Dear Bloggers,
Setting up a wordpress blog is really easy. You register a domain; buy a space in a server, upload the latest version of wordpress and set up a theme. Now you blog is ready. But the actual task is to taking your blog to the next lever. Maintain the load time, keep a good layout, tighten the security and many more issues need to be touched and that is absolutely necessary for most of the wordpress sites. But fortunately wordpress is a free community and you can find loads of plugins that can help you build a better blog.
I have gathered here couple of my favorite and most useful plugins that are absolutely essential for your wordpress blog. These are all free and you could start use these in your WordPress blogs in no time.
Here is a list of essential wordpress plugings:
WordFence Security
Yes, the most useful plugin in my list which is is 100% free. The purpose of the plugin is is to keep you blog safe form hackers. There are many other security plugins, but personally l like of for its various features. Wordfence do a deep serverside scan of the source code comparing it to the official wordpress core including themes and pluings. Not only it secures your blog but also makes it up to 50 times faster, as said by the plugin developrs. You can also try, Sucuri Security, another great plug for security integrity monitoring, malware detection and security hardening.
W3 Total Cache
For most of the bloggers, the load time of the blog is a very big concern as it plays a vital role for build keyword ranking in different search engines. So we always need to make sure the website loads faster when the visitors come to our website. For that, big site may require extra server resource, but for blogs W3 Total Cache plugin will help you with page speed and you will never need any extra server resource. If you are not a code person, you should try WP Super Cache.
Yoast’s SEO
Yoast is a great plug in for SEO set up of you blog. You need to generate a XML itemap or need to handle you page title or the META fields? Yes, this plugin is exactly what you need. At the same time it also provides option to verify your site in Google and Bing webmaster. It also lets you insert open graph data into your blog posts.
WP Smush.it
Almost all the visitors like to see visual content in blog posts. Visual content I mean the images you upload on your blog. Buy heavy images make the site run slow and it also take a lot of server space. So you need to optimize the images further for the web, after you upload them to your blog. However, it is a tiresome job to squeeze the image every time you upload a new image. The best solution for the image optimization is WP Smush.it, the most effective plugin that automatically optimizes the images that you upload with a bulk optimization option for already uploaded images. This plugin dramatically decreases the storage size of the images while not affecting the quality of the images.
BackWPup
For security reasons, I always prefer to a weekly back up my WordPress files. With this plugin it is easy to take the full back up of your blog to Dropbox, or your server. It also allows setting up an email backup on daily, or monthly basis. This could be very helpful in case if you need to move your sever and someone hacked your blog.
WP Review
Many often to attract more visitors, bloggers love to write reviews and if you do so and writes reviews. You will certainly love this plugin.
I didn’t include 10s of plugins because more plugins do more harm than good. I included only the best and most essential plugins that you must have in order for your blog to function smoothly.
I have included only the essential plugins can take your blog to new heights. For more update keep visiting.
