WordPress users are blessed to have thousands of choices when third party plugins are concerned. Many vendor offer specific task based targeted solutions, but few are considered a must have plugins among the best WordPress developers and site owners. No matter what type of site you’re running, there are certain plugins that always serve your purpose.
In this article, we’ll explore five must have plugins for WordPress and discuss why we think each plugin is essential.
1. Revive Old Post
The first plugin on our list is Revive Old Post. It helps driving more traffic to your website via social media. ROP takes your site’s old and new publications and automatically shares them to Facebook and Twitter.
Author(s): Revive. Social
Current Version: 8.5.1
Last Updated: November 21, 2019
Ratings: 78%
Requires: WP 3.5+
Price: There are both free and premium versions available.
Key Features:
• Share your new and old posts to Twitter and Facebook automatically.
• Include hashtags and links back to your website.
• Set a schedule for your social media publications.
2. Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is the most popular SEO tool in the WordPress platform. It can help you improve your SEO and analyze your content’s readability at the same time. Traffic data shows that about 79% of users never read but just scan your posts and pages. So, the more accessible your content is, the greater your chance of making them spend more time on your site. Yoast SEO is also compatible with woocommerce theme design.
Author(s): Team Yoast
Current Version: 12.6.2
Last Updated: November 28, 2019
Ratings: 98%
Requires: WP 5.2+
Price: The base version of Yoast SEO is 100% free, and there’s a premium version with additional features.
Key Features:
• Optimize your WordPress posts and pages using keywords and meta descriptions.
• See how well your content is currently optimized and make improvements easily. Improve
• your content’s readability with simple tips.
3. UpdraftPlus
There are a lots of WordPress backup plugins available online, but few of them are as powerful as UpdraftPlus. It is also very easy to use. It offers multiple cloud storage options that secure your backups with 100% redundancy. Users can even automate their backups by customizing as per their own schedule.
Author(s): UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson
Current Version: 1.16.20
Last Updated: November 4, 2019
Ratings: 96%
Requires: WP 3.2+
Price: There are both free and premium versions of UpdraftPlus available.
Key Features:
• Store your backups locally or on the cloud.
• Create automatic or manual backups of your website.
• Restore your website to a previous state.
4. Compress JPEG and PNG Images
Images aren’t the only component that impacts website performance. However, optimizing your WordPress images can be a key area of improving your page loading time. ‘Compress JPEG and PNG Images’ analyzes every graphic you upload to WordPress and optimizes it for less disc space. It uses ‘lossless’ compression so that drastic reductions in size is possible without any loss of image quality.
Author(s): TinyPNG
Current Version: 3.2.0
Last Updated: February 28, 2019
Ratings: 90%
Requires: WP 3.4+
Price: This plugin is free for up to 500 images per month.
Key Features:
• Automatically compress your images using lossless optimization.
• Bulk optimize any old images that you have
• Optimize your JPEG and PNG images.
• Resize any images you upload to your website.
5. Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin
Duplicator provide WordPress users the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another. It also serves as a simple WP backup utility. This must have plug-in successfully handles Standard WordPress migration and WordPress backups with zero downtime.
Version: 1.3.24
Last updated: November, 2019
Ratings: 90%
Requires: WP 4.0+
Price: There are both free and premium versions available.
Key Features:
• Move, migrate or clone a WordPress site between domains or hosts with zero downtime
• Pull down a live site to local host for development
• Duplicate a live site to a staging area or vice versa
• Bundle up an entire WordPress site for easy reuse or distribution
• Perform a full WordPress migration without struggling with messy import/export sql scripts
• Transfer a WordPress site from one host to another
• Manually backup a WordPress site or parts of a site
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