A recommended list of must have Wordpress plugins

wordpress-plugins.html

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  <li><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/wordpress-security-plugin/" target="_blank">Acunetix Wordpress Security Plugin</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-security-scan" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/" target="_blank">Sucuri Security Malware Scanner</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sucuri-scanner" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/" target="_blank">Akismet</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.seoegghead.com/software/wordpress-firewall.seo" target="_blank">Wordpress Firewall</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/" target="_blank">Crayon Syntax Highlighter</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crayon-syntax-highlighter" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://gtmetrix.com/gtmetrix-for-wordpress-plugin.html" target="_blank">GTmetrix for WordPress</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gtmetrix-for-wordpress" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-lightbox/" target="_blank">Responsive Lightbox</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/responsive-lightbox" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/" target="_blank">Disable XML-RPC</a> - for Wordpress 3.5+ and higher security. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-xml-rpc" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues. <a href="http://xmlrpc.eritreo.it/" target="_blank">XML-RPC Validation Tool</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/" target="_blank">Rename wp-login.php</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rename-wp-login" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues. With this enabled, Nginx vhost for wordpress site needs adding an additional rule where <b>renamedloginurl</b> is the name of the renamed wp-login.php page. Remember to restart Nginx server after making Nginx vhost file change.

<pre>    location = /renamedloginurl/ {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
}
</pre>


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  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/" target="_blank">Limit Login Attempts</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/limit-login-attempts" target="_blank">support forums</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/no-longer-in-directory/" target="_blank">No Longer in Directory</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/no-longer-in-directory" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-updates-notifier/" target="_blank">WP Updates Notifier</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-updates-notifier" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/mail-on-update/" target="_blank">Mail On Update</a>. Check <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mail-on-update" target="_blank">support forum</a> for any issues.</li>
  
  <li>JetPack</li>
  <li>WordPress SEO</li>
  <li>W3 Total Cache</li>
  <li>Disable All WordPress Updates [http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-wordpress-updates/]</li>
  
  <li>Admin Menu Editor</li>
  <li>Codepress Admin Columns [https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/]</li>
  <li>Search Everything</li>
  <li>WP Better Emails</li>

<li>WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-missed-schedule/]</li>
<li>Widget Logic [http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/]</li>
<li>PC Hide Pages [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pc-hide-pages/]</li>
<li>Lockdown WP Admin [http://wordpress.org/plugins/lockdown-wp-admin/]</li>
<li>SEO Smart Links [http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-automatic-links/]</li>

<li>Types - Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Management [http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/]</li>
  
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