Best WordPress Plugins and its Usage
First and foremost it is important to know what is a Plugin.The Plugins is a software add-on installed on a program to enhance its capabilities.For Eg.if we want to watch a video on a website we should install the necessary plugin to play it since the browser does not have the tools needed for it.We may have a doubt at this juncture, that extensions also act as add o functionality.The difference between the Plugin and the Extensions are Plugins only know about the page in which they’re embedded,and they work the same across all browsers, but are specifically inserted into a page. Whereas,Extensions, on the other hand, can gather information from a browser and can be used across all pages.
While designing the website SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plays the major source of traffic for most of the sites.This is the reason why most often the users ask for the SEO tips and Plugins to improve the SEO of WordPress site.There are more number of WordPress SEO Plugins for security Plugins,Speed Optimization Plugins,marketing and social media Plugins used in WordPress. By using these plugins we make our site robust,secure and user friendly. Among those we see about few Plugins in this article.
JetPack Plugin(free):
This is the most powerful Plugin in WordPress.As the name suggests it contains a pack of awesome features for the website. Jetpack includes the feature as site security, website performance, traffic growth, image optimization, website appearance.It creates sitemap for the site which makes the search engine to index the page easily. Most of all, it protects your website security by preventing brute force attacks. It also monitors the site every five minutes for downtime and instantly notifies you for any issues found.
Akismet Plugin(Free):
This is the default plugin available in WordPress. Akismet plugin is a anti-spam plugin which checks and filters all the spammy comments.The plugin provides a status history for each comment. Moderators also can view the number of approved comments for each user, see the URLs in the comment body and remove the suspicious links.
Yoast Plugin(Free):
It is one of the most downloaded plugin always.This plugin supports all On-site SEO needs.It is used to add SEO title, meta description, and meta keywords to each post and page of your site.It also takes care of XML sitemap,Canonical URL (to avoid duplicate content),site breadcrumbs.
SEMRush Plugin(Paid):
This is the tool used to gather the information of analytics and insights of the competitors site and improve SEO. It also has the information of organic keywords to rank and where to get the back links etc…
WooCommerce(free):
WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.This plugin allows to sell anything online.With its maximum flexibility and access to hundreds of WordPress extensions,it servers 30% of online stores more than any other platform.
Rel NoFollow Checkbox:
When we link to an external site, we are giving some of your site’s authority to that link. If you don’t want do that, then we can add a nofollow attribute to that link.
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Rel NoFollow Checkbox is a simple WordPress plugin which adds a checkbox in the insert link popup of WordPress post editor. This popup already has a check box which allows you to open links in new tab. Now whenever you are adding an external link you can easily make it nofollow by simply checking a box. Still now, we saw what is plugin and some free and paid plugins of WordPress.Hereafter, we would see the most used plugin,why it is important and how it helps the site.
Generally when a individual creates his/her own WordPress website,the most important plugins to be installed are All in One SEO,Yoast SEO,Disable comments ,Stream.Among all these in this article we see about Yoast plugin which is the powerful plugin tool that makes the site user friendly.Now we will see why we say it is more powerful and most important.
The Yoast SEO plugin not only handle titles and meta descriptions of the website,but has tons of “hidden features”.some of those are,
Google generates hundreds of algorithms and updates every year and it is continuous process.Usually the SEO Experts find the algorithms,check it and test it and based on that, the plugins has to be updated regularly.In this case,if the Yoast Plugin is installed ,Without the user intervention this plugin does all the updations in the site by itself.The general setting of Yoast SEO is,all features are available as tool.
It also involves the writing content and structuring content of a site.When a user posts some article and blogs the Yoast plugin,takes care readability.By default,the plugin has readability tab and SEO tab.
Readability tab consist of
- sentence length
- paragraph length
- use of subheadings
- presence of passive voice
- presence of transition words
- Flesch reading ease
similarly,it takes care of the site structure by itself.These are the important features available in a plugin that makes the website more user friendly to the users and keep the changes up to date.These are some of the facts that helps the website to rank high.while considering about other plugins such as All in one SEO plugin,this plugin also does all the task by itself such as keyword setting,noindex setting,webmaster verification,display settings,custom post setting etc….
Stream plugin is the one which provides information of logged in users in back end, menu changes, plugin updates, content created/deleted, widgets activated/deactivated, theme changes, and much more.Moreover it gives the report in a clear,neat and orderly manner. When we view the report we can clearly understand it(even a beginner).
hope this article clearly explains the needs of the most used plugins and how it helps the website in turn.
