First of all, for those who came to this Q&A out of the blue and don’t know what WordPress is, a brief introduction!
What is WordPress?
WordPress is the easiest and most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, 35% of all websites on the internet today are built using WordPress. Yes – more than one in four websites you visit is probably powered by WordPress.
- Which is open source.
- is easy.
- Able to create almost any type of website.
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WordPress is a blessing for lazy typists like me. And besides, plug-ins are really useful to save our time and add the features we like to the website and make the backend work easier.
Here I am going to list the plug-ins that “in my opinion”, should be installed in any WordPress website. Which is available totally free.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Akismet Anti-Spam prevents spam comments on your website by identifying spam in forms and comments on your site using its database. You can also report spam related to you from the admin panel.
This is a very important and best plug-in to stop spamming your website from spammers.
WordFence Security
WordFence provides security for your website, as a malware scanner that acts as an endpoint firewall.
WordFans website comes with features like…
- WordPress core file integrity check and repair.
- Malware, virus and backdoor scanning.
- Includes blocking fake Google crawlers, IP whitelisting and IP blocking.
- Real-time website traffic, including Google crawlers, RSS feed readers and all other crawlers and bots. (Google Analytics does not include this data.)
- Notifications are sent by email.
and provides many other security tools.
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO has helped millions of websites worldwide to get the best search engine rankings. Yoast SEO is the favorite WordPress SEO plugin of millions of users worldwide.
This plug-in allows users to…
- Adding a title and meta description for better branding and consistent snippets in search results.
- An advanced schema implementation helps search engines make sense of your site and boosts those prominent results.
- Full control over your site’s breadcrumbs.
- Automatically sets canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content.
Apart from this, its premium version is also available.
Site Kit by Google
Sitekit is Google’s official WordPress plug-in for insights into how people find and use your site.
With the help of Site-Kit, we can manage Google’s useful tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, etc. from the WordPress dashboard.
Site Kit includes powerful features that make using the following Google tools easy.
- Easy to understand statistics directly on your WordPress dashboard
- Official statistics from multiple Google tools, all in one dashboard
- Quick setup for multiple Google tools without editing your site’s source code
- Metrics for your entire site and individual posts.
UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
If the website you have built with great effort crashes due to a server problem or other problem in one fell swoop?
In this situation you will be able to restore your website very easily, if and only if you have a backup!
Upward Plug-in will make your work much easier and faster.
Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Image optimization is an important aspect to reduce the loading speed of a website, which should not be overlooked. Because, the better the page loading score, the easier it will rank in Google search.
Smush is essential for quickly and easily compressing and optimizing website photos. With this, your website photos can be optimized very easily and in less time without losing its quality.
Smush is considered to be the best free image optimization plugin in the WordPress plugin market.
In addition, there are many plug-ins that are important and completely free on WordPress sites. Here I have mentioned my favorite plug-ins which others may find useful. People who are new to WordPress should use all these plug-ins specifically.