One of the most exciting aspects of creating a WordPress website is gaining a loyal following and watching users interact with your brand. Registrations, reviews, public posts — it’s endlessly motivating. However, many site administrators worry about enabling this kind of usability.
- Will it cost a fortune?
- Take hours of coding and troubleshooting?
- Require technical skills beyond your scope of knowledge?
Have no fear. With a few of Ninja Forms’ must-have WordPress plugins, you’re primed and ready to let your users do more — and do more for them! And the best part? No coding is required. Simply install the add-ons and go.
Four must-have WordPress plugins from Ninja Forms
The following plugins are essential for WordPress website owners who want their customers and followers to get involved. Access them via some of our membership plans or as à-la-carte add-on purchases.
User Management
Allowing users to register their own accounts is essential for many brands. It allows customers to track orders, manage their profiles, save personal preferences, and more. Membership plugins are often bulky and expensive, but our User Management add-on solves these pain points.
User Management lets you create attractive, intuitive registration and login forms with the click of a few buttons. Not only that, but its capabilities also include:
- User profile updates.
- Form submission reviews.
- Account update emails.
- Mapping metadata (for example, auto-populating form fields like “name” when a user has already submitted this information in a previous form.).
You can even create custom notifications and redirects once a user has registered. Can you believe this powerhouse plugin requires no coding? It’s true. Learn about User Management here. Plus, get step-by-step instructions with this tutorial.
Save Progress
Have you ever started filling out a long web form only to stop for a work emergency? When you navigated back, you lost all your progress. It’s frustrating — even infuriating — and may make you give up on the form altogether.
One of Ninja Forms’ must-have WordPress plugins is called Save Progress, and it offers much-needed assurance that your customers will never face the above situation. Whether they’re filling out a job application, feedback survey, or informational questionnaire, Save Progress allows them to do just that — save the form fields they’ve already completed and come back later.
This plugin is vital if you have long or multi-step forms on your site. It works for both registered and non-registered users (non-registered forms are saved locally via cookies) and enables site administrators to manage saved forms.
Improve your conversion rates with Save Progress, and be sure to read our docs and blog posts.
Front-End Posting
We often think of posting content on WordPress as a back-end function completed by site administrators and editors, but there are many cases where you’ll want your site users to post from the front end. For example:
- Reviews on an eCommerce shop
- Public posts on a blogging site (think Tumblr)
- Discussion contributions in educational forums
Our Front-End Posting add-on is invaluable for examples like the above. It’s the best of all worlds, empowering your users to create custom post types, set their status (draft, pending, and publish), and add tags to their content while granting you back-end control to approve posts before they’re viewable to the world.
Learn more about Front-End Posting, and check out helpful articles here and here.
Help Scout
A bad support experience can damage your relationship with a valued customer — or even cause you to lose their patronage altogether. Email and phone support are time-consuming and chaotic, making it easy to miss inquiries. There’s a better way.
Help Scout is a premier customer support platform that makes it fast and easy to be there when your customers need you most — and Ninja Forms integrates directly with them. Our Help Scout add-on allows you to manage a user-friendly help desk right from your WordPress site. Live chat with customers, automate support workflows, tag, and track tickets for seamless collaboration, and receive helpful analytics — this must-have WordPress plugin is the total package.
It’s never been easier to meet your followers’ needs and deliver a fantastic user experience. Our documentation explains the Help Scout plugin in detail.
Install our must-have WordPress plugins today!
You’ve already accomplished the hard part: You’ve gained customers and followers, and they want to interact with your site! The above four must-have WordPress plugins are the next logical step. From registering users to offering top-notch customer service, these add-ons ensure brand loyalty for years to come.
