With the vast amount of WordPress themes available, both free and Premium, your website can be a visual masterpiece. Looking good is not enough however if you want a website that is fast, robust, engaging, secure and useful. To provide all of these things, you are going to have to install some must have WordPress Plugins. And this applies to all websites from small blogs to large e-commerce websites.

You can download most of the essential plugins free. Premium plugins are also widely available from places such as Codecanyon. Although these cost money, the plugins are often good value and can offer more than free plugins. Other developers offer freemium plugins where you can download a free version and buy add-ons if you feel you need extra features. (more…)