BOOST! Your Blog with Ultimate List of Essential WordPress Plugins 2019

There is no any blogger in my list who has a blog on WordPress platform without using any plugin.

Do you know any person?

Actually, it is very difficult to find any WP blog without using essential WordPress plugins.

Why?

WordPress plugins are blessing for all bloggers like me who don’t know much coding and all. In such cases, plugins play an influential role and help us to customize our blog according to SEO. These extensions make easier our work and help us to spread quickly.

These are the reasons why preponderance of bloggers are using necessary plugins.

So in this article I’m going to cover all top WordPress plugins(paid and premium) which are huge in demand.

So after completing the essential things to do after WordPress installation, it’s time to install some ultimate WP plugins.

Let’s start it.

#1. WordPress On-Page SEO Plugins

When we talk about plugins then this is the first category of WordPress plugins which comes in our mind. This is very necessary for all of us. But first you should know the top SEO tools other than plugins also.

1. RankMath

Rankmath is my favourate SEO plugin. I am using this plugin for almost all of my projects. 

1. Squirrly

It provides you live SEO assistance. You can also check keyword suggestions, images, wiki links, related articles and many more things.  You can also track your keyword positions with google and bing. So I want to say it’s an amazing SEO tool.

2. Yoast SEO Plugin

I’m sure you heard about this. This is the most popular WP plugin in the word. If you like to use this plugin you don’t need to use another plugin for XML sitemaps, Robots.txt and .htaccess editing. It has many other options included with this single plugin. Many top bloggers are using this plugin.

Other similar plugins in this category are- Easy WP SEO, All in one SEO.

#2. WordPress plugins for increasing page speed

This is the one of the prime factors for your SERP. You can’t disregard it. For maintaining good speed of your site you must have good hosting, I’ll prefer you to just go for digital ocean cloud hosting. Here, you may start amazing plan with $5 only. It will provide you better speed than other. But they provide only unmanaged server so you must know the basics of Linux. Or you may also try asmallorange it is one of the better options.

Another important thing for speeding up your site is to choose good and responsive theme like Genesis framework.

Now it’s time to tell you some plugins for increasing page speed of your WordPress blog.

 1. Image Optimization Plugins

You can optimize your images for search engines using your keywords in “all tag”, which is inbuilt feature of WordPress. No need to use another plugin. But image compression is must for loading speed of your blog. So you must use any image compression plugin. Some of the best are below:

I. WP Smush.it

It automatically compress your images when you uploading. It can also bulk-optimize your existing images.

II. EWWW Image Optimizer

It uses lossless algorithm means it will compress your images without changing any image pixel.

III. Lazy Load

This plugin loads only those images which are visible to users. It saves your bandwidth improves your website’s speed.

Okay! now which one you are going to select?

2. WordPress Caching Plugins

I. WP Super Cache

What is cache?

Cache is a place to temporarily store data. When we return to frequently accessed site, your browser will use cache storage to serve you that site faster than previous.

So what WP super cache does?

It creates static HTML files that are served instead of the heavier PHP scripts from the cache in WordPress and makes your site smoother and faster. It has many features to speed up your site significantly.

Don’t forget to enable these settings:

1. PHP caching.
2. Compress pages.
3. Cache rebuild.
4. CDN support.

Other top plugins in this list are:

II. W3 Total Cache

III.  WP Rocket (paid)

So now choose any of the above caching plugins. All are the most popular cache plugins for WordPress users. If you ask me, I’ll recommend to use WP Super cache.

3.WP-Optimize

You know well, WordPress stores all your posts, pages, post-revisions, all comments, trash data and all plugins information. There are many useless things stored on your SQL database. So you must optimize your database once in a month.

You may enable this plugin, whenever you need. So no need to enable this plugin all time.

You can test your blog’s speed by these tools:

• Google Page Speed
• GTmetrix

#4. WordPress Backup Plugins

Are you taking daily/weekly backup of your site?

You must save all your valuable data to any safe place on daily basis. Because there is always chances of getting hacked by any hacker anytime. Even big brands sites are also hacked many times. Even you have secured your site but there is no any guarantee that your blog is safe from hackers or any malicious attack.

I’ll suggest you to start it from day one of your blogging.

Here are some top WP backup plugins:

1. BackupBuddy

It is one of the best WordPress backup plugins. You can easily schedule daily, weekly or monthly backup of your site and store them to Dropbox, cloud storage or FTP. It’s a premium service.

