100 WordPress Plugin Categories for Problem Solving

Posted on by Mukalele Rogers

As we edge closer to the Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024, slated for July 5th at the National ICT Innovation Hub in Nakawa, Kampala, the excitement among students across Uganda is palpable. With the theme “Problem Solving with WordPress,” high school and university students are presented with a unique challenge: to conceptualize, design, and present website projects that address real-world challenges facing their local societies.

In the realm of digital innovation, WordPress stands as a beacon of accessibility and flexibility. At its core, this open-source platform extends beyond being merely a tool for creating websites; it’s a canvas for creativity, a foundation for digital expression, and a launchpad for problem-solving ventures. This transformative potential is significantly amplified by one of WordPress’s most powerful features: plugins.

The Essence of Plugins in WordPress

Imagine plugins as additional software apps you can install into your WordPress site, each adding new functions and features that transform a basic website into a powerful, interactive digital platform. Plugins empower you with the capabilities to bring your innovative ideas to life.

Leveraging Plugins for Innovation and Problem Solving

In the context of the Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024, under the theme “Problem Solving with WordPress,” plugins are your allies in innovation. They allow students like you to transform ideas into digital realities, tackling real-world problems with inventive online solutions.

The diversity of plugin categories available for WordPress is astonishing, catering for nearly any function you can envision for your website project. From e-learning systems, and security enhancements to specialized solutions like donation platforms, local payment gateways, and real estate databases, the possibilities are limitless. This vast array of plugins means that no matter the challenge you aim to address in your community, there’s likely a plugin—or a combination thereof—that can help you construct a tailored, effective solution.

Empowering Ugandan Students to Innovate

The Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024 is more than just a contest; it’s a launchpad for innovation, providing students with a platform to harness the power of WordPress and its plugins to create meaningful, impactful solutions. By leveraging the extensive range of plugins, students have the unique opportunity to develop projects that can make a real difference—addressing local challenges in innovative, sustainable ways.

To all participants, we encourage you to dive deep into the wealth of plugins available at wordpress.org/plugins. Explore the categories of plugins—each offering a unique set of tools designed to empower your problem-solving capabilities. Whether your project aims to solve issues related to education, healthcare, entertainment, commerce, or community building, remember that there’s a plugin—or several—to help bring your vision to life.

Look at some sample 100 categories of plugins you can explore and utilize for your projects, listed below:

1. Social Media Integration

  • Jetpack: Automatic social media posting and content optimization.
  • Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed: Display Instagram feeds on your website.
  • Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons: Add social sharing buttons.
  • Custom Facebook Feed: Integrate Facebook feeds seamlessly.
  • Monarch Plugin: Design and place social sharing buttons.

2. Contact Forms

  • Contact Form 7: Simple and flexible contact form management.
  • WPForms: Drag-and-drop form builder.
  • Ninja Forms: A form creation framework for developers.
  • Gravity Forms: For advanced form building and integration.
  • Formidable Forms: Solution for forms and application data management.

3. Backup and Migration

  • UpdraftPlus: Backup and restore your website easily.
  • BackupBuddy: Schedule backups and store them off-site.
  • Duplicator: Migrate or clone WordPress sites.
  • All-in-One WP Migration: Export your WordPress site including the database.
  • VaultPress (Jetpack Backup): Automated backups and security scanning.

4. SEO Optimization

  • Yoast SEO: Comprehensive SEO management.
  • All in One SEO Pack: Automates SEO improvements.
  • Rank Math: A fast-growing user-friendly SEO plugin.
  • SEOPress: A powerful plugin to optimize your SEO.
  • The SEO Framework: An automated SEO plugin.

5. Page Builders

  • Elementor: Drag-and-drop page builder.
  • Beaver Builder: Flexible drag and drop page building.
  • Divi Builder: Visual editing and responsive design.
  • Visual Composer: Website builder for WordPress.
  • Thrive Architect: Conversion-focused website building.

6. E-Commerce Solutions

  • WooCommerce: Comprehensive e-commerce solution.
  • Easy Digital Downloads: For selling digital goods.
  • BigCommerce: Integrates WordPress with the BigCommerce platform.
  • Shopify Buy Button: Embed Shopify products and checkout.
  • WP EasyCart: Shopping cart and eCommerce store.

7. Membership and Subscriptions

  • MemberPress: Membership site builder.
  • Paid Memberships Pro: Unlimited subscription levels.
  • Restrict Content Pro: Content protection for membership sites.
  • WooCommerce Memberships: Integrates memberships with WooCommerce.
  • S2Member: Membership management system.

8. Learning Management Systems (LMS)

  • LearnDash: Feature-rich LMS plugin.
  • LifterLMS: Create and sell courses online.
  • Sensei LMS: Seamless integration with WooCommerce.
  • WP Courseware: Drag-and-drop course creation.
  • Tutor LMS: A complete, feature-packed LMS plugin.

