Ever since launched, Wordpress has become one of the most
widely used Content Management System/Website Dvelopment and Blogging Platform. Wordpress is one of the few platform
that allows you to create your own website within 5-10 minutes. Although, it’s
good to have basic knowledge of HTML.CSS so that you can modify the static part
of the code to suit your requirements, developing a wordpress website doesn't require you to have programming skills. Hence you shouldn't be surprised if if
you find a non-programmer wordpress powered website
owner. You can choose any
of the 1000’s of predesigned templates/themes for your website and you can even
modify it (If the author of the theme allows you to modify it) . If you think
that your website should possess some more features, you can simply add a
plugin (Plugins are nothing but small pieces of code written to add
functionality to the existing code/project) that will add the required
functionality to your wordpress site. These plugins are freely downloadable
from the Wordpress Directory . Just because they’re available free of cost ,
you would not want to flood your website with plugins as it would badly affect
the performance of your website . You’ll find 1000’s of plugins in the
wordpress directory but only a handful of them have garnered attention from the
fans . You’ll find almost every popular wordpress powered website making use of
some or all of the below mentioned plugins .
- Yoast Wordpress SEO :- If you don’t have any knowledge on SEO then this is the best available option to you . With this plugin , you automatically optimize your Website’s SEO for better Search Engine Visibility and Rankings .
- Mobile Press :- Creates mobile version of your Wordpress website (For Mobile Devices) on the fly .
- WP Smush.IT :- Automatically optimizes Images in your Website/blog for better performance .
- W3 Total Cache :- Improves your websites speed and Server’s performance by using techniques like Caching , Compression etc .
- Clean-Option :-Automatically clean’ settings of uninstalled/unused plugins from your Wordpress Database Table .
- Akismet :- Filters out spam and allows only Genuine comments on your blog posts .
- WP-Optimize :- Cleans your wordpress Database Tables and even optimizes them for better back-end performance
- Contact Form 7 :- Helps you to add contact form to your wordpress website . The contact form can be customized as per your requirements .
- CommentLuv :- Allows user to post their comments on your blog posts . It can be configured to allow users last blog post to be displayed in their comments.
- ShareThis | AddThis :- Allows you to share your posts in social networking sites like Facebook , StumbleUpon , Twitter , Pinterest …etc
- LinkWithin Related Posts :- Displays related Posts below your blog posts . This plugin helps you to get more page-views thus reducing the bounce rate .
- Broken Links Checker :- Allows you to find broken links in your website/blog .. Checking broken links is one of the important task for you as a web administrator/website owner … You don’t wanna make your visitor click on the link that doesn't exists , Hence you’ll need to eliminate it by finding thus you’ll need this plugin .
- Wordfence Security :- Detects and Repairs Trojans virus infected files of your website , Ensures that your website is safe from all the bad elements (Like Malware’s, Hackers trying to take down your website…etc ) .
- WP-Page Navi :- If your theme doesn't support numbered page navigation then this is the best available option to you . Numbered page Navigation is possible in your WordPress website through this plugin .
- GASP :- Automatically adds a checkbox to the Websites/blogs commenting System on which user would have to click to confirm they’re not bots/spammer
The above list of plugins are famous and widely used. In-case I've missed out your favorite plugin … Feel free to add it as a comment .
