WordPress is one of the most popular free Content Management System (CSM), used by millions of website and blog owners. If you are a WordPress user then you must know about plugins which we use to make our WordPress blog more user friendly for blog owners to reader, keep secure and add more features. With a huge collection of free plugins you can easily add almost any functionality to your WordPress blog in a short period of time. There are thousands of free WordPress plugins are available and you need to find proper plugins for your blog or website. So that I’m going to share top 6 must have plugins for WordPress blog.
Free Top 6 Must Have Plugins for WordPress Blog
Most of the newbie bloggers want to use free plugins to make their blog user friendly, keep their blog secure and blog decorative purpose. So that I’m going to share with you top 6 free must have plugins for WordPress blog.
Akismet
Spam comments are one of the common word for WordPress bloggers. Your blog may receive huge spam comments when your blog will popular. You can’t fight against ‘spam comments’ without Akismet plugins. Akismet is a free plugin which you can easily install, configure and use in your blog. You can also use the Pro version of this plugin to keep more secure from ‘Spam Comments’. Download Link
WordPress SEO by Yoast
This is one of the most popular SEO plugin for WordPress blog and website. You can easily configure this plugin to get all features off on-page SEO. The plugin includes an XML sitemap so that you don’t need to use an extra plugin for XML file. There is also included Meta Robots plugins, RSS footer and much more. You can also use the PRO version of WordPress SEO by Yoast to get more benefits of SEO. This plugin has a Rating 4.7 out of 5 on WordPress and already downloaded more than 10,001,747 Link
Contact Form 7
A great plugin for webmaster to control multiple contact form on their blog and website. This is an essential plugin for every blog and website. The form also has security features such as Akismet spam filtering, CAPTHA to control spam. You can easily install and configure this plugin. This plugin already downloaded more than 16 million times. Link
Jetpack by WordPress
Another great plugin by WordPress includes so many features for webmaster to blog readers. You can easily Monitor your WordPress site with this plugin. Just install this plugin and create a WordPress ID to active this plugin. It has so many functions such as site stats, proofreading, BuddyPress, blog subscriptions and some other exciting widgets to your blog. Download Link
Digg Digg
The Digg Digg plugin is one of the important plugin to make your blog more social. When your reader finds your post helpful then they can easily share your post with this plugin in their social profile. This plugin provides a nice looking social toolbar and there is a chance to get more visitor from social media sites. Download Link
W3 Total Cache
This is one of the most popular WordPress Plugin to increase user experience. Blog loading time is one of the remarkable fact for both blog user and search engines and this plugin helps to increase blog loading time to make your blog more user friendly. This plugin will reduce your blog loading time more than 50%. You need to install and configure this plugin carefully because if you not configure it properly then it not work properly. Link
You will find a lot of free plugins in the WordPress plugins directory, but you need to install only few plugins which are really important for your WordPress blog and website. Above Top 6 Must Have Plugins for WordPress Blog are really essential for any blog.
Have I missed to include any plugins that are important for WordPress blog? Please let me know by commenting below and also share this post with your friends if you find this helpful.
Hey Fakharuddin enjoyed reading your post here. I am still undecided on Jetpack though felt it was slowing down my site a little despite liking some of it’s features. Do you find it does this?
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Hi Kirsten, Glad to see you here and thanks for reading my post.
Hello Fakharuddin,
I really enjoyed to read out this post.
I am already using WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin. it is really great plugin even in free version. Other plugin are also useful for WordPress user.
Thanks Fakharuddin for suggesting us great plugin.
Areesha Noor
Hi Noor,
Glad to see you here. Keep coming. 🙂