There are not really any plugins that work ideally for new websites, but in a way it is mostly the very popular plugins that are the most useful. After all, they are popular because a lot of people use them, and it is not as if they discovered them 6 years after starting their blog. In other words, the plugins on this article are all very popular and all serve purposes that most WordPress bloggers could not do without. There are ten on the list that are in no particular order.
1. W3 Total Cache
It has a sexy name, and is kind of sexy in its application. It makes your website go a lot faster by the use of memory caching. It reduces loading times by making it so that people do not have to load up your web pages as often. Lots of people go for this plugin because it helps to reduce loading times and therefore improve a websites SEO.
2. Jetpack
This is a tool you can use to make your website responsive so you can use it on a mobile device. It also has lots of sharing tools, and other tools for your content such as checking the spelling. You can use it for short code embeds and there are free and paid features you can try.
3. Google Analytics for WordPress
It is a plugin that is needed because Google is the biggest search engine on the planet with the most users and websites indexed, so it is common sense to jump through their hoops. You use the plugin so that you may integrate Google Analytics into your website a little more easily. You are able to use Google Analytics to check your traffic, broken links, etc. it is a little difficult to navigate at first, but as you learn what each thing does then it gets easier. Although, if you are new to Google Analytics then you are going to have no idea what it is trying to say to you.
4. Better WP Security
As the name descriptively suggests, this is a plugin that allows you to improve your WordPress security. It goes through all of the smaller details that web designers should probably clear up anyways, and then gets a little more advanced so as to stop opportunistic hackers. The rest of its techniques and features are there to help you make life harder for hackers.
5. Sociable
It is something you should probably download if you have lots of different social media accounts and you want to share with all of them from just one admin page. It is good if you want to create a sustained social media campaign over a long time.
6. All in One SEO Pack
The Google Hummingbird update has made these sorts of tools less relevant, but they are not dead yet because they help you with your on-page SEO. They help you complete the bits you may not have done if you had not had this SEO pack reminding you about them.
7. Google XML Sitemaps
This is a plugin that allows you to use the Google XML sitemap generator from your website itself. It is more of a convenience tool than anything else because it is not exactly a hard process to go through. Google have made it simple enough to create a sitemap and submit it, but this tool allows you to do it all from your WordPress website builder.
8. WP-Polls
It is a plugin that allows you to add polls (questionnaires) to your website and web pages. Some people use them to increase customer/viewer engagement, and others use them to ask marketing questions or try to please the people who are reading the website. The plugin gives you a lot of choices for which poll type you may have, and makes it easy enough to add one onto your website.
9. WordPress Backup to Dropbox
The name gives it away, but it backs up your data to the Dropbox. This is a cloud service where you may save your data just in case you lose it due to a server crash, or simply by accidentally deleting it when you update your website.
10. WordPress SEO by Yoast
This is not as relevant these days thanks to the newer Hummingbird update, but you still have a lot of on-page SEO to do so it is not a bad plugin to have. The fact that it reminds you of what needs doing is a good enough reason to have this plugin in your new website.
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