10 Must Have WordPress Plugins
What 10 plugins do we need for WordPress website?
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:18 1st Plugin - Security
1:18 2nd Plugin - Security
1:59 3rd - Speed and Performance
2:40 4th - SEO
3:11 5th - Analytics
3:36 6th - Page Builder
3:54 7th - Forms
4:25 8th - Chat
4:56 9th- Protection of Spam Comment
5:14 10th - Multilingual
5:29 Your Plugins?
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A website is not just what users see. There are several important segments on the website and we must satisfy the needs of all.
The first plug-in is @WordfenceOfficial Security, one of the best plug-ins to protect your website.
The free version has a lot of features, perhaps the most if we compare it with the free versions of some other security plug-ins.
Key features:
Firewall blocks emerging attacks and allows regular users to go through the firewall.
Blocking builder is allowing you to protect website the way you want, including blocking traffic based on IP, hostname et cetera.
Real-time traffic shows hack attempts and blocked requests in real-time.
Two-factor authentication can help you to improve login security using integration with Google Authenticator, FreeOTP et cetera.
Also, many WordPress experts don't have much experience with security topics and many terms are not familiar to them, so Wordfence Security is the right solution, since it uses beginner-friendly terminology.
The second security plug-in is @limitloginattempts . This plug-in allows you to define rules if someone tries to log in as a site administrator.
For example, you can define that the hacker will be blocked for 30 minutes, if the password is wrong three times, or that the hacker will be blocked for 24 hours, if after those three times he makes another 3 mistakes.
The number of attempts and the time interval are parameterizations that you can define.
The plug-in contains analytics of blocked users and other data important for this part of website protection.
Website speed and performance are most important for two reasons, user experience, and search engine optimization.
There are many plug-ins for improving performance, but perhaps the best among them is @WPRocket_Official
WP Rocket has a lot of options for caching, file and media optimization et cetera. Also, it is adapted to non-experts in the field of website performance.
It is optimized for e-commerce websites by not caching the Cart and Check out pages, in order to not disrupt the purchasing process.
Search engine optimization
A perfect site that is not well optimized and has no visits is nothing. Although WordPress is SEO friendly, it is very useful to have some plugin that can additionally help in better SEO optimization.
Yoast SEO is a plug-in that can help you to do great SEO easily, both at the site level and at the level of pages, posts and products within the website.
There are a lot of very important options that we will go through in the future videos.
In order to know what is happening on the website, we need to have an analytical tool where we can see: how many visits we had on the site, where those visits came from, info about users and so on.
@Monsterinsightsplugin is a plug-in that allows you to integrate Google analytics simply and easily. Also inside the plugin there is a great overview of the information you need.
For a page builder, we have no dilemma, @Elementor is great.
No need to spend a lot of words on Elementor. Using the free version of this page builder, you can create very good pages, but for more advanced features, you have to buy the pro.
There are a lot of forms, contact forms, application forms, surveys and et cetera. If you need a form somewhere, we suggest one of the following two plug-ins for creating a form: @wpforms or Contact Form 7.
Both plug-ins are excellent, but the functionality in the free versions differs. Also, the way of creating and placing the form is different. Try both and see what suits your needs best.
Some users need real-time help, so it's good to have a chat option for them. We suggest the @Tidio plug-in.
Using this plug-in you can customize the chat to your design. Tidio Android and iOS applications give you opportunities to respond to users quickly.
One very interesting and useful feature of this solution is that you will be able to see everything that the user types in real time, before the user has sent the message.
Akismet Anti Spam is installed by default after installing WordPress. This plugin helps protect you from spam comments on blog posts. There are over 5 million active installations and if you have a blog, don't create it without this plugin.
Multilingual websites
For multilingual websites use Loco translate. It allows you to easily and simply translate all parts of your website.
The plug-in has over a million active installations and an almost perfect rating.