Of course, you don’t want to keep your first WordPress site boring & frustrating one as you want to increase user traffic to your website. WP plugins are a mere piece of software written in PHP (Personal Home Page) that is integrated seamlessly with WP, included bunch of functions that can be added to your WordPress site.
Technically WordPress plugins are different ways that can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. Now let me tell you about 5 WP plugins you shall consider after creating your first WordPress site.
These are the Top 5 plugins for WordPress to consider after creating your first site.
1. Yoast SEO: Free & Premium Plugin Versions
Yoast SEO is one of the most complete and all in one plugin for your WordPress site. This single software can handle many aspects of your WordPress site. As it has following features
- add post titles and meta description to your webpage
- control index of your blog
- create sitemaps (XML) files.
- social SEO for your WordPress site. And many other.
2. Disqus comments: Free Plugin
As the name suggests, this simple tool can replace your normal WordPress comment system with comment system powered and hosted by Disqus. Disqus makes commenting more easier and enticing. As it can perform following functions
- notification of comments on your WordPress blog by email and reply to that comment by email
- no spam, blacklist comments: comments filtering
- threaded comments and replies
- subscribe and RSS option for your WordPress site.1
- It does not have any premium version.
3. Wordfence security: Free & Premium Version
The most downloaded security plugin for your website. It has so many security features, you can’t count them all on your fingers and toes. few of them are listed below
- WP firewall
- Login security
- security scanning
- compatible with ipv6
- real-time monitoring
- caching features and many others
4. Backup WP: Free Plugin
This plugin will back up your entire site automatically including your database and all your files. It does not have premium iteration. few of the features are listed below.
- automatic backup of your site
- Uses Zip files to make back up faster and easy
- it includes files and folder as well from database
- compatible with Windows and Linux server.
5. Contact form 7: Free Version
“Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible” as they say about this plugin. With this plugin, you can manage several contact forms and also customize the form. It also provides spam filtering. No premium and advanced feature for this plugin.
Personally, I would recommend you to use Yoast SEO as it is one in all SEO tool & Wordfence for security purpose. Besides then you can try plugins like ‘All in one SEO little lower version of Yoast SEO, broken link checker ( never let you user face error like error 404 and drive them to your page). There are thousands of other for a different function, you can use them according to your requirements.
