Starting one blog in the presence of WordPress? Great choice! You are going to quickly understand that WordPress has all the things you require to initiate as well as grow one website. Early on in the process of building out a blog, I’m often asked by readers—what if you want to take your blog further with a more customized look as well as features? Where should you start?
Start with WordPress plugins. They provide extra functionality for your blog as well as are going to allow you to further control the look, feel & features of what your blog can do. There are WordPress plugins for creating forms, SEO plugins, security plugins, backup plugins, as well as plugins for every conceivable function out there.
MightyShare WordPress Plugin
Automatically generate social share images in WordPress for free. Don’t just settle for whichever boring social share image your SEO plugin creates by default. MightyShare’s free plugin automatically generates beautiful social images for your blog posts.
Every time a link to your blog gets shared on Facebook, Twitter, and even in iMessage—you’ll notice there is a small preview image. MightyShare makes your shared images more engaging by adding text, images, and even your logo.
Jetpack
Jetpack is a “toolbox” plugin with different functions that improve your WordPress blog. These include security, speed and performance, activity logging, email marketing, backups, and more. It comes with over a dozen features that cover just about everything you can think of, making it an excellent choice for any blog.
Simple SSL
An SSL certificate is a mechanism that makes sure a website is more secure. If you see a little lock-in next to the URL, that means SSL is installed. These days, SSL is a must and any site that doesn’t use it is flagged by Chrome and other browsers as potentially unsafe. Thankfully, setting up SSL is easy with Really Simple SSL.
This simple plugin configures your site to run over HTTPS in just one click. If you already have a certificate installed, it will detect it. If you don’t, it will create a new one for you. It’s designed to be super simple, making it lightweight and a no-brainer for anyone that needs to install SSL on their site.
Presto Player
Do you have a lot of videos on your WordPress blog? You’ll want to check out Presto Player. It’s one of the best ways to display videos on your posts and pages. It has tons of features, including autoplay, mute, overlay images, multiple video sources, private videos, and anything else you can think of that relates to video.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is easy to set up and use and easily connects with lots of different payment processors and services. If you’re looking to sell products or services via your blog, definitely install WooCommerce and give it a try!
To sum it up
The plugin installation process is very simple. There are two ways to install a plugin: Search for the plugin from within the WordPress dashboard. Then manually upload the plugin, either via the WordPress dashboard or FTP/SFTP or SSH.
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