10 Most Important WordPress Plugins for Business and Blog

For those blogging on WordPress, today we have brought about 10 important WordPress Plugins which are needed by almost every blogger. All these are plugins whose work is different and they all make your blog even smarter.

Friends, I had already told about how to do blogging on WordPress and how to create a blog, this post is a further part of the same article. If you have not read that article then you can read it from the link given below. I would like you to read this article before reading it so that you can understand better about WordPress Plugins.

How to install plugin on WordPress?

Before knowing about plugins, you should know how to install them on WordPress? There are two ways to install plugins on WordPress. Firstly, you will get thousands of free plugins on WordPress itself and it is very easy to install. All you have to do is click on Plugins on the right side menu of the WordPress dashboard.There you will see the plugins already installed on your WordPress. To install a new plugin, you will have to click on the Add New button at the top, as soon as you click, you will see lots of free plugins below. You can install and activate any plugin as per your need.

The second method includes those plugins which you buy from other sites. You will get the purchased or third party plugin in a zip file, you just have to upload it. To upload any plugin, you can go to Plugin ⇒ Add New ⇒ Upload Plugin from WordPress dashboard and upload the plugin in your zip file and install it.

10 Most Important WordPress Plugins

All the plugins mentioned here are not only for bloggers but for all the people using WordPress. The plugins mentioned here fulfill all types of regular work needs. Then without any further delay, let us know about all the plugins-

Contact Form 7

Almost all websites and blogs require a contact form for enquiry. Contact Form 7 plugin is best for this need. With this you can create a contact form as per your requirement in which all the features related to it are given. For your convenience, a form is already given in it. If you want, you can edit it and place it anywhere on the website. It is very easy to install it through its shortcode.

Yoast SEO

Be it a blog or a business website, almost everyone needs SEO. Your website appears on Google only through SEO. In such a situation, how to manage it, you can avail this facility through Yoast SEO plugin. Once you install it on your WordPress, it will automatically tell you step-by-step to set it up. Almost all SEO managers use this plugin.

WP Super Cache

It is very important to have Cache Plugin for WordPress. With such plugins, the speed of your website gets improved and it sets all the speed related things for your website like compressing the code, HTML Static etc. If you have installed WP Super Cache, then it creates a cache of your website, which improves the speed of your website.

WPBakery Page Builder

If there is a need for changes or editing on your WordPress website, then WPBakery Page Builder plugin will prove to be the best for you. If you take a premium theme then it comes free with it otherwise you will have to purchase it separately. With this plugin you can add something new to any section of your website.

AMP

According to Google’s new project AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), the content of your blog or website should be better to open faster on mobile. This is because now most of the traffic on the website comes through mobile only. To do this method you will need AMP Plugin. AMP Plugin hinders page speed by turning the website page into static. This is the best plugin for bloggers.

Jetpack by WordPress.com

This is the best plugin to monitor your website regularly. Through Jetpack, you can know from where, how much and how the traffic came to your website. If your website goes down for a while, it immediately alerts you through email. Along with this, this plugin also monitors the security of your website and is also ready to improve the speed of the website.

Akismet Anti-Spam

If you have the option of comments on your website or blog, then install this plugin immediately. Akismet Anti-Spam plugin keeps away the spam coming through comments so that it does not have any harmful effect on your website. It has also been set for the new rules of GDPR so that your blog does not go against the GDPR.

Smush Image Compression and Optimization

If your blog or website has become slow due to the size of huge images, then this plugin will be the best option for you. The Smush plugin compresses all the images uploaded to your WordPress website at once, meaning it reduces the size of the images. Due to which your website starts opening more quickly. The image compression of this plugin does not have much impact on the quality of the images on your website.

UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

If you are also afraid of problems like your website or blog being down or being hacked, then install this plugin on your WordPress. UpdraftPlus plugin keeps automatically updating your blog. Once you set where you want to keep your backup and when to update it, it keeps doing its job continuously.

Really Simple SSL

If you want to secure your website from http to https then you will need this plugin. You can get SSL Certificate from anywhere but you must change http to https in the code of your website otherwise SSL will not work. The Really Simple SSL plugin converts all http to https in your website’s code at once. Due to which your SSL starts working properly.

Conslusion

If you use WordPress, then you can install all the plugins mentioned above one by one because they all have different functions. This makes your WordPress better. All the plugins mentioned above will be available almost for free and are mostly available on WordPress only, you will not need to download them from anywhere else. You will only get the WPBakery Page Builder plugin from other sources or with the theme.

Friends, I hope you liked our today’s article. Apart from all these plugins, if you also have any best plugin then tell us, we will tell people about it also. You can tell your answer in the comments below and also spread this article to others.