WordPress offers a lot of plugins which are feature-rich and very helpful to bloggers and website owners. Let’s take a look at the 10 must have WordPress plugins:

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO by Yoast is an essential plugin for optimizing the blog or website for the search engines. This plugin will allow you to handle the title and snippet, description of each item by obtaining a score based on the main keyword and based on that you can make the content more SEO-friendly through its parameters. It is easy to use, intuitive, reliable and extremely comprehensive. An absolute must!

2. Flare

Flare is a plugin for social sharing that will help you in making your website more popular. It is a clean, reliable alternative to integrate social sharing buttons into your website or blog. It will help you to place ‘follow me’ widgets on the website so that your site can get followers from social networking sites.

3. WP Google Fonts

WP Google Fonts allows you to automatically import the Google web fonts you prefer and add them to the theme of your site, without having to manually make any changes to the theme. It is very convenient for those who are not very comfortable with style sheets and importing of external fonts. It also allows you to try different solutions in no time ... at the click of a mouse.

4. Disqus Comment System

Disqus Comment System that makes it possible for you to enable people to take part in any discussion in your website or blog, by using their login credentials from different social networks and email providers. It has a clean and simple graphic appearance that does not interfere with the design of your blog and it's the most functional plugin for social sharing.

5. WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache speeds up the loading of pages by keeping in memory (cached) a certain amount of data and by feeding it directly to the browser. It is an essential plugin especially if your blog has several widgets or social sharing plugin.

6. Tweetily

Tweetily, once connected and configured, periodically creates a tweet from your article and automatically publishes it on twitter, from your twitter account. For example, you can configure Tweetily to create a tweet every two hours by choosing a random article from your blog.

7. Related Articles by Zemanta

It is a plugin which can increase the overall readership or page views of your website, by suggesting related articles to the articles published in your blog or website. You can decide on the number of related posts that it should propose at the bottom of the article, manage different settings for the desktop and the mobile version and so on.

8. WP Smush It

WP Smush It helps in optimizing the size of the pictures that you will upload to your WordPress site. Each image that you will upload to the library of your blogs will be automatically filtered and processed by Smush It.

9. WP-DBManager

This is a plugin which will help you in effectively managing the database of your blog or website. It will help you to repair the database, create its backup and restore it.

10. Social Metrics

Social Metrics allows full monitoring of the social activity of the post. It also has a Pro version but the basic version provides sufficient features that are very useful in monitoring how the website or blog is performing.

These are just a few of the essential WordPress plugins that you can install for a more seamless and more enhanced WordPress blog or website. So whether you are starting a fashion blog, setting up a niche website or any blog for that matter, your online presence can benefit from the above mentioned plugins. Best of all, the plugins mentioned here work well with most WordPress themes in the market today and can help your blog/website to look and perform better.