Most Commonly Used WordPress Plugins

Most Commonly Used WordPress Plugins

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While there are numerous website platforms to choose from out there, it has to be said that the best one, without a doubt, has proven itself to be WordPress. Millions upon millions of people are using it every day to create and manage their websites with greater ease than ever before. Apart from providing one of the most well-crafted website creation and management services from a technical perspective, there is another giant benefit to using WordPress: the plugins. There are countless plugins out there - some officially made by WordPress developers and others by the community - that can enhance the way in which your website functions, and here's a look at the most popular ones, at least as of today.

The All in One SEO Pack Plugin

If you are making a website in order to establish a business rather than for personal reasons (such as blogging for instance), then you will probably want to get the All in One SEO Pack, a plugin that pretty much optimizes every aspect of your WordPress blog in order to make it as friendly as possible for the search engines, at least from a technical perspective.

Google XML SitemapsYet another plugin used in order to cater to the search engines, this one automatically produces new sitemaps of your website, giving the search engine bots and spiders fresh new content to crawl through, effectively making sure that your latest content is indexed by Google as fast as possible.

Akismet

Spam is one of the biggest problems modern website owners face, and while Akismet isn't exactly the be-all end-all solution to your problems, it certainly does offer a sizeable help. Simply put, it is a system that captures spam in your site, regardless of whether it comes from bots or actual people looking to shamelessly advance their own purposes.

NextGen Gallery

We humans are very visual creatures, as can be evidenced by more and more people leaning towards pictures and videos to tell them stories rather than books. NextGen Gallery is a very handy plugin that allows you to insert Javascript image popups into your website, making it fancier and more user-friendly in general.Google Analytics
Keeping track of your statistics is quite important regardless of whether or not you are running a business; knowing how many people pay attention to you is always good feedback. Google Analytics is perhaps the most accurate stat counting tool out there, easily allowing you to keep track of numerous parameters of your website, including the number of comments and links on it.

WP Super Cache

Dynamic pages can be really fun for your visitors, but when you have large amounts of traffic, it can get a bit tough for your server. WP Super Cache is a plugin which actually prompts the website to load static pages instead of dynamic ones during periods of tremendously-increased traffic flow, effectively allowing your website to keep on flowing smoothly.

Broken Link Checker

Because of its name this plugin doesn't really require any explanation: it checks all the links on your website and tells you which ones are broken. A pretty handy tool considering broken links are typically seen by visitors as resulting from sloppy and undedicated work, adjectives that very few would want attributed to them.Twitter Tools
In this day and age, it seems that most people (at least out of all those with internet access) have social network accounts, and if you hope to establish an online presence, then you need to do the same. Twitter Tools is a nifty little plugin that integrates Twitter and your WordPress blog together, allowing you to seamlessly promote yourself on that network.

YouTube Brackets
Quite understandably, many people out there are annoyed by long and seemingly endless imbed codes cluttering up their space, but with YouTube Brackets the problem is taken care of. Simply put, it allows users to post videos in their articles with the help of very short and simple bracket codes, effectively saving a lot of time and helping to keep things as simple as possible.Sociable

Finally, there is Sociable, a plugin that virtually everyone uses these days. It allows you to create the equivalent of a "share" button for every post, for virtually every social network out there. Indeed, it offers a full list of social bookmarking websites, and all you need to do is check a few boxes to have the buttons corresponding to those websites appear on your posts.

Author Bio:

Jason Smith is an online manager for AnySizeBasket.com - which offers metal mesh baskets. Jason likes blogging about online strategies that are related to SEO, Content, PPC & Lead generation.

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