7 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Blogs in 2025

In our opinion, WordPress is the best content management software, powering 37% of all websites. At Creator Trail, we are big advocates, and we find it gives us much more creative freedom. It allows us as non-developers to build a website that is responsive to all devices and is easy to maintain and update.

In this article, we feature 7 must-have WordPress plugins for Blogs. There are several reasons why we have chosen these add-ons for your blog.

Sucuri Security

Security is essential, especially if you store customer information from sales and other website transactions. Sucuri will scan your website for changes to files that hackers may have gained access to. The plugin also monitors logins to your website and notifies you of changes by email.

Like most plugins nowadays, it does have a premium version, but the features for free are well enough adequate for content creators.

Site Kit by Google

Setting up Search Console and Analytics can be a pain if you do not have the technical skills needed, but with Site Kit, it’s so easy.

Sign up with your Google account and create or connect your Search Console, Analytics, Page Speed Insights and AdSense within a few minutes. You can also connect other Google services like Tag Manager and Optimize.

WP Rocket

There is nothing more frustrating than visiting a slow website. What we love about WP Rocket is that it caches the blog so that the next time a reader visits, all of the images, scripts and files are pre-loaded; this makes the experience much faster.

We have tested several paid, and free caching plugins and have found this to be the best at speeding up our website. It’s a paid plugin but well worth the cost to ensure that the experience for visitors is positive.

Yoast SEO

Want to receive visitors from search engines like Google and Bing? Yoast SEO is must-have WordPress plugin is going to give you a head start. The best feature is the SEO analysis, which highlights problems and improvements to your on-page optimization.

With the plugin, you can quickly see how your page will look in the search results on desktop and mobile. Set the schema based on the type of content you are creating on your blog. The free version is full of features.

WPS Hide Login

Since WordPress is so popular, hackers know how to access your login page and can then try and gain access. WPS Hide Login, as the name suggests, hides the WordPress login page and allows you to create a custom one. The plugin gives you another layer of security for your blog.

We recommend this plugin if you see many failed attempts to log in on the Sucuri plugin we mentioned earlier in this article.

Pretty Links

One of the annoying aspects of affiliate marketing is that the trackable link can change; this means going through your content and changing the link, so you continue receiving a commission.

With Pretty Links, you can quickly change the trackable link once, and all of your posts where you have used that link will change. This plugin will save you so much time and make sure you continue making money.

While Amazon does not allow you to mask your affiliate links, many other affiliate programs are okay with you doing this, but spend time reading through the affiliate agreement details before using this plugin to track links.

Simple SSL

As we mentioned in our list of website mistakes that content creators make, having a site that does not have a security certificate will mean that the browser will warn visitors that the site is not secured.

Simple SSL is a must-have to ensure that your site is secure. Using a free service by Let’s Encrypt, you can quickly set up a security certificate on your domain and make sure your visitors’ data is kept private.

Head to your WordPress dashboard and find out if you have installed any of these 7 must-have WordPress plugins for blogs.