Tuesday, April 25, 2017

7 must have WordPress Plugins for your WP website



You own a small business or startup? Do you want to bring your business online? If Yes, then I would recommend you to go with WordPress, WordPress is a best-suited Content Management System for small businesses and start-ups.


Before you proceed to design and develop your WordPress website, you must know that what are the must-have plugins for you. Here, I’m going to explain you 7 WordPress plugins, which will assist you to maintain, secure and promote your website on the World Wide Web.


1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

When you’re bringing your business online, it becomes more important to get the right SEO done for the website. SEO by Yoast is not just a plugin, it allows admin to optimize the complete website. By implementing this plugin, you can update titles, descriptions, page analysis, publish XML sitemap and much more.


2. BackupBuddy

It was never easy for website owners to create the backups and migrate the website from one server to another. Using BackupBuddy plug-in, any website admin can quickly schedule the backup of your website. While the plug-in is working on your behalf, you can focus on another task.

3. W3 Total Cache
As we know Google’s search Algorithm keeps changing and becoming smarter and user-friendliness is one of the key attributes which makes difference in the SERP. Therefore, your website’s speed is to be commendable from the users perspective.

4. WPForms
WPForms are designed to be used by the beginners. The form builder allows admin to create the forms by simply drag & drop. Admin can create contact forms, payment forms, order forms, subscription form and other types of forms by just using drag & drop.

For more advanced features, you may opt for the pro version of this plugin.

5. Soliloquy
There are many responsive WP sliders available in the market. but, i would recommend SOLILOQUY responsive WordPress slider. I found it very much optimized which doesn’t affect your SEO and browser speed at all. It is available for free of cost, thus, you can try it right now.

6. Sucuri
we know, there are many developers out there, who keep trying to hack websites, so, to save your website from hackers, we use the sucuri plugin. Sucuri helps us to monitor the security of the website. I believe it is better to keep website secured rather feeling sorry once the security is compromised.

Sucuri plugin plays a vital role by providing real-time alerts, website security scanners and also offers malware removal service.

7. Floating Social Bar
I have browsed through many social media plug-ins and observed they come with countless social networks, which are not actually required. Henceforth such plugins will slow down your website due to unnecessary scripts. Thus, floating social bar is the best plug-in I found for WordPress, that allows admin to add only handful of social networks that really required. since there is no unwanted script or social network that provides an extra edge to maintain the speed of your website.

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