WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, used by a huge proportion of corporate, enterprise, and even regular content websites. According to statistics, 42.5% of all existing websites are WordPress sites, so it is essential to learn to use and develop them for any employer or site manager.
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| Indispensable additions to any WordPress website |
Why WordPress from all content systems?
The WordPress system because of its past fame has a lot of extras and external features that make it developable to do anything a user might want. As well as being free and open source, having a strong, giant community of developers and users has made it the first stop anyone who wants to create a website might think about.
Therefore, WordPress ranks out of reach for other content management systems such as Drupal and Jumla; It is not the same size in additions and features, nor in the same size as the developer and user community, and is therefore a weaker environment for those who want to create any type of website, or at least require a higher level of resources and efforts to develop it in the same way that WordPress can.
WordPress additions must be used for each site
In this article we will talk about a collection of WordPress additions that are necessary to exist on any kind of WordPress website, whatever their specialty and purpose, these additions are general and benefit various sites, and are not limited to a particular classification for example.
You can install these plugins from your WordPress dashboard directly by typing their name into the search box, and then installing and activating them.
Jetpack
Jetpack is an official addition from WordPress owner Automatic that adds a lot of different features to it. These features are not limited to one area but to several areas:
- The addition allows the site to speed up by distributing its files on a network of servers around the world belonging to the company.
- The addendum also allows visitors to be monitored and find out about the pages they come from, the pages they open, and the links they click every day, thereby allowing site managers to learn more about their visitors and activities on their sites.
- The addition also has a firewall that can be activated to protect the site from penetration via brute force attacks (Brute force Attacks).
- The addendum has the option to change the WordPress virtual feedback box to allow visitors to write feedback via their Facebook, Google, and other social accounts, or follow new comments on any email article.
To add a lot of other options generally in areas: automatic content engagement, acceleration of performance, podcast management, search engine optimization, and more. Most add-on options are free of charge; They are also coming from the parent company of the WordPress system itself, but you can subscribe to the paid plan if you want more features related to ads, payment options, and others.
Akismet
It is also an addendum to the management of WordPress owner Automatic, and its advantage is simply that it prevents spam feedback (annoying comments from random bots) from posting on your site, thereby saving you a lot of time and effort in following up, deleting and manually preventing these comments.
It's also a free addition, but you'll need to sign up to their site for the Software App Interface Key (API Key) and then add it to your site settings to start adding with work.
Fortunately, the addendum is automated in its work; You don't need your intervention after activation, you will automatically delete all the annoying comments you pick up and throw them in the trash. The addendum works through a sophisticated system designed by WordPress developers to distinguish spam feedback from others through several advanced methods.
Wordfence
Wordfence is a very popular addition to protect WordPress sites from various types of hack attacks and security vulnerabilities and is used by more than a million WordPress sites to date.
The addition works by activating a firewall on the site to check each visitor's request, then through its sophisticated programming captures and prevents all attempts to hack the site and blocks the IP addresses from which these attempts come for some time.
The addendum also contains a set of scan tools (Scan Tools) to check the site and ensure that it currently does not contain any spy codes or malicious files within it, and the addendum will show any files that have been altered suspiciously as well.
Finally, it comes with a range of additional protection tools, such as activating the 2-factor Authentication option for user logging, live monitoring of visitor flow (Live traffic monitoring), manual blocking or state-based blocking, etc.
GAinWP Google Analytics Integration for WordPress
If you use Google Analytics to monitor the flow of visitors on your site, then you will like this addition, because once installed and linked to your Google account you will be able to see information about your visitors directly from within the WordPress dashboard.
This addendum works as a Widget on the home page of the dashboard, through which you can view the flow of visitors during any given period you want, and then categorize those visits by device, country, open pages, or other beautiful options.
The addendum also allows you from the blog page to see statistics on specific topics that you just want; By clicking on the add icon alongside each published article, you can see the Google Analytics statistics for that article alone in the same way as before, and so you will know the good articles that bring visitors from the bad ones that don't bring it.
The add-on is free of course and you only need to link it to your Google Analytics account for use.
WP-Optimize
There are too many add-ons to improve speed, Cache memory, and Compression on WordPress, and they vary in performance from each other.
But the advantage of adding WP-Optimize is that it allows a beautiful option for uploaded images, which is to automatically press them in a certain percentage once uploaded to the site without interference from the user. For example, you can select the resolution you want (e.g. 95% or 90%) for uploaded images, and the addition will compress them and use the compressed image directly in the article instead of the original image.
This offers plenty of loading time for visitors, instead of uploading the original image in its large size they now carry a light, tuned image for fast and light loading, which in turn may raise the order of your site pages in search engines and improve the experience of using on your site.
Search Engine Optimization Additives
Any WordPress site must have SEO.
Search engines are the primary source for visitors to visit and learn about your site, and it is therefore essential that most pages on your site are configured according to the best SEO tips in place, and that they target certain keywords you want to get a good arrangement in.
There are plenty of additions to it, but the most famous ones are Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, and RankMath SEO, the best ones being the last ones; It not only adds search engine optimization like other additions, but it also has a monitor for 404 bug pages and an Instant Indexing tool as well as the possibility of linking it to Google statistics to bring live data on site performance in search algorithms, improve image metadata, a tool to redirect links, and much more...
FrankMath SEO is a very giant addition in terms of features, and it's free (with a plan driven by more features if you like).
Editing and Writing Additions
Gutenberg is the name of the virtual WordPress editor to create content, but many users are uncomfortable with this editor's virtual writing experience and want something else, here we have a range of solutions to this problem:
- Use TinyMCE editor with previous classic editor; It is more advanced and has a lot of coordination and editing options that do not exist in it.
- Use some additional accessories to the Gutenberg editor that allow more elements (Blocks) to be added to it, such as Ultimate Gutenberg Blocks, Gutentor, and others. (You'll find a lot of these plugins by searching for "Gutenberg Blocks" on the plugins page).
- Use another editor at a time, such as Elementor's sophisticated editor to create and edit pages with first-hand vision, or a rudimentary text editor such as Markdown editors such as WP Githuber MD or WP Markdown Editor.
All these options are available to you, and you can try them one by one - depending on the classification and specialization of your site and your needs - until you find the right editor for you. They are all free and suitable and therefore do not need payment to get them.
The WordPress CMS is already great. All these additions we have seen in this article are easy to install via a button click of the control panel, and most - if not all - are free and available to everyone, and therefore users do not suffer in creating the websites they want via this system.