9. Security Plugins

  • Wordfence Security: Firewall and malware scan.
  • iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security): Comprehensive WordPress security.
  • Sucuri Security: Security integrity monitoring and malware scanning.
  • All In One WP Security & Firewall: User-friendly security plugin.
  • SecuPress: Security scanning and protection.

10. SMS Notifications and Marketing

  • Twilio SMS Notifications: Send SMS updates and notifications via Twilio.
  • WP SMS: Send SMS messages to subscribers and integrate with many global SMS gateways.
  • YITH WooCommerce SMS Notifications: Notify customers about order status via SMS.
  • SMS Gateway Hub: Connect your WordPress site with SMS Gateway Hub for bulk SMS marketing.
  • Joy Of Text Lite: SMS messaging for groups and individuals, supporting various gateways.

11. Email Marketing and Newsletters

  • Mailchimp for WordPress: Integrate Mailchimp with your WordPress site.
  • Newsletter: Create, send, and track newsletters.
  • SendinBlue Subscribe Form and WP SMTP: Email marketing and SMTP.
  • Constant Contact for WordPress: Grow your audience with email campaigns.
  • MailPoet: Manage newsletters, automated emails, and post notifications.

12. Analytics and Data Tracking

  • MonsterInsights: Connect your website with Google Analytics.
  • Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics: Display Google Analytics data in WordPress.
  • Matomo Analytics: Ethical stats without outsourcing to Google.
  • WP Statistics: Comprehensive site statistics and analytics.
  • Slimstat Analytics: Real-time analytics in your WordPress dashboard.

13. SEO Local Business

  • Local SEO for WordPress by Yoast: Optimize for local SEO.
  • WP Google Maps: Create custom Google maps with high-quality markers.
  • Business Profile: Display your business’s contact details professionally.
  • Schema Pro: Add schema markup for better SEO.
  • Local SEO and Business Listings (Premium SEO Pack): Improve local SEO visibility.

14. Forum and Discussion Boards

  • bbPress: Forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
  • BuddyPress: Community and social network site builder.
  • wpForo Forum: Full-fledged forum solution.
  • Simple:Press: Feature-rich forum plugin.
  • Asgaros Forum: Lightweight forum plugin for simple forums.

15. Event Management

  • The Events Calendar: Create and manage events with ease.
  • Events Manager: Full-featured event registration plugin.
  • Event Organiser: Event management with complex features.
  • Modern Events Calendar: Responsive event calendar and booking.
  • WP Event Manager: Lightweight, scalable, and full-featured event management.

16. Affiliate Marketing

  • AffiliateWP: Easy-to-use, full-featured affiliate marketing.
  • ThirstyAffiliates: Affiliate link management & cloaking.
  • Pretty Links: Affiliate link management and URL shortening.
  • WP Affiliate Manager: Affiliate management for your products and services.
  • Ultimate Affiliate Pro: Comprehensive affiliate management system.

17. African Payment Gateways

  • Paystack WooCommerce Payment Gateway: Seamless integration with Paystack for payments in Nigeria and Ghana.
  • Flutterwave for WooCommerce: Offers broad payment options across Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
  • DPO PayGate for WooCommerce: Provides a payment solution for Southern Africa.
  • Peach Payments for WooCommerce: Supports payments in South Africa, Kenya, and Mauritius.
  • VoguePay WooCommerce Payment Gateway: A global payment platform with a strong presence in Nigeria.

18. Database Management

  • WP-Optimize: Clean, compress, and optimize your database.
  • WP-DBManager: Database management directly from the WordPress backend.
  • WP-Sweep: Cleans up unused, orphaned, and duplicated data in your database.
  • WP Database Backup: Create and restore database backups.
  • Participants Database: Customizable database for participants, members, or anything similar.

19. Translation and Multilingual

  • WPML: Create multilingual websites.
  • Polylang: Manage multilingual posts in WordPress.
  • TranslatePress: Translate your website directly from the front-end.
  • Loco Translate: In-browser editing of WordPress translation files.
  • Weglot Translate: Translate your website into multiple languages.

20. Custom Fields and Post Types

  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF): Customize WordPress with powerful fields.
  • Toolset Types: Custom post types, fields, and taxonomy.
  • Custom Post Type UI: Manage custom post types and taxonomies.
  • Pods: Create and manage custom content types and fields.
  • Meta Box: Create custom fields and meta boxes.

21. Image Optimization

  • Smush: Compress, optimize, and lazy load images.
  • EWWW Image Optimizer: Automatically optimizes images.
  • ShortPixel Image Optimizer: Compress images to improve performance.
  • Imagify: Optimize images to speed up your website.
  • Optimole: Image optimization and lazy loading.

