15 WordPress Plugins which are installed on most of the sites
Nov 25
- All in One SEO Pack – This great tool optimizes your blog including the titles and the META tags so that search engines will find your site easily. This plugin also helps you avoid duplicate content found in blogs. With this pack, you can easily modify and tweak everything.
- NextGEN Gallery – is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. Before I started writing the plugin I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress. Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap I filled was a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries.
- WordPress.com Stats - With this tool, the statistics about your visitors are provided. Just input your API key and let this plugin do the work.
- WP Supper Cache – plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
- Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
- Contact form 7 - It can manage your multiple contact forms and you can also customize the mail and the form contents with just a simple markup. The form supports CAPTCHA, Ajax-powered submitting and Akismet spam filter
- Lightbox 2 – It is used to overlie images on the current page
- Akismet – It will check automatically your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
- WP-DB-Backup – This will allows you easily backup your main WordPress database tables.
- FlickrRSS for WordPress – This plugin will let you display Flickr photos on the weblog. It will also support set, user, group, favorite and community photo streams, plus it is easy to configure and setup.
- WP PageNavi – This plugin will add more advanced navigation for you WordPress blog.
- WordPress Post Ratings - A wonderful tool where you can be able to see or post ratings on your WordPress blog.
- Twittle tools – This is a plugin that will create a complete addition between your WordPress blog and the Twitter account.
- WP Polls - A plugin to insert your polls by customizing via templates and CSS styles and there are lots of other options to ensure your polls look the way you want it.
- Simple Tags – Simple yet a wonderful plugin to your blog where you can customize your admin features.
I think cforms 2 is also one of the gr8 plugin which is being used on most of the sites. It should be included in the list.
Yes even i think cforms 2 should be included.. in the list.. and cooliris plugin for nextgen gallery is also awesome.