-class caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
Round 1 | Matchup 29 of 32
WP-Sweep
This plugin uses proper WordPress delete functions as much as possible instead of running direct delete MySQL queries.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/
Ads.txt Manager
Create, manage, and validate your ads.txt from within WordPress, just like any other content asset. Requires PHP 5.3+ and WordPress 4.9+.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ads-txt/
Round 1 | Matchup 30 of 32
SmartCrawl
If you’re looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress, you need to give SmartCrawl a try. With SmartCrawl, there are no more juggling settings, making guesses, and wondering if your SEO is properly optimized.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/
WebP Express
This plugin was created to help remedy that situation. With little effort, WordPress admins can have their site serving autogenerated webp images to browsers that supports it, while still serving jpeg and png files to browsers that does not support webp.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/
Round 1 | Matchup 31 of 32
Atomic Blocks
Atomic Blocks is a collection of page building blocks for the new Gutenberg block editor. Building pages with the block editor and Atomic Blocks gives you more control to quickly create and launch any kind of site you want!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/atomic-blocks/
Optimole
Optimole is the all-in-one solution to all of your image optimization needs. With full automation and a range of evolutionary features, Optimole makes it easy to clean up your heavy images and bloaty pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimole-wp/
Round 1 | Matchup 32 of 32
WP Offload Media Lite
This plugin automatically copies images, videos, documents, and any other media added through WordPress’ media uploader to Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
Media Deduper
Media Deduper will find and eliminate duplicate images and attachments from your WordPress media library. After installing, you’ll have a new “Manage Duplicates” option in your Media section.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-deduper/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 2 | Matchup 1 of 16
Event Tickets
Event Tickets provides a simple way to sell tickets using PayPal or collect RSVPs for your event. As a free standalone plugin, it enables you to add ticketing and RSVP functionality to posts or pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-tickets/
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.
Round 2 | Matchup 2 of 16
Event Espresso
Event Espresso is a WordPress event manager which makes it easy for you to sell tickets for events, workshops, events, training, conferences or concerts, register attendees for classes, all from your WordPress website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-decaf/
Advanced Flat Rate Shipping Method For WooCommerce
Using this plugin you can create unlimited shipping methods based on your shipping rules. You can create shipping rules for – products, category, country, cart subtotal, shipping class.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-extra-flat-rate/
Round 2 | Matchup 3 of 16
Simple Partnerships
Simple Sponsorships is a complete Sponsorships manager plugin where you can:
- accept sponsor requests
- receive payments from approved sponsorships
- manage and display Sponsors
- create different sponsorship packages
WC Vendors
Create your own marketplace and allow vendors to sell products just like etsy, Envato, eBay, or Amazon!
Round 2 | Matchup 4 of 16
ACF: Better Search
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Adminimize
This plugin will help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area. Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 2 | Matchup 5 of 16
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
All in One WP
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins and themes with no technical knowledge required.
Upload your site to a different location with a drag and drop in to WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
Round 2 | Matchup 6 of 16
Advanced Custom Fields
Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your WordPress edit screens and custom field data. Previous Plugin Madness winner.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Manage WP
So you’re looking for a better way to manage WordPress websites? We have you covered! ManageWP is a dashboard that helps you save time and nerves by automating your workflow, so you could focus on things that matter. It is fast, secure and free for an unlimited number of websites.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/worker/
Round 2 | Matchup 7 of 16
Enable Media Replace
A free, lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to seamlessly replace an image or file in your Media Library by uploading a new file in its place. No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files!
