Best WordPress Plugins for Personal Bloggers

15 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Personal Blog

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for personal bloggers comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

1. EleSpare Best overall 85/100
2. Easy Footnotes 84/100
3. WP Delicious 84/100
4. Simple Blog Stats 84/100
5. Blogger Importer Extended 83/100
6. Simple Blog Card 82/100
7. Tasty Recipes Lite 81/100
8. BtW Importer 79/100
9. ESV CrossReference Tool 78/100
10. ContentPen 76/100
11. eBook Crafter 76/100
12. ForthFocus Atom XML Converter for Blogger™ 76/100
13. Feed Importer for Blogger 72/100
14. Blog News Addons For Elementor 69/100
15. Clariti 66/100

Best overall Free by Elespare

EleSpare

EleSpare provides pre-designed templates, header/footer builders, and various post layouts for creating stunning news, magazine, and blog sites with E …

4.9★: from 44 ratings
10k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Jason Yingling

Easy Footnotes

Easy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.

4.8★: from 33 ratings
8k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by WP Delicious

WP Delicious

WP Delicious is an SEO-optimized and Schema-friendly recipe plugin for food bloggers to create and display unlimited recipes.

4.9★: from 70 ratings
4k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by Jeff Starr

Simple Blog Stats

Displays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. Display total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.

4.9★: from 38 ratings
4k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by pipdig

Blogger Importer Extended

Easily move your blog from Blogger to WordPress. Import all your content and setup 301 redirects automatically.

4.7★: from 130 ratings
4k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Katsushi Kawamori

Simple Blog Card

Get OGP and display blog card.

5★: from 3 ratings
3k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Strategy11 Team

Tasty Recipes Lite

The WordPress recipe plugin food bloggers and recipe creators love. Schema comes baked in, so Google shows off your recipes!

5★: from 2 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by M. Nasikin

BtW Importer

Import your Blogger .atom file from Google Takeout and migrate to WordPress, free and automatic.

5★: from 4 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Jun 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by adamzapcrossway

ESV CrossReference Tool

The ESV CrossReference Tool is a free resource created to make it easy to feature the text of the ESV Bible on your blog, personal website, or church …

4★: from 6 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1