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As you know, plugins play an important role in website creation, helping to improve the functionality of your web page. For example, the world’s most popular content management system, WordPress offers thousands of different plugins, but the average user is often at loss when trying to choose the suitable ones from among them.
Below we have highlighted five free WordPress plugins that could benefit a website owner.
Contact Form 7
Every website should have a contact form so that the person visiting your site could get in touch with you.
The Contact Form 7 plugin allows you to add a contact form to your website, making communication with your clients a lot easier and more convenient. The plugin can be used to create both simpler and more complex forms.
One of its strengths is also the possibility to add Google’s recaptcha system, preventing robots from playing around on your website.
Yoast SEO
To keep your website constantly visible on search engines, you must certainly pay attention to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress can help you do just that.
This is by far the best SEO plugin for WordPress, designed, of course, to boost your website higher in search results. Yoast SEO allows you to add a title, meta description and main keyword – all important elements for optimisation.
iThemes Security
The number of cybercriminals operating on the Internet is growing every year and nowadays even smaller and seemingly innocent websites can fall victim to them. The iThemes Security plugin is well suited to improve the security of your website.
One of the functions of the iThemes Security plugin is to grant temporary administration or editing rights to someone else. This is useful if, for example, you want to give access to your website to a developer, but do not want to grant them your administrator rights.
In addition to that iThemes can help to protect your website against the so-called brute force. This means the plugin automatically blocks hackers who have already tried to get access to another website. The plugin also allows you to make backup copies of your database.
W3 Total Cache
The speed of your website is as critical as its security. The main purpose of the W3 Total Cache plugin is to increase the speed of your website.
Various methods are in use for speeding up the loading of a website. One of them is caching. The website data are temporarily cached in the course of this process. Thus, this tool will create a static version of the website and display it to the visitor instead of the dynamic one.
In addition to that W3 Total Cache offers a number of advanced features to further increase the speed of your website.
BackWPup
The BackWPup plugin is a tool that allows you to make automatic backup copies of the files and database of your website. The most important feature of BackWPup is making backup copies not only of the database, but also of all files.
There is also a paid version of the plugin, offering more options to the user. The free version is however sufficient for simpler tasks.
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