17 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
Today we’ll be looking at the most popular WordPress plugins and I must say that some of them can literally help you to improve your online visibility as well as to improve the experience of users while on your blog.
The main reason why I opted to write a post on the most popular WordPress plugins is because WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms around and several past infographics have listed it as being the most popular blogging platform in the blogging sphere (actually the most popular Content Management System) e.g. a blogging statistic released by Blogging.org and which collected data from 1000 bloggers in the US listed WordPress as the most popular blogging platform with 43% of the bloggers using it while Blogger was at second with 35% of them using it.
Because of the large number of bloggers who are using WordPress as their preferred blogging platform, I felt that coming up with a list of some of the most popular WordPress plugins can go long way in helping WordPress bloggers make the most out of their WordPress blogs.
So How Did I Come Up With The 17 Most Popular WordPress Plugins?
Instead of reading what other bloggers had to say concerning the most popular WordPress plugins, I decided to do my own unbiased research on it and which better place to get the most popular WordPress plugins than on WordPress itself!
I basically logged into my blog’s WordPress admin panel, clicked on “Add New” under the Plugin option then on the “Popular” WordPress plugins-that’s all I did when coming up with the most popular WordPress plugins.
I think I’ve said enough so let’s now see which the 17 most popular WordPress plugins are as well as a short description of what they do.
17 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
# |
Plugin Name |
Plugin Description |
| 1 | NextGEN Gallery | With over 6 million downloads, it provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing image galleries. |
| 2 | Contact Form 7 | It can manage multiple contact forms and lets you customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. |
| 3 | All in One SEO Pack | It Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). |
| 4 | WordPress Importer | It will import content from a WordPress export file e.g. Posts, pages,comments etc. |
| 5 | Jetpack by WordPress.com | It supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. |
| 6 | Akismet | It 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. |
| 7 | WordPress SEO by Yoast | It helps to improve your site’s SEO on all needed aspects. |
| 8 | WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce | Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred eCommerce store. |
| 9 | Google XML Sitemaps | It will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog |
| 10 | Better WP Security | It takes the best WordPress security features and techniques and combines them in a single plugin thereby ensuring that as many security holes as possible are patched without having to worry about conflicting features or the possibility of missing anything on your site. |
| 11 | W3 Total Cache | The only WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework designed to improve user experience and page speed. |
| 12 | Google Analytics for WordPress | The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin allows you to track your blog easily and with lots of metadata. |
| 13 | Broken Link Checker | This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. |
| 14 | Ultimate TinyMCE | Ultimate TinyMCE will add over 40 new buttons to the default visual tinymce editor giving you the power to visually create your pages and posts. No need for mucking about in HTML and CSS. |
| 15 | WP Maintenance Mode | Adds a maintenance-page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenancetime. |
| 16 | Shareaholic | share buttons & related posts | Get your readers to actually discover and submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. |
| 17 | NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster | This plugin automatically publishes posts from your blog to your Social Network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. |
Last Word On The Above Most Popular WordPress Plugins
As stated in the introduction, some of these most popular WordPress plugins have the ability to help you improve your blog’s online exposure as well as user experience hence it’s my hope that you’ll actually take time to go through them and see how they can help to ease your blogging efforts and take your online business to the next level.
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