WordPress is the most popular and best Content Management System that enables developers to easily develop and maintain effective websites and blogs. There are myriad of wordpress plugins available and being created by developers every day to enhance the functionality of websites and weblogs.
Finding useful and effective wordpress plugins is always an arduous and time consuming task as numerous number of wordpress plugins are available in the store. Therefore we have gathered 10 best wordpress plugins for users which will help them to maintain their blogs and websites easily and also enhance their blogging experience. If you are aware of some other best wordpress plugins which are useful for users, do let us know by commenting below in the comment section, we hope you find this list helpful. Enjoy !
1. Akismet
Akismet plugin 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.
2. SEO Internal Links
SEO Internal Links plugin provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more configurable options. SEO Internal Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. In case the plugin finds more of once the same word in a post, it will only change the first one. This is to avoid black seo and inconveniences to the users.
3. Digg Digg
Digg Digg is useful wordpress plugin that help users to include different social networking buttons wordpress blogs. It supports almost all popular social sharing buttons with count, such as Twitter, Buffer, Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Digg, LinkedIn, Google +1, Reddit, dZone, TweetMeme, Topsy, Yahoo Buzz, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Designbump, WebBlend, BlogEngage and Serpd, Pinterest.
4. Wordfence Security
Wordfence Security is a free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, anti-virus scanning, malicious URL scanning and live traffic including crawlers. Wordfence is the only WordPress security plugin that can verify and repair your core, theme and plugin files, even if you don’t have backups.
5. WP Super Cache
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.
6. All in One SEO Pack
All in One Seo Pack automatically optimizes your wordpress blog for search engine and provides google analytics support, advanced canonical urls, fine tune page navigational links, nonce security, and many more.
7. WP- Page Navi
This is lightweight and useful wordpress plugin which lets you add more advanced paging navigation interface to your websites.
8. WP-DB Manager
Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.
9. Google Sitemap Generator
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs.
10. Auto Image Resizer Lite
The “Auto Image Resizer” is a state of the art WordPress Plugin which reduces your uploaded images to the maximal used image dimensions of your WordPress website. If the uploaders (author, member, whoever) browsers supports HTML5, gears, flash or silverlight the images will be resized directly on the client otherwise the server will do that. So the plugin works in every case regardless of the clients browser or OS.