Wouldn’t it be nice if my website could also do this? A WordPress theme that offers unlimited flexibility might be able to accommodate all of your wishes. Or it may not. In the latter case, you either have to accept the fact that your need will go unfulfilled, use code to resolve the problem, or seek assistance from a developer.

Another solution, and a very practical one, is to look for a WordPress plugin that could do the task. Plugins bring a host of helpful features to the table and there are plenty of them out there. Too many perhaps, which is why you might consider confining your search to a small number of plugins that are tops in their class.

Some plugins can be genuine game changers in terms of how they impact the building of a website or the attributes of the finished product. That might be exactly what you had in mind.

1.    Brizy Website Builder: User Friendly Editing and Customizing Plugin

In summary: Thanks to the Brizy Builder’s UI options display, you will find it easy to remain focused on the task at hand.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Brizy Builder’s most popular usages.

Not long after you first start working with Brizy builder for your WordPress site, three standout qualities quickly make themselves known:

  1. The user-friendliness of Brizy’s intuitive drag-and-drop editor becomes apparent.
  2. Editing directly on the page is incredibly easy because Brizy Builder’s UI displays only those options that are part of the action.
  3. Customizing website content for mobile devices is never a problem.

Five Brizy Builder features that can make your website building adventures fun and easy:

  • 500+ Pre-Made Blocks: The Pearl Dent pre-made block may be best-suited for the dental profession but it can easily be customized to fit any other services-oriented business (or whatever you have in mind).
  • 4000+ easily searchable Icons that you will find in both glyph and outline styles.
  • The Switching to Mobile View features makes it easy for you to customize layouts for small screens.
  • The Smart Text Editing feature enables you to edit text directly on the page and change fonts, colors, and alignments as needed.
  • You can arrange columns, rows, and content effortlessly by using drag and drop.

Rating (average): 4.5/5 (G2), 4.6/5 (Capterra), 4.2/5 (Trustpilot)

Self-support materials: Academy, 101 videos, YouTube videos, Support manual

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2.    Amelia:  Automates Individual and Packaged Appointments and Event Bookings

In summary: Amelia’s ability to totally automate an appointment or event booking operation has proven to be a game changer.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Amelia’s most popular usages.

As a user you’ll find that Amelia’s UI is easy to work with. Learning to navigate the system, establishing your schedules, and managing appointments requires minimal effort on your part. This WordPress plugin’s ability to streamline and automate an appointment or event booking operation has made it a game changer.

“Packages”, Amelia’s best feature, makes it even more so. This feature bundles related services into cohesive packages. In doing so it –

  • simplifies the booking process for everyone involved and maximizes revenue opportunities for businesses.
  • enables services-oriented businesses such as salons, fitness centers, and healthcare providers to create their own packages, packages that are tailored to meet the needs and preferences of their clientele.

Web designers will find that Amelia can easily be adapted to most business models by allowing their clients to tailor the software to meet their particular needs. The Healthy Life Video template for example could easily be customized to meet the needs of almost any business.

Rating (average): Trustpilot 4.7/5, Capterra 4.9/5, GetApp 4.9/5, WordPress 4.6/5

User experience: “I am using Amelia on 3 client websites and I’m really happy with the functionality given by this plugin. For booking appointments and events, with employee and client dashboards it’s perfect.”

Self-support materials: Support manual, YouTube videos

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3.    wpDataTables: Intuitive Data Management and Visualization WordPress Plugin

In summary: wpDataTables users can quickly and effectively process large datasets to create responsive, informative, and editable charts and tables.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of wpDataTables’ most popular usages.

wpDataTables makes data management and visualization tasks quick and easy. This has made it a game changer for those cases where voluminous or complex data is involved. This plugin allows users to efficiently handle large datasets to generate responsive, informative, and editable charts and tables by –

  • accessing and pulling data from one or more sources.
  • configuring and customizing the table/chart; possibly with the aid of a template like the Premier League Table. wpDataTables offers instructions on how to construct such a table. Those same instructions could prove helpful for customizing any table.
  • using Visual Composer to publish the table/chart.

wpDataTables’ new Multiple Database Connections capability sets it even farther ahead of the competition. Multiple Data Connections allow users to directly connect to multiple databases within the WordPress environment, eliminating the need to transfer or duplicate data between systems.

By enabling seamless access to multiple databases, wpDataTables empowers users to make data-driven decisions with ease and confidence.

