The plugins for WordPress are uncountable. But not all are up-to-date and work with the newest version. The result are countless hours spent finding the right plugin for the job. Today I want to share 5 plugins that are a great help for me running this blog.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Every blog with a comment section will be flooded with spam. You can try to separate real comments from spam manually, but when you get more than 100 spam comments a day this will take a lot of time. The Akismet Anti-Spam plugin helps you to get rid of this problem.
Really Simple SSL
If you use SSL (HTTPS) with a WordPress blog you quickly figure out that this isn’t as simple as switching a settings flag. All your published posts and images use http:// and going back to switch all to https needs again a lot of time. But even when you did all that work, WordPress itself had for a long time some pages that ignored this flag and served content over http. Really Simple SSL is a plugin that fixes all of that without any effort and is in my opinion a must-have for blogs based on WordPress using SSL/HTTPS.
Crayon Syntax Highlighter
I post a lot of code snippets and syntax-highlighting for different programming language is therefore a must-have. Crayon Syntax Highlighter is a simple plugin with a lot of options to format source code.
iThemes Security
You will be surprised how many login-attempts are made to your blog. WordPress is widely used and with that an interesting target. IThemes Security is actively protecting your blog: Auto-blocking IPs, automatic database backups, checking file permissions, detecting changed files and many more things you could do on your own but would take too much time.
Public Post Preview
If you want to share a draft on WordPress.com you simply check an option. However, this feature isn’t available for self-hosted blogs. Dominik Schilling filled this gap with the Public Post Preview plugin.
You can get those plugins in the built-in plugin store of your WordPress dashboard. Most of them offer a free plan where you can figure out if you like it before you have to pay for them. If you think there are important plugins missing, please post a comment with a link to them.
Great job! Thanks for your wonderful recommendation.
I would like to suggest to have a look at one more security related WordPress plugin which is known as User Activity Log. This has strong power to monitor all the activities of your users in your website. It also helps admin to get notified if any selected user logged in at the admin area. To know more visit here: https://100cms.org/extension/wordpress/5444-User-Activity-Log-WordPress-Plugin