Nowadays worlds more than 25% of sites are proudly powered by WordPress. Yes! WordPress have surpassed the 25% of the market share.hence seeing this number of stes and market share we can say that wordpress is a famous and popular Content Management System in the market. WordPress have provided its customer a lot of plugins to improve the functionality to their websites.
There are thousand number of plugins that WordPress are offering through which you can optimize and customize the system and can perform any work they want to do. Some of the plugins are universal in nature and many of the others are very useful for the users by providing solutions to the problems.
Looking at these bulk of plugins for your WordPress site you must feel dizzy and start thinking… What plugin should I use?? Why should I have to use a plugin?? This is why this article is all about. Your core WordPress CMS can not perform all of the functionalities you want to have. To overcome this need you have to use these plugins. There are some of the top plugins that a new WordPress Website should really have. So without any other further ado, let’s have a look.
WordPress for Blogging (basic plugins for new Website)
This CMS can also be used to do blogging which is the most basic functionality of WordPress. To do blogging one must have the below mentioned plugins installed in the new Website.
W3 total Cache
Do you want your website to be fast and isloading slowly? Then speed it up! WordPress has provided a plugin to improve the website’s speed at the application level by introducing the “W3 total Cache”
Using this plugin you can manage the browser, page. Object, minify, database and the content delivery network cache easily. Only you have to do is to configure this plugin according to your need. Hence W3 total Cache is the 1st and the top needed plugin for your WordPress website which is newly created.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Improves your website’s page ranking on search engine.
- Improves your website’s “site performance” and conversion rates
- Provides mobile support
- Supports high traffic periods of your site
- Page load time reduce with the increase in visitor time on site
- Upto 80% bandwidth savings
- Minification and HTML compression of HTML. CSS and javascript
- Feed cache improvements
Akismet
Are you avoiding spam comments and tired of deleting them? Why no we control this issue? WordPress itself is providing you the best solution for this issue. “Akismet” is the plugin you are looking towards, which is the best and the most basic one.
Akismet is the plugin that checks the comments that visitors does and will check out if there is a spam comment or not on your blog’s or website’s “Comments” section.
Note! To activate and to use it you will need Akismen.com API key . you can get key for free if you are activating it for personal blog else for business and commercial sites you have to purchase them.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Filtrations and checking of the comments automatically
- To reveal the hidden or misleading links the URLs are shown in the comment body
- History of the comments are maintained
- The worst spam are outright so that the disk space are saved and can be speed up the site.
- Approved comments can be seen by the moderators.
Wordfence
If you want to fully secure your WordPress site then you have to secure it manually first. And then you can use “WordFence” to get the extra protection.
The work of the Wordfence is to provide security to your site by comparing your current code with the official WordPress. Checks if your code contains any malware or scams.
PS: it is free and open source.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- It provides WordPress Firewall to your site by blocking all the attackers before they reach to your site.
- It will block the known attackers and malicious IP’s from your site. Also the premium users can block the countries.
- It provides you the login security
- It will scan the malicious attackers
- Will monitor the real time traffic and the disk space and DNS security of your WordPress website.
- It is IPv6 compatible with security functions
- Caching features with the ability to clear the cache and monitor it.
Yoast SEO
If you have made your site on wordpress then only making is not enough you have to rank it on the search engine so that more of the people can visit it. So to provide you this functionality WordPress is providing you the plugin called “Yoast SEO”.
This plugin is the most widely liked and used plugin or the SEO of website among the wordpress community. The common features and benefits of this plugin are mentioned below.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- It provide the snippet preview
- Provides language selector
- Import and export functionality
- RSS optimization can b e done after installing this plugin
- XML sitemaps
- It is multisite compatible
Super Socializer
Other then SEO your site also need to get socialize because almost every have at least one social media account like Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. do you want to give your user the functionality of login through these accounts. Then to provide this function you can use “Super Socializer” . through this you can spread your website on many of the social websites.
