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Top 10 WordPress Plugins

One of the reasons why WordPress is the best solution for creating a website is that it is search engine-friendly and allows you to use different ways to optimise your site. By choosing WordPress as a solution for creating a blog or any other site, you have access to a wide range of plug-ins that can complement and improve its performance.

Here are our top 10 WordPress plugins to get the ball rolling:

  1. WordPress SEO by Yoast. It is probably the best of SEO plugins available to bloggers. This plugin can analyse website page in terms of the number of images, the density of keywords in the text and in the description. It can create the XML-sitemaps, edit .htaccess and robots.txt files directly from the admin panel, add breadcrumbs, and optimize the RSS.
  2. Jetpack by WordPress.com. This plugin has more than 30 modules, which greatly simplify the setup of your engine, providing it with many useful features. It includes improved CSS editor, contact forms, spam filters, a module for secure authorisation of applications and services, additional widgets for the admin panel, content tools for posting via email, Shortcode embeds, markdown, beautiful math, spelling, and VideoPress. And this is an incomplete list of all available functions.
  3. Akismet. It is a plugin that will make you forget about the comment spam. If it believes that the comments shall be spam, it sends it to the administrator / editor of the site. It also has its API.
  4. WP Super Cache. This extension has all the necessary functionality to generate static HTML files from dynamic site files. This allows the server to send static files to the user, thus increasing the download speed.
  5. Google XML Sitemaps. This plugin must be undoubtedly installed on every blog. It is a map of your site created in XML format that will be updated regularly. This will improve the site indexing by search engines and help your website rate higher up on the Google search results.
  6. Contact Form 7. It is probably the most powerful and functional designer that will help you create a feedback form on your site. It has flexible configuration and an unlimited number of plug contact forms.
  7. TinyMCE Advanced. This plugin is designed to expand the functionality of the standard editor which will facilitate text editing.
  8. Login LockDown. This extension will make it impossible to hack your admin panel simply by brute force.
  9. Disqus. This plugin replaces or adds standards WordPress comments. It is easy to set up and use and it is not necessary to register where it is installed.
  10. Search Everything. It is additional navigation for your site. It doesn’t conflict with other similar extensions and greatly simplifies the search for a site.

 

All of the above plugins are time-tested and can be found through your WordPress console under plugins.