Whether you are a web developer or blogger, you cant underestimate the power of WordPress. WordPress is one of the most famous and leading Content Management System in web development. Almost everyday number of WordPress plugins are being created by developers to enhance the usability and functionality of websites, such WordPress plugins empower users to optimize their websites rapidly and easily.
In this article I have compiled a list of 25 Free Best WordPress Plugins released recently and might be useful for web users. Following WordPress Plugins help you to maintain and optimize your blogs and websites easily and let you resolve any issues with your websites.
Now, without further ado, Here is the list of useful and handy WordPress Plugins for 2014.
1. Cookieless Comments
Cookieless lets users disables WordPress comment cookies. A tiny but useful plugin for people looking to simplify EU cookie law compliance requirements.
2. FTP Sync
This plugin allows you to sync local and remote media uploads, theme files, and plugins folders with one click via FTP. Do all your development on your localhost, initiate a sync whenever you need to from the FTP Sync options page.
3. Simple Exclude Categories
Simple Exclude Categories provides additional settings for the Reading section in your settings menu. it allows you to exclude entire categories of posts from your home page.
4. GUI Form
This plugin has a simple drag and drop function and user-friendly customization commands that would let anyone create forms in a flash. No need to code anything – the plugin will do it for you.
5. Pinned URL
Shorten long blog post URLs into PinnedURLs via pinnedurl.com that will be unobtrusively tagged on the bottom of each post. Use the shortened url to easily share your posts on websites or social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
6. Zurb Foundation 5 Clearing Gallery
This plugin lets you enhance WordPress gallery shortcode content with the Zurb Foundation Clearing lightbox. Just enable and all gallery shortcodes will use Clearing.
7. WP Report Post
Report Post is a highly customizable plugin that lets your visitors to report posts or pages with inappropriate content. All these reports are displayed as a table in your Administrator section so you can decide what to do next: edit contents, unpublish posts/pages, or just delete these reports. The plugin was designed to work in both automatic and manual modes. In automatic mode, the link to report will be added to post’s meta box.
8. Responsive Cookie Banner
A simple, stylish responsive EU cookie banner plugin that will display a message asking if the viewer would like to accept cookies. The message and ‘more info’ link destination can be changed in the settings menu. Compatible with all devices and browsers.
9. WP Guards
WPGuards plugin is the complete solution for everyone who have a WordPress blog. Automated Security and Support plugin to keep your website fully protected. Backups, malware scans and diagnostics included.
10. WP Report Post
Report Post is a highly customizable plugin that lets your visitors to report posts or pages with inappropriate content. All these reports are displayed as a table in your Administrator section so you can decide what to do next: edit contents, unpublish posts/pages, or just delete these reports.
11. Google Publisher
The Google Publisher Plugin enables you to easily use Google’s products – including AdSense and Webmaster Tools – with your WordPress site. Adding AdSense ads usually requires you to generate snippets in AdSense and paste these into your site, or to manually edit PHP files. This plugin lets you place AdSense ads using a simple point-and-click UI.
12. WP Drafts for Friends
This plugin will generate a unique link that you can send to your friends to allow them to preview your draft before they are published. You are able to set the expiry for the link as well.
13. DIYCWare Image Editor
If you are a printing business or photography business, you can add this plugin to your store so that customers can upload and edit images. The customer uploads the image, makes adjustments, selects the type of media and adds it to the cart. The tool uses the Woocommerce plugin for the store management.
14. Featured Image Zoom
Add the [zoom] shortcode to a page, post or custom post-type entry. The featured image at the ‘large’ size will then be displayed on the page. When you move the cursor over the image, the image zooms to show the ‘full’ size featured image masked within the boundary of the image.
15. WP Product Review
It lets you turn your basic posts into in-depth reviews with ratings, pros and cons and affiliate links.
16. JSJ Code Highlight
JSJ Code Highlight is a simple syntax highlighter for all your WordPress code snippets. The plugin includes four visual themes to enhance the look and feel of your code. These themes (taken form Highlight.js) have been enhanced for a more contemporary feel.
17. WP Post Series
WP Post Series is a lightweight plugin for making a series of posts and showing information about the series on the post page. The information box is prepended to the post content, and it can work with any theme (given a bit of CSS styling) – no setup required.
18. Sender
This plugin sends mail to registered users. You can send mails to all users or to certain categories of users. To send letters, you can use the php functions such as sending emails, wordpress functions, or send an email through the SMTP server.
19. Inline Comments
Inline Comments adds the great Disqus Comment System to the side of paragraphs and other specific sections (like headlines and images) of your post.
20. Launch Check
Launch Check is a WordPress plugin that ensures you have made your site visible to search engines, changed the default description and added Google Analytics before launch.
21. Contact Form 7 WYSIWYG Field
Add wysiwyg fields to the popular Contact Form 7 plugin. This field use the default WYSIWYG editor set in WordPress parameters. You just have to install this plugin to add a new field type in Contact form 7 fields.
22. WP Backup Lite
WP Backup Lite allows you to backup, clone, and restore your wordpress website at any time for either download or to your server for safe storage. Its one of the fastest backup utilities to move your wordpress website and a quick way to better secure your websites, best of all, its completely free.
23. WP Pipes
Yahoo Pipes & Zapier are powerful online services for making pipeline of data, WP Pipes comes available to the WordPress community to bring such of powerful abilities to WordPress site, works right inside your WordPress site. You can create many Pipes, give your Pipes input and get output as your needs.
24. Custom Resources
Custom Resources enables site administrators to supply additional styles or/and scripts to be loaded alongside the theme’s resources. It will work regardless which theme the site is running, which makes it brilliant for adding custom programming and content blocks.
25. Eventissimo
Eventissimo lets you create and organize events into your site. Your events also automatically created on Facebook. Import your Facebook Events.
