Which are the best free WordPress Plugins April 2019. Often credited to be the best WordPress Plugins for blogs, these are the most popular WordPress Plugins available in the market rightnow. Download and install these plugins to make your blogging more hassle free and robust and secure.
1. Yoast SEO
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Yoast SEO is the #1 WordPress SEO plugin. Content & SEO analysis with invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts. For each post, the snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile. Yoast SEO Premium even has social media previews. It integrates with Google Search Console p- enables to see how your site performs in the search engines and fix crawl errors. Yoast SEO does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders. It enables the most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality and set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content.
2. Google XML Sitemaps
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
Use this plugin to greatly improve SEO to create special XML sitemaps which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your site. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
3. Akismet Anti-Spam
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. The plugin automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. It works as a moderator – URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can use the discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.
4. Jetpack by WordPress.com
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
The plugin is all about enabling hassle-free design, marketing, and security. Jetpack offers design and customization services, marketing and performance services and security and backups services. It comes with an intuitive and powerful customization tools which supports unlimited and high-speed image and video content delivery network – lazy image loading for a faster mobile experience and an integration with the official WordPress mobile apps. The plugin comes with brute force attack protection, spam filtering, malware scanning, code scanning and downtime monitoring. For advance security, it eanbles secure logins with optional two-factor authentication.
5. Contact Form by WPForms
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforms-lite/
Contact form by WPforms which acts as a drag & drop form builder for WordPress. WPForms allow you to create beautiful contact forms, subscription forms, payment forms, and other type of forms for your site in minutes, not hours. WPForms’ contact forms are also highly optimized for web and server performance because we understand the importance of speed when it comes to SEO and conversion. It allows you to create custom contact forms in minutes. By using our easy to use drag and drop online form builder, you can create a complete contact form in 5 minutes or less. WPForms comes with pre-built form templates to help you save time. WPForms’ contact forms are 100% responsive and mobile-friendly by default.
6. Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
Know exactly how people find and use your website. MonsterInsights shows you the stats that matter, so you can grow your business with confidence. It connects your WordPress site with Google Analytics, so you can start making data-driven decisions to grow your business. Unlike other Google Analytics plugins, MonsterInsights allow you to enable all advanced Google analytics tracking features with just a few clicks. The best part is that MonsterInsights comes with a Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress that shows you actionable analytics reports right inside your WordPress dashboard.
7. W3 Total Cache
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
W3 Total Cache improves the SEO and user experience of your site by increasing website performance, reducing download times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration. The plugin enables “instant” repeat page views: browser caching and optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly and can be interacted with more quickly. It also eanbles reduced page load time and an improved web server performance. These results in various improvements in search engine result page rankings, especially for mobile-friendly websites and sites that use SSL – at least 10x improvement in overall site performance .
8. UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click. Users can backup into the cloud directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), UpdraftVault, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift, and email. The paid version also backs up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV. It also allows you to set up automatic backup schedules.
9. Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Resize, optimize, optimise and compress all of your images with the incredibly powerful and 100% free WordPress image smusher. The plugin features lossless compression which strip unused data without affecting image quality and bulk smush for optimizing up to 50 images with one click. It functions image resizing and incorrect size image detection. Not only this it can optimize images even if they are not located in the media library. It preserves image quality – meticulously scans every image you upload – or have already added to your site – cuts all the unnecessary data and scales it for you before adding it to your media library.
10. Classic Editor
Download https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
Classic Editor is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor. Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until at least 2022, or as long as is necessary. By default, this plugin hides all functionality available in the new Block Editor (“Gutenberg”). In addition, the Classic Editor plugin includes several filters that let other plugins control the settings, and the editor choice per post and per post type.
There are many more, but these are the most popular ones.
Best Free WordPress Plugins April 2019 originally posted on Source Digit – Latest Technology, Gadgets & Gizmos.