Defender
Defender adds the best in WordPress security to your website with just a few clicks. Stop brute force attacks, SQL injections, cross-site scripting XSS, and other WordPress vulnerabilities with Defender malware scans, firewall, and two-factor authentication login security.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
Round 2 | Matchup 8 of 16
NS Cloner
The NS Cloner will take any existing site on your WordPress multisite network and clone it into a new site that is completely identical in theme & theme settings, plugins & plugin configurations, content, pictures, videos, and site settings.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ns-cloner-site-copier/
WP Reset
WP Reset quickly resets the site’s database to the default installation values without modifying any files. It deletes all customizations and content, or just chosen parts like theme settings. WP Reset is fast and safe to use thanks to the built-in snapshots which provide 1-click restore functionality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reset/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 2 | Matchup 9 of 16
Yoast
This WordPress SEO plugin helps you with your search engine optimization. Are you not entirely convinced? Yoast SEO is the favorite WordPress SEO plugin of millions of users worldwide!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Round 2 | Matchup 10 of 16
Formidable Forms
We built Formidable Forms to offer the “first-ever” solutions-focused WordPress form plugin on the market. You can use our drag & drop WordPress form builder plugin to create contact forms, surveys, quiz forms, registration forms, payment forms, purchase forms, email marketing forms, calculator forms, and just about anything else you can imagine.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/
Easy Social Feed
The easiest and beginner-friendly plugin for Custom Instagram Feed(Display photos, gallery, and videos), Custom Facebook Feed (posts, links, status, photos, videos, events), Facebook Page Plugin (previously Facebook Like Box) and Auto PopUp.
Round 2 | Matchup 11 of 16
HubSpot
HubSpot enables you to grow your business better. It helps turn visitors into leads, nurture them into customers, and measure your business growth.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/leadin/
Social Warfare
Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Round 2 | Matchup 12 of 16
Feedzy RSS Feeds
The most powerful WordPress RSS aggregator, helping you curate content, autoblog, import and display unlimited RSS feeds within a few minutes.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedzy-rss-feeds/
Otter Blocks
Gutenberg Blocks and Template Library by Otter is a lightweight WordPress plugin that brings extra Gutenberg blocks to your site. So if you want to create complex pages and posts optimized for e-commerce, business, social media, blogs – you name it -comes with dozens of Gutenberg blocks that are all you need to build beautiful pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/otter-blocks/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 2 | Matchup 13 of 16
Autoptimize
Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default but can also inline critical CSS and defer the aggregated full CSS, moves and defers scripts to the footer and minifies HTML.
EWWW Image Optimizer
The EWWW Image Optimizer will increase your page speeds by way of image optimization. Increased page speeds can result in better search engine rankings, and will also improve conversion rates (increased sales and signups).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
Round 2 | Matchup 14 of 16
Rank Math
See the features which are exclusive to Rank Math SEO plugin and to understand why Rank Math is possibly the Best SEO Plugin for WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/
Hummingbird
Hummingbird makes your website faster by adding new ways to boost Google PageSpeed Insights with fine-tuned controls over file compression, deferring CSS and Javascript styles and scripts, minify for .CSS and .JS, Lazy Load integration and world-class caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
Round 2 | Matchup 15 of 16
WP-Sweep
This plugin uses proper WordPress delete functions as much as possible instead of running direct delete MySQL queries.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sweep/
SmartCrawl
If you’re looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress, you need to give SmartCrawl a try. With SmartCrawl, there are no more juggling settings, making guesses, and wondering if your SEO is properly optimized.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/
Round 2 | Matchup 16 of 16
Optimole
Optimole is the all-in-one solution to all of your image optimization needs. With full automation and a range of evolutionary features, Optimole makes it easy to clean up your heavy images and bloaty pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimole-wp/
WP Offload Media Lite
This plugin automatically copies images, videos, documents, and any other media added through WordPress’ media uploader to Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 3 | Matchup 1 of 8
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.
Event Espresso
Event Espresso is a WordPress event manager which makes it easy for you to sell tickets for events, workshops, events, training, conferences or concerts, register attendees for classes, all from your WordPress website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-decaf/
Round 3 | Matchup 2 of 8
WC Vendors
Create your own marketplace and allow vendors to sell products just like etsy, Envato, eBay, or Amazon!
