Every designers and artist are creating a blog for their branding, which helps to keep their career at its best. One of the leading company contacted us for featuring their Infographics about WordPress in our blog – which is very informative to our readers. In our Twitter conversation with a new users, he asked us “Which WordPress Plugin are you using for your blog ?” and i shared him few links – which turnout to be not so good for him.

When he tried few plugins some are outdated, and his site was infected. It’s good he made a backup (which is a good practice for webmasters), so i am going to write only essential and primary plugins for our readers who like to start their own blogs.

7 Primary WordPress Plugin for Beginners

There are 100’s of Plugin available in WordPress Extend Home. But you must use only plugins which are necessary for your blog and having many plugins for your blog make your site load slower. First Create a backup for your blog Database for preventing any errors – trust me, we have a experience of site not working due to some plugin.

All in One SEO Pack

WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines. This plugin is must for every bloggers let it be designers or techies. Alternative to this plugin is Platinum SEO and WordPress SEO by Yoast.

Download the plugin.


Download WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

Akismet

Download Prevent Spam

Google XML Sitemaps

This Plugin is for adding your article or post you created in your blog. This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.

Download Google Sitemap generator

WP Smush.it

Reduce image file sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

This plugin will make your readers stay longer in your blog. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current article you are reading.

Display a list of related entries on your site

W3 Total Cache

Improve blog or site performance and user experience by their advanced technique like caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support. Even MaxCDN is recommending to their user to integrate with this plugin. Another Plugin called Super cache – but we found some issue with the theme or else you can use this one.

Improve site performance and user experience

Broken Link Checker

This plugin will check any broken link in your blog and you can fix it, another good plugin for SEO also.

Download Broken Link Checker

Hope you use this article as a primary tip, In our next article we will cover most plugin which can be used as an alternative.