As soon as you are done with installing WordPress, you look forward to its key features – The Plugins. So before you start blogging, here are 5 important and much required Plugins you should install.

 

 

1. Akismet 

It is a great plugin designed for you site to stay away from unwanted comments and trackback spams. The plugin is designed such that it scans each and every comment as soon as it is posted by a visitor on your blog, helping you stay tension free from spam even while you sleep.

2. Google Analytics by Yoast

Google Analytics is one the best platform provided by the giant Google itself to track any activity on your blog by the visitors with great accuracy. Analytics provides real time views as well as the other important things for you to analyse your blog such as bounce rate, visitors’ location with their software used to access your site.. and what else.. Yoast adds this feature right into your WordPress so there is no need for you to go and check it somewhere else!

3. Google XML Sitemaps

 

 

This plugin automatically generates a sitemap in order to index your site on search engines like Google,Yahoo,Bing,etc. and updates it regularly as you add data onto your site.

4. JetPack by WordPress.com

 

Features include: 

• Customization. Make your WordPress site uniquely yours with Custom CSS, Carousels, spam-free Contact Forms, Sidebar Widgets, Infinite Scroll, and Tiled Galleries.
• Mobile theme. Instant and customizable lightweight responsive theme designed for phones and tablets.
• Content tools. Create and publish richer content with Post by Email, Shortcode Embeds, Markdown, Beautiful Math, Spelling, and VideoPress
• Visitor engagement. Increase your traffic and keep visitors coming back with Enhanced Distribution, spam-free Comments, Shortlinks, Likes,Notifications, Related Posts, Publicize, Social Sharing, Subscriptions, and Site Verification Tools.

5. W3 Total Cache

 

It is one of the most used and trusted plugin on WordPress. It enhances your site performance magnificently and improve speed dramatically by caching browser,page,object and database.

 

Thankyou for reading.. SHARING is AWESOME!!