Critical WordPress Plugins
When you’re developing a website, it’s important to have a good base of WordPress plugins to set yourself up for success. Below, we have listed the names, functions, and links to some of the best, free WordPress plugins that we recommend.
Analytics WordPress Plugins
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is the #1 WordPress SEO plugin that helps you get more visitors from Google and Bing, attract more visitors from social media, increase your readers’ engagement, and more! You don’t need to be a master in marketing, as the plugin offers step-by-step instructions and videos.
MonsterInsights
MonsterInsights is the best Google Analytics WordPress plugin, with heaps of features including: Universal tracking, real-time stats, enhanced eCommerce tracking, and allows you to enable and track A/B tests.
It also offers 1-click tracking integration with popular plugins like WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Gravity Forms, and more.
Security Plugins
WP Cerber
WP Cerber defends your WordPress site or blog against hacker attacks, spam, trojans, and malware. With this plugin, you can limit login attempts by IP address or subnet, create a custom login URL, automatically detect and move spam comments to trash, block user accounts, restrict access to the REST API, and more!Â
Other Useful Plugins
Autoptimize
Autoptimize makes optimizing your site easy. It can aggregate, minify and cache scripts and styles, inline critical CSS, optimize Google Fonts, and more! With over 1 million installations and regular updates, we’d strongly recommend using this plugin if you’re concerned about performance at all.
301 Redirects
301 Redirects helps you manage and create 301, 302, and 307 redirects for your WordPress site to improve SEO. It is perfect for new sites or repairing links after moving existing content around. Easily choose from pages, posts, archives, or set a custom destination URL.
In Conclusion
Finally, whether you’re planning to sell products online or write about your dogs, these plugins can help. For instance, Yoast SEO gives you a score for your post’s readability and how well it ranks SEO-wise. What’s more, you can use MonsterInsights to analyze your website traffic. Lastly, with great development and good plugins, you’ll be sure to succeed!
Resources & Further Reading
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Having the right WordPress plugins is essential if you want to get the complete functionality of WordPress.
Absolutely! It can definitely make (or break) a WP site!
Very good written post. It will be beneficial to anyone who utilizes it, including myself. Keep up the good work – I will definitely read more posts.