Plugins are great tools website owners use to extend the functionality of their sites. WordPress websites owners can select from the many plugins to add to the features of their sites and make it look awesome.
Although the kind or purpose of the site you run may determine what plugins you’ll need, there are some that are critical to every WP blog. Matters of security, speed, SEO, and many others are universal concerns for all website owners, so there’s no trick around them.
Here are freemium WordPress Plugins to try out this 2018 whether your site is independent or you work with a highly rated host. You won’t regret adding them to your website.
- Jetpack
Jetpack is a useful plugin for the makers of WordPress itself—Automattic. It is a must-have for every WordPress website as it helps boosts security, improves website performance, optimizes images and enhances the entire website appearance.
This plugin features improved distribution and can automatically share your published web content to third-party services, e.g., search engines and broadens your reach and traffic. Jetpack also creates sitemaps so your site can easily get indexed by search engines.
Additionally, it safeguards your site by stopping brute force attacks. Jetpack will also monitor your site every 5 minutes and instantly send you notifications in case of any issues.
- Yoast SEO
The reality is; search engines are a primary source of traffic for all websites. The number of internet browsers using search engines is increasing steadily making Search Engine Optimization a task you can ignore. That’s why you need the help of a plugin like Yoast SEO.
Yoast SEO is an excellent plugin that guides site owners to create better content and rank better in search results. This plugin focuses on creating SEO friendly website content. The idea behind Yoast is to assist users to get better rankings and maintain it— which is known as sustainable SEO.
To begin with, it helps you decide on a focus keyword and use it appropriately within your article. Yoast also has page analysis feature that checks to see if the focus keyword is used everywhere, i.e., on the image alt tags, meta description and on headings. What’s more, it gives suggestions on how to properly arrange the text and images to improve your usability and visibility to search engines.
- Akismet
Akismet is another plug-in from Automattic. It is a default WordPress plugin that comes every time you install a new WordPress core. It is, in essence, an anti-spam plugin that goes through all comments removing spammy comments.
The plugin gives a status history for every comment to help the site owners know which comments were spammy as detected by Akismet or sometimes the moderator. Moderators can also keep records of the number of approved comments per user, check out URLs in the comment body and do away with links that look suspicious.
Akismet is charge-free for personal website and blogs, but you’ll have to go for a monthly subscription if your site is commercial.
These three free plugins will prove handy this 2018. There are many others from WordPress’s collection if these don’t match what you want.
Nice share…i will try it