Top Must-Have Plugins for Every Blog

Have you jumped into WordPress yet? Are you just starting a new blog? With so many plugins to choose from how can a newbie figure out what basic plug-ins a blog needs.

This is my list of top 7 plugins every blog should have regardless of niche and blogging level. You need to start here.

Best plugins every blog needs to have to be successful. Grab these plugins to start your blog on the right track and set you up for success.

1. Rank Math

Want to be found by your readers? Well, you are going to want to make sure Google can find you. Use this plugin to fill in all of your site’s SEO content and you can also check how your page or blog post measures up SEO-wise.

This plug-in allows you to enter meta data and keywords for each page and/or posts as your overall site. It then checks that your post title and url and optimize as well.

A wonderful feature is if you need to noindex and post for a giveaway or freebie you don’t want found, all you have to do is hit advanced and click on noindex, easy peasy.

It also included the ability to redirect your permalinks, this is helpful in case you end up removing posts or have a spelling mistake in your url that you discover after it’s been published for awhile.

2. Wordfence

Get alerted when someone is trying to access your blog, you can use the free version of Wordfence to block ip addresses. This is your first step in setting up security on your site. No one wants to pay hundreds of dollars to have a professional move malware from your site, think ahead and prevent attacks on your site, this is your business, no messing around.

3. Limit Login Attempts

Let’s face it you don’t want to give those hackers a chance to guess your password so limiting your login attempts  prevent others from hacking your site.

4. Titan Anti-spam & Security

The free version of this plug in works very well and is really light for your site. No more having to worry about all of those spam comments.

5. WP Fastest Cache or WP Rocket

A caching plugin stores you content so that is is readily available to the reader so that is doesn’t need to be pulled from your server every time so that your site runs more quickly. This speeds up your site making readers and Google happy. If you make any changes to your site, it may not be visible right away so I like to turn it off while I’m editing my template.

6. A Sharing toolbar

If you will be writing content that you would like shared, you need to make this easy for your readers to do so. If I can’t find a sharing button, I’m really unlikely that I’ll go open up Facebook or Twitter and copy and paste your URL into their site. Don’t make sharing your content a hassle, get a plug-in to do the work for you so it’s not a pain for your readers.

I like Grow from Mediavine. There’s a free version and a paid one. The paid one allows you to set your Pinterest description for the post an choose which image to use, or you can have a selection of images ready to choose from.

All of these plugins can be found by searching through the plugin directory, once it is activated, you can head to settings and make any changes or you may see it in your sidebar in your dashboard.

These are the bare minimum in terms of plugins that should be on every blog. You’ve just started a blog so you want to make sure that your blog is going to be found by google as you continue to add new content, you want to make sure that there are no errors that may penalize your site, and you want to be able to combat hackers and spam.

Also check to see what my top 10 favorite plugins are to make you a better blogger.

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4 Comments

  1. I found a link to your plug in articles on a Sits Facebook comment chain. Sooo helpful! Thank You! I recently installed the free Yoast SEO on my WP site but when entering the sitemap to Google webmaster I keep getting a 404 error code. Online this seems to be a major issue w no easy fix. I tried to enter a code I found online into the SEO files and it crashed my site! The developer had to troubleshoot f 20 minutes to get it back up. Any advice?

  2. Hello Admin, Thanks for sharing the best WordPress plugins.
    I have used these plugins that you’ve mentioned here. It is a fantastic and helpful to my website too.
    Besides that, I have also used the Blog Designer WordPress plugin. It is the ultimate solution to modify or re-organize your blog page.
    Get more details: https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-designer/

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