5 Essential Plugins For WordPress Self Hosted Blogs

WordPress is the most popular software which easily allows you to create a simple or an advanced blog based on your need. It is SEO friendly which means people running there blogs on WordPress will have the ability to rank high in search engines gaining more traffic and leads for your business. Using this you can also create some good squeeze pages, business websites and much. No matter what you make there are some essential plugins for wordpress which should be installed in your WordPress blog/website.
These plugins are really useful and must for every WordPress owner to install. These are helpful in many different ways, these are all free so anyone can use them without costing you a single cent.

Essential Plugins For WordPress List

1. Yoast SEO Plugin
Yoast SEO plugin is one of the most popular and recommended plugin by all SEO gurus for WordPress. It is know to be the essential plugins for wordpress hosted sites that is why I kept it on the first place. After installing this plugin on your blog you will have to follow a setup wizard which will get you to all main settings. You could define your meta description, some people do not consider it important but it is, secondly it provides you with great on-page optimization tools allowing you to choose a main keyword for your posts then optimize your content for it. This is a must wordpress essential plugin so you should use it.
2. cBnet Ping Optimizer
cBnet Ping Optimizer is again a SEO plugin for those who update there blog/website daily and have a habit to edit there written posts. What happens is that Wordpres automatically pings your new content to different services so your post is quickly indexed in Google and other major search engines. Now you might be wondering how this plugin is useful. Ok let me explain, when a post is published it is pinged but sometimes it happens that you have to edit that post due to any reason and when you again publish the edited version, again a ping is sent to those same services. If a certain limit of sending pings is reached then you get banned from pinging those services. cBnet ping optimizer stops sending those extra pings and saves you from getting banned. I would not consider it to be essential wordpress plugin but still useful.
3. W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache helps you in speeding up your wordpress hosted website or blog. This is an essential plugin because page loading speed helps in ranking in Google. This plugin has a vast range of options for its users to speed up your blog. You could keep a page, database, object cache in your disk or even on virtual server. You can minify CSS JS files using this plugin and add integrate your CDN with it. Other advanced options are also included.
4. WordFence Security
Wordfence Security keeps your WordPress site secure from hackers and crackers. A limit on login attempts is kept while in WordPress there is not limit. It scans all your files including plugins and themes and match it with original files kept on different servers detecting any change. The best thing about this plugin that it keeps your site clean so it is not considered to be malicious in Google, it does this by scanning all the posts and showing any link placed in my post which is already considered as malicious is Google. This way it saves us. It is again an essential wordpress security plugin. It comes in both paid and free version.
5. BackWpup
BackWup provides backup solution for WordPress site. It is a free plugin and backs up your whole files including database. You could schedule your backups and create different jobs for your site. It also allows you to download your backup, email them, or upload them directly to dropbox. You could use folders which are needed to be backed up and leave the rest.