WordPress is very handy Content Management System, best wordpress plugins allow us to make our blog better.
There are lots of wordpress plugins available in wordpress directory, but only few of them are worth installing on your blog.
Today I’m going to share the best wordpress plugins with you, which you can use to increase performance of your website for humans and search engines.
I’ll share only best wordpress plugins which are required to run a good wordpress site, because having less plugins installed is always good. Plugins increase loading time of your site, so use them wisely and only when needed.
I’ll share both free and premium plugins, if they are premium, then don’t worry, I had checked and reviewed them, they are really worth the money.
Best WordPress Plugins
I hope you’d like my collection of 9 best wordpress plugins.
1. SEOPressor
SEOPressor is a best SEO plugin for wordpress. It works like a charm to improve your rankings. I used it, tested it and I can say, it works. SEOPressor does analysis of your whole post upon your targeted keywords and gives your post a score, getting a good score is really easy, because the plugin itself does almost all required things, like highlighting the keyword, etc.
If your post is lacking in SEO points, it will find them and tell you how to correct it. It is like having a SEO expert behind you, guiding you.
But remember one thing, don’t over-optimize your post, try to maintain rank between 60%-80%. So it looks natural in the eye of Google or any other search engine. 😉
So don’t wait, go and grab this, its really worth the money. And when I say its worth it, it REALLY is.
2. Akismet
Akismet is a very helpful plugin if you get lots of comments on your posts. It is normal that some of comments will be spam comments too which are generated by bots for only website promotion.
This happens a lot of the time, but Akismet is there. It will secure your blog from spammy and harmful comments.
Whenever someone comments on your blog after installing Akismet, it will scan it through their servers and will do several tests, if the comment passed it, it will come in pending comments section, else it will be deleted.
3. Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is very helpful plugin to create Contact Us pages for you blog. This plugin creates beautiful fast loading forms. It is really simple and flexible and available for many languages. It has features like ajax powered submitting, spam filtering too. It is the best wordpress plugin for creating Contact Forms.
4. All in One SEO
All in One SEO is an SEO plugin to optimize your blog for search engines. It automatically optimizes your blog posts and makes them rank better in the search engines. It also generates SEO meta tags itself and also lots of other features are provided by this plugin.
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So if you can’t afford SEOPressor, then this one is worth installing.
5. WP Smush.it
WP Smush.it reduces the loading time of your pages via compressing image sizes. It uses Yahoo Smush.it API. Install this plugin if you use too many images in your blog posts, else leave it, because having less plugins is always better.
6. Disqus Comment System
Disqus Commenting System is a plugin developed by non-official people. It uses Disqus API. The comments done by them are totally indexable and SEO friendly. If you want to get rid of that traditional commenting style then you try using Disqus commenting system. It threaded comments with spam filtering, white listing and blacklisting feature too.
7. Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps will generate a special XML sitemap for your website to make it easy to search engines like Google, Bing, etc to crawl and index your site. This plugin supports all wordpress generated pages too, and additionally, it notifies search engine bots whenever a new post is published on your blog.
8. Thank Me Later
Thank Me Later will send an email to your commentator whenever someone writes a comment. It will help you to increase your reader engagement and encourage commentators to comment again. You can add the name of the commentator to add a more personal touch. Also you can include your RSS feed links, facebook page links and twitter links to increase the fan following of your blog.
9. WPtouch
WPtouch is very effective plugin to make your website comfortable in any mobile device. This plugin will create a mobile version of your website for Android, iOS, BB, etc., powered smartphones and make your website smooth in mobile devices too. If your website’s theme is responsive then no need to use this plugin, but if it is not, then you must install this plugin. Installing this plugin won’t affect your desktop theme.
These were my 9 best wordpress plugins to use on your blog to improve its performance. I know this is very little, but I didn’t want to confuse you with lots of options. So I made the list as short as possible.
Let me know what do you think about these plugins? If I forgot any, do let me know in comments.
Do share with your friends, if you liked my 9 best wordpress plugins.
Nice post 🙂 i have some doubts, Did you used any of these plugins, Do you have any wordpress site other than this
**Happy Blogging**
Hi Sameer,
I used every plugin which I mentioned above, That's why I'm recommending them. 🙂
I use some on my blogs which I flip, and some on microm-niche blogs. That's it!
nice Post ! Askimet is a crucial plugin for me to deal with spam comments. I personally stopped using WPTouch a few months ago as i prefer a WordPress theme with a responsive design 🙂
Nice post! I had seen these kinds of post on many blogs but still many budding bloggers needs it hardly.
I like "All in One SEO" plugin and I have been using this plugin for my other wordpress blogs.
What can I say?this article is pretty good but in my opinion there are many wp plugin you can use,WP Auto Affiliate Links is one of them
Nice post Jafar… word press provide us large no. of plugins,so it is obvious to get confused in choosing right plugins in less no of count .This post is very helpful for a newbie like me.Here I hear first time about Thank Me Later ,I will surely gonna to use it.
Thanks a lot.. i was actually looking for a way to schedule a regular backup of my blog…are there any offline tools??
Hi Phil,
Yeah Akismet is one of the best plugins!
May I know why did you stop using ?
Hi Adam,
Yeah, there are many similar posts, but the plugins shared here are totally gems!
All in One SEO is the plugin which many wp bloggers trust for SEO.
How is it resulting for you?
Hi Eddi,
Yeah, there are many many more plugins but I wanted to share a few of them only, which are best!
Hi Mahendra,
Yeah, wordpress has a large number of plugins available, so it may be really confusing to choose one of them, that's why I created this post!
Hi Sonicjar,
There are many backup tools available, just search in their directory of plugin, and you'll get a good one!
I relish, result in I discovered exactly what I was having a
look for. You’ve ended my 4 day lonbg hunt!
God Bless yyou man. Have a nice day. Bye
Glad this worked out for you. 🙂