WordPress Plugins are little programs that add different functions to your wordpress blog. below are a list of the best wordpress plugins for your wordpress blog.
There are currently over 12,000 wordpress plugins avialable to the public for free. I have tried many and now use these top qaulity plugins for very good reasons. WordPress plugins can help your wordpress blog attract new readers and search engine traffic.
Note: WordPress plugins can conflict with some free wordpress themes and your blog can freeze. I recommend investing in a Premium WordPress Themeto prevent any major problems down the track. I have never experienced a problem with a Premium wordpress theme.
| Plugin | Description | |
| AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget | Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs. | |
| Version 1.6.7 | By The AddThis Team | Visit plugin site | ||
| Advanced Permalinks | Allows multiple permalink structures, migration of permalinks without redirections, permalinks for posts in specific categories, and categories without a base | |
| Version 0.1.18 | By John Godley | Visit plugin site | ||
| Advertisement Management | With Advertisement Management you can control all your blogadvertisements from one single location in the blog backend. | |
| Version 1.0 | By Atle Seppola Grimseid | Visit plugin site | ||
| Akismet | Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and track-back spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key. | |
| Version 2.5.0 | By Automattic | Visit plugin site | ||
| All in one Favicon | All in one Favicon management. Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif) | |
| Version 2.1 | By Arne Franken | Visit plugin site | ||
| All in One Webmaster | 1) Sitemap Submission option to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com. 2) Options to add Google, Bing, Yahoo, Alexa, Facebook Insights, Facebook, Blogcatalog Webmaster Meta Tag. 3) Options to add Google, Quantcast.com, GetClicky.com, Compete.com Analytics scripts for your blogs. Please go to Settings -> All in One Webmaster for more and detailed options. | |
| Version 6.9.9.2 | By Arpit Shah | Visit plugin site | ||
| AWeber Integration | Provides a simple way to add one or more AWeber email subscription form(s) to your sidebar and optionally enable AWeber analytics for your website. Supports AWeber’s Javascript snippet embed method as well as the Raw HTML embed method. | |
| Version 2.0 | By OM4 | Visit Aweber site | ||
| Banner Generator | Generates image with last posts title. Edit bGen settings under Settings menu. Your upload folder must be set and writable! | |
| Version 0.6.3.1 | By Jure Ham | Visit plugin site | ||
| Contact Form 7 | Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. | |
| Version 2.4.2 | By Takayuki Miyoshi | Visit plugin site | ||
| CRM | A simple CRM plugin. | |
| Version 1.1 | By Best Web Outsourcing and Cregy | Visit plugin site | ||
| Customize Meta Widget | Add or remove links from meta widget, especially sometimes annoying link to wordpress.org. | |
| Version 0.2 | By Jehy | Visit plugin site | ||
| Disqus Comment System | The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System. | |
| Version 2.61 | By Disqus | Visit plugin site | ||
| Exclude Pages from Navigation | Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings. | |
| Version 1.9 | By Simon Wheatley | Visit plugin site | ||
| Facebook Fan Box | Displays a Facebook Fan Box | |
| Version 1.6 | By Marcos Esperon | Visit plugin site | ||
| Facebook Like Button Plugin | The new Facebook like button. | |
| Version 1.3.4 | By Martin Jonsson | Visit plugin site | ||
| FeedBurner FeedSmith | Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. | |
| Version 2.3.1 | By FeedBurner | Visit plugin site | ||
| GD LinkedIn Badge | This widget displays badge with a link to a LinkedIn profile page. | |
| Version 2.1.2 | By Milan Petrovic | Visit plugin site | ||
| Genesis Simple Edits | Genesis Simple Edits lets you edit the three most commonly modified areas in any Genesis theme: the post-info, the post-meta, and the footer area. | |
| Version 1.0 | By Nathan Rice | Visit Genesis site | ||
| Google Analyticator | Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. | |
| Version 6.1.1 | By Ronald Heft | Visit plugin site | FAQ | Support | Donate | ||
| Google XML Sitemaps | This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. | |
| Version 3.2.4 | By Arne Brachhold | Visit plugin site | Settings | FAQ | Support | Donate | ||
| This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. | ||
| Version 1.5.1 | By Matt Mullenweg | Visit plugin site | ||
| HTML-Javascript Adder | A widget plugin for adding javascripts, HTML scripts, Flash Items and even simple texts in the sidebar. | |
| Version 3.0 | By Aakash Chakravarthy | Visit plugin site | ||
| LinkedIn Resume | Display your CV on your blog from your linkedIn public page informations. | |
| Version 1.95 | By Arnaud Lejosne | Visit plugin site | ||
| Max Banner Ads | Easily rotate banners and ads in almost anywhere in your wordpress blog without editing the theme. Adjust your settings here. | |
| Version 1.4 | By MaxBlogPress | Visit plugin site | ||
| MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder | Want to add optin subscription forms to your blog but don’t know how? With MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder, you can easily put optin forms on your blog as a widget or within posts. Customize them to match your blog’s style, without knowing a single code! Adjust your settings here. | |
| Version 1.2.5 | By MaxBlogPress | Visit plugin site | ||
| MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad | A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. Adjust your settings here. | |
| Version 1.8.1 | By MaxBlogPress | Visit plugin site | ||
| MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup | MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup generates custom popup to power up your wordpress blog. Adjust your settings here. | |
| Version 2.0.7 | By MaxBlogPress | Visit plugin site | ||
