Torque's Plugin Madness is back! Each year we pit plugin against plugin in a bracket-style competition to determine who is king of the WordPress plugins.
This is a bracket-style competition that starts off with 64 plugins split into 4 groups: eCommerce, Maintenance, Optimization, and Marketing. Voting begins on March 5th and the winner will be announced April 16th.
Users are encouraged to check back each Monday in March to support their favorite plugins. Tweet your predictions with #PluginMadness.
Built to seamlessly integrate with WooCommerce, Beeketing is an essential marketing automation plugin for any WooCommerce websites.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/beeketing-for-woocommerce/
Easy Affiliate Links helps you manage all the affiliate links on your website. Both cloaked and regular non-cloaked links.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-affiliate-links/
Disable Blogging is a plugin that disables all blog related functionalities (posts, comments, feeds, etc.) on the front-end and back-end.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-blogging/
WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
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/
If you are running an online WordPress based site and have multiple stores, and want some smart search functionality with respect to location and categories or like then WP Store Locator is for you.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-multi-store-locator/
Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/
Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart is a powerful, secure and easy-to-use online store solution that gives you a full-functioned shop on your WordPress website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ecwid-shopping-cart/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
Intercom is a customer communication platform with a suite of integrated products for every team. Our products enable targeted communication with customers on your website, inside your web and mobile apps, and by email.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/intercom/
WooCommerce Wishlist is a simple but powerful tool that can help you to convert your site visitors into loyal customers.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ti-woocommerce-wishlist/
Whether you’re hoping to sell digital downloads, physical inventory, or subscriptions and memberships – with WP eCommerce, you’re only minutes away from your next sale.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/
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/
WP Booking is an easily complete booking system that connects to any booking site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-booking-management-system/
WP Review plugin is an easy yet powerful way to review content easily, without affecting the speed of your site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-review/
This review plugin helps you to interact with your users with improved comments, you can expose your reviews in a easier to read way and will help you generate money by adding a buy now button in your post.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-product-review/
Beaver Builder is a flexible drag and drop page builder that works on the front end of your WordPress website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/
This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
Widget Options adds elegant and feature-packed tabbed options below each widget to completely manage and control each widgets visibility and appearance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/
SiteOrigin Page Builder is the most popular page creation plugin for WordPress. It makes it easy to create responsive column based content, using the widgets you know and love.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/
InfiniteWP allows users to manage an unlimited number of WordPress sites from their own server.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/iwp-client/
Create an Under Construction Page, Maintenance Mode Page, Coming Soon Page, or a Landing Page that takes less than a minute to install & configure.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/under-construction-page/
Handling 404 errors in your site should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-301/
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins, and themes with no technical knowledge required.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
Caldera Forms is a free and powerful WordPress plugin that creates responsive forms with a simple drag and drop editor.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/
Create a simple Coming Soon Page or Maintenance Mode Page. Work on your site in private while visitors see a “Coming Soon” or “Maintenance Mode” page.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/
Custom Post Type UI provides an easy to use interface for registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
Using Kirki theme developers can create rich experiences for the WordPress Customizer using best coding practices.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kirki/
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/
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
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/
Content Aware Sidebars is packed with features and is being used to boost on-site SEO, upsell products, and to optimize conversion rates by displaying different sidebars on different conditions.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/
Packed with loads of useful features, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe is ready to go right out of the box. It’s extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
GetSiteControl is an easy-to-use set of engagement tools for your WordPress website. Online surveys, live chats, contact forms, email lead forms, promo messages, follow and share social media tools – all managed from a single dashboard.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/getsitecontrol/
Get more social media shares which can lead to more website traffic with Social Warfare. Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
Lingotek Translation offers convenient cloud-based localization and translation for WordPress by simplifying the process of creating and maintaining your multilingual website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/lingotek-translation/
OptinMonster helps you grow your email list and get more subscribers with popups and other types of high converting optin forms.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/optinmonster/
Pretty Links enables you to shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service). In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Links tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os, and host.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-link/
WordLift helps you organize posts and pages adding facts, links, and media to build beautifully structured websites, for both humans and search engines. WordLift lets you create, own, and publish your own knowledge graph.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordlift/
Display completely customizable, responsive and search engine crawlable Facebook feeds on your website. Completely match the look and feel of your site with tons of customization options.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-facebook-feed/
Display Instagram photos from any non-private Instagram accounts, either in the same single feed or in multiple different ones.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/
FooGallery is the best image gallery plugin for WordPress. Why? Stunning gallery layouts, responsive, retina-ready, lightning fast, easy to use. Built to be highly configurable and extensible for developers or freelancers.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/
Create beautiful galleries with NextGen Gallery. It’s easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals.
