{"id":276308,"date":"2016-03-09T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/pro-education\/7-essential-wordpress-plugins-will-rock-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:33:11","slug":"7-essential-wordpress-plugins-will-rock-blog","status":"publish","type":"au-pro-education","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/pro-education\/7-essential-wordpress-plugins-will-rock-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"7 essential wordpress plugins that will rock your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WordPress<\/a> is responsible for more than 66 million websites<\/a>\u00a0worldwide, including CNN,\u00a0Forbes, TechCrunch and, of course, our very own Easy Weddings. Creating your own WordPress site<\/a> is easy. If you’re already a proud owner\u00a0and want to pimp your site\u00a0with the latest\u00a0gadgets\u00a0and add-ons, try these 7 must-have WordPress plugins to make your blog\u00a0the envy of all competitors:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Akismet<\/a> – spam slaying<\/h2>\n

If you’ve got comments activated on your blog as a tool to encourage questions, feedback and open communication with your customers, but the genuine comments are hard to find in between\u00a0all the links to Rayban deals and cheap Nike specials, we’d like you to meet Akismet’s\u00a0hosted anti-spam service.<\/p>\n

From as little as $5 per month<\/a>, Akismet’s anti-spam soldiers will guard your comments from the perils of spam with their advanced filtering systems keeping spam off the web\u00a0at a rate of\u00a0\u00a07.5 million comments per hour.<\/a><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0W3 Total Cache<\/a> – speedy load times<\/h2>\n

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47% of consumers<\/a> expect websites\u00a0to load in two\u00a0seconds or less, and when it doesn’t, they\u00a0bounce! Let’s play Hypotheticals here for a second…\u00a0If your\u00a0e-commerce site was\u00a0making $100,000 a\u00a0day, even a 1-second page delay could cost you $2.5 million in lost sales<\/a> annually – OUCH!<\/p>\n

Conquer slow load times before<\/em> you get there, with the\u00a0W3 Total Cache plugin<\/a>. This nifty plugin\u00a0improves your site’s server performance by caching every aspect (storing files on visitors’ devices for fast retrieval on\u00a0return\u00a0visits), so your site can\u00a0enjoy\u00a0reduced download times, keeping both Google trawlers and prospective customers\u00a0satisfied.<\/p>\n


\n3. Jetpack<\/a> – stats, social, speed, sharing & security<\/i><\/h2>\n

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This free WordPress plugin will blast\u00a0your\u00a0website management\u00a0skills to the next level with a suite of cool\u00a0tools:<\/p>\n