ACF: Better Search
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 3 | Matchup 3 of 8
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Advanced Custom Fields
Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your WordPress edit screens and custom field data. Previous Plugin Madness winner.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Round 3 | Matchup 4 of 8
Defender
Defender adds the best in WordPress security to your website with just a few clicks. Stop brute force attacks, SQL injections, cross-site scripting XSS, and other WordPress vulnerabilities with Defender malware scans, firewall, and two-factor authentication login security.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
WP Reset
WP Reset quickly resets the site’s database to the default installation values without modifying any files. It deletes all customizations and content, or just chosen parts like theme settings. WP Reset is fast and safe to use thanks to the built-in snapshots which provide 1-click restore functionality.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reset/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 3 | Matchup 5 of 8
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Formidable Forms
We built Formidable Forms to offer the “first-ever” solutions-focused WordPress form plugin on the market. You can use our drag & drop WordPress form builder plugin to create contact forms, surveys, quiz forms, registration forms, payment forms, purchase forms, email marketing forms, calculator forms, and just about anything else you can imagine.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/
Round 3 | Matchup 6 of 8
Social Warfare
Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Otter Blocks
Gutenberg Blocks and Template Library by Otter is a lightweight WordPress plugin that brings extra Gutenberg blocks to your site. So if you want to create complex pages and posts optimized for e-commerce, business, social media, blogs – you name it -comes with dozens of Gutenberg blocks that are all you need to build beautiful pages.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/otter-blocks/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 3 | Matchup 7 of 8
EWWW Image Optimizer
The EWWW Image Optimizer will increase your page speeds by way of image optimization. Increased page speeds can result in better search engine rankings, and will also improve conversion rates (increased sales and signups).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
Hummingbird
Hummingbird makes your website faster by adding new ways to boost Google PageSpeed Insights with fine-tuned controls over file compression, deferring CSS and Javascript styles and scripts, minify for .CSS and .JS, Lazy Load integration and world-class caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
Round 3 | Matchup 8 of 8
SmartCrawl
If you’re looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress, you need to give SmartCrawl a try. With SmartCrawl, there are no more juggling settings, making guesses, and wondering if your SEO is properly optimized.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/
WP Offload Media Lite
This plugin automatically copies images, videos, documents, and any other media added through WordPress’ media uploader to Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 4 | Matchup 1 of 4
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.
ACF: Better Search
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 4 | Matchup 2 of 4
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Defender
Defender adds the best in WordPress security to your website with just a few clicks. Stop brute force attacks, SQL injections, cross-site scripting XSS, and other WordPress vulnerabilities with Defender malware scans, firewall, and two-factor authentication login security.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 4 | Matchup 3 of 4
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Social Warfare
Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Round 4 | Matchup 4 of 4
EWWW Image Optimizer
The EWWW Image Optimizer will increase your page speeds by way of image optimization. Increased page speeds can result in better search engine rankings, and will also improve conversion rates (increased sales and signups).
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
SmartCrawl
If you’re looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress, you need to give SmartCrawl a try. With SmartCrawl, there are no more juggling settings, making guesses, and wondering if your SEO is properly optimized.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Semi-Finals | Matchup 1 of 2
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Semi-Finals | Matchup 2 of 2
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
SmartCrawl
If you’re looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress, you need to give SmartCrawl a try. With SmartCrawl, there are no more juggling settings, making guesses, and wondering if your SEO is properly optimized.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Championship | Matchup 1 of 1
Elementor Page Builder
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Custom Post Type UI
While CPTUI helps solve the problem of creating custom post types, displaying the data gleaned from them can be a whole new challenge. That’s why we created Custom Post Type UI Extended. View our Layouts page to see some examples that are available with Custom Post Type UI Extended.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Winner
Use Elementor with your favorite or customized theme. Change themes and still keep all your designs. Landing pages, homepages, posts, portfolios, products.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/