{"id":21317,"date":"2017-02-01T07:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=21317"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:02:33","slug":"8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Essential WordPress Plugins Your Website Must Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins.jpg\" alt=\"essential wordpress plugins\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-860x430.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-680x340.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-200x100.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/essential-wordpress-plugins-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We will show you the, 8 Essential WordPress Plugins Your Website Must Have. WordPress, what a CMS right? So many available plugins, themes, and tutorials. More than 27% of world websites are powered by a WordPress CMS. A staggering statistic which kinda indicates the level of functionality and flexibility it offers to webmasters. A complete website solution with an easy-to-use aura surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are that while you are reading this another WordPress website has been launched into the vast ocean of information we call the Internet. Hell, you&#8217;ve probably reached this article by researching about WordPress after hearing that Joe from high school is making tons of money with his WordPress sites.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So what can you as a potential or existing WordPress webmaster can do about your website? Well, improve it of course. Optimize it so it loads faster for your end users. No one wants to wait for even 3 seconds for a website to load. Make it user-friendly, SEO friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Plugins for WordPress can be crucial in achieving the heaven that is a perfectly-optimized-website. Of course, the server must be optimized, but plugins can help a lot in minimizing images, caching data etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So in this article, we will cover the top 8 must have free plugins for a WordPress site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663dfded78dc7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-663dfded78dc7\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#1-WordFence-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"1. WordFence WordPress Plugin\">1. WordFence WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#2-Google-Authenticator\" title=\"2. Google Authenticator\">2. Google Authenticator<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#3-YOAST-SEO-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"3. YOAST SEO\u00a0WordPress Plugin\">3. YOAST SEO\u00a0WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#4-BackUpWordPress-Plugin\" title=\"4.\u00a0BackUpWordPress Plugin\">4.\u00a0BackUpWordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#5-EWWW-Image-Optimizer-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"5.\u00a0EWWW Image Optimizer &#8211; WordPress Plugin\">5.\u00a0EWWW Image Optimizer &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#6-W3-Total-Cache-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"6.\u00a0W3 Total Cache &#8211; WordPress Plugin\">6.\u00a0W3 Total Cache &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#7-Share-Buttons-by-AddThis-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"7.\u00a0Share Buttons by AddThis &#8211; WordPress Plugin\">7.\u00a0Share Buttons by AddThis &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/8-essential-wordpress-plugins-your-website-must-have\/#8-MainWP-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\" title=\"8. MainWP &#8211; WordPress Plugin\">8. MainWP &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1-WordFence-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>1. WordFence WordPress Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>WordFence<\/strong> is a great security plugin with lots of features. It has over 22 million downloads and it&#8217;s easily the most popular WordPress security plugin. It is an open source plugin but a Premium version is also available. Wordfence Security is Multi-Site compatible and includes Cellphone Sign-in which permanently secures your WordPress website from brute force hacks.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s list some of WordFence features:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordFence Firewall<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web Application Firewall;<\/li>\n<li>Threat Defense Feed;<\/li>\n<li>Block common WordPress security threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blocking Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Real-time blocking of known attackers;<\/li>\n<li>Block entire malicious networks;<\/li>\n<li>Rate limit or block WordPress security threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WordPress Login Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign-in using your password and your cell phone to vastly improve login security;<\/li>\n<li>Enforce strong passwords among administrators, publishers, and users which improves login security;<\/li>\n<li>Login security to lock out brute force hacks;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Security Scanning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scans core files, themes and plugins against WordPress.org repository versions to check their integrity;<\/li>\n<li>Scans for many known backdoors that create security holes such as R57, RootShell, Matamu, Cybershell, W4cking, Sniper, Predator, Dive, Dx etc&#8230;;<\/li>\n<li>Continuously scans for malware and phishing URLs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monitoring Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See