WordPress is one of the most powerful and easy to use content management systems currently available to create, manage and maintain websites. WordPress is a great platform for small businesses to use when creating websites because of its price (free) and the huge amount of free plugins and themes to improve your installation.
Even though WordPress is great out of the box, there are a lot of fantastic plugins that all small businesses should have installed to improve their website’s functionality. From improving SEO to preventing spam comments and everything in between, we’ve identified 15 small business WordPress plugins that we’ve divided into three groups.
- Business hours WordPress plugins
- Booking forms WordPress plugins
- Event calendar WordPress plugins
Business Hours WordPress Plugins
Show your visitors time you’re open and close each day of the week. You can setup open and close hours for every day.
- Easily configurable and editable widget
- In a page / post using shortcodes
The Opening Hours Plugin lets you set up your venue’s opening hours in a simple GUI and displays them in two Widgets and a Shortcode.
TSBusinessDay class with functions used for restricting content based on hours of operation. Requires Advanced Custom Fields and 3 of its add-ons.
This plugin allows you to add a widget on your website which shows the business hours of your business on your website
Simple plugin for showing work schedule and message whether we work today or not.
Booking Form WordPress Plugins
This plugin adds to the website an efficient calendar, which will be an auxiliary booking map for your visitors.
One more booking calendar, and it has its specificity: it’s flexible, it’s radically simple and fully adapted for smartphones.
Checkfront Online Booking System
This plugin from Checkfront provides not only with effective booking system, but also with useful extra features such as statistics, SSL support etc.
In fact, it’s a nicely designed contact form created specifically for using with booking calendars.
This booking calendar is worth using for its deep integration with PayPal system. Visitors will be able to make bookings right away.
Event Calendar WordPress Plugins
A calendar system with month, week, day, agenda views; upcoming events widget, color-coded categories, recurrence, and import/export of .ics feeds.
Localendar Calendar for WordPress
A powerful calendar with Month/Week/Day block and list views, "Today + Happening Soon", and a mini calendar widget. Fully customizable.
The Events Calendar is a carefully crafted, extensible plugin that lets you easily share your events. Beautiful. Solid. Awesome.
Event calendar for WordPress websites that features multiple visualization modes.
Spider Event Calendar is a highly configurable product which allows you to have multiple organized events.
These WordPress plugins are great for any small business, but your WordPress configuration and setup is just one piece of the puzzle. You’ll still need to create content, participate in social media, build links and optimize your pages.
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