| NextGEN Gallery | A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. | |
| Version 1.7.2 | By Alex Rabe | Visit plugin site | Overview | Get help | Contribute | Donate | ||
| No Copy | No Copy plugin prevents users from using their context menu (right click) on your blog | |
| Version 1.1.4 | By S H Mohanjith | Visit plugin site | ||
| No Right Click Images Plugin | Uses Javascript to prevent right clicking of images to help keep leaches from copying images | |
| Version 1.2 | By Keith P. Graham | Visit plugin site | ||
| Page Links To | Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources. | |
| Version 2.4 | By Mark Jaquith | Visit plugin site | ||
| Pretty Link (Lite Version) | Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website! | |
| Version 1.4.53 | By Caseproof | Visit plugin site | ||
| Really Simple CAPTCHA | Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin. | |
| Version 1.2 | By Takayuki Miyoshi | Visit plugin site | ||
| Redirection | Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors | |
| Version 2.2.2 | By John Godley | Visit plugin site | ||
| SEO Friendly Images | Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well. | |
| Version 2.6.1 | By Vladimir Prelovac | Visit plugin site | ||
| SEO No Duplicate | This plugin helps you manage your search engine duplicate content, by setting your post page’s canonical to the permalink. | |
| Version 0.4.4 | By Thaya Kareeson | Visit plugin site | ||
| SEO Slugs | Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO. | |
| Version 1.0 | By Andrei Mikrukov | Visit plugin site | ||
| SEO Smart Links | SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. (Brian Edition) | |
| Version 2.6 | By Vladimir Prelovac | Visit plugin site | ||
| SEO Title Tag | Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page – indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags. | |
| Version 2.3.3 | By Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts | Visit plugin site | ||
| Simple Tags | Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.0 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc! | |
| Version 1.8 | By Amaury BALMER | Visit plugin site | ||
| Socialize | Adds actionable social bookmarking buttons to your site | |
| Version 1.3.1 | By Jon Bishop | Visit plugin site | ||
| SuperButtons | Create super stylish buttons with just a few clicks. Supports gradients and rounded corners. Cross-browser compatible. | |
| Version 0.5.1 | By Illimar Tambek | Visit plugin site | ||
| Technical Support | Enhance your clients’ websites with a bug reporting tool. | |
| Version 0.1.1 | By Konstantin Kovshenin | Visit plugin site | ||
| TweetMeme Retweet Button | Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts. | |
| Version 1.9 | By TweetMeme | Visit plugin site | ||
| WordPress Database Backup | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools ? Backup to get started. | |
| Version 2.2.2 | By Austin Matzko | Visit plugin site | ||
| WordPress Gallery Slideshow | NextGEN Gallery another plugin for WordPress by Alex Rabe was the inspiration for this small and simple plugin. I really must say he did and still does a great job with this plugin but sometimes such a huge plugin is simply too much. So I decided to develop a small plugin with less configuration settings and no extra tables for the WordPress Database. Simplicity should be the guide for the advanture of developing this plugin. As far as I can say I did the job well and it is just a Slideshow to set your images in the right context. Nothing more nothing less. | |
| Version 1.5.7 | By MyPlugins.org | Visit plugin site | ||
| WordPress Link Directory | A Links Directory for WordPress | |
| Version 1.8.2 | By Sean Bluestone | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP Carousel | A great carousel manager for WordPress | |
| Version 0.5.3 | By Sumolari | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP e-Commerce Plugin | A plugin that provides a WordPress Shopping Cart. See also: GetShopped.org | Support Forum | Documentation | |
| Version 3.7.8 | By Instinct Entertainment | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP Form Creator | WP Form Creator – Another fine WordPress Plugin from The UltimateIDX™. — The WP Form Creator was designed to take all of the complexity out of creating usable forms in WordPress blogs by providing a nice drag and drop generation system. The final output is fully XHTML compliant and will adopt the design characteristics of your theme. For more details please visit the project page located at the Form Creator Page. This version should be considered BETA. | |
| Version 0.9.8 | By UltimateIDX Mack McMillan by Damian Danielczyk | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP Greet Box | Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins. | |
| Version 6.1.0 | By Thaya Kareeson | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP Shopping Cart XML Sitemap | Adds entries to XML sitemaps generated by Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin (http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/). Adds categories and products. | |
| Version 1.1.5 | By Lee Willis | Visit plugin site | ||
| WP tags to Technorati | Simple plugin to convert WordPress 2.3′s tags to Technorati (‘http://technorati.com’) links. | |
| Version 1.02 | By David Gibbs | Visit plugin site | ||
| WPtouch | A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones. | |
| Version 1.9.21 | By Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode Inc.) | Visit plugin site |
Try not to use to many wordpress plugins as this can slow down your page load speed and turn some visitors away. The search engines also rank you by how fast your page loads therefore Qaulity WordPress Optimised Hostingis important.
To install a wordpress plugin, Login to your administration panel and under Plugins on the left hand side of your dashboard, click Add New. If you need help installing and/or configuring WordPress Plugins, i offer a blog service to do this for you.
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