What comes to your mind when you think about blogging? I’m sure most of us would agree that its WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world. Interestingly, WordPress powers around 8.5% of all the websites on the web, that means several millions. The undeniable fact is that bloggers around the world love WordPress and WordPress loves bloggers who constitute a major part of its target audience. As you know its not only the user-friendly WYSIWYG feature but also the thousands of plugins which make wordpress so popular. This post highlights 15 WordPress plugins that have been quite popular among the bloggers and they are really worth adding to your wordpress blog/site if you don’t have them.
All-in-one-seo-pack
This is an immensely popular plugin which is not only used by bloggers but also other site owners as well. Stuffed with features, this all in one package, I would say, is currently the best SEO plugin though there a few other good ones available. Last but not the least, it has been downloaded 12,145,306 times till recently.
Google-analytics-for-wordpress
An ultimate plugin to track your blog, it provides comprehensive user data such as views , clicks, traffic, bounce rate etc. 4.3 rating out of 5 speaks for itself.
Google Sitemap Generator
The popularity of this plugin is evident from the massive number of downloads that have taken place i.e 8,515,062 . It makes xml sitemap generation as easy as falling off a log.
Contact-form 7
The special feature of contact-form 7 is that it can manage multiple contact forms and its customizable. Moreover it supports Ajax-powered submitting, Akismet, CAPTCHA and more.
Akismet
Akismet is a commonly used plugin that effectively controls spamming. Akismet API key is required to use this plugin, its free of cost for personal blogs. Paid subscriptions available for business or commercial sites.
Nextgen-gallery
It is one of the highly popular and commonly used plugins in the world and also the most popular image gallery plugin. There can be hardly a wordpress user who doesn’t know NexGenGallery and notably this feature-rich plugin has been downloaded more than 5 million times.
JetPack
JetPack acts as a power booster to a self-hosted wordpress site, it helps leverage the benefits of those awesome features available for wordpress.com users, moreover it helps you add more features with a single installation instead of installing different plugins for different features.
Shareaholic
This ‘ Social Plugin ‘ not only faciliates your readers to share and distribute your content , but also reports social metrics such as popular pages on your website, referral channels, who are making referrals and spreading the word etc.
WPtouch
How can you ignore mobile visitors in the age of smartphones and tablets? Go ahead and provide your mobile visitors a unique experience with Wptouch, a fantastic customizable mobile theme that enables you to deliver fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your website/blog to mobile visitors.
WP to Twitter
This is another quite popular social plugin with lots of customization options, features both free and paid . As the name suggests it automatically posts tweets from wordpress blog to Twitter.
Bad Behavior
This is another quite popular social plugin with lots of customization options, features both free and paid . As the name suggests it automatically posts tweets from wordpress blog to Twitter.
All-in-one-webmaster
This is a one-stop analytics solution. Noticeably, it has a user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars which suggests that its definitely worth giving it a try.
Broken-link-checker
It’s an automatic broken link checker that looks for broken links and lets you know whenever it finds any.
Antivirus
This is really a very useful plugin, scans your blog everyday for malware and spam injections and alerts you regularly.
BackWPup
Heavy WordPress users know how important it is to take backups prior to any major installations or upgradations. This plugin makes the task easier for you.
Do you know any other plugin that’s quite popular among bloggers? Do you think its really worth sharing? Please share it with us. You’re also welcome to share your views and feedback.
Matt Barnard
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