Top 5 Plugins Any WordPress Site Must Have!

In this era, where thousands of domain names are being booked every day, having knowledge of creating a website and managing it is a must-have thing! Many companies offer web-solutions, some of which are easy to use while some might confuse users.

WordPress is one such service which makes managing article based website much easier. Many web hosting companies offer WordPress based services which are cheaper than other hosting types. Another advantage which makes use of WordPress totally worthwhile is plugins. WordPress has thousands of free plugins in its bag and thus adding various services to your site is a matter of mere minutes. In this post we will find 5 most useful plugins that we think all WordPress based sites must have.

1. Akismet Spam Checker: -

Akismet is a web-service which helps admin of a WordPress site by automatically detecting any comments made and/or spam. It saves lot of time as admin does not have to pay attention to every other comment. One can add it by simply searching it through plugins gallery. For activating it, you will need one API key which can be procured at minimal cost by visiting its site. It’s hard to find anyone with right mind using WordPress site without this plugin.

2. W3 Total Cache: -

This is another great and unavoidable plugin which as its name indicates improves performance of websites. After installing this plugin, it caches your website to enhance its loading time for each and every user.

3. Blogger Importer: -

This plugin is not much of importance for those who have started their website directly on WordPress. But those, like me, who made their start with free hosting service of Blogger and then gradually moved on to WordPress. This plugin imports everything right from posts, comments to any media uploaded on Blogger, isn’t that great?

4. Google XML Sitemap: -

Google XML Sitemap facilitates traffic by submitting map of your websites to search engines. This plugin is used by almost all WordPress websites that don’t have required knowledge for creating Sitemap manually. This Sitemap is automatically submitted to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com.

5. Social Sharing Box:

It’s impossible to get traffic without making any publicity of the content that we have posted on our site. Thus in this decade where social networking has become an addiction, Social Sharing Widget is of utmost importance. While there are many plugins dedicated solely to this requirement, you can choose any one of them suiting the overall flow of your web site. One that we recommend is Share This. Its slick plugin which offers almost all of sharing buttons available out there.

So these were the 5 most useful plugins we thought everyone should know. Some other plugins which are equally important but we could not include them into this post might include WordPress SEO plugin, SildeShow and Adsense Made Easy.

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aavishkar Paranjape

Gadget freak, Apple lover; well that’s me! I have been in this wonderful field of freelance writing for quite some time and looking forward to develop more illuminating content related to gadgets or technology as I go along.

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