7 Best WordPress Plugins 2017 – Planning and designing of a website is a not a spoon feeding process. It requires a lot of efforts and consideration. And it requires more & more efforts if you are building your first website.
There are a lot of online platforms available through which the website building has become much easier than earlier. Some of them are WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento & Prestashop etc.
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Amid these all, WordPress is the most used platform for building a website due to its handy and useful features. In fact, it offers such a simple interface that you can do any functionality you want on your own without the help of any website developer.
Also, the platform is very much SEO friendly. You need to just install some plugins and that plugin guides you fully for the SEO part.
Plugins present a lot of modification for the website admin. You can easily find a plugin for the functionality you are thinking to be there.
It is a most seen fact that, with over 35 thousand plugins listed on WordPress plugin directory, website admins are a bit confused about which plugin to use from a list of plugins.
Today, we would like to share with you some plugins which we think are necessary and offers a lot of functionality in a website using the WordPress as CMS. These are mentioned below:
The Must Have Plugin:
Akismet: It is the must have Plugin for any WordPress website which is used to check the comments and filters out the spam ones.
For Customization:
Page Builder by Site Origin: Page Builder by Site Origin makes it easy to build a responsive web page with the functionalities you want in a grid based page. You simply need to drag & drop the widgets, resize columns, reorder rows and your page is ready.
Site Origin Widgets Bundle: This plugin offers a variety of plugins to choose from according to your requirement. Some of them are button widget, image widget, slider widget, post carousel widget, social links widget & video widget etc.
Jetpack: This is another WordPress plugin for easy customization. Jetpack offers powerful features to a website like more security, improved performance, plenty of content tools, and also visitor engagement features.
It also offers a mobile theme option which is mobile responsive and lightweight, designed especially for mobiles & tablets.
WordPress Security Plugins:
Sucuri: Sucuri is used for the website security. There is a risk for every website to be hacked. So it is better to prepare your website to handle any kind of security issues rather waiting for it to happen and feeling sorry later.
It offers real-time alerts, website security scanner, and even malware removal service. Whenever the backend is opened by anyone, it shoots an automated email to the registered email address telling the information.
Login Lockdown: This plugin provides protection from being hacked by putting a limit on how many times a user can try to log in. After a specified limit, it locks down the admin area for a limited time period.
For Contact Us page:
Contact Form 7: A lot of plugins are there for building contact forms in a website but the most reliable and most used plugin amid them is the contact form 7. Also, it is recommendable because it is the simplest plugin to configure.
For Search Engine Optimization:
SEO by Yoast: Yoast is much better than the other SEO plugins as it offers way more feature than the other SEO plugins. It offers more features like Meta robots, RSS footer, XML sitemap and so on. This plugin is far better comparing to ‘All in One SEO’. In fact, it covers all the features of ‘All in One SEO’ and even more.
There are a lot more options in the WordPress plugins directory apart from those which have been mentioned above. But these are the widely used and highly recommended plugins so it is advisable to go for these. Also if you think any better plugin please let us know via comment, we will add that too in this list.
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