10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins

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We would like to share the 10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins on our blog. We’ve been using these plugins for years and we believes they are the most essential plugins for your WordPress blog.  These plugins are the most popular on WordPress.org.  Feel free to contact us for any questions about these plugins.  Share this post with your friends!

Contact Form 7

With Contact Form 7 you can create multiple contact forms and customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. It is really simple to set it up and get it running in seconds with the easy contact form shortcode. Contact form 7 supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. To read more and for the download please click here Contact Form 7  . Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is an anti-spam plugin for your contact form. Really simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins as well. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin. To read more and for the download please click here Really Simple CAPTCHA. Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack is a WordPress Search Engine Optimization plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog and website for Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. XML Sitemap support, Google Analytics support and much more. To read more and for the download please click here All in One SEO Pack. Plugin Author Michael Torbert

WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

This is another Search Engine Optimization Plugin for your WordPress blog. Improve your WordPress SEO, write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. The plugin also allows you to write meta titles and descriptions for all your categories, pages, posts, tags and custom taxonomy archives, giving you the option to further optimize those pages. To read more and for the download please click here WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. Plugin Author Joost de Valk

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress picture gallery plugin. NextGEN Gallery plugin offers diverse and powerful functionality for getting images from your desktop to your website. You can easily upload batches of images via a standard WordPress-style uploader, or upload images via zip file or FTP. NextGEN will automatically import your images meta data. You can create deverse photo galleries for your blog with this plugin. To read more and for the download please click here NextGEN Gallery. Plugin Author Photocrati

WordPress Importer

This plugin makes your life a bit easier when you need to import your content to another WordPress blog from a WordPress export file. WordPress Importer will import posts, pages, custom post types, comments, custom fields, post meta, categories, tags, terms from custom taxonomies and authors. To read more and for the download please click here WordPress Importer. Plugin Author WordPressdotorg

Akismet

Akismet is an anti-spam plugin for your post comments.  It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. It is a great plugin to stop the spam on your post comments. You will need an API key to activate this plugin. To read more and for the download please click here Akismet. Plugin Author Matt Mullenweg  , Ryan Boren, Andy Skelton, Michael Adams + five more..

WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce

This is one of the best eCommerce plugins for WordPress. Selling digitals or physical products WooCommerce does the job. WooCommerce works with any theme, including the default WordPress themes Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen theme. Whether you’re operating a superstore selling thousands of products, or a just a sole trader selling hand made arts and crafts WooCommerce has you covered. To read more and for the download please click here WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce. Plugin Author WooThemes

WP-Optimize

Here is one of the  more advanced plugins to keep your database in shape all the time. WP-Optimize is a WordPress 3.xx database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments, items in trash within few clicks. To read more and for the download please click here WP-Optimize. Plugin Author Ruhanirabin

Digg Digg

Get fancy and get the floating social media bar for your WordPress blog. With Digg Digg by Buffer, you have an all in one social sharing plugin for your blog. Display all social sharing buttons nicely on your blog and make it look amazing. Display all popular social sharing buttons with count, such as Twitter, Buffer, Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Digg, LinkedIn, Google +1, Reddit and much more… To read more and for the download please click here Digg Digg. Plugin Author Joelg87 and Andrew Yates

WP Super Cache

Here is a plugin can speed up your WordPress site.  A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. To read more and for the download please click here WP Super Cache. Plugin Author Donncha O Caoimh and automattic

Anti-Malware (Get Off Malicious Scripts) 

We can not ignore one of the most common issue in WordPress – Malware and Malicious Script.  This Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware plugin searches for Malware and other Virus like threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you remove them. Thanks to this plugin we’ve saved many WordPress blogs from being blocked by the search engine or shutdown completely. To read more and for the download please click here Anti-Malware (Get Off Malicious Scripts) Plugin Author Eli

ShareThis

Social Charge your Content with ShareThis – features Social Analytic, CopyNShare, Open Graph Sharing, and the Hovering Bar. Choose from to 120 social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Use small or large buttons, add counters or use one of the Sharing Bars. Access to greater insights by creating a Social Analytic Dashboard account. To read more and for the download please click here ShareThis.  Plugin Author ShareThis

 

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Adriano Tosi