WordPress would have never made it big if it wasn’t for the ease of use and most importantly the availability of thousand of plugins. These must have WordPress plugins have made it possible to add so much functionality to your WordPress site and that too without the need of technical expertise.
We got our hands dirty and managed to circle in on 8 must have plugins for your WordPress website. Let’s take a look
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- BulletProof Security: You can’t deny the fact that you need to take measures to pump up the security of your website, after all it’s your hard work that’s at stake. BulletProof security is an easy to setup plugin that will literally shield your website from malware and sql injections. You need this.
- WordPress SEO by Yoast: This has got to be one of the most used WordPress plugins till date. You can quickly setup the plugin to optimize your website to be more SEO friendly.
- Backup Buddy: No matter what system you work with, a backup is always important. For WordPress, you can rely on Backup buddy plugin to create backups of your website. You can setup the plugin to automatically backup your website to the cloud.
- Disqus: The default commenting system of WordPress is easily receptible to spam. Disqus is a third party commenting system that not only reduces the load on the website but also has some great anti-spam filters.
- Floating Social Bar: This is a no nonsense social media sharing plugin that every WordPress website should get. It only consists of the top social media icons which in turn reduces the load on your website.
- W3 Total Cache: If you want to see your website in the top spots of the search engine ranking then you will need to give equal importance to the speed of your website. W3 Total Cache helps you to setup browser caching, compress files for quicker downloads and so much more. We highly recommend that you install and activate this plugin on your WordPress website.
- Optin Monster: If you want your visitors to turn into subscribers then this is the plugin you will need. You can create beautiful optin forms and pop-ups that will help you in your lead generation efforts. It comes packed with features like page-level targeting, Analytics and split testing.
- Table Press: Our constant complaint with WordPress was the lack of adding tables to a post. But thanks to Table Press, we can now create and add tables to a post with ease.
We hope you find these plugins useful. If you know of any other plugins that deserves to be on this list then just mention them in the comments section below.
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