20 FREE( OR ALMOST FREE)

WORDPRESS
PLUG-INS
THAT EVERY BLOGGER NEEDS
TO KNOW ABOUT

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 20 FREE
( OR ALMOST FREE)

WORDPRESS
PLUG-INS
With WordPress plugins, pretty much anything possible.

P lugins are amazing for bloggers who don’t know a ton about programming but
still want a website that looks and functions like it was custom-coded. In a
nutshell, plugins are like little shortcuts that get our sites looking and feeling the way
we want them to, without having to do all the grunt work ourselves.

Seriously, they’re awesome.

The only problem with plugins? There’s just so many of them! It can be totally
overwhelming trying to figure out which plugins will make our sites better — and
which are a complete and total waste of time. And, sometimes it is worth it to pay
for a plugin. Most are very reasonably priced and the dedicated support that
usually comes with paid versions is priceless.

The thing is, too many plugins can also slow down your site, which isn’t good, so
you want to make sure that the plugins you choose are fast and effective.

That’s why we’ve put together this list of the best free and almost-free WordPress
plugins — so you don’t have to waste your time sorting through bad plugins to find
the ones that will actually add value to your site.

HERE ARE OUR FAVORITE WORDPRESS PLUGINS TO HELP YOU

SUPERCHARGE YOUR WORDPRESS BLOG:

1 AKISMET
Akismet is a simple plugin that blocks spam comments on
our blogs. It catches all of those pesky comments from
bots and spammers and keeps them from showing up in
our comment section.

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2 SUMOME
Sumome is one of the best free plugins for gathering
emails. Our email list is the most powerful tool in our
blogging tool belt, and the Sumome plugin makes
building that email list a whole lot easier.

3 YOAST
Yoast is hands down, the best SEO plugin on the
market. Yoast helps us make sure we’re optimizing our posts correctly — It’s super
simple and takes the guesswork out of on-page optimization — I love this one!

4 CONTACT FORM 7
Some of the best plugins are also the most simple ones, and that’s definitely the
case with Contact Form 7. Contact forms are a must-have on any blog, and this
plugin allows you to make easy-to-use, well-designed contact forms in a few simple
steps. Easy peasy!

5 SOCIAL WARFARE
Social Warfare is a great plugin for making
our content more shareable on social
media. This plugin is great because it makes
it easier for our readers to share content on
social media — and it also puts us in control
of how our content is shared.

6 WP SUPER CACHE
In a nutshell, caching our sites is a MUST. But manually caching is way too
complicated — which is where WP Super Cache comes in. This plugin
automatically caches our site and makes it load faster, no coding required. We use
it on our site, and it’s been fantastic!

7 EDITORIAL CALENDAR
The Editorial Calendar plugin gives us an overview of all the content scheduled
on our blog and allows us to drag-and-drop posts, move them around, or make
changes and edits — all in an easy-to-navigate calendar platform.

8 GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We’re in no way, shape, or form advocates
for chasing page views. But, we’re firm
believers in keeping our fingers on the pulse
of what’s working well — and what’s not
working so well — on our blogs. The best way
to do that is through Google Analytics.

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9 PRETTY LINKS
Pretty Links is a great plugin for sharing and tracking links from our blogs. This plugin
acts as a sort of mission control for our link tracking.

10 Simple Social Icons

Social Simple Icons is an easy way
to customize clickable icons on your
site to connect readers to your social
accounts. You will be able to choose
which social profiles to link to and
customize colors so that the icons
reflect your branding.

11 Tablepress

With Tablepress you can embed clear and concise tables into your blog posts.

12 Instagram Feed
Instagram Feed allows you to embed your Instagram posts straight on your site.

13Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms is a great tool for
beginners that allows bloggers
to create forms quick and
easy using a super user-friendly
drag and drop tool.

14 Soliloquy
This is a fast AND user-friendly plug-in that will allow you to display slideshows on
your site that you can build within minutes that will not slow your site down and will
boost your SEO.

15 Duplicate Post
This plugin clones posts and pages if you are writing posts with similar structure.
Makes writing new posts a breeze if you have custom elements in each blog post.

16 EWWW Image Optimizer

This plugin compresses images
instantly to reduce site load time. That
way your site loads fast for people
even if you’ve accidentally uploaded
a large image or two.

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17 Head, Footer, & Post Injections
If you want to add your own HTML/Javascript code to certain blogs or all posts, this
plugin helps you do just that.

18 Rel Nofollow Checkbox

If you use affiliate links or any links you want
to make Nofollow, this puts a checkbox in the
link adding section of the dashboard so it’s as
simple as clicking a box to make sure your links
are no-follow.

19 WP-Optimize
Clean up cache and post revisions--this one is a must because did you know every
time you revise your post in Wordpress, it saves a copy of the entire post? So if you
revise your post like 26 times which I always did, it would save 26 copies of your post
and make your site loading time really slow!

20 Pixel Caffeine
The simplest and easiest way to
manage your Facebook pixel on your
blog for FB Ads.

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