Must have Plugins for WordPress

Last Updated on October 23, 2013 by

WordPress is blessed with the ultimate feature, which is nothing but the availability of a huge number of plugins. Those works which consume a lot of time while done manually can be easily performed by a single click using the plugins. No matter, whether a design work or SEO work or something else. There are millions of plugins available for customizing your blog. Though most of them are useful, I am listing here the most essential and must have plugins for wordpress blog for different sorts of requirement.

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

This is the best SEO plugin available for your WordPress blog. Almost a complete set of SEO works for your blog. You can reflect your SEO strategy by choosing necessary keywords for each and every page & post using this plugin. Most beatiful part of this plugin is that, it generates the xml sitemap automatically. This plugin makes verification process for Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, & Alexa so simple. With well optimized title & meta, better page analysis, social integration WordPress SEO by Yoast is no doubt the best and must have plugin for your wordpress site.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]Wordpress SEO by Yoast[/button]

2. Akismet

Everyone knows the importance of comments for their blog posts. It helps building reputation and relations with readers and followers. But the only disadvantage of the comment system is the SPAM comments. Everyday a blog receives hundreds of irrelevant and SPAM comments. It becomes a burden to mark manually each and every comment as SPAM. But, with the help of this awesome plugin you can get rid of that too. This plugin automatically determines whether the comment received is SPAM or not. Use this plugin and say goodbye to spam comments. This plugin is free for your personal blog.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]Akismet[/button]

3. Jetpack by WordPress.com

Jetpack is a wonderful plugin available for wordpress users. Jetpack is set of additional features usually comes for a wordpress.com blog. You just have to connect it with wordpress.com using your credentials and can enjoy the ultimate features. You can check your site stats, connect your site with social network sites for publicity purpose, integrates sharing buttons for your pages and posts, and many more. It comes with an inbuilt easy to implement contact form feature. You can also configure a mobile friendly version of your site. With lots of features Jetpack by wordpress.com is another must have plugin for wordpress.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]Jetpack by WordPress.com[/button]

4. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps plugin helps to build the sitemap for your site to increase search engine visibility of your blog. Each search engine like Google, Bing etc uses this sitemap to crawl the site properly to discover the contents of the site. It is a tough work to build the sitemap for your blog manually each time. This plugin automatically helps you to do the same for you. You can set frequencies and priorities of your contents on its setting page. Whenever it builds the sitemap for fresh contents it automatically notifies to Google, Bing etc. With these important features, this plugin is also a must have plugin for wordpress

Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]Google XML Sitemaps[/button]

5. WP Insert

As a publisher everyone knows how important is to place ads on the website properly to generate ultimate revenue. It is a tedious job to place the ads manually. But, this plugin really saves a lot of time for that purpose. Particularly to manage the in post ads, this plugin is a great solution for publishers. The most beautiful feature of this plugin is that, using this you can place ads in the middle of the post. Moreover, many of the publisher programs such as Google Adsense allow a specific numbers of ads on a single page, violation of which may cause termination of service. Using this plugin, you can manage your ads as per the requirement of a particular service.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-insert/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]WP Insert[/button]

6. W3 Total Cache

To improve your site performance and speed W3 Total Cache is a ultimate plugin for your site. You can reduce load time by decreasing the size and number of CSS and JS files. You can handle all cache type with a single click. This plugin also offers Content Delivery Network (CDN) integration, which can reduce the loading time of the site by loading images from another network. With improvement in server performance, reduction in page load time, bandwidth saving etc, this plugin is also a must have plugin for wordpress.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]W3 Total Cache[/button]

7. WP-Optimize

This is another awesome plugin to optimize your site’s database. While editing a page or post wordpress automatically saves revisions of that particular page or post. Large number of revisions make a database larger. You can delete those unwanted revisions of posts or pages with a single click using this plugin. You can also delete all spam comments with a single click. For optimizing your site’s database this is another must have plugin for your site.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]WP-Optimize[/button]

8. BackWPup

This is the most useful free plugin available for backing up your wordpress site. Though this plugin doesn’t work with everyone’s setup, but still it is the best free backup plugin for wordpress. If you are lucky enough, this plugin will work for you, and you can back up your site regularly with no cost. This plugin allows you to backup and optimize database tables, backup files and plugins to folder or dropbox or s3 service with various archiving methods.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]WP-BackWPup[/button]

9. Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics is the best service for analyzing the visitor trends to your site, most popular contents of your site, from where your traffic is coming from etc. Google Analytics for WordPress is another nice plugin from Yoast. You can implement your tracking code for Google Analytics using this plugin.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]Google Analytics for WordPress[/button]

10. GD Star Ratings

Do you need star rating system for your blog? This plugin is the answer. With nice design and variety of rating systems GD Star Rating plugin is an ultimate rating plugin. This plugin allows you to implement different rating system on your pages, posts, and comments. Though it consumes some time to understand the complete setup, but this is no doubt a great rating system available for your blog.
Go to Plugin Page:  [button type=”bd_button btn_small” url=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-star-rating/” target=”on” button_color_fon=”#3fc2da” button_text_color=”#ffffff” ]GD Star Ratings[/button]