By installing and integrating this plugin with your website you are providing your user the more engagement with your site with one step solution. Using this plugin you are decreasing the hurdles of your users and they can now login through their social website. This is the top most plugin for your new WordPress Website.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Provide HTTP compatibility
- Is responsive
- Is compatible with woocommerce, Multisite, BuddyPress, bbPress
- Social commenting is enabled on your site
- Social login is added
- Social Media sharing provides sharing of your site on the social media
- Social commenting
- Share counts on posts with highly customizable icons
Google Analytic Dashboard for WP
Only listing your site on search engine and then socializing it is not enough you have to keep an eye in your new site about the performance and the visitors, the stats of your new site. If all the mentioned aspects are negative then there is something that you are missing. To overcome this condition WordPress have a valuable plugin called “Google Analytic Dashboard for WP”.
Google Analytics is the tool used by most of the website owners which they use to track their visitors, the stats of their site and their site performance.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Real time no. of visitors, acquisition channels and traffic source details
- Google analytics report
- Basic tracking
- Event tracking
- Custom dimensions
- Dashboard for WP on Multisite
OptinMonster
Do you want to add popups on your site like other sites have? Want to provide the popups for the newsletters, and other things? Yes! Aren’t they good for small promotions? You can integrate it to your site too. To get the job done one can integrate the plugin “OptinMonster” .
You can now convert more of your site visitors into subscribers so that their engagement with your site can be increased. The most important advantage of this plugin is that once you have your visitors or more you can say the subscriber’s email id you can now send emails regarding the special announcements.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- You can get OptinMonster Builder and Optin Forms Templates
- Easy Integration with Email marketing services
- Advance Page level targeting
- Behavior personalization of your website
- Detailed conversion analytics
- Easy to do A/B split test
Contact Form 7
It is the ever best practice to let your customer give you feedback. Many of the visitors wants to share their problems with you and they are wishing to contact you and need suggestions to provide this functionality to your customers integrate “Contact Form 7” with your site.
More than 1 million user are using this most easy and more flexible contact form plugin.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Captcha
- Spam filtering done by Akismet
- Ajax-powered Submitting
JetPack
If you don’t want to add other plugins than integrate only “JetPack” with your website and this plugin will act like an all rounder for your new WordPress site.
As we mentioned above JetPack is the all-in-one solution for your new website. If we talk about security, the user stats, the optimization of your WordPress website and many other functionalities can be performed by only one plugin. But still it do have some limitations concerning the functionalities.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- It monitors the traffic growth and insights ofyour WordPress website
- Secure your website providing basic security
- Image performance
- Have centralized dashboard/ Management
- Custom CSS, Contact Form, Notifications
- Dedicated support
WordPress for Ecommerce
Other than using this CMS or blogging one can also use it as a Ecommerce solution and can open his or her own store online only you need a plugin which is mentioned below.
WooCommerce
As we have mentioned above WordPress is not only for the bloggers you can also make an online store on this platform. To do so you need to have a plugin that is the named as “WooCommerce”.
WooCommerce is the most widely used ECommerce solution if you want to have an online store. Worlds over 10% of eCommerce websites are running on this plugin.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Sell anything, anywhere
- Ship all around the globe
- Extensive payment option
- Control it — Forever!
- Defining your style with the storefront
- Built with developers in mind
- Extensions galore
WordPress for Social Network
You can also create your own social network on WordPress . Yes! You can make it now a days it is not an impossible task to make social network.
BuddyPress
As we have mentioned we can make social networks on WordPress to do so install “BuddyPress” on WordPress.
The most important point to keep n mind is that this plugin is open source and is free to use. So what are you waiting for start creating your own social networks or build your own community. Also anyone with little or less info can create his or her own social network
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- Have member profiles
- Private messaging and group messaging
- Activity feed
- Groups
WordPress for Discussion
Use WordPress for discussion forum. How?? See the heading below
Discussion
If you are tired of using Forum software and Bulletin and frustrated by the lack of security?? Well! WordPress provides a better and secure solution. You can create your own discussion forum use the WordPress plugin “bbPress” is here help you.
This is a lightweight, fast in speed, really flexible and more secure plugin for discussion of WordPress. And it is widely used among the users.
Benefits
Some of the benefits that this plugin provides to you are:
- It is fast
- Light Weighted
- Flexible
- And secure
Wrapping all things up!
WordPress plugin does not end here!! There are loads of other plugins that you can use for other purposes according to your need but these mentioned here were the Top Plugins for a new WordPress Website. We hope that this article helped you in many ways that you learned about many of the plugins that make the WordPress a cool platform to work with.
If you want to recommend any other plugin you use then free free to share your experience with the other WordPress users in the comment section below.
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