Hello friends, I am here after a long time break and get some important news for you. Today I am going to share some important wordPress plugins what you must have to install immediately after installing a fresh wordpress on your server. Let’s go to our main discussion …
Here is a list of all important wordpress plugins:
1. BackWPup:
After a fresh wordpress install you have to install BackWPup plugin to backup your contents. It’s very easy and user friendly. Its free and has several options to save your data.
Download BackWPup plugin from here.
Best Alternative plugin (premium) : Vaultpress, BackupBuddy
2. Login Lockdown:
If you are a wp user then you know that, Spammers and hackers are all around your website. So, Before they got your site you have to take some steps on you backend. Login lockdown will ensure you about unauthorized entry and block them for you.
Download Login Lockdown plugin here.
Alternative plugin: wordfence.
3. WordPress SEO by yoast:
Search Engine Optimization is very important factor now a days for your site. So you have to ensure that immediately on your site. But for wordpress users we have a good plugin to do this work for us. Yes, I’m talking about WordPress Seo by yoast. It’ll optimize your site onpage for seo. Its very easy to install and controll. Let’s install this on your site.
Download WordPress SEO by yoast here.
4. Google XML sitemaps:
Quick Indexing in google search is very important for a website. For this we need a xml sitemaps for google, where it can find our links and contents which is indexed by google search easily. This plugin is going to make xml files for us quickly.
Download google xml sitemaps plugin here.
5. W3 Total cache:
Faster Website loading is important for a site because nobody like a slower website. To make our site faster we need to cache our contents and optimize them properly. This plugin is going to do this job for you. You can load your website faster after installing w3 total cache plugin to your site.
Download w3 total cache plugin here.
Alternative plugins: wp super cache.
6. Disqus Comment:
Sometime we have a lot of comments on our site which is not well for our wp database and it’s hard to backing up those comments easily. So, we are going to use disqus comment system which is very rich and faster. Because of a third party plugin it won’t affect your wordpress database and server to be down. It is also comes with anti-spam filters so, pages load quickly on your browser.
Download Disqus comment plugin here.
Follow this guide to install Disqus comment system on your website.
7. Gravity forms:
With this plugin you can build forms on your wordpress website. It’s user friendly and easy to config. It has some additional add-ons for different purpose as you need like online survey, user post submission etc.
Download Gravity forms here.
Alternative plugin: Contact form 7.
Thank you for being with me. Will coming soon with new posts for you. Till than take care …
MD. Anisur Rahman Bhuyan
Date: 17.08.2015
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