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After reading the previous articles in this basic WordPress series, you must have understood the meaning and importance of plugins for wordpress. Plugins make it easy and rich to extend the functionality of your wordpress website.
There are thousands of different plugins that create different functions for the website. However, in order for your wordpress website to work stably and effectively, when you finish installing wordpress website, you should install the following plugins:
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1. Akismet Anti-spam plugin
Akismet Anti-spam Plugin – WordPress Plugin
Websites made with wordpress after a period of use will receive a lot of spam responses. This causes a lot of trouble for admins in managing and reviewing spam comments. Akismet is a plugin that helps block spam comments automatically quite effectively. By default, Akismet is always installed with wordpress, so you just need to activate the Akismet plugin and use it. To enable it, please refer to the article: Block spam comments in wordpress with Akismet plugin
2. Contact form plugin 7
Contact form 7 plugin – wordpress plugin
One of the pages that always appear on websites is the contact page. The contact page in addition to providing contact information also has a form for customers to enter contact information. Contact form 7 plugin is one of the simple and easy-to-use contact form support plugins that I have introduced.
In addition, to make the Contact form 7 plugin work more efficiently and help manage contact information better, you should combine the installation of the Advanced CF7 DB plugin .
3. Plugin to support SEO – Yoast Seo
Yoast SEO Plugin
SEO is a technique to improve the quality of a website, helping to increase the ranking of a website on search engines. Although wordpress is basically an extremely good SEO support CMS. But you still need to combine it with other SEO plugins, the most prominent of which is Yoast SEO .
To learn and install the Yoast Seo plugin, please see this article: Introduction to the Yoast SEO plugin and how to install it
4. Shortcode plugin for website Shortcode Ultimate
ShortCode Ultimate is the most popular plugin that helps you to add shortcodes to your website for more beautifying customizations for your website. Shortcode Ultimate contains a rich repository of shortcodes. This plugin has over 50 shortcodes with many nice features such as price list, post slider, button, progress bar…
You can learn more about this plugin at the article: How to use the Shortcode Ultimate plugin
5. Plugin supports advanced text editing – TinyMCE Advanced
TinyMCE Advanced – wordpress plugin
TinyMCE Advanced is an advanced editor support plugin for wordpress. It makes the writing interface more professional with more features. This plugin is really necessary for those who regularly write articles on wordpress websites.
TinyMCE Advanced includes a menu bar with many built-in functions to aid in content editing. For example, you can change the font, change the font size, find and replace words, insert special characters, … are functions not available in the default editor of wordpress.
To use it, you just need to find the TinyMCE Advanced plugin in the plugin repository, install and activate it.
summary
WordPress has a massive plugin store, with a lot of useful features that can be integrated into wordpress so that it can create a powerful website. Above are 5 plugins you should install for a basic wordpress website for it to work at its best. For other web design needs, let’s install the plugin corresponding to the feature we need.
