15 Must Install WordPress.org Plugins For Beginners – Plugins are to Wordpress what ingredients and condiments are to food. Without the right ingredients of a food, the food is most likely to go without the right taste. So, plugins are like software in WordPress which makes your website have the best look and functionality of a good website.

Did you host your domain newly with WordPress.org and are looking for the best WordPress.org Plugins for beginners to install make your website look like others? Then, you have to take a break here and see the complete list of the best plugins to install on your new WordPress site. Of course there are hundreds and thousands of plugins on WordPress which as a beginner you get confused on which ones to or not install on your site.

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All WordPress.org plugins are important but not all of them are mandatory or a do-without. There are some plugins which as a beginner on WordPress you don’t really need them but they are there for you in case their need arise at any time. The 15 must install WordPress.org Plugins with their functions are listed below, let’s take a look.

15 Must Install WordPress.org Plugins For Beginners

1. Akismet Anti-Spam (By Automattic)

Akismet is the first WordPress.org plugin every beginner must endeavor to install on their site. It provides the best way to protect your blog from spam. Akismet ensures that no spammers have access to your blog even while you sleep. That is 24/7 protection on your site against spammers and malwares in the form of comment, posts or others.

2. Accelerated Mobile Pages (By Ahmed Kaludi, Mohammed Kaludi)

AMP as it is abbreviated is the Google Project that automatically adds Accelerated Mobile Pages  functionality to your WordPress site. AMP makes your website faster for Mobile visitors on your site. Accelerated Mobile Pages works hand in hand with AMP Plugin. Once you install Accelerated Mobile Pages, AMP will follow. That means you install the two plugins with installing just one.

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3. All in One Webmaster (By Crunchify)

All in One Webmaster is the best webmaster plugin for WordPress that adds Meta-Tags and Scripts to your Site’s Header and Footer Section automatically without changing any of your themes file and without slowing down your site.

4. Autoptimize (By Frank Goossens (futtta))

This plugin optimizes your website so that it works with functions best. Autoptimize does this by concatenating the CSS and JavaScript code, and compressing them.

5. Contextual Related Posts (By WebberZone)

This plugin increases the engagement of your visitors by displaying a set of related posts on your website or in your feed. It increases your readers’ retention and reduces bounce rates.

6. Jetpack by WordPress.com (By Automattic)

Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users. The powerful features of Jetpack include; tracking your visitors, checking traffic to your site, housing Akismet and other settings.

7. SEO Friendly Images (By Vladimir Prelovac)

SEO Friendly Images is the WordPress image plugin that automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

8. Title and Nofollow For Links (By Flector)

The plugin adds a title and a rel=”nofollow” checkbox to the insert link popup box. This plugin prevents you from linking to other sites with a follow link.

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9. W3 Total Cache (By Frederick Townes)

W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing download times. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.

10. WP Fastest Cache (By Emre Vona)

This plugin creates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. When a page is rendered, php and mysql are used. The simplest and fastest WP Cache system to receive junk files from your blog.

11. WPtouch Mobile Plugin (By WPtouch)

This WP makes your blog mobile-friendly and beautiful. It is a plugin for WordPress that automatically adds a simple and elegant mobile theme for mobile visitors to your WordPress website.

12. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (By Adknowledge)

It displays pages, posts, and custom post types related to the current entry, introducing your readers to other relevant content on your site. It uses a powerful and customizable algorithm to to display related posts on your website.

13. Yoast SEO (By Team Yoast)

Yoast SEO handles the technical optimization of your site & assists with optimizing your content. It includes on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.

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14. Limit Login Attempts (By Johan Eenfeldt)

This plugin limits the number of login attempts to your blog. After installing the plugin, you will be prompted to enter the number of times to limit the attempts.

Like I said earlier, there are many other WordPress.org plugins to install, but the ones above are pertinent for you as a beginner. You can follow this blog for other related searches or more plugins to install on your WordPress site.

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