As you know, more and more people are using wordpress these days, in order to keep your website functional and more powerful, you should use some plugins to help you run your websites.Here is a list of best wordpress plugins you must have.
I’ve used a lot wordpress plugins before, but since I started using WordPress as the CMS for almost every site I do now, I’ve amassed some great and very essential plugins.
- WP Super Cache – This plugin is great for two reasons. First, it makes your pages load way faster. Second, since it stores static versions of your site, it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason. * Here is another cool plugin which can create REAL HTML files on your server! That is :cos-html-cache, very useful, this will make your server host more traffic!
- Plugin Installer – This plugin helps you to get the content of other plugins and automatically installs it. All you have to do is to point the Plugin Installer to the source of the plugin and it will do the rest.
- Akismet – Akismet is the comment spam fighter that comes built into WordPress and it does a mighty fine job. Activate this plugin and you won’t need to moderate or captcha your comment submissions. Akismet does 99% of the work for you.
- Twitter for WordPress – Twitter for WordPress is a plugin that simply displays your latest tweets anywhere on the site. You can use their widget or you can place it anywhere in your theme with their function call.
- Google Sitemaps Generator – You need this to do seo. Automatically generates xml and gz extension sitemaps for your blog which is very important for indexing your pages by Google.
- All-in-one SEO Pack – This plugin is for SEO. All-in-one SEO pack is a must have plugin for any website or blog. While it works perfectly out of the box, you can also fine-tune any of its settings if you wish. It works by giving you a unique title and meta tags for each page and post. You can even give it your own meta info from each post page.
- WordPress Related Posts – This plugin is one of the best ways to increase SEO and readership is to increase the linkage between your posts. WordPress Related Posts places a set number of related articles at the bottom of each post. It’s also great for readers who wish to read more of what you’ve written on a particular topic.
- Lightbox Gallery – Lightbox Gallery takes your WordPress galleries and appends a lightbox to them. You can select from a regular lightbox or the Highslide lightbox. Lightbox Gallery has some helpful settings that allow you to decide what pages, categories or posts to load lightbox on, as well as where to put the js files.
- Featured Content Gallery – Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more. Also the JQuery Featured Content Gallery is another plugin but use JQuery,originally intended to be similar to the famous Featured Content Gallery but using JQuery thus avoiding conflicts with other plugins.
- WP-PageNavi – Those ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links are boring. With WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever page they want. Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.