15 Must-have Plugins for your WordPress Website

March 16, 2015
Posted by: COMnGO Project
Category: Web Development ,

Thanks to its user-friendly layout and for its adaptability, WordPress is the most used platform to create and personalize your website.

As everyone who has a bit of experience in the WordPress world knows, the plugins are the most useful and common way to customize your website.

What is a plugin?

A plugin is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program, the website in this case. The plugins enable the customization.

There are plugins literally for anything you need in your website. The plugins store contains so many of them that it’s hard as a beginner to pick useful ones without getting lost.

So there you go, a list of the plugins you should definitely consider to add to your website since the very beginning of your WordPress experience

Security:

1) Wordfence: is a Anti-virus, Firewall and Malware Scan. Enable it to keep your website safe.

2) Cookie notice: allows you to follow the law of privacy about the use of cookies.

3) Contact form 7 honeypot: is an extension of the Contact form 7 plugin, it allows you to avoid bot filling the forms you have in your webpage.

Analytics and Seo:

4) Yoast Seo: Yoast SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin. It handles the technical optimization of your site & assists with optimizing your content.

5) Monster insight: With over tan 12 million downloads, MonsterInsights is the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

Statistics:

6) Jetpack: is a content management plugin that helps you to keep track of the site stats and analytics, to automatize social media posting and scheduling in advance and a lot more.

7) Metricool: allows connecting your blog or web base don WordPress. It gives you useful reports and information about your contents.

Forms:

8) Contact form 7: can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

9) Mailchimp for WordPress: This plugin helps you grow your MailChimp lists and write better newsletters through various methods. You can create good-looking opt-in forms or integrate with any existing form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form.

Social Networks:

10) Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar: It is a plugin to share your site among your friends through social sites and help to increases traffic on your website. This plugin supports 9 social networking websites.

Backup:

15) Duplicator: allows you to copy, move or duplicate your website.

If you have any other useful plugin you want to share with us, you are more than welcome to do so!