Which plugins cannot missed in your website?
If you’re developing your website and you want it to be a success, here we’ll give you a list with the basic plugins for WordPress that will help you. Keep reading to know them and tell us which one you will remove or add to this list. In colloquial terms, a plugin for WordPress works to extend or create a specific function on our website and has a great utility if we do not know areas of programming, giving a professional and very striking touch that without doubt, it will capture the attention of your visitors. Here we give you a list of 5 basic plugins that, according to our experience, must be in each website, doesn’t matter the product, services or what information it has:
All in one WP migration plugin
Create backups suitable for downloading as a file or uploading to the cloud.
Once you install and activate it, a direct link will be automatically created in the WordPress menu bar (on the left of your screen), there you will have two options:
Create a backup: Click on export, after that it will redirect you to the plugin page, click on export and in the drop-down list select the one of your preference, you can choose as a downloadable file, upload to Google Drive, Dropbox and many more options. Wait for it to download and that’s it.
Upload a backup: If you want to restore your web page at the time of the backup or similar, in this option you click on import, upload the file from your backup and wait the indicated time for the magic to be done. Keep in mind to make constant backup copies and every time you have to make any update; we know what it can take to make a website and it’s not pleasant to lose the entire process because we do not have the support of this plugin.
Yoast SEO
Start with the search engine optimization process of your website and receive tips to improve your website in this aspect.
SEO is a very useful process which we recommend you to learn, we love this plugin but it does not work alone and you must have prior knowledge to get the most out of it. Yoast SEO has free and premium versions, both of them very complete and totally intuitive, where from the colors of the traffic light it indicates the status of SEO issues of different aspects of your website, such as blog posts or descriptions.
Every time this plugin notices any inconvenience in SEO, it will notify you so that you can take action on it and be closer to being in the first search results.
Resmush.it
Considerably reduce the weight of the images you upload on your website, quickly, automatically and without reprocessing. This plugin works at any time during the process of creating your website, although ideally you can activate it from the start of this process; We briefly explain both ways:
If you install it from the beginning: Each image you upload to your web page will be automatically optimized. So easy!
Now, if you install it after having some images: You must enter the plugin functionalities to execute the optimization process of the already existing images and the next ones will be automatically optimized. As a tip, and if you still want to exploit this plugin and you want your images to have a featherweight on your website, from the editing program of your choice, save the image as a web optimized file and then, let this plugin still reduce its weight even more. The speed and effectiveness of your website will thank you!
Antispam Bee
Ends with the spam and simplify the process of not desire information.
Once you activate the plugin will be already working, however, we recommend you to go to setting and program everything according your visitors and experiences in the website.
The configuration of this plugin is subjective but we recommend you to activate the option to have the spam deleted after X days, with the purpose of cleaning your data base and not to use the storage space unnecessarily.
Ithemes security - Plugin
Increase the security of your website, create validations, notifications and/or access reports.
Sadly, there are more and more cases of hacking or computer insecurity on the web and this is a plugin we should consider enormously, by activating it and going to the settings you can choose different ways to increase security and additionally, receive reports and notifications of alerts to possible risks.
We recommend that with this plugin, activate the entry with two-step verification, so that before each access attempt is you who must accept the entry using a code. The process is longer but is all for the security of your site and not lose our website, right?
We hope each of these plugins are useful to you, once you use them we want you to tell us how they were and, at the same way, our community grow. And before we forget it, here is another gift…
Bonus: CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent
Quickly create the cookie notice and confirmation when someone visits your website. Make that each of your visitors knows and accepts the cookies policy when browsing your website. You only have to activate the plugin, enter to the settings and configure the message, where and how you will show the massages, regulation and other basic configurations.
Finally, remember that more is not always better; keep in mind that if you fill your website with plugins this will negatively affect your page in terms of loading speed, space, aesthetics and many other factors. Always try to choose the add-ons that are the most useful and avoid relying entirely on them.
Do you have doubts about any plugin or do you want us to develop your website? Contact us now.
