5 Must Have WordPress Plugins for 2017

The WordPress Plugin market is thriving and there has been a huge influx of new and unique tools and plugins every other day. While all WordPress Plugins come with a unique feature attached, some innovative and advanced plugins stay in the limelight on the WordPress domain.

Team CometChat • Apr 21, 2020

The WordPress Plugin market is thriving and there has been a huge influx of new and unique tools and plugins every other day. While all WordPress Plugins come with a unique feature attached, some innovative and advanced plugins stay in the limelight on the WordPress domain. Here’s an insight into the top 5 WordPress plugins that are likely to rule the year. ### 1. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is a popular WordPress plugin that makes it convenient for the site developers to optimize your content with accurate keywords, meta details, and anchors, to improve your ranking and enhance your visibility on search results. It provides you the requisite insights to create a compelling content and make it search engine optimized.

The Yoast SEO plugin takes the lead in the pool of SEO related WordPress Plugins for its simplistic yet enhanced functions. From choosing the right keyword to the accurate placement and from meta details to creating a more appealing page layout, Yoast SEO is the ultimate tool to take care of your SEO needs.

2. Hummingbird

As Google goes increasingly inclined towards imposing more stringent ranking algorithms, it has become imperative for website developers to reduce the loading time of their website to a bare minimum, of a maximum time span of not more than two seconds. This is one of the many attempts by Google to improve the user experience and the ‘web cops’ at Google are in a continuous hunt for websites that take longer than two seconds to load by de-ranking them in the search listings.

While many web developers are focused on caching the website to minimize the loading time, the Hummingbird plugin for WordPress goes the extra mile to improve your website performance. Aside from caching, the Hummingbird plugin also minifies the site weight and merges and compresses the heavy and high-resolution content and media. The plugin is a great tool for professional developers as well as novice bloggers managing their own WordPress website.

3. WP-Spamshield Anti-Spam

Comment spam is one of the most challenging issues for blogger sites and WordPress is no exception. While CAPTCHA is a good option to reduce spamming activity on your website, it also tends to revoke the visitors’ interest and reduces the number of visitor comments.

WP-Spamshield Anti-Spam is efficient that detects, eliminates and prevents spamming activity on your website, without requesting your visitors to go through the CAPTCHA verification. The functional algorithms of WP-Spamshield Anti-Spam are based on Cookies Anti-Spam Layer or JavaScript that operates in the background and prevents human spams and bots.

4. EWWW Image Optimizer

Images and high-resolution media are one of the core reasons that prolongs the loading time duration of the websites. EWWW Image Optimizer is a free WordPress plugin that compresses the file size of the images and graphical media and decreases their load on the website by a tremendous value. The EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin is compatible with WordPress Media Library as well as all image gallery plugins and supports all graphical media formats.

5. Jetpack

WP multi usage plugin. SEO, Security and Layout management.

Why go about installing a host of plugins for various functions when you can get them all in a single combo plugin. Jetpack is a popular WordPress plugin that is a complete jackpot for WordPress developers.

It performs a diverse range of functions such as website security, traffic growth, site performance, statistics, image optimization, website layout and visual appearance and also creates sitemaps for efficient search engine indexing.

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