The majority of people in the blog-o-sphere run their sites on WordPress, it is a fantastic, easy to run content management system that also comes with hundreds of thousands of useful plug-ins.
Here is a list of the best five free plug-ins that will improve any site. Whether you are blogging about knitting and sewing or surfing and rowing.
All In One SEO
Like it or loath it, search engine optimization is key to any successful blog, it means you have a wider audience reach and it means the you get the maximum number of natural visitors. All in One SEO allows you to optimize your site easily and simply.
This is perfect for anyone who isn’t SEO savvy and has no real interest in SEO, as it takes out all the hard work, pain and frustration that comes with optimizing your blog or website for the search engines.
WP Super Cache
If you have a site with sluggish loading times then WP Super Cache is perfect for you. It allows you to show cached versions of pages which load extremely quickly. So instead of web pages being a few MB, they’re just a few KB.
Google XML Sitemaps
A sitemap is a vital component to any website if you want pages to be indexed quickly and stayed indexed. Instead of having to manually create a sitemap, this plugin will allow you to create one automatically and it updates automatically.
WPTouch
If you have ever looked at your website’s analytics, you will have noticed a large portion of visitors are looking at your site on mobile devices. WPTouch allows you to automatically show a mobile friendly version of your site to mobile visitors.
Sharebar
Social media plays an important role in spreading the word about your website, the Sharebar plugin allows you to put a social media bar on all your web pages, so people can easily Tweet about your page, Google +1 it or quickly like it on Facebook.
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Ezra
March 16, 2012 at 9:15 am
Nice post.This combination of plug ins will do a lot more help for those whoa re working with this kind of job,like online marketing.
خرید لپ تاپ
March 16, 2012 at 9:21 pm
very nice post
it would be very helpful for bloging
thanks for sharing
Prakash
March 18, 2012 at 2:44 am
Nice plugins for wordpress site. I am also using these plugins……..
prabhat
March 18, 2012 at 3:39 am
hi matteo…
firstly i would like to tell you that i am a new blogger and don’t know much about coding or html…so wordpress is the best option for me…because its easy to use and understand..and then it comes with thousands of plugins which make your work easy and fast..
and the plugin you mentioned here are really necessary..but i’d like to add one..”commentluv”..its also a great plugin..
nice post with great info for newbies like me
Nicholle Olores
March 19, 2012 at 1:27 am
Great wordpress plug-ins for any site, looking forward to this following plugins.
Dragon Speak
March 20, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I use most of these plugins, but instead of sharebar I use Twitter Facebook Social Share plugin. I think it works pretty good.
Yash
March 21, 2012 at 6:40 am
Nice plugins for wordpress site.
Yash.
Anita
March 21, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Aaah, nothing for backup? It’s mandatory, or you’ll really hate yourself later! Trust me!
chanikacha
March 22, 2012 at 1:30 pm
This plug ins will help our blog a lot! I never yet installed sharebar and WPTouch on my website but I think will installed sharebar because it will help my blog to connect to any social media. Thanks for the information!
Swapnil
March 24, 2012 at 9:20 am
you can also include wp minify
Richie
March 25, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I recently switched from the All in One SEO to Platinum Seo Pack and I think it offers quite a few more features, namely choosing if you want your post to be indexed, have a nofollow attribute for all links in it, as well as a noarchive feature. I’m excited to see how using these features will help me drive more “juice” to some of my more content rich posts and affect their ranking. Were these offered in the All in One SEO Pack and I just didn’t know about them?
Nicole
April 4, 2012 at 7:11 pm
This plug is very easy to use and very friendly user. You can do whatever you want to.
Jessie
April 9, 2012 at 6:16 am
I think that these are the basic plugins needed for almost any site. I would actually like WP to have some of these preinstalled to help new users.
Mathias
April 14, 2012 at 1:02 pm
My vote goes to All In One SEO plugin. It saves unlimited hours of time and is very user friendly. Can’t imagine WordPress site without it.
Rohit kabdwal
October 1, 2012 at 3:05 am
i think seo ultimate is the best free plugin for search engine optimization., there are lots of option in that like Inbound Auto-link Anchors, search engine listing and social networks listings. it also track for 404 errors in your site., and the most important thing is that it is free of cost. I have a great experience with it and presently using that only. 🙂
Shane Clark
November 5, 2012 at 5:40 pm
I created a WordPress portfolio plugin to showcase digital work by categories. This is full integrated into WordPress and the categories and images can be set there. Let me know what you guys think.
Here is a link to the download on WordPress.org
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shane-web-guy-portfolio/
Here is a link to my demo site.
http://www.shanewebguy.com/shanes-portfolio/
Lorenzo
March 29, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Check out simple social bar or digg digg. They are similar to sharebar but are quicker to load.
prabhat
May 10, 2013 at 11:25 am
great list matteo
yes these are some essential and nice plugins for wordpress blog and these help me a lot
Kristenhanna
June 12, 2013 at 8:23 am
These are the most recommended wordpress plugins for any bloggers. Good one!!! Especially All in one SEO pack is recommended to make your wordpress blog search engine friendly. This plugin will be helpful for any type of bloggers. I would also recommend WordPress Video gallery for the bloggers.