15 Must Have Wordpress Plugins (2017 Updated)

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15 Must Have Wordpress Plugins

• For All sites (2017 update)

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1. W3 Total Cache

• Slow loading sites are headache for users and
  they usually prefer fast loading sites. If your
  site is slow you can lose potential
  customers/visitors. So, why not speeding up your
  site? W3 Total Cache speeds up your site and
  increase website performance by reducing download
  times via features like content delivery network
  (CDN) integration. This plugin allow you to set
  caching for pages and posts easily. It has free
  as well as paid version.

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2. Wordpress SEO by Yoast

• SEO plays an important role in website rankings
  in search engines. Yoast SEO allows you SEO
  optimize your site in few clicks. Not only it
  allows you to add mata data but it also fully
  optimize your website and generate an xml site
  map for your site. It is available in free as
  well as paid version. Free version has some
  limitations but it will do good for blogs,
  personal websites or small business sites.

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3. Better wp security

• ithemes security formely known as Better WP
  Security is a security plugins that adds an extra
  layer of protection to your site. Not only it
  scans your site for viruses and file changes, it
  also stops brute attacks. It bans IP addresses
  and hosts and limits login attempts thereby
  increasing your site security. Database backup is
  another plus point that this plugin offers. It is
  available in free version with some limitations
  and paid version with full features. In paid
  version you can add two-step verification while
  logging in to your account.

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4. backup Buddy

• Backup Buddy is the most easy to use plugin for
  site backup and migration purposes. At some point
  you may lost your website or its entire data.
  Backup buddy backs up your website data and store
  it on some cloud storage or on the sleep. If at
  some point you lose your website you can easily
  retrieve it using your backup. It allows you set
  automatic backup schedule for your website. This
  plugin is available in paid version only.

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5. Google Analyticator

• If you want to keep an eye on your site analytics
  than you should definitely use Google
  Analyticator. This plugin allows you add google
  analytics code easily and track your visitors
  from your wordpress dashboard. This plugin is
  available for free and is powered by well known
  company SumoMe.

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6. Edit Flow

• Edit flow helps you to manage your editorial
  calendar. Manage posts and authors and leave
  editorial comments. You can discuss a posts with
  your contributors via editorial comment section
  for which an email is sent to every contributor
  whenever a new comment is added. It also allows
  you to add custom statuses with descriptions in a
  few clicks.

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7. Table Press

• As the name represents TablePress is used to
  create custom and beautiful tables with ease. It
  allows you to create tables within wordpress and
  than you can add them to posts or pages in one
  click. You can also export table data. You can
  create any kind of table with this plugin
  starting from pricing table to a comparison
  table. This plugin is available for free.

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8. Disqus

• Default wordpress commenting system is good only
  if you have low count of visitors but if you site
  or blog is popular enough you should go
  with Disqus. It is a third party commenting
  system and changes completely wordpress native
  commenting system. Add this will plugin and
  comments will not effect your server speed.
• Its important that some people dont like disqus
  because leaving comment is not straight forward
  but if you have an account its pretty simple.
  Disqus also acts as spam blocking plugin.

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9. Optimus

• Images add an extra load on your server and hence
  reduce loading speed. If you want your site to be
  fast you should use some image optimizing
  plugin. Optimus is the plugin that I recommend
  for this purpose. It compress your images
  automatically when they are uploaded without
  losing quality. It is available in paid and free
  versions but free version do the job good enough.

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10. MailChimp for wordpress

• When it comes to email marketing, it is the best
  marketing technique for small businesses and
  blogs. If you are not already building your list
  than you should start today. MailChimp for
  WordPress is the recommended plugin for this
  purpose. It is really easy to integrate this
  plugin with MailChimp. This plugin allows you to
  create beautiful opt-in widgets not only that you
  can easily integrate this plugin with contact
  form or wocommerce checkout form in just a few
  clicks.

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11. Social Icons

• Social Icons allows you add beautiful icons via
  shortcodes to your pages or posts. The plugin
  supports over 100 popular social media platforms.
  It is simple and easy to use. You can instantly
  install the plugin and add social media icons in
  beautiful layouts.

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12. WPTouch

• WPTouch adds an extra feature to your website and
  makes it mobile friendly. It makes your theme
  responsive and add such capabilities that even
  premium themes cant match. If you are deciding
  to launch a mobile version of your site than you
  should definitely go with this plugin. This
  plugin is available in paid and free versions.

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13. Akismet

• Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet
  Web service to see if they look like spam or not
  and lets you review the spam it catches under
  your blogs Comments admin screen. It comes
  handy if you decide to use default wordpress
  commenting system.

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14. AdSanity

• AdSanity is a WordPress advertisement management
  easy to use plugin. Adding new ads in Adsanity is
  like publishing a new post. It comes with with
  widgets and shortcodes that assist to display
  advertisements, so that you can display ads in
  sidebars, posts and pages. If you are deciding to
  use ads in your wordpress site than you should
  definitely use this plugin. This plugin is
  availble in paid version only.

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15. Thirsty Affiliates

• Well this plugin is not for everyone but I
  included this in this list because its extremely
  helpful if you decide to make affiliate marketing
  as your main source of income. Using Thirsty
  Affiliates you can easily add affiliate links,
  cloak links, auto insert on certain keywords, and
  even export your links. This plugin is available
  in paid and free versions.

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