Hey !
When you start to blog, you won’t think at first to download plugins while they are indispensable. Plugins are optional, but only a crazy person would want to have a site without them. Some are useful and the others will personalize your website. Here is five plugins you absolutely If you’re a beginner.
- Akismet anti-spam
Akismet is one of the plugin you should not miss, it’s the best way to protect your blog from spam.
- Contact form by WP form
With WPForms you can create beautiful contact forms, feedback form, subscription forms, payment forms, and other type of forms for your site. Whit the pre-built form templates, it’s easy to use so you don’t spend hours doing it.
- Yoast
Have you heard about the SEO and how it could help your site to rank in the search engines ? If you did, this plugin will help you to optimize it and If you didn’t, you should read my article about it.
- Cookie Notice
Cookie Notice allows you to elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies, which is an obligation due to the EU cookie law GDPR regulations and you can customize the message!
- Instagram Feed
With this plugin you can display beautifully clean, customizable, and responsive Instagram feeds on your blog. You can customize the width, height, number of photos, number of columns, image size, background color, image spacing and more! It’s completely responsive and mobile ready and you can include a Follow on Instagram button at the bottom of your feed.
I hope this article will help you to build the blog of your dream!
Love, Lalla