Recommended WordPress Plugins
Security
All In One WP Security: All round best WordPress security plugin!
Wordfence Security: Wordfence Security – Antivirus, Firewall and High Speed Cache
Disable Comments: Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type.
Admin UI / UX
TinyMCE Advanced: Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor.
CMS Tree Page View: Use the tree view to edit, view, add pages and search pages. And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages.
Admin Menu Editor: Lets you directly edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename existing menus, add custom menus and more.
Admin Branding and Tweaks: Allows you to easily control some tweaks of the WordPress admin side and login screen.
Performance
Use Google Libraries: Allows your site to use common JavaScript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from own copies.
WP Smush: Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free
Comet Cache: Advanced WP caching plugin inspired by simplicity.
Autoptimize: Optimizes your website, concatenating the CSS and JavaScript code, and compressing it.
PageSpeed: Help you to get a passing grade in Google PageSpeed Insight.
Speed Booster Pack: Allows you to improve your page loading speed and get a higher score on the major speed testing services such as GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed or other speed testing tools.
Advanced Database Cleaner: Clean up your database by deleting unused data such as ‘revisions’, ‘drafts’, ‘orphan options’, etc.
Search Engine Optimization
Yoast SEO: All-in-one SEO solution, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
WP Meta SEO: To fill meta for content, images and main SEO info in a single view.
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP: Displays Google Analytics reports in your WordPress Dashboard by inserting the latest Google Analytics tracking code in your pages.
WP User Avatar: Use any image from your WP Media Library as a custom user avatar.
Shareaholic: The world’s leading all-in-one Content Amplification Platform that helps grow your website traffic, engagement, conversions & monetization.
Utilities
Formidable: Quickly and easily create drag-and-drop forms
TablePress: Embed beautiful and feature-rich tables into your posts and pages, without having to write code.
Page Builder by SiteOrigin: Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.
Smart Slider 3: Responsive WordPress slider plugin to create beautiful sliders in the next generation visual editor.
By Jan-Erik Finlander – 2016
WordPress 4.4 Content Management System