Rating (average): 4.5/5 on WordPress.org

Self-support materials: Support manual, YouTube videos

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4.    Fancy Product Designer: WooCommerce Online Product Designer Plugin

In summary: Fancy Product Designer does not place limitations on how to customize products.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Fancy Product Designer’s most popular usages.

One of the great things about Fancy Product Designer is that it can be applied to almost any type of product or part of a product, and there are no limits as to how you can use it when customizing the product.

A characteristic of many plugins is they make it faster and easier to perform a certain task and do it well, and Fancy Product Designer is one of those plugins. If a product is at all customizable, Fancy Product Designer can manage it. Fancy Product Designer users have the ability to:

  • Upload images in multiple formats: JPEG, PNG,SVG & PDF, and upload both text and images from any device and from social media.
  • Design and customize with an intuitive interface that combines essential features into a single solution.
  • Use the advanced color picker tool to select any shade or choose from a curated palette for each layer.
  • Utilize AI techniques for image background removal.
  • Add depth and flair to your design by enhancing text with various styles, strokes, and shadows.
  • Present multiple views of a product.

In addition, the Product Designer’s interface can be customized to perfectly match your website, products, and brand.

New templates are released monthly.

Self-support materials: YouTube videos, Support manual

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5.    LayerSlider: Easily Design Animated Web Content

In summary: LayerSlider’s all-in-one solution helps you make lasting impressions on your website visitors.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of LayerSlider’s most popular usages.

LayerSlider can perform its magic on any website, regardless of the website’s content. Much more than just a slider-building plugin, LayerSlider is the ultimate creative tool for WordPress with features that web designers, developers, and businesses can use to design sleek sliders, captivating slideshows, interactive popups, animated web content and anything in between because of its –

  • versatile templates, like the Ride With Us hero scene, that invites visitors to join in and become a part of an adventure.
  • scroll effects, jaw-dropping animations, hover effects, and other attention-getters.
  • a Project Editor that places every tool and function you need precisely where you would expect to find them.
  • add-ons including countdowns and other special elements that expand LayerSlider’s ability to satisfy a wide range of diverse project needs.
  • Integration with third-party content, offering thousands of fonts & icons, and millions of stock photos & videos.

User experience: “I was looking for a powerful slider plugin, and LayerSlider exceeded all my expectations. Super flexible!”

Self-support materials: Product Manual, Ticket System, and Guided Tour in the Project Editor

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6.    Slider Revolution: WordPress Plugin for Pro Level Visual Effects

In summary: Slider Revolution makes creating professional-level visuals easy for anyone.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Slider Revolution’s most popular usages.

It can be difficult to stay on the edge of web design. Slider Revolution is built just for this situation. New, ultra-modern and super-cool templates are released each month that users can work with to create sliders, one-page websites, carousels, and more.

This is a boon for the average website builder as well, who may have little idea as to what the latest trends are or how to keep up with them. Any web designer or developer can use templates like the Starry Night Parallax Zoom Effect example to build fast, responsive, and beautiful websites – noting that:

  • Design or coding skills are not needed to customize a template.
  • With Slider Revolution templates, much of the work has already been done.
  • Slider Revolution templates are optimized for speed and responsiveness.

Your website designs need to stand out, not blend in with the crowd. Revolution Slider provides the innovative solution you need to achieve that.

Self-support materials: Support manual, YouTube videos

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7.    Map SVG: the Most Customizable Mapping Plugin

In summary: Map SVG is ideal for any project because it’s about more than maps alone.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Map SVG’s most popular usages.

The MapSVG plugin is far and away the most customizable of any mapping plugin. This is because it features an embedded, highly customizable database that seamlessly integrates with various types of maps.

Furthermore, Map SVG provides users with customizable templates that can be used in conjunction with the embedded database to create information windows of any desired complexity. These maps can be treated as websites within a website because of the information richness they can exhibit.

There are many uses for Map SVG, including:

  • Data visualization, which involves multicolored maps that use different colors to represent different values. These types of maps are often created from large datasets.
  • Locations of sales representatives on a map supplemented with information pertaining to each representative that can also be displayed.
  • Showcase store locations for multi-store businesses and land plots for real estate companies, complete with supplemental information.

A popular Map SVG feature among its users is its AI-assisted live chat. This user support feature, an integral part of the plugin, has read all the Map SVG documents and can answer basic questions.

