Today I have the list of the most amazing and the most essential plugins. That will make your wordpress sites 10 times better. If you read this post till the end then. I can guarantee that you will install 4-5 of my recommended plugins.
Also I’m giving away 5 copies of wp rocket which is a premium wordpress speed plugin worth $50. To be eligible for this plugin all you have to do is like the post, comment with “ give me the plugin”.
SG Optimizer Word press plugin
Earlier I use to use wprocket as my speed plugin. It’s a paid plugin out there. It’s a super amazing plugin and it is super easy to configure.
All you have to do is upload it, install it and it will make your website ultra fast. But recently i had shifted to SG Optimizer, it's a free plugin provided already by the siteground hosting. So if you are already using siteground hosting you can install this plugin.
You can see it here i have already installed it on my website. It has all the functionality that a good speed plugin should have, it has as you can see all the image optimization for the frontend optimization i have minify, HTML, JAVA Script, minify CSS.
All the options are enable this is making my website extremely fast. If you don't have the siteground hosting or you don’t have the money to invest in wp rocket then you can go for W3 Total Cache.
W3 Total Cache
It’s a very popular speed plugin out there in the wordpress plugin department. So once you install it just play with the settings or read youtube tutorial on how to configure it and your website will be extremely fast. So having a speed plugin is a mandatory requirement.
If I must tell you the faster your website the better SEO for your website. The faster your website is more traffic you will be able to drive because people will be happy with your website and google also prefer a fast loading website so I highly recommend a speed plugin.
Speed plugin Word press plugin
Just a side note, whenever you are installing a speed plugin and whenever you are enabling the options such as minify, the html, minify the JAVA Script and combine CSS whenever you are enabling any option.
Just make sure you open your site because sometime what happen is that website behave abnormally to certain settings.
So just make sure you enable setting one by one and then see the response of your website if everything is loading fine then its working perfectly.
Backup plugin
The next extremely important plugin every wordpress website owner should have is a backup plugin and the plugin i use for creating backup of my website is UpdraftPlus.
This is a free plugin again, it has a pro version but even its basic free version is more than enough. Now if you are using a siteground hosting like me then the siteground hosting it selfs takes a regular backup of your website on a daily basis.
So you don’t have to worry about backup but just for precaution i also take manual backups using this updraftplus plugin. It is one the most popular plugin one it comes to backup as you can see the 5star rating here.
2.879 votes of 5stars rating. It is a very popular plugin and so many wordpress website are using it and the plugin deserves applause.
Because it have so many amazing features the best part is that you can schedule your backup and. You don't have to do it manually and you can store your backups from Google drive, Amazon S3 server or even by the membership of updraftvault.
And you can store your backups there. I am using google drive to store all my backups. I just show you my updraftplus backup restore plugin. Settings as you can see my next schedule backup will be on june 27, 2019 and you can also do a manual backup by clicking Backup Now here.
WP Smush Plugin Word press plugin
Just like I told you earlier that the website speed matters alot. And one other plugin that really help you speed up the website is the WP Smush Plugin. Which was earlier called as WP Smush its not Smush Image Compression and Optimization.
As you can see the star rating here it also has 3.841 star rating because what it does is whenever you are uploading an image to your webpage you are adding size to your web. This is an image this is again an image.
Similarly this is an image, the more images your page will have the slower it will load and you don't want a slow loading page because you want your visitors to be happy.
Because people are impatient now they don't want to wait 5 to 10 seconds for a webpage to load they will press the back button. S
o you want your webpage to load as fast as possible and one such way to do it buy compressing the images and this is where Smush Image Compression and Optimization plugin comes into play what it will do is will automatically compress the images.
So let's say if your images of a size 100kb so by using this particular plugin it will reduce the size of your image by 30 to 70% without impacting much in the quality of the image.
So, just like on this article i have so many images out there so just by using the WP Smush Plugin I can save the size of all this images and hence my webpage will be loading at a much faster rate.
Yoast SEO
The next plugin needs no introduction it is one of the most popular plugin out there and when we talk about SEO.
It’s called the Yoast SEO. You can see the star ratings here 25 thousand + 5 star rating. It is one of the most popular SEO plugin out there and. I use it myself the best feature is that free you don't have to buy it.
And the features are tremendous so whenever you are adding an article, let say i'll just show you one of my article here and income report here and so whenever you want to add the meta title all you have to do is.
Once the plugin is installed you can add your own meta title, you can add your own meta description, you also have other options like whether you want to add the facebook title whether you want to allow search engines to index the page or not.
Whether you want the search engine to follow the links on your post or not, so all these functionalities given by yoast seo plug-in its free to use and its one of the best plugin out there.
I think i don’t need to explain this plugin more because already its very popular out there. And as for the features i'll recommend that you turn off the readability analysis of this plugin.