22. SEO Sitemaps

  • Google XML Sitemaps: Generate a special XML sitemap to help search engines better index your blog.
  • Yoast SEO: Creates sitemaps and manages SEO overall.
  • All in One SEO Pack: Automatically generates XML sitemaps.
  • SEOPress: Create sitemaps for Google and Bing.
  • Rank Math: Offers advanced sitemap options.

23. Social Proof and Testimonials

  • WP Customer Reviews: Collect customer reviews for social proof.
  • Testimonial Widget: Display testimonials and reviews.
  • Strong Testimonials: A full-featured testimonials plugin.
  • Testimonials Slider: Showcase testimonials and reviews slider.
  • Easy Testimonials: Add testimonials to sidebar widgets or pages.

24. Landing Pages

  • Elementor: Design landing pages with a visual editor.
  • Beaver Builder: Drag-and-drop landing page builder.
  • Leadpages Connector: Integrate Leadpages with WordPress.
  • Landingi Landing Pages: Create and publish landing pages.
  • Instapage WordPress Plugin: Connect WordPress with your Instapage account.

25. Popup and Lead Generation

  • Popup Maker: Create and manage powerful popups.
  • OptinMonster: Popup and lead generation plugin.
  • Bloom: Email opt-in and lead generation plugin.
  • Thrive Leads: Build your mailing list faster.
  • WP Subscribe: Simple and effective subscription popup plugin.

26. Calendar and Booking

  • Booking Calendar: Booking system for WordPress.
  • WP Simple Booking Calendar: Display availability and book dates.
  • BirchPress: Appointment booking and online scheduling.
  • Bookly: Automated online booking & scheduling.
  • Amelia: Enterprise-level appointment booking.

27. Maps and Directions

  • WP Google Maps: Customizable Google Maps plugin.
  • Maps Marker Pro: Pin, organize, and share your favorite spots & tracks.
  • MapPress Maps for WordPress: Easy map insertion with directions.
  • Leaflet Map: Leverages the Leaflet JS library for map displays.
  • WP Store Locator: An easy to use location management system.

28. FAQ and Knowledge Base

  • WP FAQ: Easily create and manage FAQs.
  • Heroic FAQs: Drag-and-drop FAQ management.
  • Accordion FAQ: Create FAQ sections with accordion style.
  • Ultimate FAQ: Comprehensive FAQ management.
  • Knowledge Base for Documentation and FAQs: Set up a knowledge base or documentation site.

29. Real Estate

  • WP Real Estate: Manage properties and listings.
  • Easy Property Listings: Powerful real estate management plugin.
  • Real Estate Pro: Paid property listing and management.
  • Essential Real Estate: Comprehensive real estate solution.
  • WPL Real Estate: Manage property listings, RETS/IDX.

30. Custom CSS and JavaScript

  • Simple Custom CSS and JS: Add custom CSS or JavaScript to your site.
  • Custom CSS & JS: Customize website directly with CSS/JS.
  • WP Add Custom CSS: Add custom CSS to the whole website or specific posts.
  • Code Snippets: Add custom PHP code snippets.
  • Simple Custom CSS: An easy way to add custom CSS.

31. GDPR Compliance

  • Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA: Inform users about cookies.
  • WP GDPR Compliance: Assists with GDPR compliance.
  • Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent: Manage cookie consent and compliance.
  • GDPR Cookie Consent Banner: GDPR cookie notice plugin.
  • GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation compliance toolkit.

32. Content Curation and Aggregation

  • Feedzy RSS Feeds: Aggregate RSS feeds via shortcode.
  • WP RSS Aggregator: Import and display content from RSS feeds.
  • Curated RSS Aggregator: A comprehensive aggregator for curating content.
  • Content Views: Display WordPress content in grid and more layouts.
  • WP Content Crawler: Get content from almost any site, automatically.

33. Polls and Surveys

  • WP-Polls: Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress site.
  • YOP Poll: Conduct polls and surveys within your posts/pages.
  • Poll, Survey, Form & Quiz Maker by OpinionStage: Create and manage polls and quizzes.
  • Formidable Forms: Not just forms, but also surveys and polls.
  • Gravity Forms: Advanced forms for surveys and polls.

34. Donations and Fundraising

  • GiveWP: Donation and fundraising platform.
  • Charitable: Donation and fundraising plugin.
  • WP Crowdfunding: A crowdfunding system.
  • Donorbox: Free donation plugin with recurring donations.
  • Seamless Donations: Easy donations with PayPal integration.

35. Video and Multimedia Management

  • Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator: Makes video embedding easy.
  • Envira Gallery: Responsive WordPress gallery with video support.
  • WP Video Lightbox: Display videos in a lightbox overlay.
  • FV Flowplayer Video Player: Embed FLV or MP4 videos.
  • YouTube Embed Plus: Enhance your YouTube video embedding.