all your traffic in real-time, including robots, humans, 404 errors, logins and logouts;<\/li>\n<li>A real-time view of all traffic including automated bots;<\/li>\n<li>Real-time traffic that includes reverse DNS and city-level geolocation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can easily install WordFence from your WordPress dashboard by navigating to <strong>Plugins -&gt; Add New<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2-Google-Authenticator\"><\/span>2. Google Authenticator<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Using this plugin is also a good security practice for WordPress. It gives you a two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator app for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. When installed the plugin settings appear in <strong>User -&gt; Profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A secret key can be generated from the settings after which you can download the free Google Authenticator app on your phone and enter the secret key to connect the app to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p>You can greatly improve your website security with Google Authenticator.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3-YOAST-SEO-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>3. YOAST SEO\u00a0WordPress Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Yoast SEO<\/strong> or as previously known as WordPress SEO by Yoast is probably the most complete solution for WordPress SEO plugin that ever existed. It includes a snippet editor, real time page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and tons of optimization options in between.<\/p>\n<p>By using the snippet preview you can see a rendering of what your post or page will look like in search results. Check whether your title is too long or short, whether your meta description is good in terms of a search result etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can do page analysis with the plugin. That functionality checks for things that usually users forget. For instance, it checks whether you have images in your post, whether the images have alt tags containing the focus keyword for that post. It checks whether the posts are long enough, did you write a meta description and if that description contains your keyword.<\/p>\n<p>With the Yoast SEO plugin, you can control which pages Google is showing in the search results.<\/p>\n<p>You can create XML sitemaps with the plugin and learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\">YOAST SEO<\/a> features to get ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joomunited.com\/wordpress-products\/wp-meta-seo\">WP Meta SEO<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; lets you manage your WordPress SEO through a beautiful dashboard and intuitive UI. The plugin offers a wide variety of features like a bulk editor for all your meta data for posts and pages, a bulk link editor, and bulk image information (alt tags) and resizing tool. It has all the features you need in an SEO plugin, and more &#8211; sitemap manager, advanced redirect manager, Google Analytics integration etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-meta-seo\/\">WP Meta SEO has a free version<\/a> (with limited features) and a pro version with all the features. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joomunited.com\/wordpress-products\/wp-meta-seo#comparison\">compare<\/a> both versions on their official site<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4-BackUpWordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>4.\u00a0BackUpWordPress Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s always important to have a working backup of your WordPress site. You never know when you will need to quickly restore your site functionality by rolling back to a working install. A great and functional backup plugin for WordPress is <strong>BackUpWordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will back up your entire site including your database and all your files on a schedule that suits you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Super simple to use, no setup required;<\/li>\n<li>Works in low memory, &#8220;shared host&#8221; environments;<\/li>\n<li>Managing multiple schedules;<\/li>\n<li>Option to have each backup file emailed to you;<\/li>\n<li>Use of zip and mysqldump for faster backups if they are available on the server;<\/li>\n<li>Works on Linux &amp; Windows;<\/li>\n<li>Option to exclude files and folders from your backups;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This plugin can also be installed from the WP dashboard.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5-EWWW-Image-Optimizer-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>5.\u00a0EWWW Image Optimizer &#8211; WordPress Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Your site is finally up and running with an excellent post to match your niche. However, the speed tests you are making are showing that your images need compressing.<\/p>\n<p>To remedy this, you can use the <strong>EWWW Image Optimizer<\/strong> plugin. It will automatically optimize your images as you upload them, convert the images to a file format that will produce the smallest images size and optimize the already uploaded images.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons to use EWWW Image Optimizer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your pages will load faster because smaller image sizes mean faster page loads;<\/li>\n<li>Less bandwidth usage due to optimized images which will save you hundreds of KB per image;<\/li>\n<li>Super fast;<\/li>\n<li>Best JPG optimization;<\/li>\n<li>Best PNG optimization;<\/li>\n<li>Optimize everything with the wp_image_editor class extension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By using this plugin, your site speed will definitely improve.