Top 7 WordPress Plugins for Every Website
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I’ve built websites for many years and these are the top plugins going into 2016 that I continue to come back to when I set up a WordPress website for myself or a small business client.
#1 – Advanced Automatic Updates – Automatically updates your WordPress core software and plugins to keep them secure
https://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-updater/
#2 – BackupBuddy – Automatically creates and sends WordPress backups (files & database) to Dropbox and other 3rd party services
http://websiteprofitcourse.com/backupbuddy
#3 – Contact Form 7 – Build contact forms and surveys which can easily be added to any page on your website
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
#4 – Simple 301 Redirects – If you previously had a website, be sure to forward all old URL’s to the new website to maintain traffic and SEO benefit
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/
#5 – SumoMe – Suite of tools including: social sharing, e-mail list builder, heat maps, content analytics
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sumome/
#6 – TablePress – Present information in row/column format – great for pricing or comparisons
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/
#7 – SEO by Yoast – Use this plugin to make sure your meta titles and descriptions are unique for every page on your website, which will help increase traffic to your website via Google search
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
So there you have it… you cannot go wrong by using these tried and true best WordPress plugins.
Do you have a WordPress plugin that you cannot live without when creating a small business website?
Let me know in the comments!
Great video. I can’t wait to use them
Hi Ray, good video! I’m looking for a plugin that when I put the mouse on the product (without doing click), I can see the description of the product. Looking forward for your answer!
what’s your updated list
I’ve heard a lot about sumome, but I was wondering if you have any experience with elegant themes plugins. I have them and enjoy using them but from what I hear, sumome is the one to go with but I’m not sure why exactly. can you shed any light on it please?
Excellent List!
Wonder what you can say about http://codecanyon.net/item/stachethemes-event-calendar/16168229
Your videos are cool!I’ve just started my wordpress blog. Mutual likes and subscriptions.
Really these are very valuable plugins and you have shared here with sincerity.
Thanks for the video, good description
Hello Ray Good video keep us update for any new staff
also did you have any solution when publishing any post in WordPress to Facebook i
faced ( —– at publishing an article in WordPress
I don’t want know my readers i use wordpress
thankx
Thanks for this useful information.
If you want to make your blog page more effective and eye catchy to your site visitors then there is one best WordPress plugin is available for that named Blog Designer.
Check it here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-designer/
I bought pro version of plugin "Backup and Restore dropbox" I very glad from this. It plugin is very useful at my business. I have free time for other things and save my money. I advise https://wordpress.org/plugins/dropbox-backup/
Awesome list! We just made a video highlighting essential WordPress business plugins and have many of the same plugins! We also agree that it is important to keep the number of plugins that you have installed limited. 2 other suggestions are a caching plugin and security plugin. Great video!