36. Widgets and Sidebars

  • Widget Options: Control and manage your widgets’ visibility.
  • Custom Sidebars: Dynamic sidebar management.
  • Content Aware Sidebars: Create sidebars for specific content.
  • WP Widget in Navigation: Add widgets to your navigation menu.
  • Black Studio TinyMCE Widget: Add rich text widgets to your sidebars.

37. Table and Chart Creation

  • TablePress: Embed tables into posts, pages, or text widgets.
  • wpDataTables: Create and manage tables and charts.
  • Visualizer: A simple, yet powerful tool for creating charts.
  • Data Tables Generator by Supsystic: Create responsive tables and charts.
  • League Table: Create sortable and responsive tables.

38. Discussion and Comment Management

  • Disqus Comment System: Replace WordPress comments with Disqus.
  • wpDiscuz: Super fast and responsive comment system.
  • CommentLuv: Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment.
  • Akismet: Protects your comments and contact form from spam.
  • Thrive Comments: Convert comments into a community.

39. Sliders and Carousels

  • Slider Revolution: Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin.
  • LayerSlider: Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin.
  • Soliloquy: Drag & Drop Responsive WordPress Slider.
  • Smart Slider 3: Responsive slider solution.
  • MetaSlider: Easy to use slider plugin.

40. Portfolio Management

  • Portfolio Post Type: Enables a portfolio post type.
  • Visual Portfolio: Create beautiful portfolios and galleries.
  • GridKit Portfolio Gallery: Portfolio, gallery, and product catalog.
  • Portfolio Gallery: Stunning portfolio galleries.
  • Essential Grid: Portfolio display plugin.

41. User Registration and User Profile

  • Profile Builder: Front-end user registration and profile management.
  • Ultimate Member: User profile and membership plugin.
  • User Registration: A drag and drop user registration form builder.
  • WP User Frontend: Post submissions and user profile builder.
  • UsersWP: Lightweight user profile and registration plugin.

42. Directory and Listing

  • Business Directory Plugin: Create a local or global directory.
  • GeoDirectory: Turn any WordPress theme into a global business directory.
  • Connections Business Directory: A simple to use directory plugin.
  • Sabai Directory: A directory plugin for creating community-driven sites.
  • Directorist: Versatile and feature-rich business directory plugin.

43. Project Management and Collaboration

  • WP Project Manager: A project management and task management tool.
  • UpStream: Project management plugin to manage any type of project.
  • Panorama: Project management and communication tool.
  • Kanban Boards for WordPress: Use Kanban boards for project management.
  • Task Manager: A simple and flexible task management plugin.

44. Invoicing and Billing

  • WP-Invoice: Send itemized invoices to clients.
  • Sliced Invoices: WordPress invoice plugin that’s easy and powerful.
  • Sprout Invoices: Advanced invoicing and estimates management.
  • WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips: Automatic invoicing for WooCommerce.
  • WP Simple Pay: Easily create payment forms, subscription forms, and invoices.

45. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Images

  • SEO Optimized Images: Automatically update images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes.
  • EWWW Image Optimizer: Optimize your images for SEO and speed.
  • Smush: Compress, optimize, and lazy load images for SEO.
  • ShortPixel Image Optimizer: Improve website performance and SEO by optimizing images.
  • Imagify: Optimize images to reduce their file size without losing quality.

46. RSS Feed Enhancement

  • Feedzy RSS Feeds: Import content from RSS feeds.
  • WP RSS Aggregator: A comprehensive RSS feed importer.
  • RSS Importer: Import posts from an RSS feed.
  • Category Specific RSS feed Subscription: Add RSS feeds for categories.
  • RSS Feed Widget: Display RSS feeds in your widget areas.

47. Social Media Auto Posting

  • Revive Old Posts: Auto-posting your old content to social media.
  • Social Auto Poster: Automatically post content to various social media platforms.
  • FS Poster: Auto-publish posts to many social networks.
  • Blog2Social: Customize and schedule posts for social media.
  • AccessPress Social Auto Post: Auto-post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tumblr.

48. Multi-language and Translation Management

  • WPML: Make your site multilingual.
  • Polylang: Add multilingual content to your site.
  • TranslatePress: Translate your website directly from the front-end.
  • Loco Translate: Manage translations within WordPress.
  • Multilanguage by BestWebSoft: Easily translate your WordPress site into multiple languages.

49. Custom Fonts

  • Use Any Font: Embed any custom font in your website.
  • Easy Google Fonts: Integrate Google Fonts with your WordPress site.
  • Font Awesome: Use Font Awesome icons.
  • WP Google Fonts: Add Google Fonts to your theme.
  • Custom Fonts: Upload custom fonts and assign them easily.

50. Content Duplicator and Cloner

  • Duplicate Post: Clone posts and pages.
  • Post Duplicator: Create a duplicate post, page, or custom post type.
  • Duplicate Page: Duplicate your pages, posts, and custom post types.
  • Yoast Duplicate Post: Copy posts, pages, and custom posts easily.
  • WP Staging: Clone your website for staging or development purposes.

