From Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast to Responsive menu, these WordPress plugins make your website super functional, SEO optimized, responsive and quick to load which lead to an improved user experience.)
Did you know? WordPress has more than 21,000 plugins (and counting) to choose from.
Whether you want to improve SEO, limit login attempts, decrease load time or add spam filters or need social media sharing plugins, there is a plugin for every function required to control and manage a website. Some plugins are paid while some are free and open-source. However, you don’t need all of the plugins available at WordPress. Make sure to choose the right set of tools that go well with your website. Here is a compilation of the must have plugins for every website.
Advanced Custom Fields:
Want to take control of your WordPress edit screens and custom field data? Here comes Advanced Custom Fields plugin!
With the help of this plugin, you can easily and quickly add fields on demand to WP edit screens with few clicks. Plus, it lets you add fields anywhere across posts, media, comments, taxonomy terms and custom option pages. Another benefit is that you can load and show your custom filed values in various theme template file. Available as both free version and pro version, it is installed on more than one million websites and got five star ratings.
Yoast:
The tagline of Yoast reads: “SEO for Everyone”
Yeah, that’s right. Yoast makes SEO easier for everyone, including beginners and non-technical person. It helps you know if your page titles, description, URLs and content are properly optimized for a search engine.
Here’s how…
- It lets you create the “focus keywords” and checks if you have used them throughout your blog, title and metatags.
- It checks if your posts, meta tags and description are long enough.
- It checks if you have used alt tags or keywords in images.
- It analyzes your content for subheadings.
In this way, Yoast plug is an “all-in-one” SEO tool for your website.
W3 Total Cache:
Page load time is important for any website to retain the visitors. This is why you need to work over the speed of your pages. And W3 Total Chache plugin can help you in that. It minimizes download times, increases website performance and caching every aspect of ther site, thereby improving user experience with a website. This plugin is used by several popular websites like Mashable.com, WPegginner.com, lockergnome.com and millions of others.
Below are some striking benefits of W3 Total Cache:
- Reducing page load time.
- Improving web server performance and sustaining high traffic periods.
- Saving up to 80% of bandwidth via HTTP compression of CSS, JavaScript, HTML and feeds.
It just makes your website run and load quickly!
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