These plugins can make your blog or website completely professional looking

Do you want to make your blog completely professional looking with features like member login, social media sign in and other features? Following are the plugins you must have installed in your WordPress blog site:

Shortcode Plugins

You can add table, box, button, columns, videos, images, accordion, etc. in post or page without hectic coding. You just have to put simple code in your page to add any of the above features. Personally, I prefer following plugins for shortcode.

1. Shortcode Ultimate:

You can add heading, tabs, box, column, table, quotes, accordion and more than 60 features with the help of Shortcode Ultimate plugin.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

2. WordPress Shortcodes:

WordPress shortcode plugin is feature rich with SEO friendly tabs, button, links, author cards, lists, layouts and more. It has more than 25 featuers / shortcodes. You can adjust features with custom css feature in it.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/synved-shortcodes/

Customizing & White Labeling Plugins

If your site is subscription based or require member to login then you need custom look and appearance while login and dashboard with your custom logo, colors, and options. Following are some of plugins I found, which will help you customize your site's login page, dashboard and options.

1. AG Custom Admin: 

AG Custom Admin plugin helps you to customize your login page with your logo and background image, dashboard and admin bar with preferred options, colors and small logo, colorize your dashboard, choose admin panel options like screen options, links, menus,etc.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ag-custom-admin/

2. White Label CMS:

Customize your login page with your logo, login page background, dashboard panel options, menu options, admin setting and more features.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/

Customize E-mail Sent From
When e-mail is sent from WordPress for new registration of member or e-mail subscription or new post uploaded, by default receiver sees it received from WordPress. But, you can change the setting and customize e-mail sent from your company name and custom email id like yourcompany@yourcompany.com with the help of plugins.

1. WP Mail Bank:

You can change PHP mail setting and SMTP mailer setting with the help of WP Mail Bank plugin. Change name and email address sent from details with the help of this plugin.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-bank/

2. WP Mail From II:

WP Mail From II is simple and easy to set name and email received from plugin. You just need to mention name and email id and that's it. When member / subscriber receive mail from your site, they will see the your custom name and email id set.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mailfrom-ii/

Custom Forms

You need custom forms for product enquiries, customer information and database and other purpose. Basic contact forms are useless then as you need to add some custom fields. Following are some of the plugins you can install to create custom forms with additional fields.

1. Caldera Forms:

With Caldera Forms plugin you can create custom forms easily by drag and drop. No coding knowledge at all required. You can create multiple forms with multiple fields like text fields, paragraph field, upload file, captcha, button and other fields.

There are add on available for advanced fields like:

• MailChimp - Seamlessly integrate MailChimp optins into your forms.
• Stripe - Accept credit card payments via Stripe.
• PayPal Express - Accept payments via Paypal Express.
• Connected Forms - Create sequences of forms with conditional logic. Split your forms into smaller pieces, with total control over what comes next.
• Users - Register or login users from your form.
• A/B Testing - A/B testing for your forms. Powered by Ingot
• Geolocation - Make a text field a geolocation auto-complete field and recorded geocoded data.
• Mark Viewed - Let users track what content they have viewed using a Caldera Forms.
• Dwolla - Accept payments with low fees using Dwolla.
• Authorize.net Accept all major credit cards by integrating Caldera Forms with Authorize.net.
• BrainTree Accept credit card payments in your form through BrainTree.
• Nexmo Get SMS notifications of form submissions.
• Mail Templates - Add your logo, and your brand's color scheme to your emails sent from Caldera Forms.
• Caldera Custom Fields - Save form submissions as post and post meta.
• Verify Email for Caldera Forms - Send an email with a validate link to verify the email address before completing the form submission.
• Form as Metabox - Custom Fields - Use a Caldera Form as a metabox in the post editor to save custom field values.
• Slack Integration for Caldera Forms - Get notifications in Slack whenever a Caldera Form is submitted.
• Run Action - Trigger a WordPress action with your form submission.
• Sprout Invoices Integration - Use Caldera Forms for Sprout Invoice forms.
• Conditional Fail - Set conditions to cause that if met will allow or prevent form submission.
• Postmatic - Subscribe users to your posts and comments using Postmatic.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/

2. Form Maker: 

Form Maker is easy drag and drop create form plugin. You can add many custom fields like name, email, phone no., captcha, multiple options, address, etc. with the help of the plugin.

The forms to create are limited in free plugin but you can get pro if required.

Plugin download link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/form-maker/