51. Custom Login and Registration Pages

  • Theme My Login: Customize your login, registration, and forgot password pages.
  • Custom Login Page Customizer: Customize the login page using the customizer.
  • LoginPress: Design beautiful and modern login page styles.
  • Admin Custom Login: Customize your admin login page.
  • WP Admin White Label Login: Customize the WordPress login page to match your branding.

52. Advertising and Ad Management

  • Ad Inserter: Insert ads into post content.
  • Advanced Ads: Manage ads and display conditions.
  • WP-Insert: Manage your ads and other code snippets.
  • Ads by WPQUADS: Quick AdSense reloaded; manage your AdSense and other ads.
  • AdRotate: Manage all your advert campaigns.

53. Content Scheduling

  • Editorial Calendar: See all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog.
  • Schedule Posts Calendar: Easily schedule posts using a calendar.
  • WP Scheduled Posts: Manage your scheduled posts.
  • Content Scheduler: Schedule content updates and expirations.
  • Auto Post Scheduler: Schedule and recycle posts automatically.

54. Database Optimization and Cleaning

  • WP-Optimize: Clean, compress, and optimize your database.
  • WP-Sweep: Clean up unused, orphaned, and duplicated data.
  • WP Clean Up: Optimize your WordPress database by removing unnecessary data.
  • Advanced Database Cleaner: Clean up old and unnecessary data from your database.
  • DBManager: Optimize and backup your database easily.

55. Spam Protection

  • Akismet: Filter out comment and form spam.
  • CleanTalk Spam Protection: Cloud-based anti-spam solutions for WordPress.
  • Anti-spam: Block spam in comments automatically.
  • WPBruiser: A no-captcha, anti-spam plugin.
  • Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk: Comprehensive spam protection.

56. Customer Support and Chat

  • LiveChat: Offer live chat support to your visitors.
  • Tidio Live Chat: Connect with your visitors in real-time.
  • WP Live Chat Support: Free live chat plugin.
  • Zendesk Chat: Add Zendesk’s live chat capabilities.
  • Crisp Live Chat: Live chat with automation capabilities.

57. FAQ Management

  • Ultimate FAQ: Create, organize, and publicize your FAQs.
  • Accordion FAQ: Build FAQ sections with accordion layouts.
  • Easy Accordion: Create beautiful accordion FAQ sections.
  • HTML5 Responsive FAQ: Make a responsive FAQ section.
  • Quick and Easy FAQs: Quickly add FAQs using custom post type.

58. 404 Error Management

  • 404page: Create custom 404 error pages.
  • Redirection: Manage 301 redirections and monitor 404 errors.
  • All 404 Redirect to Homepage: Redirect all 404 errors to the homepage.
  • Smart 404: Helps WordPress find a match for 404 pages.
  • SEO Redirection Plugin: Fix 404 errors by redirecting to similar posts.

59. Real-Time Notifications

  • OneSignal Push Notifications: Send real-time notifications.
  • PushEngage: Browser push notifications.
  • WP Notification Bars: Create custom notification and alert bars.
  • NotificationX: Best FOMO, Social Proof, Sales Popup for WooCommerce, EDD and more.
  • Better Notifications for WordPress: Customizable email notifications.

60. Podcasting

  • Seriously Simple Podcasting: Easy podcasting solution using WordPress.
  • PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry: Comprehensive podcasting plugin.
  • Podlove Podcast Publisher: Designed for podcasting, handling complex needs.
  • Simple Podcast Press: Automate podcast publishing and grow your audience.
  • Castos: Fully integrated podcast hosting and publishing.

61. Cache and Speed Optimization

  • LiteSpeed Cache: Acceleration & advanced caching features.
  • WP Fastest Cache: Simple and effective caching plugin.
  • Autoptimize: Aggregate, minify, and cache scripts and styles.
  • Hummingbird: Speed optimization through caching, minification, and compression.
  • Cache Enabler: Lightweight caching plugin for WordPress.

62. SEO Rich Snippets

  • All In One Schema Rich Snippets: Support for schema.org rich snippets.
  • Rich Snippets WordPress Plugin: Create and manage rich snippets.
  • WP SEO Structured Data Schema: Comprehensive schema management.
  • Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP: Supports a wide range of schema types.
  • Snippet Box: Rich snippets and structured data plugin.

63. Broken Link Checkers

  • Broken Link Checker: Monitor and test all internal & external links.
  • Link Checker: Check links in posts, pages, comments, and custom fields.
  • WP Broken Link Status Checker: Broken link detection utility.
  • WP Link Status Pro: Check and manage HTTP response codes.
  • Link Valet: Automated broken link checker.

