Advanced Custom Fields PRO
A field builder that adds easy UI customization through posts, users, taxonomy terms, media, comments and even custom options pages. This plugin is what makes building a completely custom post type with Wordpress possible and is required for the theme to function. Documentation
Askimet Anti-Spam
Akismet checks and filters comments and contact form submissions against their global database of spam to prevent the site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on Comments admin screen. Documentation
BackupBuddy
Backs up a customizable selection of files, settings, and content for a complete snapshot of the site. This plugin is used to restore, migrate, or deploy a site to a new host or new domain and can be used to recover older installs in case of error. Documentation
Classic Editor
The most updated version of Wordpress uses a new block-style editor format released with the new version. This plugin restores the previous "classic" WordPress editor and the "Edit Post" screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor. This plugin MUST be installed for the Page Builder to function correctly. Documentation
Contact Form 7
Manages multiple contact forms with customization and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. All other other plugins associated with CF7 are add-ons (not required) but highly recommended for completely functional forms: Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension, Contact Form DB, Honeypot for Contact Form 7, Redirection for Contact Form 7, and Save Contact Form 7. Documentation
GDPR Cookie Consent
Recently, it became a requirement for all sites to display a cookie consent notice that complies with the EU Cookie Law / GDPR. This plugin makes it easy to display this message when a new user visits the site. Documentation
A plugin for HTTP headers management including security, access-control (CORS), caching, compression, and authentication. Documentation
Imagify
An advanced image optimization tool that dramaticaly reduces image file sizes without losing quality, make website load time faster, boost SEO and save money on bandwidth. Documentation
JetPack
Handles security detail, guarding against brute-force attacks and unauthorized logins. Its features include brute-force attack protection, spam filtering, and downtime monitoring, backups, secure login, with optional two-factor authentication, malware scanning, code scanning, and automated threat resolution. Documentation
MailChimp for WP
Connects Mailchimp's subscribe capabilities to any contact form and works in conjunction with Contact Form 7 to capture emails with any form submission. It usually connects with the form information via a checkbox asking to subscribe to the newsletter. Documentation
Pods
A framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields. It makes entirely new post types other than 'post' possible. There are many postypes registered with the main theme and therefore, this plugin is required for the theme to function. Documentation
Really Simple SSL
Automatically detects the site's settings and configures it to run over https. Documentation
WPSSO Core
Provides comprehensive information about your webpage content to social sites (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), search engines and crawlers (Google, Bing, etc.), mail and text messaging apps (Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.), REST API clients, and oEmbed data for embedded objects / iframes (LinkedIn, WordPress, etc.) — all from your existing WordPress content and plugin data. Documentation
WP Total Cache
Improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing load times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices. Documentation
Yoast SEO Premium
A tool than assists in improving Search Engine Optimization throughout the site. It optimizes keywords, keyphrases, synonyms, related keywords and all word forms of those. It also monitors updates, readability of a page, duplicate pages, technical configurations, and schema. It'll also suggest back-linking based on keywords in the content so that its easy to determine the best way to draw users to the site looking for content based on the page keywords. Documentation