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6-W3-Total-Cache-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>6.\u00a0<strong>W3 Total Cache &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Part of having an optimized site is using a good caching mechanism. <strong>W3 Total Cache<\/strong> is exactly that. A plugin that improves the user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing download times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration.<\/p>\n<p>It has over 1 million installations and is trusted by companies such ass AT&amp;T, Mashable, MakeUseOf.com etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Benefits in using W3 Total Cache:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvements in search engine result page rankings;<\/li>\n<li>Great improvement in overall site performance;<\/li>\n<li>Improved conversion rates;<\/li>\n<li>Browser caching;<\/li>\n<li>Optimized progressive render;<\/li>\n<li>Reduced page load time;<\/li>\n<li>Improved web server performance;<\/li>\n<li>Saving up to 80% of your bandwidth due to minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and feeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>W3 Total Cache can also be configured with CloudFlare and MaxCDN altogether which makes it a must-have WordPress plugin.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7-Share-Buttons-by-AddThis-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>7.\u00a0<strong>Share Buttons by AddThis &#8211; WordPress Plugin<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Social media nowadays is the main platform for sharing information so your site presence there is of critical importance. No matter what content your WordPress site will have, the articles must be shared on social networks. And luckily for you, WordPress has a plethora of available plugins for this.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best free social share plugins is: <strong>Share Buttons by AddThis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Your readers can easily share your website content on the most popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can position the share buttons above or below your content. Choose between different button styles and sizes, include share counts to encourage your visitors to share and much more.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8-MainWP-%E2%80%93-WordPress-Plugin\"><\/span>8. MainWP &#8211; WordPress Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve met customers setups that involved many WordPress websites scattered on different servers. These setups albeit secure, do not have a centralization management platform which can cause headaches if there are many WordPress sites with only one administrator to care for them.<\/p>\n<p>This is where a great plugin called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/mainwp-hosting.html\"><strong>MainWP<\/strong><\/a> comes. It is the only free and self-hosted WordPress management plugin available. MainWP is the perfect solution for affiliates, marketers, developers, WordPress shops and anyone else with multiple WordPress sites.<\/p>\n<p>With MainWP you get many excellent features few of which are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy Management &#8211; Manage all your sites themes and plugins with ease. The dashboard of the plugin allows easy review of which of your sites have themes and plugins ready for an upgrade.<\/li>\n<li>One Click Access &#8211; Accessing all your WP sites is easy with MainWP. You can navigate to your sites sub-menus and menus with few clicks.<\/li>\n<li>Abandoned Plugin and Theme Alerts &#8211; Some themes or plugins get abandoned by their developers and are not upgraded. MainWP will alert you of possibly abandoned plugins or themes so you can take the required measures.<\/li>\n<li>Content Management &#8211; From the MainWP dashboard, you can easily publish content to sites by picking the respective website from the list, write the content and then publish without having to go through the hassle of logging into each site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out more info on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/manage-multiple-wordpress-sites-from-a-single-place-using-mainwp\/\">manage multiple WordPress sites<\/a> from a single place using the MainWP plugin.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/mainwp\/\">MainWP dashboard<\/a> and the plugin <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.mainwp.com\/\">documentation<\/a> and the plugin documentation.<\/p>\n<p>What makes WordPress an exquisite CMS solution is the plethora of available plugins and themes that help a lot in customizing a website. In this article, we&#8217;ve covered the ones that we consider as crucial for a functioning and optimized WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more info about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/wordpress-hosting.html\">WordPress Hosting<\/a> or WordPress respective plugins and themes, you can always ask our expert Linux admins. They are available 24\u00d77 and will provide you with every info you need.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PS<\/strong>.<\/span> If you liked this post on\u00a08 Essential WordPress Plugins Your Website Must Have,\u00a0 please share it with your friends on the social networks using the buttons on the left or simply leave a reply below. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will show you the, 8 Essential WordPress Plugins Your Website Must Have. WordPress, what a CMS right? 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