Choosing the best plugin for your WordPress site will help make your day-to-day life easier and deliver a better experience for your users as well. In this article we are going to give you a list (and a short one at that) of the only WordPress plugins you need. Limiting the type and number of plugins you use is a great first step to improving your website Follow us: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TemplateMonsterCo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TemplateMonster/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/templatemonster Instagram: @template_monster Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/templatemonster/ Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/TemplateMonster LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/templatemonster-com

1. Must Have Plugins for
my WordPress Site

2. Ok. I’ve installed a WordPress theme.
What should I you do next?
If you take a standard WordPress Theme, by default you become one installed Plugin -
Akismet (a spam fighting service).

3. But it is not enough… Why?

4. Plugins extend
your blog‘s functions and options

5. Could you only imagine?
There are more than 40,000 free plugins available at www.wordpress.org/plugins/
You can get a lot of paid WP plugins on the other websites.
But remember …
All Must-Have Plugins you need are free!

6. Checklist criteria (Mind-Map)

7. Chasing the WordPress plugins involves a bit of research and
consideration. Take a look at our list with Top WordPress
Plugins, that can help you bring your Site to the next level.
We have picked the plugins that we personally prefer so you
can choose them without any hesitation.
Let’s go...

8. Backup Plugins
BackUpWordPress - will back up your entire site
including your database and all your files on a
schedule that you choose:
https://wordpress.
org/plugins/backupwordpress/

9. Security Plugin
All In One WordPress Security & Firewall will
take the security of your website to a whole
new level:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-
in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

10. Spam checker Plugin
Akismet checks your comments against the
Akismet Web service to see if they
look like spam or not and lets you review the
spam it catches under your blog's "Comments“
admin screen:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/

11. Cache Plugin
W3 Total Cache – the fastest and most complete
WordPress performance optimization plugin. It
helps increase your site speed:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-
cache/

12. Comments Plugin
Disqus makes commenting easier and more
interactive, while connecting websites and
commenters across a thriving discussion
community:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-
comment-system/

13. Optimization Plugin
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301
redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally
tidy up any loose ends your site may have:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

14. Social Networking Plugin
Shareaholic is the world's leading all-in-one Content
Amplification Platform, which includes related content
recommendations, social sharing, following, social
Analytics and site monetization apps such as promoted
content, native ads and affiliate links:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/

15. Statistics Related Plugin
Google Analytics Plugin is the ultimate solution that allows
you to have a better understanding of how the audience
understands your site:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/googleanalytics/

16. Contact Forms Related Plugin
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus
you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly
with simple markup:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

17. SEO Plugin
Yoast SEO Plugin improves your site's SEO on all needed
aspects. It forces you to focus on keywords while writing
your content. In that way, you can optimize the SEO title,
meta descriptions and the body of your posts in a way that
each of them will contain a specific keyword:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

18. Have you ever wondered what plugins do the top WordPress blogs use? Read our comprehensive list
here: blog.templatemonster.com/2016/02/09/plugins-of-15-top-wordpress-blogs/
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