In one of our previous posts, we have discussed, best Wordpress alternatives, but if you have used Wordpress to create your new website or blog, you would like to know there are more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin directory which makes it a daunting for site owners to find the right plugins to improve their websites performance or to add new websites features, which can be easily done using free wordpress plugins, so in this article we will provide you list of best free must have Wordpress plugins for your new Wordpress website.

What are WordPress Plugins?

WordPress Plugins are the software components written in the PHP language that can be used to add additional features in your WordPress sites. You just to need to add the plugin without compiling a single line of code. Below is the list of Plugins we have compiled which can be used for any kind of website like personal blog,online shop, gallery, portfolio etc.

Free Wordpress Must have plugins

1. Yoast SEO

This Wordpress should be on installed as soon as your website is built, as you will like your website to be available on Google, bing or other search engine with better On-page SEO, and this is where Yoast SEO is helpful, it helps you to create better On-page SEO for your website and in-turn which brings higher users from search engine to your website.

There are both free and premium version of Yoast SEO, but you can start with free version of it, which is very very essential for any new website.

Features:

  • Optimize your site for the right keywords for your users
  • Get previews for sharing on Twitter and Facebook
  • You get content quality and link suggestions as you write
  • Help you to avoid dead links in your site

2. Jetpack

Well, you might want to use a library like Jetpack to provide some CDN support and caching to your website for better page load.

This plugin is developed by Wordpress team and allows you to Back up your site or speed it up.

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Features:

  • Image CDN for images and static files, like CSS and JavaScript, served from our servers, not yours, which saves you money and bandwidth.
  • Lazy load images for a super fast experience
  • Advanced site stats and analytics to help you understand your audience.
  • Grow traffic with SEO tools for Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, and WordPress.com. XML sitemap created automatically.
  • Comes with Easy design tools to customise your website layout without coding.
  • Subscriptions — Make it easy for visitors to sign up to receive notifications of your latest posts and comments.

3. Schema – All In One Schema Rich Snippets

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Schema -All in one schema is a great plugin, which allows you to show rich snippets in google search engine and better snippets means more user click rate on your website.

This plugin supports the following types of Schemas:

  • Review
  • Event
  • People
  • Product
  • Recipe
  • Software Application
  • Video
  • Articles

4. Akismet Spam Protection

When you are going to post articles on Wordpress website, surely you will get some comments, but all comments are not worthy to be made visible, this is where Akismet Spam protection helps.

This plugins checks your article comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content.

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Features:

  • Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
  • Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
  • URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
  • Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
  • A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.

Akismet has more than 45 million downloads and make it one of the most important Wordpress plugin for any website.

If you don't want to use comment at all you can use Disable comments plugin.

5. Google XML sitemap

Google XML sitemap plugins allows you to add new Article links in your XML sitemap file, so google can crawl the new pages of your website automatically and show them in search results.

A sitemap file helps search engines crawl and index your site properly, so yes, we will need this plugin.

So make sure you install this plugin to boost your website rankings quickly and allow all search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing, to automatically crawl new pages of your website.

6. WP-Forms

If you have website, you might want visitors to contact you and for that you will need Contact-Form, that is where WP-Forms plugin will be useful.

This plugins allows you to create contact form easily.

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Features:

  • You can select contact-form from available templates and update it, by just dragging and dropping fields.
  • 100% mobile responsive contact form, so your contact forms will always look great on all devices (mobile, tablet, laptop, and desktop).
  • Just Drag and Drop controls to build your Contact Form easily.