With millions of plugins out there — and more being added on a daily basis –it could become tough trying to narrow down which is best for your website. Considering that if plugins are overused, they could pave way for bugs and malware to infiltrate your website, we’ve handpicked the top seven plugins we believe are best and secure to use on your WordPress website.

- Jetpack seems like an ultimate toolkit for WordPress. It gives you what you need to design, secure, and grow your site in one bundle. With Jetpack, you can get free features such as:

Website customization with free themes, image tools, and rich content.
Increased traffic through automatic social sharing, related content, and faster load times.
Safer website via secure logins and protection from brute force attacks.
All these core features are free. Advanced features like daily backups, spam protection, and SEO tools can be added with one of three plans.

- With over 5 million installations, Akismet is a high-rated anti-spam plugin that prevents your website from publishing malicious content. Akismet does this by checking your comments and contact form submissions against its global database of spam. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Major features in Akismet include:

Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.
PS: You’ll need an Akismet.com API key to use it. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites. You can download the freemium version on WordPress.

- Yoast claims to be the original and top WordPress plugin for SEO since 2008. Well, given the millions of users who have chosen the Yoast plugin as their favourite SEO tool, one can hardly dispute this fact. Yoast SEO does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders. Below are some of the plugin’s power-ups your website will find most useful:

The most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality at the push of a button.
Full control over site breadcrumbs: add a piece of code and you’re good to go.
Set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content. Never have to worry about Google penalties again.
Title and meta description templating for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
Content & SEO analysis: Invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts.
The snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile.
Yoast SEO tunes the engine of your site so you can work on creating great content.
The cornerstone content and internal linking features help you optimize your site structure in a breeze.
Integrates with Google Search Console: See how your site performs in the search engines and fix crawl errors.
Manage SEO roles: Give your colleagues access to specific sections of the Yoast SEO plugin.
Bulk editor: Make large-scale edits to your site.
The Yoast Premium even has a lot more features.

Read more on the seven plugins we recommend here: https://www.charisol.io/blog/7-top-wordpress-plugins-install-website/