Over the years, we have built hundreds of websites, at our early days we built the whole damn thing from scratch – a complete unique and custom back end. Then as the demands kept changing, we started looking into open source technologies, so we adopted Joomla and Drupal for “websites” and WordPress for blog and high content orientated based websites. I love WordPress for one thing, its simplicity is unmatched. WordPress does a lot more than just build blogs; we have built a number of commercial websites on it. Like any other application, to get the best out of it you have to tweak it. So here are four plugins that I think every WordPress powered website should have. Some are premium, but, just the free features will suffice. A professional website should be secure with a well designed user interface and in the age of social media, a lot more “social”. The plugins i’ve discussed can help you or your website developer achieve these objectives. What plugins that do the same have you used? Or are there any others worth sharing? Then share them with us in the comments section below. Image: Nichepursuits Editor’s Note: About the Author. Joshua Okapes is keen about technology, passionate about incorporating technology into routine business processes and sharing tech experiences for the last 10 years. He’s currently serving the industry with Hosteac – a web hosting and design brand of “Devterch Limited”. You can find him on Twitter @JOkapes TechPost encourages guest posts from Tech enthusiasts, industry watchers, journalists and bloggers and our readers from Africa and around the world. If you think you’ve something cool, please write to [email protected]