WordPress plugins

For Speed:

• WP Rocket: Premium caching plugin for faster load times.
• LiteSpeed Cache: Free and powerful caching solution.
• Smush: Optimizes images to reduce file sizes without losing quality.
• Perfmatters: Disables unnecessary WordPress features to improve speed.
• Autoptimize: Minifies CSS, JS, and HTML for better performance.

For User-Friendliness:

• Elementor: Drag-and-drop builder for creating beautiful pages easily.
• Yoast SEO: Simplifies on-page SEO for better search engine rankings.
• Contact Form 7: Easy-to-use tool for creating forms.
• Google Site Kit: Integrates Google Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, and more for site insights.
• TranslatePress: Helps create multilingual websites.

If you know more useful WordPress free plugins most welcome. Like Yoast SEO another one is Rank Math.

Note: Speed up plugin only one recommend at one site. It may break your site if not configured well. I will recommend some bloggers next time, you can watch that tutorials for easy configuration and learning.

Hey, nice to meet you. Do you know in WordPress, Darrel Wilson You tube channel, nice tutorials and easy to understand. 

Yes, Maria I watched some of Darrel Wilson tutorials. His talks are beautiful to listen.