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Must-Have WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Website

These must-have WordPress plugins make your website easy for visitors to use and help it earn the best possible search rankings.

Editorial Team · Web Design Jakarta

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Must-have WordPress plugins
Contents 7 sections
  1. SEO
  2. Caching
  3. Security
  4. Statistics and Sharing
  5. Shrink Your Images
  6. Comments
  7. SSL (HTTPS)

To get the most out of your blog or website, you need to install the essential plugins on your WordPress site. Plugins are one of the big advantages of WordPress, because they let you add functions whenever you need them. When you build an online store, for example, you need plugins for ad slots, animated images and much more. Think of plugins as extra weapons you can swap out to suit the battlefield. Here are the must-have WordPress plugins you should install:

SEO

The first must-have WordPress plugin is an SEO plugin. It's very important for your website, because it helps improve your site's position in search results. There are several SEO plugins you can install on WordPress today, and the top recommendation is WordPress SEO by Yoast. This plugin brings real improvements to your website, especially in on-page SEO. Many people rely on it to stay focused on their main keyword. Every article you publish ends up better, too, because the plugin checks it closely.

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Caching

When your website gets a huge spike in visitors, its performance drops because of all the data those visitors request. The site slows down and may even become unreachable. The solution is a cache plugin. We recommend these 2 cache plugins: WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. Plenty of users have found that both plugins make their sites perform better than before; check the total installs and ratings of both plugins for yourself.

Security

Who wants hackers messing with their website because of weak security? Many WordPress users have lost data or had it damaged by hackers. iThemes Security is one plugin that secures your WordPress website. It protects users of the WordPress platform, and while it isn't as advanced as the latest tools, it at least limits the damage.

Statistics and Sharing

Once your articles are optimized with the WordPress SEO plugin, you also need to keep an eye on your website's traffic. Knowing your site's traffic and statistics makes it easy to see how your website is growing. To track your statistics, you can install Jetpack by WordPress, WP SlimStat and Google Analyticator.

Shrink Your Images

Reducing the resolution of your images is one way to speed up a WordPress website. Most WordPress users ignore this, because they think their website is already optimized without extras like this. Check your site on GTmetrix and compare the results before and after using the Smush Image plugin.

Comments

Another plugin you need on your website is one for comments. It protects your blog or website from spam, so your blog community can grow as users leave comments. Plugins you can install include Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin and CommentLuv.

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SSL (HTTPS)

Last but not least is the Really Simple SSL plugin. What does it do? It's for websites that need encryption, so they're secure for visitors and for search engines, especially Google. (Best for SEO.) Don't believe it? Read: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

Those are the must-have WordPress plugins to install so your website or blog keeps getting better.

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