64. A/B Testing

  • Nelio AB Testing: Powerful and versatile A/B testing tool.
  • Simple Page Tester: Easy A/B split testing.
  • Thrive Optimize: A/B testing for Thrive Architect pages.
  • Marketing Optimizer for WordPress: A/B testing and conversion optimization.
  • Split Hero: WordPress A/B split testing plugin.

65. Content Protection

  • WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click: Protect your content from being copied.
  • Content Protector: Protect content using access codes.
  • Secure Copy Content Protection: Protect text and images from being copied.
  • WP-CopyProtect: Disable right-click, text selection, and image dragging.
  • My Private Site: Make your WordPress blog private.

66. Affiliate Management

  • Affiliates Manager: Manage, track, and pay your affiliates.
  • YITH WooCommerce Affiliates: Add an affiliate system to WooCommerce.
  • AffiliateWP: A full-featured affiliate marketing solution.
  • Ultimate Affiliate Pro: Advanced affiliate management system.
  • WP Affiliate Platform: Simple affiliate program management.

67. Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

  • WP ERP: A complete business manager with CRM, HRM, and Accounting.
  • UkuuPeople: Simple CRM for WordPress.
  • Zero BS WordPress CRM: Free CRM solution for WordPress.
  • WP-CRM System: Manage your customers, projects, and tasks.
  • Groundhogg: Marketing automation and CRM for WordPress.

68. Social Media Feeds

  • Smash Balloon Social Post Feed: Display your Facebook posts on your website.
  • Custom Twitter Feeds: Customize and display your Twitter feeds.
  • Instagram Feed: Display beautifully clean, customizable Instagram feeds.
  • Feeds for YouTube: Easily display YouTube feeds on your website.
  • Flow-Flow Social Stream: Display social media content in beautiful streams.

69. Logistics and Shipping Solutions

  • WooCommerce Shipment Tracking: Add shipment tracking information to your orders.
  • AfterShip – WooCommerce Tracking: Automate tracking and delivery updates.
  • WooCommerce Advanced Shipping: Highly customizable shipping method plugin.
  • Table Rate Shipping for WooCommerce: Define multiple shipping rates based on location, price, or weight.
  • WP EasyCart Shipping by Weight: Set up shipping rates based on weight, integrating with various couriers.

70. Digital Asset Management (DAM)

  • Folders: Organize site content in folders.
  • FileBird: WordPress media library folders.
  • WP Media Folder: Manage files and folders in WordPress.
  • Enhanced Media Library: A better management for your media items.
  • Media Library Assistant: Advanced management and taxonomy for media files.

71. Email Management and Marketing

  • MailPoet: Create newsletters, automated emails, post notifications, and autoresponders.
  • Newsletter: Email marketing and newsletters made easy.
  • Mailster: Email newsletter plugin for WordPress.
  • SendPress Newsletters: Create and send newsletters.
  • The Newsletter Plugin: Comprehensive email marketing plugin.

72. Real-Time Backups

  • BlogVault: Real-time backup and security for WordPress.
  • UpdraftPlus Premium: Advanced features and real-time backups.
  • Jetpack Backups: Real-time backups and security scanning.
  • VaultPress: Real-time backup and security scanning by Automattic.
  • BackupBuddy Stash Live: Real-time WordPress backup solution.

73. Anti-Spam & Security

  • CleanTalk Spam Protection: Cloud-based antispam protection.
  • WP Cerber Security, Antispam & Malware Scan: Security solution against spam, Trojans, and malware.
  • Titan Anti-spam & Security: Anti-spam, firewall, and malware scanner.
  • SecuPress Free — WordPress Security: Protect your website with automated security.
  • Anti-Spam by CleanTalk: Spam protection for comments, forms, and registrations.

74. Social Login Integration

  • Nextend Social Login: Social login with Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
  • Super Socializer: Social login, sharing, and comments.
  • Social Login WordPress Plugin – AccessPress Social Login: Simplify login using social network profiles.
  • WP Social Login: Allow visitors to comment, login, and register with social networks.
  • MiniOrange Social Login: Social login and social sharing.

75. File and Document Management

  • WP Download Manager: Manage, track, and control file downloads.
  • File Manager: Easy to use WordPress file manager.
  • Groups File Access WordPress Plugin: Offer file downloads for authorized users.
  • WordPress Download Manager Pro: Advanced features for managing downloads.
  • Download Monitor: Track and manage downloadable files.

76. SEO Audit and Monitoring

  • SEOPressor Connect: Advanced SEO analysis and recommendations.
  • Rankie: WordPress rank tracker plugin.
  • SEMRush SEO Writing Assistant: Real-time content analysis.
  • All In One SEO Pack Pro: Advanced SEO features and support.
  • Yoast SEO Premium: In-depth SEO analysis and optimization.

77. Quiz and Survey Builders

  • Quiz And Survey Master: Flexible quizzes and surveys.
  • WP Quiz: Create interactive quizzes.
  • Formidable Forms: Advanced form builder that also handles quizzes and surveys.
  • eForm: Form builder with quiz and survey capabilities.
  • Gravity Forms Quiz Add-On: Extend Gravity Forms to include quiz functionality.

