wordpress plugins for a foodblog

I am back with another post related to the blog basics. The last post was a complete pictorial guide to start your blog on WordPress.Well, Those were the steps I follow for my blog. The following is a current list of the plugins we are using on the curry nation blog. well, I am just a beginner and I always testing new plugins and trying to figure out how to make our site work better, and I’ll keep updating this post.

I will note that we used wpzoom theme previously and switched to the Genesis Framework. My website is a self-hosted website and trust me, Bluehost is the cheapest hosting service. It provides most of the basic facilities including  FREE SSL certificate, spam checking and basic protection which are the MUST have things for the new blogs. So,If you’re not on Bluehost yet, check this tutorial.

Plugins are the important part of any blog. Your website performance depends on the balanced use of plugins. I always get the questions about the website speed improvements, SEO,email subscribers and even how frequently I update my blog :). we want to make the things transparent here.

The most common question I get is about the speed.

remember, It is not the number of plugins that affects your site performance but it is a poor plugin scripts that affects your site badly(as per wpbeginner).

so, below are the list of plugins I am using currently.

general plugins

1. Akismet: Spam Filtering
2. Jetpack: an Entire suite of useful tools specifically for wordpress.
3. WP recipe maker: for recipe formatting
4. jQuery Pin It Button for Images: If you hover over our images, you’ll see a “Pin It” button.
5. MailChimp for WordPress: I recently started using mailchimp and this plugin allows some added functionality (without custom coding) if you’re using MailChimp for your email newsletter service.
6. Wp Optimize: This is 3 in one plugin. WE use this to optimize out databse, compress our images and clean our cache.
7. Yoast SEO: for the SEO
8. Up Draft plus: for the website backups
9. Social warfare: for social sharing buttons
10. Social media button by WPZOOM : it is a theme specific plugin which we use for our social media buttons.
11. limit login attempt: to limit malicious login attempt.
12. google authenticator: for 2 step authentication. Recently someone hacked our hindi blog. We we deleted that blog completely because we don’t want to continue currynation’s hindi version. So, We feel that This plugin is MUST to protect your blog.

Genesis Framework specific plugins

1. Genesis Simple Edits: to edit some genesis specific styles
2. simple social Icons:- for social media icon

Premium Plugins

1.  WP Recipe maker premium bundle – We are using premium bundle of this plugin to craft our recipes.

That’s all for now guys.

have a good day !

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