Hey guys, hope you are enjoying blogging as much as I am. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, keep reading. As I said, you can improve the performance of your WordPress blog by using various WordPress plugins.
There are 45,656 plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository. Isn’t that too complicated to pick the right plugin for you?
What if choosing plugins for your blog get easier?
To pick up WordPress plugins, I have listed some excellent ones that will surely add more features and new functionality to your WordPress blog.
List of Essential WordPress Plugins
Jetpack
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin by team Automattic. This plugin comes with multiple features viz, Traffic Growth & Insights, Security, Image Performance, Centralized Management, Comment system, and more. It has both a free and paid version.
Wp-Super Cache
Team Automattic develops this plugin. This plugin speeds up your blog loading by enabling cache functionality for your files. This plugin is free for all users.
Tutorial – How to Install and Setup WP Super Cache
Yoast SEO
SEO plays an important role to get more traffic to your blog. Yoast SEO is a plugin with full functions to make your SEO right. Team Joost de Valk writes this plugin. It has both free and premium versions.
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is the best WordPress form plugin. It is 100% responsive and comes with Google CAPTCHA integration that automatically prevents spam submissions on your site.
Advanced Database Cleaner
Advanced database cleaner is a tool to clean and optimize the WordPress database. It works right from the WordPress dashboard. You don’t need to log into your phpMyAdmin.
Force Regenerate Thumbnails
This plugin regenerates thumbnails of the media files (images) after compression. It force regenerates thumbnails when you upload pictures for your content.
Google XML sitemap
Google XML Sitemap generates a special XML sitemap that helps you better index your blog in search engines.
W3 Total Cache
It is one of the famous plugins for improving blog loading speed. This plugin has various options that can quickly improve your page loading speed. This plugin has page cache, minify, database cache, object cache, and more features. This plugin is available in both free and paid versions.
Tutorial – How to install and Configure W3 Total Cache Plugin
WP-Smush
WP-Smush is a smart plugin that reduces the file size of images during upload. It compresses all types of images. The free version can compress only files below 1 MB in size.
- Check our list of best image optimization plugins
Limit Login Attempts
Limit login attempts is a plugin that enables extra security for your login page.