{"id":3791,"date":"2017-07-24T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcmarketing.co.uk\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2019-07-03T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:19:30","slug":"top-10-wordpress-plugins-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tcmarketing.co.uk\/top-10-wordpress-plugins-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]WordPress Plugins are essential for expanding accessability & functionality on WordPress. In this post I will show you the 10 best Plugins that will expand your websites functionality.<\/p>\n

In this blog we will list some of the best WordPress SEO Plugins, speed optimisation plugins, security plugins, social media & marketing plugins. These plugins will help make your website more secure, SEO friendly and make your website a lot more modern.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

1. JetPack – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"Jetpack<\/p>\n

JetPack is a plugin from behind the team at WordPress software (Automattic), JetPack is a must have plugin for any WordPress website. As the name suggests JetPack offers an awesome amount of features to gain success.<\/p>\n

JetPack takes care of your websites security, traffic growth, website appearance, image optimization and a lot more!<\/p>\n

\"JetPack<\/p>\n

Most of Jetpack\u2019s features and services are free. Jetpack also provides advanced security and backup services, video hosting, site monetisation, priority support, and more SEO tools in three simple and affordable plans.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download FREE” url=”https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/jetpack\/”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n

2. Yoast SEO – FREEMIUM<\/h2>\n

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\"Yoast<\/p>\n

Search engines are the major source for traffic coming to your website so getting out the correct message is very important. Yoast SEO is a very important tool to grabbing people towards their website, with Yoast you can do this by optimizing how you show up in search results.<\/p>\n

When using Yoast SEO you will find it helps you write much better content improving your ranking on search results. It focuses on creating content thats great for users coming to see it as well as being technically SEO friendly. The goal is to gain trust and sustain the rankings which they call sustainable SEO.<\/p>\n

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3. Akismet – FREEMIUM<\/h2>\n

\"Akismet\"<\/p>\n

Akismet is yet another plugin created by the people behind WordPress, Matt and his team at Automattic. It is one of the plugins that comes by default with every new core installation of WordPress. What it basically is, is an anti-spam plugin which will check comments and filters out any spam type comments.<\/p>\n

This plugin is free for personal sites and blogs but for commercial websites you will have to subscribe to it’s monthly plan. The Premium plan provides advanced security solutions other than spam protection.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download FREE” url=”https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/akismet\/”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-1″ icon_family=”none” text=”View Premium” margin_left=”50″ url=”https:\/\/akismet.com\/plans\/”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n

4. Google XML Sitemaps – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Google XML Sitemaps is another incredibly useful SEO Plugin for WordPress. This plugin will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and more to better index your website with a smart XML sitemap.<\/p>\n

When you activate the plugin you will find it automatically creates an XML sitemap making it incredibly easy to index. A sitemap allows the search engine bots to view the complete structure of your website and retrive results efficiently.<\/p>\n

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5. Broken Link Checker – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"Broken<\/p>\n

Ever clicked a link on a website and found that link no longer works? How frustrating is it for users coming to your website to find that issue.. Well with Broken Links Checker it couldn’t be easier to find links on your website that are broken! This handy plugin will allow you to easily find links on your website that are broken and fix the issue. The plugin will automatically scan all your pages, comments, posts and other content for broken links it will also notify you if there are any errors with your links.<\/p>\n

This plugin also has the power to prevent search engines from following these broken links displaying the broken links differently.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download FREE” url=”https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/broken-link-checker\/”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n

6. Disable Comments – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"Disable<\/p>\n

Disable Comments is a great plugin to globally disable comments on your website or on certain post types. Considering that all posts\/pages are not likely to accept comments, the plugin provides a great solution to disable comments on posts, pages and attachments.<\/p>\n

In addition the plugin provides the option to remove all comment related items from the dashboard, admin bar, widgets and admin menu. It includes features that you need to avoid comment spamming.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download FREE” url=”https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-comments\/”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n

7. Better Search Replace – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"Better<\/p>\n

Better Search & Replace is a great plugin when you are moving moving your WordPress website to a new domain or from http to https. This plugin will make it incredibly easy to replace text in doing so saving you a ton of time. If you have just updated your website to https most of your links will remain to be http you can simply put into the search and replace field what you want to change for example, “http:\/\/yourwebsite” to “https:\/\/yourwebsite” making your site completly secure.<\/p>\n

Another great feature about this plugin is the ability to perform a dry run, what a dry run will do is look through your database for your keyword informing you the amount of fields that will be updated.<\/p>\n

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8. WP Super Cache – FREE<\/h2>\n

\"WP<\/p>\n

Another great plugin, WP Super Cache will generate static html files for your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of the more expensive PHP scripts. You will find when using this plugin your website will load in exceptionally quicker making your website a lot more responsive and more welcoming the users coming to your website![\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download FREE” url=”https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n

9. WooCommerce – FREEMIUM<\/h2>\n

\"WooCommerce\"<\/p>\n

WooCommerce is an amazing plugin giving you a ton of functionallity with endless free and premium extensions. WooCommerce gives you complete control over your store and is incredibly easy to use it is loved by a lot of the community powering over 30% of all online stores!<\/p>\n

With WooCommerce you can sell both digital products & physical products in all sizes and shapes, you can even have instant downloads to shoppers all round this plugin offers a ton of features and you literally have full control over everything!<\/p>\n

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10. Social Icons – FREE<\/h2>\n

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With Social Media being populated as much as it has in recent years it is vital to get users involved with your social links, through your scoial media you can improve the amount of users coming to your website. With a plugin like Social Icons you can boost your social media marketing.<\/p>\n

Social Icons is a free WordPress plugin that provides an incredibly easy way to display social icons on your page giving you a lot of customization to how they will display on your page. You can add Social Icons to your pages or posts via widgets or shortcodes.<\/p>\n

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