WP plug-ins behaves like confusing kittens for a majority of WP site owners. The availability of thousands of plug- at WordPress.org site puts business owners in a situation of ambivalence. If you also belong to this circle of website owners then this post will be helpful for you. Technically, WordPress is an open source web content management system that ensures simple management & easy virtual promotion of web sites, made using this CMS. In addition to this, the installation of suitable plug-ins adds value in a WordPress site. Therefore, you should try to find and install best plug-ins in your WP site.
In case, it is a matter of great confusion and trouble then you can easily chose your plug-ins from below given list.
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Jetpack- The All in One Solution
Frankly Speaking, JetPack is a sum of multiple plug-ins that set you free from adding plug-ins separately for easy reason. You need to have a WordPress.com account to use this tool in your website. With the help of this tool, you can simply check the stats and understand the traffic flow at your website. You can simply explore the rising trends and explore the demographics of your visitors without adding Google analytics. Further, your web site will also get social networking enabled comment system that will increase the momentum of your WordPress site. Moreover, it adds CSS editor and Mobile theme in your WP site. Therefore, it can be coined as all in one plug-in for a WordPress website.
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AkisMet
If you are new to virtual business then you may not have the experience of spamming but veteran online internet entrepreneurs understands the risk of being spammed. Technically, spambots send some similar messages to a website, which slows down the website. Interestingly, the addition of this plug-in will ensure the drastic decrement of spammed messages at your web site. It will also increase the speed of your website. You can get this plug-in from the official website of WordPress and install in your website.
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Contact Form 7
In case, you are not a PHP friendly web site manager then this plug-in will be very useful for you. Considerably, you will just have the need to paste a short code in your page for adding contact form. Moreover, you can also make changes in the fields of your form. Apart from this, this plug-in is also compatible with CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filter, and Ajax powered submission. Therefore, you will not have to be worried for spam comments on the pages, created using this plug-in.
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WP-PageNavi
You will certainly find this plug-in with a tag of most essential WordPress plug-in over web. Technically, it links one page from other in a simple manner. In simple words, your blog readers or website users can easily reach on newer posts without reaching on header menus. This plug-in can be installed in WP site for better pagination.
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Adminimize
It is an impressive plug-in for all WP site owners, who want to bring some changes in their WP dashboards. It provides easy options for setting up different roles for different authors, contributors, and subscribers. Moreover, you can also customize menus, admin bar, and other features like import & export.
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BreadCrumb NavXT
With the help of this plug-in, you can make your internal linking better. You just need to create right links because internal linking plays a vital role in the search engine optimization of a WordPress website. Moreover, you can also customize this plug-in. Therefore, it is a great solution for creating special breadcrumbs in your WP site.
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GDStar Rating
Do not you think that high ratings of a blog post intend a reader to read a post? You will surely say yes. Therefore, you should add a plug-in in your WP site for adding a star rating feature in every page and post of your website. It will increase the potential of your website in an amazing manner.
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PHP Code Widget
If you like to add some changes in your website with the help of PHP codes and possess little knowledge about this programming language then this plug-in will be helpful for you. It will help you to paste your PHP code in the widget and save like text/HTML widget. You just need to use this plug-in to add specially contrived PHP codes for your site.
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WP-DBManager
Self-back up is best back up when it comes to third party hosting. Your host company can forget taking back up of your WordPress website, which can cause data loss. However, you can sue your host company in court for such disaster but cannot get your data back. Therefore, you should load your site with this plug-in for frequent back-ups.
- W3 Total Catch
If your site is facing the deathblow of slow loading speed then this plug-in will work like remedy. It includes minify CSS and Java script, browser cache, content delivery network and many other things. You just need to download this plug-in from WordPress site and install in your website. Apart from this, this plug-in also provide cloud protection facility, which ensures fast loading speed of your website.
After reading about these plug-ins, you can pick the usable ones and install in your website. In case, you still are not seeing the plug-ins of your special requirements then you can go for custom plug-ins. The addition of custom tools will enhance the functional stature of your website.
Author bio – Nick Carter has experience in web design and development. He is currently working for wordpress development company. Hire wordpress developers to get best services for wordpress theme customization.
In addition to setting up and configuring W3 Total Cache, you might also consider adding the site to Cloudflare and running a scan on GTMetrix. Both of these can improve the load speed of your site which means happier visitors.
Appreciated for the comment. I would used your described technique in future.
Incredible content. I have used 4 of them already and willing to use all of these.
I am hearing lot of good features about WP plugins every now and then. But so far no opportunity to delve into it and use one. I wish it will happen soon.
Hi Rajaraman,
You say that you are not delved into the use of plugins yet. I mean how is this possible if you a WordPress blog.
I hope you are having a WordPress blog. But if you are using Blogger or any other free platform then it would be not possible for you to use any WordPress plugin.
There are many free and premium plugins present to use for your WordPress blog.
Know the benefits and you will jump of happiness.
~Ravi
Hi Ravi,
I am active on blogger blogs only. I do not have a WordPress blog. So I have not yet paid much attention to WP plugins. I am on blogger and one other free platform.
So I am not able to use any WordPress plugin. I intend to have a WordPress blog soon and take the benefit of the free and premium plugins for use on my WordPress blog. (68 word)
Hi Rajaraman,
You know in today’s era of blogging most of professional bloggers suggest to choose WordPress platform because its very easy to learn and it will give you freedom to handle your blog according to you.
If you have little bit knowledge about some languages like HTML, CSS and else then you can modify your theme according to your wish.
WordPress has many advantages over any other blogging platform.
Hope you will set up your new blog with WordPress.
~Ravi
Hey Vineet
This are the great plugins i would like to add some more in this like Smush.it to reduce size of images, Broken Link Checker tool, CommentLuv and many more but this are the must for better engagement
Thanks
Hi Suprabhat ,
You have added some great plugins in the list.
You know most of blog get penalized due to broken links. Last week when I checked my website to find broken links using broken link checker I found 20 broken links.
I mean its really strange to find them. But its good that I have found them now only.
Bloggers should check their broken links once in a week so that they can have clear and classic blog.
~Ravi
Hi Vineet,
We all know for a WordPress blog the main benefit and concern is about choosing the right plugins so that they will work fine to boost up your blog.
There are many spammer to fight with you want to install Akismet.
Jetpack has it’s won features and bloggers should use it as a must have plugin.
Now a days bloggers should use CommentLuv for the comments.
~Ravi
Hi Ravi,
It is really good information for me. Now, since you have provided so much info, I feel that I should set up my new blog with WordPress without any delay.
I do not have much info about languages like CSS or HTML. However I can learn what is required for my work related to my blog. Thank you for sharing this info. (62 words)
Hi Rajaraman,
Its my pleasure to share my knowledge with you.:)
You know in starting you may face some difficulty while setting up your WordPress blog but once you delve into it then there is nothing more interesting than WordPress.
You will love its freedom and the features it provides to its users. You can see most of blogs in this blogosphere are set up using WordPress.
~Ravi
Hey Nick,
Excellent write up my friend. The list of plugins was what is considered must have for a blog. My favorite among all is Jetpack.
When I was new to blogging, I didn’t know much about coding, tracking etc. All I knew was that I have to check my blog’s stats 😀 . And it was very hard to figure out the stats with google analytics.
I went through google and found out that Jetpack will do the job for me. It worked and I am still using this wonderful plugin.
Thanks for the share Nick and Have a great day ahead!
Cheers!
– Rohit