Must Have Plugins formy WordPress Site

Ok. I’ve installed a WordPress theme. What should I you do next?

If you take a standard WordPress Theme, by default you become one installed Plugin - Akismet (a spam fighting service).

But it is not enough… Why?

Plugins extend your blog‘s functions and options

Could you only imagine? There are more than 40,000 free plugins available at www.wordpress.org/plugins/

You can get a lot of paid WP plugins on the other websites.

But remember …

All Must-Have Plugins you need are free!

Checklist criteria (Mind-Map)

Chasing the WordPress plugins involves a bit of research and consideration. Take a look at our list with Top WordPress Plugins, that can help you bring your Site to the next level.

We have picked the plugins that we personally prefer so you can choose them without any hesitation.

Let’s go...

Backup Plugins

BackUpWordPress - will back up your entire site including your database and all your files on a schedule that you choose:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

Security Plugin

All In One WordPress Security & Firewall will take the security of your website to a whole new level:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

Spam checker Plugin

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if theylook like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments“ admin screen:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/

Cache Plugin

W3 Total Cache – the fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. It helps increase your site speed:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

Comments Plugin

Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-

comment-system/

Optimization Plugin

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

Social Networking Plugin

Shareaholic is the world's leading all-in-one Content Amplification Platform, which includes related content recommendations, social sharing, following, social Analytics and site monetization apps such as promoted content, native ads and affiliate links:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/

Statistics Related Plugin

Google Analytics Plugin is the ultimate solution that allows you to have a better understanding of how the audience understands your site:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/googleanalytics/

Contact Forms Related Plugin

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

SEO Plugin

Yoast SEO Plugin improves your site's SEO on all needed aspects. It forces you to focus on keywords while writing your content. In that way, you can optimize the SEO title, meta descriptions and the body of your posts in a way that each of them will contain a specific keyword:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Have you ever wondered what plugins do the top WordPress blogs use? Read our comprehensive list here: blog.templatemonster.com/2016/02/09/plugins-of-15-top-wordpress-blogs/

Do you want a WordPress Theme, that is competitive with all mentioned plugins? Take a look at the best examples website designs at: www.templatemonster.com

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