What are the popular WordPress plugins?
Popular WordPress Plugins are the software which keeps WordPress website safe, secure, smart, fast and up to date. Most of the plugins for WordPress website are free. To be sure, the plugins are also very much user-friendly. Today 
we are going to discuss some popular WordPress plugins frequently used in WordPress website. Therefore, the present write-up intends to let you know about the names of the important plugins, their functions, how to install them, and how to activate them.
1. Akismet Anti-Spam
Akismet Anti-Spam is a wonderful anti-spam software which checks all comments and contact form submissions and prevents your site from publishing malicious materials. It stores all suspicious comments it identifies in the comment spam and you can review them on the “Comments” admin screen of your page. It’s one of the most popular WordPress plugins for Anti-spam.
Now, to install these popular WordPress plugins on your WordPress website, first go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Akismet Anti-Spam” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The website will install the plugin within a few minutes. After the successful installation, just click on Activate. When the plugin is activated, click on settings to set the API Key. You’ll see a request for WordPress account sign up. Sign up for a WordPress account and then log in. WordPress will provide you an API Key. Copy the API Key. Paste it into API Key box shown in settings. Click on Save Changes. Now, everything is alright. Akismet Anti-Spam will protect you from all spams automatically.
2. All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets
In fact, this plugin helps to create a short summary of any page in the search results of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Moreover, it sometimes shows a nice format including star ratings, author photo, image, etc. on the Facebook news feed. Besides, it provides search engines only the important and precise information to show in the search result as the snippet. Rich Snippet includes photos, star ratings, price, author, etc. to make the page first in the competition. It helps the page to achieve higher rank in search results. It also helps Facebook to show proper information when users share the links to this page on Facebook.
To install these popular WordPress plugins on your WordPress website, first, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. Within a few minutes, the website will install the plugin. After the installation of the plugin, just click on Activate. All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets plugin is ready to use.
3. Broken Link Checker
In particular, this plugin monitors for any existence of the broken link in the page and let the page owner know if it finds any. It monitors all links in all posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields if necessary. It detects all links that don’t work, missing images and redirects. If it finds any broken link it immediately notifies either via the Dashboard or by email. It shows all broken links in different posts separately. In addition, it doesn’t allow the search engines to follow broken links. Editing any link directly from the plugin’s page is possible without manual action using this plugin. Installation of this nice software is very easy.
To install these popular WordPress plugins, first, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Broken Link Checker” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The website will install the plugin within a few minutes. After the installation of the plugin, just click on Activate. Broken Link Checker will automatically start checking for the broken link.
4. DoFollow Case by Case
Especially this WordPress plugin allows removing the “nofollow” attribute from the author’s links and from the comments text links. One can do this either editing each comment case by case or white-listing all commenters emails, whose comments are always allowed to be “dofollow”. It also includes a checkbox in the insert link popup box for allowing a link to be ”nofollow” or “dofollow”. WordPress recommends not to use this plugin if there is another plugin with similar functionality.
To install DoFollow Case by Case plugin, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “DoFollow Case by Case” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The process will take a few minutes. After completion of the installation process, just click on Activate. Once the WordPress website installs the DoFollow Case by Case plugin, one can set “nofollow” or “dofollow” attribute for any Email address or URL using Email White List and URL White List.
5. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
In general, this Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress displays analytics stats, in-depth Page reports and in-depth Post reports on the WordPress Dashboard. It displays the number of visitors, traffic sources details, number of sessions, number of organic searches, number of page views, bounce rate, traffic mediums, device categories, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, etc.
To install Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once the plugin is installed, just click on Activate. Once the Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress plugin is installed on the WordPress website, it will start working automatically.
6. Jetpack by WordPress.com
Especially, Jetpack by WordPress.com keeps any WordPress site secure. It increases traffic to the WordPress website and engages a large number of readers. In addition, it displays site stats and analytics. It manages to share related posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, and WhatsApp automatically. Its security and backup services stop any kind of data loss, downtime, and hacking. It provides the WordPress website with brute force attack protection, monitoring for both downtime and uptime, secured logins and two-factor authentication.
It’s very much easy to install these popular WordPress plugins. First, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Jetpack by WordPress.com” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once the plugin is installed, just click on Activate. Once the Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin is installed on the WordPress website, it will start working automatically.
7. Related Posts
Related post is a nice plugin which intends to show related posts for any post as accurate as possible. It displays related or the best post on WordPress blog using a super widget. This plugin is very much fast to use and it works using its best intuition to show related posts.
If you want to try these popular WordPress plugins, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Related posts” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once the plugin is installed, just click on Activate. Once the Related posts plugin is installed on the WordPress website, it will start working automatically.
8. SEO Defend
WordPress provides the service to automatically solve many SEO related issues. But WordPress doesn’t provide any service to protect any website and domain assets from negative SEO, Blackhat SEO techniques, and bad SEOs. SEO Defend is an amazing software which always keeps WordPress site protected from negative SEO, Blackhat SEO techniques, and bad SEOs. SEO Defend periodically scans and monitor the WordPress website to check domain, content, link, and algorithm related risk factors. It helps to avoid Google penalties and keep the WordPress website safe from search engine algorithm updates. SEO Defend plugin provides a hazard analysis score of the existing SEO circumstance of WordPress site by showing a graphical synopsis on the WordPress dashboard.
This is very easy to install the SEO Defend plugin. Go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “SEO Defend” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once you successfully install the plugin, just click on Activate. The SEO Defend will start working automatically.
9. Virtual Robots.txt
Virtual Robots.txt is an automatic solution to create and manage the robots.txt file for WordPress site. The operation of Virtual Robots.txt is very easy. Just upload and activate the plugin and it is done. As a matter of fact, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows accessing some parts of WordPress which require good bots like Google. It keeps other parts blocked. If this plugin detects any XML sitemap, it automatically adds this to the robots.txt file.
Again, the installation procedure is very easy. Just go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Virtual Robots.txt” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once you finish the installation of the plugin, just click on Activate. The Virtual Robots.txt will start working automatically.
10. Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is an excellent plugin for the SEO of WordPress website. This plugin forces to choose a focus keyword at the time of writing articles. It makes sure the use of the focus keyword everywhere. In addition, it helps to write better content. It guides to build the best snippet preview for the search results. The plugin helps to be on top of organic search results. It checks whether the post has images. It also checks whether the post contains sufficiently long contents, whether there is a good meta description and whether the meta description contains the focus keyword, whether any subheading is used in the post, and so on. This Yoast SEO plugin guides to enable pretty permalinks. The Yoast SEO plugin also performs XML Sitemaps functionality for the WordPress website. Once the box for the XML Sitemaps is checked, it automatically creates XML sitemaps and notifies Google & Bing of the sitemaps’ existence.
For the installation of Yoast SEO, go to Plugins. Click on Add New. Write down “Yoast SEO” inside the “Search plugins…” box. After a while, WordPress will show you the plugin. Click on Install Now. The plugin will be installed on your website within a few minutes. Once the plugin is installed, just click on Activate. The Yoast SEO will start working automatically.