2. VaultPress

VaultPress offers automated real-time cloud backup solution starting at $5 / month. I think it is valuable than you pay. It is cloud backup service. You can easily restore your backup.

3. BackWPup

There are many free WP backup plugins also. BackWPup is one of them. It provides you all the backup features free of cost.

Some other free WordPress backup plugins are:

1) WordPress To DropBox

2) Backup WordPress

3) UpDraftPlus- it’s awesome.

#5. WordPress Security Plugins

As I told you, there are always chances of getting hacked off your precious website. While WordPres always tries to patch up their known vulnerabilities in their updates. But only WordPress CMS is not responsible for such type of vulnerabilities, that may be due to third party plugins and themes also.

So what is the solution?

Is there any trusted plugin, which can protect your blog from these vulnerabilities?

Yes, of course!

I am going to tell you some top WP security plugins.

1. WordFence

It is the one of the best security plugin in my list and it’s available for free and premium both types. It scans all of your posts, comments, themes, plugins to check any malicious thing on your blog. And another important thing is that it uses Falcom caching engine to make your site fast.

2. Sucuri Security

It protects your site from DOS attack, brute force attacks, Zero Day Disclosure Patches and other scanner attacks. The most important thing is that it keeps all logs on their own cloud. So, in case hacker bypass all of your security holes then you’ll be able to access your log files to know the activities.

3. WordPress Simple Firewall

It is one of my favorite security plugin. It has many features like log in protection, comment filter, IP filter, firewall, user management. And what more than that you can expect from a single plugin.

Important thing is that, if you are using this security plugin then no need to use any other plugin for comment filter plugin.

Tip: Never ever use any nulled theme or plugin.

#6. Google XML Sitemaps

If you are not using SEO by Yoast plugin then this must be on your list.

#7. Social Sharing Plugins

As we know, social sharing is the one of the important factor in SERP. So this is very necessary to use any social plugin on your website. I’m sharing here some good plugins, but you may select which is perfect for your website.

1. Monarch

This is my favorite social share plugin, which I’m using on my other blogs. It has very cool and professional sharing icons. If you have budget then go for it without comparing other sharing plugins. It allows you to show share counters and also allow you to use follow widget.

2. Easy Social Share Buttons

This is also one of the fastest social sharing plugin in very low budget. It has many options to customize it. This plugin is not perfect, but it’s a better option.

3. Digg Digg

The plugin supports lazy loading which increases the site performance of your website by delaying the load of social media buttons.

Other options in this category are:

4. Share This

5. Add This

6. Social Media Feather

#8. WordPress Comment Plugins

For comments, you can use CommentLuv or Disqus Comment system plugins. If you are getting lots of comments then you must use Disqus because it is third party plugin so it uses its own system to load your comments. Otherwise, Commentluv is the best option.

#9. Contact Form Plugins

For your contact us page, you may try Contact Form 7 or Gravity Forms. Gravity forms allow you to easily create
any type of form you can imagine. If you go simple then contact form 7 is better option to use.

#10. Email Marketing Plugins

This one is the most important plugin in this list. If you want to keep growing your business then you must have e-mail subscribers. Because future is for e-mail marketers. So you must have huge list of email subscribers. And I’ll suggest you to email list from day one of your blogging business.

Here are some top level plugins for you:

1. OptinMonster

This is very light weighted email subscription box plugin. Most of the top websites are using this plugin to collect email list of their visitors. It has exit intent pop up too. It means when a user wants to leave your site it’ll automatically appear in front of visitors by tracking mouse speed and the visitor’s gestures. It has many themes to select on basis of your blog design.

2. Magic Action Box

You can use this plugin to show your email subscription box in sidebar and end of the post in a very beautiful way. So this is also a good option for you. Try it once.

Other options are:

3. MailPoet Newsletters

4. SendPress

5. Email Newsletter

6. MailChimp

So this is all about useful plugins which I’ll suggest you till now. Actually, list is so long. So I have to stop here. I’ll come back on this topic with any specific category soon.

Wrapping It Up

Now it’s time to wrap up this article. Don’t use too many plugins that may slow your website. So select only those which are beneficial for you. Remember less is better. These were the supporting plugins only but at your end you should write unique SEO friendly blog posts to get good SERP.

This was the cream list of essential WordPress plugins for WP users. I’ll update this post if I’ll find any useful plugin for you.

So what about you?

Which plugins are you using on your blog? Share here.