WordPress is an all-in-one platform that provides everything a
person needs to build a website/blog/portfolio. Forget the alternative
platforms, WordPress features are like a cornucopia!! A one-stop-shop to
get your website/blog/portfolio launched and running, WordPress is
packed with powerful tools, that help you at each step so that you can
create a unique, functional and appealing web platform.
There
are plenty of features or otherwise known as Plugins in WordPress.
While some are free to use, the remaining are pay and use. Using the
WordPress Plugin Directory, you can find these free Plugins.
This
blog talks about the ten best Plugins that can make your website look
chic and sassy. You can ultimately increase considerable traffic for
your website, thereby attracting your target audience, increasing sales
and thereby ensuring more profit.
Moving forward, we’ll talk about the ten best Plugins to watch out for: -
1. YOAST SEO:
As the name suggests, this Plugin provides an end-to-end
solution for live analysis, thereby helping you to optimize your
content, images, descriptions and keywords. Yoast also helps you to
check the quality and quantity of the text, even correcting the
grammatical parts as well.
2. WP-ROCKET:
This is a paid Plugin service, which helps in boosting your
website/blog/portfolio and increasing the actual number of footfalls
during each day. This wonderful service aids you in minimizing HTML
tags, pages and other technical files, which may cause your
website/blog/portfolio to sag to the bottom, otherwise.
3. GRAVITY FORMS:
Having a huge fan base of over one million sites, this plugin
helps you to create complicated forms within minutes. The USP of Gravity
Forms is that you do not need prior technical knowledge. Whether you
wish to create multiple forms or simply break down forms, this plugin is
worth paying for!
4.GOOGLE ANALYTICS DASHBOARD FOR WP:
As the name suggests, this plugin helps you to keep a track of
the actual number of visitors per day on your website/blog/portfolio.
With the help of the fantastic, in-built statistics, you can access
performance reports per day and also check out individual
comments/posts. Another wonderful feature is that this plugin is in tune
with Google AdWords, thereby helping you with the way your ads turn
out.
5. WOOCOMMERCE:
This plugin is a MUST HAVE for e-commerce sites/websites.
WooCommerce helps you to calculate taxes, shipping charges and all
things in number! With over a hundred tools to customize, this plugin
will ensure that you don’t need an accountant to manage your books!
6. ADOBE FONTS (TYPEKIT FONTS):
What better way to advertise your calligraphy?! With over a
thousand fonts available, make your website/blog/portfolio stand out
amongst others, by using this wonderful plugin, which can be easily
installed, once you’ve paid for it.
7. SEARCHWP:
This plugin helps you to reach out to customers, by finding the
right content for your website/blog/portfolio. This boon in disguise
offers you a vast range of tools, that assist in finding the exact match
for your keywords, descriptions, titles, sub-headings etc. Priced at
99$, this is a recommended tool to have if you are keen on providing
good quality content.
8. TABLEPRESS:
Like Excel, this plugin helps you to display content in tabular
format, by directly importing them from Excel (XLS, XLSX). You can also
export tables from WordPress to Excel, using this plugin. The best part
is that it’s totally free.
9. BACKUPWORDPRESS/UPDRAFTPLUS WORDPRESS BACKUP:
This plugin helps you to save your data in the most secure way
possible. Your information can be uploaded in a wide array of options
such as Cloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, MS-Azure etc., to name a
few. It is always safe than to be sorry as one never knows what the
future might bring.
10. AKISMET:
While it is truly difficult to manage comments, you might not
know which comment triggers spam count, and which does not. This is
where Akismet comes to your rescue!
With an inbuilt technology, which, once activated, runs silently in
your background. It helps you to record every single comment and there
are indicators that track negative comments. Though this Plugin is free
to download, you need to pay for certain API Keys, which help you with
the actual process.