20 Basic Wordpress Plugins for All Blog Beginner

Welcome to self hosted wordpress blog first of all and for the reason you chooses to invest your money for a blog should be wise. Self hosted wordpress or wordpress.org blog what we call it is more than just a simple blogging platform. With plugin it stands strong for its competitor, you're right both Drupal and Joomla are limited in plugins. Now before you start your blogging journey with your niche post, I like to share these 20 wordpress plugin you must need to use to make it better. And these 20 best and must have wordpress plugins are sorted in no manner, just to make sure all are best in their respective business.

And the 20 Best Wordpress Plugins for beginners are...

1 WP Super Cache 

Your hosting provider lie with their unlimited bandwidth plan and to keep your blog running and to reduce or minimal downtime you can use this plugin. WP Super Cache helps to make a cache version of your site just to make your site load fast and won't down with unexpected number of visitors.

Download WP Super Cache

2 Ultimate Nofollow

Ultimate Nofollow enables a checkbox option to your add link pop-up box so you won't need to add rel="nofollow" attribute from text tab.

Download Ultimate Nofollow

3 Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is one of the best SEO plugin for wordpress. If you're not that advance user but still need to rank higher in google search Yoast SEO will help you to do so. During writing any post just make sure to fill out the Yoast SEO form carefully, it will helps for organic search engine optimization by just some simple tweaks. You can read more about this wordpress seo plugin, this expert SEO plugin is free of cost, premium plans also available. Don't wanna do this, you can use any outsource SEO site to get white label SEO by spending some money.

Download Yoast SEO

4 Antispam Bee

A free and the best spamfilter alternative to Akismet. Antispam bee keep your blog safe from spam comments and trackbacks. It's free, ad free and spam free wordpress plugin.

Download Antispam Bee

5 Contact Form 7 

With contact form 7 you can make a minimalistic contact form for your website. Contact form 7 is free to download and install on wordpress plugin directory. Also comes with various languages support.

Download Contact Form 7

6 Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a wordpress social media plugin which is easy to use but with little customizability. Digg Digg provides a familiar Mashable style social counter to your blog with hit counts which in turn encourage visitors to share your blog on their respective feeds.

Download Digg Digg

7 Simple Adblock Notice

Simple adblock notice comes handy if you want to make money from your blog. This plugin popups when a visitor with adblock visit your site and ask them to whitelist your blog from adblock settings. Also the strict mode let you hide your whole blog content, so the visitors first white list your blog and then can see the content.

Download Simple Adblock Notice

8 Open external links in a new window 

For some reason you need this plugin more than any other plugin listed. Especially if you're using woocommerce with affiliate. No need to check the open in new window checkbox. This external window plugin will comes handy for beginners.

Download Open external links in a new window

9 Jetpack by Wordpress.com

With Jetback you can enable web analytics easily. Not just stats, you can enable enhanced security and optimize your blog images. You can check all those features on their plugin page.

Download Jetpack by Wordpress.com

10 Elegant Subscription Popup

Elegant subscription popup is an adorable feedburner mail catcher plugin which we are using in this and two other blogs. It display a popup when the page loads, comes with timer option and allow you to use your own logo.

Download Elegant Subscription Popup

11 Loginizer 

Wordpress is vulnerable from brute force attacks, this wordpress security plugin help to secure your site by blocking the attacker IP after number of unsuccessful login attempts. This plugin comes as both free and with premium features.

Download Loginizer Wordpress Plugin

12 Arqam 

Retina Responsive WordPress Social Counter Plugin - With Arqam plugin you can enable stylish social counter on your sidebar to interact with your visitors.. Arqam is developed by Tielabs and is available at just $16 on Code Canyon.

Download Arqam Wordpress Plugin

13 All In One WP Security & Firewall 

Wordpress is not as secure as it seems to be. With All in one WP security & firewall plugin you can extend your blog security and make it less vulnerable to hackers attack. This plugin is free to download from WP Plugin directory.

Download All in One WP Security & Firewall Wordpress Plugin

14 BackWPup Free

WordPress Backup Plugin - As its name suggest you can backup all your stuff with this wordpress backup plugin. The created backup can be sent to dropbox or in your email. Use both All in One WP Security & Firewall and this plugin to enhance wordpress security.

Download BackWPup Wordpress Plugin

15 Disable XML-RPC Pingback

This plugin prevent your blog from Pingback Denial of Service attacks and are helpful if you're not using Jetpack alongside. XML-RPC is used in wordpress as an API for third party clients and plugin like Jetpack, also to enable trackback and pingback. But can be misused too that's why its better to disable it. This plugin may cause site_inaccessible issue with jetpack.

Download XML RPC Pingback

16 Ultimate Widgets

No other widget pack can be as beautiful as Ultimate Widget. Design for multi-purpose usage UW comes with Ads, About, Contact, Banner, Calendar, Flickr, Facebook, Mailchimp, Login page and more other widgets. This plugin can be purchased at $20 from Code Canyon and comes with extended support of upto 12 months at $6.

Download Ultimate Widgets Light Wordpress Plugin | Purchase Pro

17 Shortcode Ultimate

Short ultimate enable a variety of shortcodes for button, heading, boxes, image gallery, according, lightbox and image carousel and more other features for free. Addons for this plugin are also available but you need to pay to buy them.

Download Shortcode Ultimate Wordpress Plugin

18 Click to Tweet

With click to tweet free wordpress plugin you can create simple, minimalistic click to tweet boxes which looks great inside your blog post.

Download Click to Tweet Wordpress Plugin

19 TablePress

By default wordpress does not allow user to create table using its own editor. However tablepress plugin will solve this problem. With its easy to use interface you can make your own table withing the editor without any use of coding.

Download TablePress Wordpress Plugin

20 Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARPP)

YARPP is the most popular related post plugin available for free to download from wordpress plugin directory. Also the most customizable one too, with YARPP you can also make money by sharing sponsored content on your blog.

Download Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARPP) Wordpress Plugin


Though the plugin list for startup on wordpress plugin directory is outnumbered I have listed all these handpicked plugins on this post. I hope these plugins will help you to make a better blog. Also if you have any suggestion or recommendation or like to correct myself then please leave a comment.