User experience: “Great plugin, extremely customizable, feature packed and most of all super responsive and professional support.”

Self-support materials: Support manual, YouTube videos, and a support chat with AI

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8.    IvyForms: Drag and Drop WordPress Forms Builder

In summary:  The IvyForms WordPress Form Builder Plugin has the most advanced features to help you to create stunning custom forms.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of IvyForms’ most popular usages.

As WordPress form building tools go, IvyForms has a lot going for it, including a modern interface, pre-built form templates, drag and drop customizing, and powerful assimilations and reporting. Together, they enable you to:

  • Customize the look of any form you create with just a few clicks.
  • Create Contact Forms in mere seconds. With IvyForms there is no need to  worry about code.
  • Take advantage of a pre-built template to kickstart your project and save time finishing it.
  • Leverage tools like honeypot, reCAPTCHA, and more to effectively prevent spam submissions.
  • Easily integrate the forms you create into contact pages, mailing lists,  and more with just a click.
  • Reach out to people with email campaigns.
  • Create forms to capture valuable contact information from your visitors and increase the number of qualified leads?

With IvyForms all the fields that you may need are readily available, everything from file uploads to multi-page forms. Forms you create will be 100% responsive on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices.

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9.    SSL Insecure Content Fixer: WordPress Plugin for Securing Content

In summary: The SSL Insecure Content Fixer solves most insecure content warnings with minimal effort.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of SSL Insecure Content Fixer’s most popular usages.

When installed, the SSL Insecure Content Fixer plugin’s default settings are activated to clean up a website’s HTTPS insecure content and mixed content warnings and basic website fixes are automatically performed using the Simple fix level.

Often, there is no more to be done. When that is not the case the SSL Insecure Content Fixer plugin can be set to operate at 4 additional content fixing levels:

  1. Content Fix Level: This level does everything the Simple fix level does plus it cleans up iframes and images and embeds (music, videos) in page content and text widgets.
  2. Widgets Fix level: This level does everything the Content fix level does except it does not restrict its widget fixes to Text widgets.
  3. Capture Fix level: This level picks up an entire page where it fixes scripts, images, iframes, and stylesheets and embeds (music, videos) in the page.
  4. The Capture All Fix level” This level that does everything the preceding fix level does and in addition captures AJAX requests.

Cautionary note: The Capture Fix level and Capture All Fix level have both been known to have an impact on website performance. The Capture All Fix level in particular should only be operated as a last resort.

Rating (average): 4.85/5 on WordPress.org

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10. Essential Grid: Premier WordPress Gallery Plugin

In summary: With Essential Grid, you can create any gallery design you envision without writing a single line of code.


Click on the video for a firsthand look of one of Essential Grid’s most popular usages.

The Essential Grid WordPress gallery plugin can save you a ton of time while ensuring that you will be able to attractively organize your content streams. You can put it to good use whenever a website exhibits a need for a sortable, filterable, or searchable grid listing of items. In a nutshell, this gallery plugin can be a game-changer for you.

Its selection of 50+ fully customizable grid skins is Essential Grid’s top feature. They will help you get what should be a highly successful project quickly underway. In the unlikely event you don’t find what you are looking for among these 50+ skins, you can easily build your with the Visual Editor.

The Team Grid for WordPress example is minimal and functional in design yet ideal for showcasing a team.

Essential Grid gives you –

  • a choice of even, masonry, and cobble layouts.
  • the ability to source and upload content from Social Media sites.
  • an attractive gallery that will display perfectly on all devices,

Rating (average): 4.8/5 on Trustpilot

Self-support materials: YouTube videos, Support manual

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The chances are good that one or more of the WordPress plugins in the above listing will be capable of solving whatever issue you may be bringing to the table, if that issue requires:

  • A simplification of complex tasks.
  • Improving the performance characteristics of a website or theme.
  • Assistance in making a website future-ready.
  • A requirement for enhanced flexibility or specialized functionality.
  • A reliance on regular updates and attentive developer support.

If you need to do further searching, the knowledge you’ve gained here will likely make it easier to find a solution to your problem.

Author

Bogdan Sandu is the principal designer and editor of this website. He specializes in web and graphic design, focusing on creating user-friendly websites, innovative UI kits, and unique fonts.Many of his resources are available on various design marketplaces. Over the years, he's worked with a range of clients and contributed to design publications like Designmodo, WebDesignerDepot, and Speckyboy among others.