WordPress Plugins
If your business is running a WordPress website, plugins are a great way to get more features and better performance from your site. Whether your website needs a contact form, SEO support or cacheing there is a plugin for almost everything. Here I cover my 10 favourite WordPress Plugins for Business website design.
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO makes content optimisation simple, and I recommend you install it before creating any other content for your website. With the plugin installed you can make sure all your pages and posts are fully optimised. Yoast SEO provides a full analysis of your content, and tells you what you need to do to optimise it for your selected keywords. It also allows you easily input an SEO friendly title and meta description, which will appear in search engine results.
W3 Total Cache
Websites can be slow loading, but with cacheing tools such as W3 Total Cache you can speed up your website significantly. Cacheing plugins can be configured to load key content first, serve media content via a CDN and much more. Paid cacheing tools such as WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket can provide even greater optimisation benefits, to shave further valuable seconds off site loading times. To get the best performance from your business WordPress website, a cacheing plugin is a must.
- W3 Total Cache
- WP Fastest Cache Free and Paid
- WP Rocket Paid
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Contact Form 7
Your business website is the perfect place to receive enquiries and Contact Form 7 allows you to do just that. This easy to setup plugin, provides a wide range of fields and options to create the perfect contact form for your business needs. It’s simple to setup anything from a basic newsletter form to an in-depth enquiry form. Don’t miss out on new enquiries and make sure your website features contact forms with Contact Form 7.
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Vaultpress
Your website is important to your business, so make sure your content is safe. Vaultpress is a paid service that backs up your website daily, allowing you to retrieve old content or revert to an older version of your website if needed. Websites are expensive and time consuming to create, scheduled backups provide your business with peace of mind.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Bundled with VaultPress, Akismet Anti-Spam is the perfect spam blocking solution for your website. Without spam protection, your comments and email inbox can become filled with irrelevant posts and emails. This not is only annoying and time consuming to resolve, but can also slow down your website due to the number of requests sent to your database. Make sure your website is only receiving relevant comments and emails, by enabling anti-spam protection.
Broken Link Checker
Internal and external links are an essential part of writing articles and posts for your business website. Broken Link Checker lets you know if any of your links suddenly become invalid. Perhaps the page you are linking to no longer exists, or you changed the name of one of your website pages, this plugin lets you easily update the link. Links provide a richer website experience for visitors and helps boost SEO, so make sure you use Broken Link Checker to keep your articles and content up to date.
JetPack
JetPack offers a wide range of benefits including stats, security, downtime monitoring, backups, brute force attack protection and more, that make it a worthwhile investment. However, my favourite feature is being able to link up to your social media accounts, and post directly to them when a new post is published from your WordPress website. This saves having to go to each of your social media accounts to post your new content directly.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is one of the best and most powerful plugins available for WordPress. When installed WooCommerce provides full e-commerce functionality to your website, allowing you to sell products and services online. The plugin in is free and additional extensions can be purchased for advanced functionality. If your business wants to sell products over the internet, WooCommerce is an essential plugin for your website.
MailPoet
If you want to send email newsletters and e-shots to your subscribers, MailPoet is a great free plugin that will allow you to do just that. It’s easy to create professional email newsletters with the drag and drop interface. You can quickly add new subscribers via excel spreadsheet, or get customers to subscribe via a form on your website. If you want to build brand awareness and generate more sales via email newsletters Mailpoet is a must have plugin for your WordPress website.
Revive Old Posts
You may have spent a lot of time creating great articles and posts for your business website, and Revive Old Posts is a fantastic tool for getting the most from them. Using this tool you can schedule your posts to be automatically re-posted on social media after the initial posting date. This helps to drive more valuable traffic to your website. The free version allows you to post to a single social media account, for more the premium version is required. Revive Old Posts is a must if you want to get the most from your website content.
Best WordPress Plugins for Your Business Website
If you are a new or existing business running a WordPress website, it can be difficult to know what is best for your website. These 10 plugins help me create excellent, feature rich and highly interactive websites for my clients and I believe they will be equally valuable for your Business’ website. If you need help with building your WordPress website get in touch.