78. Productivity Tools

  • Editorial Calendar: See and manage your posts with a simple calendar.
  • TaskFreak! Free: Project and task management tool.
  • Kanban Boards for WordPress: Personal task or project management.
  • Post Duplicator: Easily duplicate posts, pages, and custom post types.
  • WP Sticky Sidebar: Make your sidebar sticky to increase usability.

79. Image Galleries and Sliders

  • NextGEN Gallery: Comprehensive gallery management.
  • Modula Image Gallery: Customizable image galleries.
  • FooGallery: Responsive image gallery plugin.
  • Slider Revolution: Responsive slider plugin.
  • Soliloquy: Drag and drop slider plugin.

80. Video Management

  • Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator: Facilitate embedding of videos.
  • ARVE Advanced Responsive Video Embedder: Embed videos responsively.
  • FV Flowplayer Video Player: Embed FLV or MP4 videos using HTML5.
  • WP Video Lightbox: Display videos in a lightbox overlay.
  • YourChannel: Display a YouTube channel on your website.

81. Accessibility Enhancements

  • WP Accessibility: Helps improve accessibility features in your WordPress site.
  • One Click Accessibility: Adds accessibility options with a single click.
  • Accessibility Suite by UserWay: Web accessibility solutions.
  • Accessible Poetry: Adds various accessibility options to your site.
  • Able Player for WordPress: Accessible multimedia player for WordPress.

82. Content Import and Export

  • WordPress Importer: Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file.
  • WP All Import: Advanced XML and CSV import capabilities for WordPress.
  • Export any WordPress data to XML/CSV: Export WordPress data easily.
  • WP Ultimate CSV Importer: Import/update posts, pages, custom post types with CSV files.
  • Really Simple CSV Importer: Simpler, faster CSV importer.

83. Booking and Reservations

  • Booking Calendar: Allows guests to make reservations on a calendar.
  • WP Hotel Booking: Booking system tailored for hotels.
  • Booked: Appointment booking for WordPress.
  • Amelia: Enterprise-level appointment booking for WordPress.
  • BirchPress Scheduler: Booking tool for appointments and services.

84. Widgets Management

  • Widget Logic: Control widgets’ visibility with WP’s conditional tags.
  • Content Aware Sidebars: Create and display custom sidebars based on content.
  • Widgets for SiteOrigin: Additional widgets for the SiteOrigin Page Builder.
  • Enhanced Text Widget: An enhanced text widget with more features.
  • Black Studio TinyMCE Widget: Use the WYSIWYG editor for adding content to widgets.

85. Maps and Geolocation

  • Maps Widget for Google Maps: Display a single image static Google map.
  • GeoDirectory: Create a location-based directory.
  • WP Google Maps: Customizable Google Maps.
  • MapPress Maps for WordPress: Easy map insertion.
  • WP Store Locator: A powerful store locator plugin.

86. Multi-Vendor Marketplaces

  • Dokan Multivendor Marketplace: Create a multi-vendor marketplace.
  • WC Vendors Marketplace: Multi-vendor marketplace plugin for WooCommerce.
  • WCFM Marketplace: WooCommerce Frontend Manager for multi-vendor stores.
  • YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor: Turn your store into a multi-vendor marketplace.
  • MarketPress: Create a marketplace with WordPress.

87. Forums and Community Building

  • bbPress: Forum software with a twist, from the creators of WordPress.
  • BuddyPress: Social networking, the WordPress way.
  • PeepSo: Social network plugin for WordPress.
  • WP Symposium Pro: Create your own social network.
  • Asgaros Forum: Lightweight forum plugin for WordPress.

88. Customer Feedback and Reviews

  • WP Customer Reviews: Collect customer reviews for your business, website, or individual products/pages.
  • Site Reviews: Where site visitors can submit reviews with a 1-5 star rating.
  • Review Builder: Create reviews with star ratings, especially for products.
  • WP Product Review Lite: Turn your posts into smart reviews with ratings.
  • YITH WooCommerce Advanced Reviews: Enhance the review section of your WooCommerce product page.

89. Heatmaps and User Behavior

  • Crazy Egg: Integrate Crazy Egg heatmaps and website analytics.
  • Heatmap for WordPress: Real-time heatmap tool, showing where clicks are happening.
  • WP Heatmap: Simple heatmaps to understand user engagement.
  • Hotjar: Connect your WordPress site to Hotjar analytics & feedback.
  • Aurora Heatmap: Visualize clicks, touches, and scrolls without configuration.

90. Push Notifications

  • OneSignal Push Notifications: Send web push notifications.
  • PushAssist: Let your website visitors receive push notifications.
  • PushAlert – Web Push Notifications: Instantly alert your visitors with web push notifications.
  • WonderPush: Web and mobile push notifications.
  • Smart Notification WordPress Plugin: Multi-channel notification system including web push.

