Must-Have Powerful Plugins for Every WordPress Website
Currently, WordPress has 54000+ plugins! Some plugins are FREE and some are paid. These plugins will add powerful features to your WordPress website. You will find almost every feature you need on your WordPress site. Today I am going to discuss some powerful plugins that should include on your website.
Notice: if you didn’t read this article yet, please read this article first: The Powerful Professional Blog Guideline For Beginners.Akismet
Spamming is a common problem. Everyday spammers are attacking our website. In WordPress, they submit the false comment, fake registration etc.
Akismet mainly an anti-spam FREE and Premium plugin. Akismet checks all comments and filters the comments. It marks spammy comments as spam and protects your WordPress site. It’s also a WordPress’s built in plugin and made by WordPress.
Active installs: 3+ million
Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Yoast SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of getting users from the search engines. Search engines are the main traffic source for any website. So, it’s the main part of our website.
Yoast is the greatest SEO plugins for WordPress website. It has so many features. The title, description, sitemap, social share, webmaster tools, SEO for custom post type etc. features are really amazing. Every WordPress website should have this plugin.
Active installs: 3+ million
Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Wordfence Security
We can make a website using WordPress very easily. But security is the main fact. Hackers are trying to get access to our site everyday. We are try our best to keep our site secure from the hackers.
To keep secure there are many plugins are available. Wordfence Security is the best among all security plugins.It sends the security alert to your email if found any unusual activities on your website. It won’t slow your website. If your website has been hacked, you can easily clean your site. You can read this article clean your hacked WordPress website. It has also two version. One is free another is permium.
Active installs: 2+ million
Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
W3 Total Cache
To load your website faster, caching is the main thing. By caching, it’s store website’s data temporarily in the web browser. For this when user will visit the wesbite, it will load faster than before.
There are many cache plugin. But among all W3-Total Cache best of them. It has more advanced features. It increases site performance and impact on SEO.
Active installs: 1+ million
Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Images are the main assest of any webiste. Basically for blog websites. If our website contains huge uncompressed images, then our website will load slower. To solve this we can compress or images before upload.
but Smush plugin automatically compress every image when images are being uploading. Using WP Smush plugin, you can optimize and compress the images without reducing the quality of the images.
Active installs: 700,000+
Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
WP-Optimize
For cleaning up your website WP-Optimize is the best tool. In your website there are many junk data like revisions, spammy comments, pingbacks, trackbacks, trash etc from our site. For this, our website load faster than before. Without manual queries, this plugin removes the junk data from database. This plugin will keep your wesbite alwasy clean.
Active installs: 600,000+
Average Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Newsletter
Email marketing is a best way to get traffic. To do this we can use Newsletter. It has a lots of features like unlimted subscription, easily custimize email template, support SMTP, email tracking and much more. You will get a lots of features for FREE. Easily you can run your email campaign.
Active installs: 200,000+
Average Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Contact Form 7
Every website has a ‘Contact Us’ page. It’s a common feature. To make this feature very easily Contact form 7 is the best. We don’t have to know any coding idea. Just need to install. We can make unlimited contact from by using this plugin. We can also set Google Analytics and Facebook event tracking. It also supports Captcha, Akismet filtering etc. Most of the theme support Contact Form 7.
Active installs: 3+ million
Average Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Broken Link Checker
It’s an amazing plugin. Our website contains huge URLs. Every URL is very important. If one or more URLs break, we won’t find them easily. But this plugin will help us. It monitors posts, pages, comments, blogroll, and custom fields. It keep our all URLs live.
Active installs: 500,000+
Average Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Jetpack by WordPress.com
A awesome plugin created by brilliant WordPress team. Jetpack increase the security of WordPress site, SEO friendly, image optimize etc. It also provide FREE CDN. Another feature is that if you use Jetpack, you can controll your website using Android and iOS application.
Active installs: 3+ million
Average Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Md Obydullah
Software Engineer | Ethical Hacker & Cybersecurity...
Md Obydullah is a software engineer and full stack developer specialist at Laravel, Django, Vue.js, Node.js, Android, Linux Server, and Ethichal Hacking.