The Basic WordPress Plugins that you might want to know

byhovivien

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11 years ago

I found this plugins is the best for now and sharing here as for your references. Check this out to see if the following plugins are useful for your WordPress site. Take note that every plugin adds a bit of complexity to your site, and it’s important to install well-developed plugins from a reputable source.

1. SEOPressor V5

Main Features: optimization check, LSI keyword analysis, rich snippets, smart linking

2. Akismet

It comes installed on WordPress, all you need to do is to active it. The feature is to block spammy on your blog comments and automatically moves those comments to spam folder and it can save you precious time.

3. All-in-one SEO Pack

It is the most popular and downloaded SEO plugin from the WordPress. The SEO will automatically optimizes titles for search engines, generates meta tags automatically. It enable you to control all your meta data on the individual pages and posts.

4. BulletProof Security

This plugin is a kind of firewall security, a very good protection to prevent hackers access to the folders of WordPress against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64. Code injection and SQL injection hacking attempts. BulletProof blocks directory access (.htaccess) in WP and thus it makes the security really bulletproof.

5. Google XML Sitemap

Automatically generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. It will update all major search engines every time your new post created.

6. Contact Form 7

It is another easy use contact form plugin if you want to communicate with your subscribers/clients. It enable to customize the form and mail contents. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

7. Jetpack by WordPress.com

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin by Automattic (The creator of WordPress CMS). Another useful plugin for your WordPress site including customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools. All activated from one place inside your WP dashboard.

8. CloudFlare

It is a security plugin that makes websites load faster and protects your blogs from online spammers and hackers.

9. Share Buttons by AddtoAny

The social sharing plugins that let people share, save, and email your posts and pages such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Twitter, Linkedln and well over 100 more sharing and social bookmarking sites.

10. WordPress Backup to Dropbox

With the help of this plugin, you can keep your valuable WordPress website files, media, database into your Dropbox account. You can select the time of back up setting as well as which directories should be included inside your backup. If any, you wish to exclude from the backup. You can choose to enhance the features paying the premium feature such as zip achieve of your website database before uploading it to dropbox, email notifications, and priority supports.

What to do if my website loading very slowly?

If you think your site is loading slowly, and a plugin may be the culprit, there’s a very simple way to test this out, and you don’t have to be a hardcore developer to do it. To check for unscalable plugins, all you need to deactivate all of them from the plugin menu in the wp-admin and then load your site. If the site loads faster, you know that there was an issue with one or more plugins. Now, activate the plugins one at a time, loading the homepage every time to narrow down which plugin is causing the slowdown. Once you’ve discovered which plugin is the culprit, it’s time to find a replacement.