91. Version Control and Staging

  • WP Staging: Creates a staging site for testing.
  • VersionPress: Git-based version control for WordPress.
  • Revisr: Manage your WordPress website with Git.
  • WP Time Capsule: Incremental backups and staging.
  • Duplicator Pro: Move, migrate or clone WordPress sites between domains or hosts.

92. SEO Keyword Optimization

  • Yoast SEO: Focus keyword and content analysis tool.
  • Rank Math: Built-in suggestion tool for keywords.
  • SEOPress: Simple, fast, and powerful SEO plugin for keyword optimization.
  • All in One SEO Pack: Supports SEO integration for custom keywords.
  • The SEO Framework: Automatically suggests keywords based on content.

93. Countdown Timers

  • Countdown Timer – Widget Countdown: Add countdown timers to your website.
  • T(-) Countdown: Display a stylized countdown timer.
  • Countdown Builder: Customizable countdown timers for events or offers.
  • Finale WooCommerce Sales Countdown Timer & Discount Plugin: Create urgency and scarcity with countdown timers for sales.
  • Evergreen Countdown Timer: Create evergreen countdown timers for marketing campaigns.

94. Popups and Modal Windows

  • Popup Maker: Create and manage powerful modal popups.
  • Layered Popups: Animated popups with layers.
  • Ninja Popups: Popups for newsletter subscriptions, etc.
  • WP Popup Plugin: Simple popups creator.
  • ConvertPlus: Popup plugin for lead generation.

95. Content Slider and Carousel

  • Slider Revolution: Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin.
  • Smart Slider 3: Responsive slider solution.
  • LayerSlider: Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin.
  • Soliloquy: Drag & Drop Responsive WordPress Slider.
  • MetaSlider: Easy to use WordPress slider plugin.

96. Email Log and Management

  • WP Mail Logging: Log every email sent by WordPress.
  • Email Log: Store sent emails for auditing.
  • Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log: Log and manage emails, includes SMTP support.
  • Mail Bank: Manage and log WordPress emails.
  • WP Email Users: Send emails to users or user roles.

97. Two-Factor Authentication

  • Two Factor Authentication: Add two-factor authentication to WordPress login.
  • Google Authenticator: Use Google Authenticator for two-factor login.
  • Wordfence Login Security: Provides login security features including two-factor auth.
  • Duo Two-Factor Authentication: Two-factor authentication in partnership with Duo Security.
  • MiniOrange 2 Factor Authentication: Secure WordPress login with 2FA.

98. Dynamic Content and Personalization

  • If-So Dynamic Content: Display dynamic content based on conditions.
  • Content Views: Display WordPress content in various layouts dynamically.
  • Personalized Content: Offer personalized content to your users.
  • WP Personalize: Personalize website content based on user behavior.
  • Logic Hop: Personalize content and increase conversions with dynamic content.

99. Content Restriction and Membership Levels

  • Restrict Content Pro: Premium content plugin for subscription-based content access.
  • MemberPress: All-in-one membership plugin for content restriction.
  • Paid Memberships Pro: Flexible content restriction and membership plugin.
  • WooCommerce Memberships: Integrate memberships with WooCommerce for content restriction.
  • Ultimate Member: User profile and membership plugin for content restriction.

100. Weather Widgets and Plugins

  • WP Cloudy: A weather plugin that uses OpenWeatherMap to create beautiful weather widgets.
  • Awesome Weather Widget: Display weather using widgets or shortcodes.
  • Weather Atlas Widget: Display weather from any location.
  • Simple Weather: Simple shortcode and widget to display weather.
  • Weather Effect: Add beautiful weather effects to your WordPress site.

Not finding your desired problem-solving plugin?

NB: The above list is not exhaustive. You can find plugins for use in projects involving entertainment, health, transport, agriculture and any sector of interest! And if you can’t find a WordPress plugin for your use case in the WordPress repo, WordPress is open source and allows you to code your custom plugin.
You can also use some coding knowledge to create a basic plugin to add additional functionality to your website. If your plugin goes well, you may even be able to sell it to others and turn your project into a side hustle.
Check out this beginner’s guide by our sponsor, WPBeginner: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-a-wordpress-plugin

Conclusion

As we look forward to the creativity and ingenuity that will undoubtedly be on display at the National ICT Innovation Hub in Nakawa, Kampala on July 5th, it’s clear that the future is bright for Uganda’s young problem solvers. With WordPress and its vast ecosystem of plugins, the only limit is your imagination. So, let’s harness the power of plugins to transform ideas into digital realities, creating innovative solutions that benefit our local societies and beyond.

When ready, be sure to submit your project at events.wordpress.org/uganda/2024/competition/call-for-projects before the 30th April 2024 DEADLINE!