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Build forms within minutes using a simple yet powerful drag-and-drop form creator. For beginners, quickly and easily design complex forms with absolutely no code.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
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/
MonsterInsights allow you to connect your WordPress website with Google Analytics, so you can see how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back. Simply put, we show you the stats that matter.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
Content Views helps you to create beautiful recent posts grid, category posts grid, tag posts grid, author posts grid, and other types of grid for your WordPress site in minutes, without any line of code.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/
Imagify is the most advanced image compression tool, you can now use this power directly in WordPress. After enabling it all your images including thumbnails and retina images from WP Retina x2 will be automatically optimized on the fly when you will add in into WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagify/
Extend your theme functionality with Orbit Fox Companion with various modules like Social Media Share Buttons & Icons, custom menu-icons, one click import page templates, page builder addons, and free stock featured images.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/themeisle-companion/
Timber helps you create fully-customized WordPress themes faster with more sustainable code. With Timber, you write your HTML using the Twig Template Engine separate from your PHP files.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/
Weglot Translate detects and translates all your content in any language and provides a unique dashboard to edit translations or purchase professional translations to ensure the quality of translations.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/weglot/
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with a simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, and so on.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
WPForms allows you to create beautiful contact forms, subscription forms, payment forms, and other types of forms for your site in minutes.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/
Yoast SEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin since 2008. It is the favorite tool of millions of users, ranging from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
WP Retina 2x creates the image files required by the High-DPI devices and displays them to your visitors accordingly.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/
Hummingbird zips through your site and finds new ways to boost page speed with fine-tuned controls over file compression, minification and full-page, browser, and Gravatar caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
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 makes optimizing your site really easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, injects CSS in the page head by default, moves and defers scripts to the footer, and minifies HTML.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
Increase your website’s SEO ranking, number of visitors, and ultimately your sales by optimizing any image or PDF document on your website. ShortPixel is an easy to use, and lightweight.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
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). It will also save you storage space and bandwidth.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
Easy Affiliate Links helps you manage all the affiliate links on your website. Both cloaked and regular non-cloaked links.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-affiliate-links/
WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
If you are running an online WordPress based site and have multiple stores, and want some smart search functionality with respect to location and categories or like then WP Store Locator is for you.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-multi-store-locator/
Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
WooCommerce Wishlist is a simple but powerful tool that can help you to convert your site visitors into loyal customers.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ti-woocommerce-wishlist/
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/
WP Review plugin is an easy yet powerful way to review content easily, without affecting the speed of your site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-review/
This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
Widget Options adds elegant and feature-packed tabbed options below each widget to completely manage and control each widgets visibility and appearance.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/
InfiniteWP allows users to manage an unlimited number of WordPress sites from their own server.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/iwp-client/
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins, and themes with no technical knowledge required.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
Caldera Forms is a free and powerful WordPress plugin that creates responsive forms with a simple drag and drop editor.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
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/
Packed with loads of useful features, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe is ready to go right out of the box. It’s extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
OptinMonster helps you grow your email list and get more subscribers with popups and other types of high converting optin forms.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/optinmonster/
Pretty Links enables you to shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service). In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Links tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os, and host.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-link/
Display Instagram photos from any non-private Instagram accounts, either in the same single feed or in multiple different ones.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/
Create beautiful galleries with NextGen Gallery. It’s easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals.
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Build forms within minutes using a simple yet powerful drag-and-drop form creator. For beginners, quickly and easily design complex forms with absolutely no code.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
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/
Imagify is the most advanced image compression tool, you can now use this power directly in WordPress. After enabling it all your images including thumbnails and retina images from WP Retina x2 will be automatically optimized on the fly when you will add in into WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagify/
Timber helps you create fully-customized WordPress themes faster with more sustainable code. With Timber, you write your HTML using the Twig Template Engine separate from your PHP files.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with a simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, and so on.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
Yoast SEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin since 2008. It is the favorite tool of millions of users, ranging from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Hummingbird zips through your site and finds new ways to boost page speed with fine-tuned controls over file compression, minification and full-page, browser, and Gravatar caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
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/
Increase your website’s SEO ranking, number of visitors, and ultimately your sales by optimizing any image or PDF document on your website. ShortPixel is an easy to use, and lightweight.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
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/
This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins, and themes with no technical knowledge required.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
Packed with loads of useful features, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe is ready to go right out of the box. It’s extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
Display Instagram photos from any non-private Instagram accounts, either in the same single feed or in multiple different ones.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/
Build forms within minutes using a simple yet powerful drag-and-drop form creator. For beginners, quickly and easily design complex forms with absolutely no code.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
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/
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with a simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, and so on.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
Hummingbird zips through your site and finds new ways to boost page speed with fine-tuned controls over file compression, minification and full-page, browser, and Gravatar caching.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
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/
Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
Build forms within minutes using a simple yet powerful drag-and-drop form creator. For beginners, quickly and easily design complex forms with absolutely no code.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
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/
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/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
This plugin allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/
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/
Restrict Content is a simple membership plugin that enables you to put your content behind a wall so only logged-in users can access it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/
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/