We all know about all the amazing themes WordPress has to offer, but the real deal is the plugins. You can use them to improve, add and extend functional features on your WordPress website. They can make a good website great and drastically improve customer experience. With the official WordPress plugin repository having 47.000 plugins, it can be really hard to choose the right one for you. Thankfully, we’ve narrowed down the choice to the 5 essential plugins every WordPress site needs. Jetpack (Freemium) Jetpack is one of those all-around plugins that seemingly blends with your blog. Automatic, the company that made this plugin, are also responsible for the very software behind WordPress. The most important benefits of Jetpack are security, traffic growth, image enhancement, appearance fixes and loading time. Akismet (Freemium) Here we have yet another plugin developed by the WordPress team themselves. It’s one of the core plugins ...