Top 15 best free wordpress plugins that are essential in 2020

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If your start your online business nowadays, this article will help you in finding the essential tools for you wordpress website. It changes from time to time which plugins I prefer, but these 15+4 are the best free wordpress plugins I know at present in 2020.

The best free wordpress plugins for security

There is no 100% safety, we need to use at least a few tools to try to maximize the security of our websites. This includes firewall, malware scanner, backup, and antispam plugins.

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WordPress 5 released, theme updates available

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A few days ago WordPress 5 was released with the new Gutenberg editor. The following themes were updated to support the Gutenberg editor and WP 5: Coral-dark, Coral-light, Coral-drive, Coral-parallax, Coral-dark-pro, Coral-light-pro, Coral-drive-pro, Coral-parallax-pro. To update the pro themes you need to log in on this site, download the theme file, extract it, and upload the files to the server to overwrite the old theme files. But first save the old theme if you modified it!

If you don’t find the updated theme when you log in, then probably your one year access to the updates is over.

New wordpress release: version 4.7

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Yesterday wordpress 4.7 was released, and our free themes were updated. The main changes are:

  • the old social icons were replaced by a menu, that you have to create and put into the Social links menu location. The menu items must be Custom links, and the social icons will be displayed based on the url. Now you can have a lot of social icons.
  • there is an Additional CSS section in the Customizer, you can put your custom CSS codes there. Now you don’t need the child theme if you customize only the css code.

The professional themes were also updated! If you had custom CSS code in the customizer, then save it before theme update, because the new versions have only the new core Additionial CSS section in the customizer, thus you can loose your custom CSS code by updating the theme. The old social icons section is also replaced by the social links menu, for which you have to create Custom link menu items. The icons are displayed automatically based on the URL. If you see a question mark icon, then your URL is not recognized. To update the professional theme, save your theme modifications if you had any (CSS, PHP, JS), you can also backup your site, download the new theme, and upload the extracted new theme e.g. via FTP to overwrite the old theme. Then apply your theme modifications again.

How to remove the date, author, comment, update date, tags and categories from wordpress

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Many of our wordpress theme users asked how to remove the date, author and comment links below the post title, or the update date, tags and categories from the post footer. Some of the following css codes may work for many wordpress themes, but they are rather specific to our wordpress themes. Insert the css code you need into the style.css of the child theme that you can also download from this site.

Remove date below the title:

.entry-meta .posted-on {
	display: none;
}

Remove author below the title:

.entry-meta .byline {
	display: none;
}

Remove comment link below the title:

.entry-meta .comments-link {
	display: none;
}

Remove update date:

.entry-footer .update {
	display: none;
}

Remove tags:

.entry-footer .tags-links {
	display: none;
}

Remove categories:

.entry-footer .cat-links {
	display: none;
}

And if you want to remove the whole post footer (otherwise there is some remaining empty space in the post footer):

.entry-footer {
	display: none;
}

Coral-Drive: new free wordpress theme

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Coral-Drive is a responsive, SEO optimized wordpress theme with one-column or two-column layout, full page header, and several customization possibilities. It can be suitable for many kind of websites, small business, portfolio, blog, etc.. The main features of the theme are:

  • compatible with WordPress 4.5-4.7
  • responsive theme, also fits to mobile and tablet devices
  • full page header
  • dropdown menu
  • Layouts: one-column, two-column with left sidebar layouts with customizable sidebar width
  • typography: customizable body font, heading font, site title font, tagline font, menu font
  • social icons menu
  • customizable colors: site title color, tagline color, background
  • 6+2 widget areas
  • custom menus

Have a look at the demo site here.

You can download the Coral-Drive free wordpress theme here.

Further customization options are available in the pro version.

Coral-Drive free wordpress theme

 

New responsive professional wordpress theme: Coral-Light-Pro

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Coral Light Pro is a professional responsive wordpress theme with one-column, two-column or three-column layout, and built-in slideshow. The theme is optimized for SEO, and suitable e.g. for a business, portfolio gallery or blog site. You can see the demo here, or purchase it here.

The main features of the theme are:

  • compatible with WordPress 4.5+
  • responsive theme, also fits to mobile and tablet devices
  • built-in slideshow
  • built-in special widget: Coral post with thumbnail widget
  • text or image logo
  • dropdown menu
  • the maximum page width is either 1020px or 1200px
  • Layouts: one-column, two-column, three-column layouts with customizable sidebar widths
  • typography: customizable body font, heading font, site title font, tagline font
  • google fonts
  • social icons: facebook, google plus, youtube, linkedin, twitter, instagram, pinterest, email, feed, vimeo, flickr, reddit, delicious, tumblr, stumbleupon, xing
  • customizable colors: site title color, tagline color, body font color, heading font color, background color, link color, social icon color
  • several widget areas
  • custom menus
  • custom CSS code

Professional responsive wordpress theme: Coral-light-pro

New responsive free wordpress theme: Coral Light

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Coral Light is a responsive free wordpress theme with one-column or two-column layout, and built-in slideshow. The theme is optimized for SEO, and suitable e.g. for a business, portfolio gallery or blog site. You can see the demo site here, or download the theme here.

The main features of the theme are:

  • compatible with WordPress 4.5-4.7
  • responsive wordpress theme, also fits to mobile and tablet devices
  • built-in slideshow
  • dropdown menu
  • Layouts: one-column, two-column with left sidebar layouts with customizable sidebar width
  • typography: customizable body font, heading font, site title font, tagline font
  • social icons menu
  • customizable colors: site title color, tagline color, background
  • two widget areas
  • custom menus

Responsive free wordpress theme: Coral-light