Which WordPress plugins should I install? It depends on your website’s goals but here are several of the plugins we generally would install on most of our new websites.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
Track your WordPress site easily with the latest tracking codes and lots added data for search result pages and error pages.
Customise WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields
Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not.
All in One SEO Pack is a WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines such as Google.
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong.
Allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.
Easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
Your WordPress, Simplified.
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using Yoast SEO plugin.
The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware.
Enables the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
The most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins of all time with over 13 million downloads.
Clone posts and pages.
Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type. Multisite friendly.
Multibyte functionality enhancement for the WordPress Japanese package.
Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.
The visual editor widget for WordPress.
Protect your WordPress site by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting
Displays Google Analytics reports in your WordPress Dashboard. Inserts the latest Google Analytics tracking code in your pages.
Backup and restoration made easy. Complete backups; manual or scheduled (backup to S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace, FTP, SFTP, email + others).
Modern two-factor that people love to use: strong authentication without passwords or tokens; single sign on/off; magical user experience.
Duplicate, clone, backup, move and transfer an entire site from one location to another.
Easy to use WordPress slider plugin. Create SEO optimised responsive slideshows with Nivo Slider, Flex Slider, Coin Slider and Responsive Slides.
