One of the most popular CMS based website is WordPress and one of the great things about it is the tons of plugins that can boost and beautify your website. Plugins are like customize accessories for your website that increase security or functionality of the site. Having custom plugins makes your online presence that much more impressive.

There are plenty of plugins to choose from, but here are some of the most usable plugins and why do you need them.

1.   Yoast SEO

The Yoast SEO is a must have plugin for your website. Not only it helps your SEO’s score, but it’s easy to use, offering you a color coding system to let you know if you’re on the right track. After you write your content, simply enter your selected focus keyword and the plugin will update with a score from red to green showing you how well you represented that keyword within your page. Got a bad score? Yoast lets you know how to improve it: either by uploading more photos, using the keyword more times on the page, or adding links to other websites.

2.   Login Lockdown

It’s not only big website is targeted by hackers, other hackers tend to target small business website with few security plugins. Any website can be attacked by people hoping to upload their SEO-riddled articles to your site. Basically just your username is enough to have an intrusion using a method also known as “Brute Force Login” it will login random passwords after random passwords over and over again, until finding the right password. Login Lockdown is a plugin that prevents that happening. For example a certain IP tried to access your website multiple times that IP address will be blocked and the date and time stamp of each login are recorded. If you’re saying that you don’t need that, customers’ security and your business site security must not be taken for granted.

3.   BackUpBuddy

This WordPress plugin, simply put, is a lifesaver. Because you can never predict when something catastrophic will happen to your website, it’s important to have the security of knowing you can restore your entire website with the click of a mouse. That’s where BackupBuddy comes in. It creates a backup of your entire site pictures, articles, plugins, you name it either on an automated schedule or whenever else you tell it to. If and when something happens, it’s easy to restore everything back to normal. It’s one of the first plugins we install onto every site we create, because we know that keeping your beautiful site exactly how you like it is paramount.

4.   Contact Form 7 / Contact Form DB

Contract Form 7 / Contact Form DB is a plugin that are responsible for collecting information on loyal or potential customers on your website. If you want your client to sign up for newsletter or want some inquiries regarding your furniture business. A simple contact form on your website allows them to sound off without having to switch to a separate tab and login to their email provider. And the Contact Form Database saves a copy of each submission for future reference.

5.   TinyPNG

We all know that high resolution images are catchy and easy to the eyes, but the size will be big to store in hard drives. TinyPNG reduces the size of your website images without sacrificing the image quality. Think about it as a diet for your digital images. Without all those pixels taking up unnecessary space on your website, the page loads faster, which as you know by now helps boost your search engine ranking.

These are the only five essential plugins for your website. But, depending on your business there are thousands more that you can use.