accessiBe Lists the Top 4 Website Plugins for Businesses

Plugins for WordPress come in all flavors, and some are more useful than others. It’s also important to be aware that some plugin developers abandon them, so they’re not necessarily compatible or secure with future releases of WordPress. Therefore, it’s a good idea to only use plugins from either long-standing developers or companies that have a vested interest in maintaining them for their users. 

Here are the top 4 business-oriented website plugins. 

1. accessiBe for Improving Accessibility to Websites

Accessibility is critically important for people with limited vision, mobility concerns, or other types of disabilities. Being able to use a screen reader that announces the content on the website page for people with limited vision is essential for many web users. Including alt tags in the code to describe what images depict, ensuring that web entry forms can be filled in, and that navigation is usable all fall under ‘accessibility.’ 

Websites can use the accessiBe plugin to validate whether their website is currently 100% accessible to all users. Major sites like Neil Patel now use this plugin to provide wider access for their visitors. So, it’s well tested and worth giving a shot because there may be things that you (or your developers) have missed. 

2. HubSpot for Keeping Everything in Check

HubSpot is one of the standouts in the CRM market. Its WordPress plugin integrates with over 300 other products to make this highly adaptable for website owners. Combining features for Customer Services, Marketing, and Sales in a single platform, site owners can access their analytics, use live chatbots, manage their contact list, and perform a host of other functions directly from their CRM. 

While HubSpot’s solution is more complex due to the wealth of features and possible integration into hundreds of other internet-enabled products, it’s ideal for growing SMEs that wish to tie everything together. Avoiding the glut of multiple software solutions as growth accelerates and more software is required is a powerful motivator to use this plugin. 

3. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is close to the default e-commerce plugin for WordPress. When you want to add products to a catalog, or establish pricing, availability, and delivery options, this plugin is designed to do just that. There are hundreds of integrations for WooCommerce to make it compatible with other plugins and solutions. Indeed, many commercial WordPress plugins note their compatibility with WooCommerce, to confirm there will be no conflicts when using them together, such is the popularity and widespread use of it. 

4. Jetpack

Jetpack is provided by Automattic, the creator of the WordPress CMS itself. It offers many services. There is both a free and premium version depending on what functions are required. Most businesses will wish to use the premium one. Jetpack can help to improve loading times for graphics, provides sitemaps, and initiates plugin updates (a feature that WordPress now includes by default). 

Many business plugins are available to enhance what WordPress can do. However, plugins may slow the site performance down. Therefore, it’s sensible to reduce the ones installed to only those that provide a clear benefit to the site owner and/or the visitors to the site. Doing so makes life simpler too.