1.Google Analytics

Keep a keen eye on the performance of your site, particularly if you have a slither of hope in managing and growing your site  effectively. The Google Analytics plugin will allow you to do just that within your WordPress dashboard. Making it simple for you to monitor website visits, page views, bounce rates, average visit duration and where your traffic is coming from. This is the sort of information that is crucial in making website growth decisions. There are also advanced settings that allow you to identify your site’s demographic and their interests vital in creating targetted content and ads.

2.Pop Up CC

Turn your website vistors in customers through the use of opt-ins. Opt ins are what you will use in your email marketing campaigns. Once you’ve got people visiting the site, you want a way to keep them interested and coming back.  This nifty plugin will help you put opt-in sign up forms on any page you wish with pop up triggers including time spent on site, how far down the page your visitor has scrolled. It’s a good way to grap your vistors attention once you’ve seen they’ve shown interest and you want to keep it that way.

In return for them visiting your site, you give away free vouchers, regular discounts and eBooks. Once you have built your email marketing lists, you can sell your goods and services to those who are subscribed to your lists.

3.Wordfence

Hackers are always on the look out for an unsecure out of date website. The WordPress platform, your plugins, your themes are constantly updated by the authors for improvement and bug fixes. If you are not aware of these update changes, your site becomes vunerable. The Wordfence plugin will alert you of updates required to any part of your website as well monitor and block unathorised access.  It’ll also inform you of unauthorised changes to core WordPress code and ensure you have strong admin logins as well hinder bruteforce attacks against your site.

A plugin like wordfence gives you great protection security against hackers.  This plug in is a must have.

4.Yoast SEO

Good SEO is essential in making sure your website can be found by internet users. Yoast SEO is a popular plugin, which I have used for many years and it will help you write posts that are SEO optimised each and every time. With this plugin you can also make sure your entire website is SEO optimised. You’ll receive regular alerts of any issues that require your attention and be provided with a rank of each blog post or article for SEO quality

5.W3 Total Cache

Visitors won’t be staying on your site if it takes forever for pages to load. This trusted plugin will help improve your website performance, reduce  page load times and dramatically improve user experience and search engine ranking. Another must have.

6. UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore

In the world of technology anything can go wrong, so it’s only right you make sure you regularly back up your site. Updraft will not only that do for you but it will allow you to store your back ups in a preferred location and restore whenever you need to. Make the choice to backup  just the database, your WordPress themes, plugins or the entire website at scheduled intervals using this popular plugin.

If you don’t want the headache of having to start your site from fresh when things don’t go according to plan, you’ll want to have this plugin.

7. Insert  headers and footers.

Let’s say you need to insert a bit of code for Google analytics or for Facebook ad pixels. You won’t need any coding knowledge with this plugin.  This plugin will help you insert the third party code or pixel provided into the header or the footer on any page you require, no hassle.