15 MUST HAVE WORDPRESSPLUGINS

FOR ALL SITES (2017 UPDATE)

1. W3 TOTAL CACHE

Slow loading sites are headache for users and they usually prefer

fast loading sites. If your site is slow you can lose potential

customers/visitors. So, why not speeding up your site? W3 Total

Cache speeds up your site and increase website performance

by reducing download times via features like content delivery

network (CDN) integration. This plugin allow you to set caching

for pages and posts easily. It has free as well as paid version.

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2. WORDPRESS SEO BY YOAST

SEO plays an important role in website rankings in search

engines. Yoast SEO allows you SEO optimize your site in few

clicks. Not only it allows you to add mata data but it also fully

optimize your website and generate an xml site map for your

site. It is available in free as well as paid version. Free version

has some limitations but it will do good for blogs, personal

websites or small business sites.

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3. BETTER WP SECURITY

ithemes security formely known as Better WP Security is a

security plugins that adds an extra layer of protection to your

site. Not only it scans your site for viruses and file changes, it

also stops brute attacks. It bans IP addresses and hosts and

limits login attempts thereby increasing your site security.

Database backup is another plus point that this plugin offers. It

is available in free version with some limitations and paid version

with full features. In paid version you can add two-step

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4. BACKUP BUDDY

Backup Buddy is the most easy to use plugin for site backup and

migration purposes. At some point you may lost your website or

it’s entire data. Backup buddy backs up your website data and

store it on some cloud storage or on the sleep. If at some point

you lose your website you can easily retrieve it using your

backup. It allows you set automatic backup schedule for your

website. This plugin is available in paid version only.

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5. GOOGLE ANALYTICATOR

If you want to keep an eye on your site analytics than you should

definitely use Google Analyticator. This plugin allows you add

google analytics code easily and track your visitors from your

wordpress dashboard. This plugin is available for free and is

powered by well known company SumoMe.

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6. EDIT FLOW

Edit flow helps you to manage your editorial calendar. Manage

posts and authors and leave editorial comments. You can discuss

a posts with your contributors via editorial comment section for

which an email is sent to every contributor whenever a new

comment is added. It also allows you to add custom statuses

with descriptions in a few clicks.

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7. TABLE PRESS

As the name represents TablePress is used to create custom and

beautiful tables with ease. It allows you to create tables within

wordpress and than you can add them to posts or pages in one

click. You can also export table data. You can create any kind of

table with this plugin starting from pricing table to a comparison

table. This plugin is available for free.

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8. DISQUS

Default wordpress commenting system is good only if you have

low count of visitors but if you site or blog is popular enough

you should go with Disqus. It is a third party commenting system

and changes completely wordpress native commenting system.

Add this will plugin and comments will not effect your server

speed.

It’s important that some people don’t like disqus because leaving

comment is not straight forward but if you have an account it’s

pretty simple. Disqus also acts as spam blocking plugin.

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9. OPTIMUS

Images add an extra load on your server and hence reduce

loading speed. If you want your site to be fast you should use

some image optimizing plugin. Optimus is the plugin that I

recommend for this purpose. It compress your images

automatically when they are uploaded without losing quality. It is

available in paid and free versions but free version do the job

good enough.

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10. MAILCHIMP FOR WORDPRESS

When it comes to email marketing, it is the best marketing technique

for small businesses and blogs. If you are not already building your list

than you should start today. MailChimp for WordPress is the

recommended plugin for this purpose. It is really easy to integrate this

plugin with MailChimp. This plugin allows you to create beautiful opt-

in widgets not only that you can easily integrate this plugin with

contact form or wocommerce checkout form in just a few clicks.

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11. SOCIAL ICONS

Social Icons allows you add beautiful icons via shortcodes to your

pages or posts. The plugin supports over 100 popular social

media platforms. It is simple and easy to use. You can instantly

install the plugin and add social media icons in beautiful layouts.

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12. WPTOUCH

WPTouch adds an extra feature to your website and makes it

mobile friendly. It makes your theme responsive and add such

capabilities that even premium themes can’t match. If you are

deciding to launch a mobile version of your site than you should

definitely go with this plugin. This plugin is available in paid and

free versions.

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13. AKISMET

• Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web

service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review

the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin

screen. It comes handy if you decide to use default wordpress

commenting system.

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14. ADSANITY

AdSanity is a WordPress advertisement management easy to use

plugin. Adding new ads in Adsanity is like publishing a new

post. It comes with with widgets and shortcodes that assist to

display advertisements, so that you can display ads in sidebars,

posts and pages. If you are deciding to use ads in your

wordpress site than you should definitely use this plugin. This

plugin is availble in paid version only.

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15. THIRSTY AFFILIATES

Well this plugin is not for everyone but I included this in this list

because it’s extremely helpful if you decide to make affiliate

marketing as your main source of income. Using Thirsty

Affiliates you can easily add affiliate links, cloak links, auto insert

on certain keywords, and even export your links. This plugin is

available in paid and free versions.

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THIS LIST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT SERIOUSYELLOW.

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