Must Have WordPress Plugins
Each team I create a new site that uses WordPress, I use plenty of different plugins depending on the needs of the individual site. However, there are six that I use every single time, and I think you should too. These are the must have plugins for running any WordPress site:
1. Akismet - You need to check your spam comments and if you run a popular site, you can't manage it all yourself. This plugin will check your comments with the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
2. All in One SEO Pack - The must have if you want to rank highly in google. This allows you to customize your titles, descriptions, and tags in posts. Plus you can noindex categories, tags, and archives and customize your title and description for your homepage, plus titles on other automatically generated pages.
3. Google XML Sitemaps - Automatically generates a sitemap of all your posts and pages that is supported by the major search engines.
4. SEO Slugs - This shortens up your URLs by removing common words like "a", "the", and in" from the permalink.
5. WordPress Database Backup - You don't want to lose all of the posts you worked so hard to create do you?
6. WP Super Cache - Saves your server resources in case your site gets hit hard with a ton of traffic.
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