A plugin is a piece of software that acts as an add-on to a web browser and gives the browser additional functionality. Plugins can allow a web browser to display additional content it was not originally designed to display.
In Wordpress, plugins can extend WordPress powered websites to do almost anything you can imagine. In the WP directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer.
The key to effective use of plugins is to deploy them only from properly vetted sources, and only when necessary. Plugins should solve a specific problem or provide an essential function. They should not indulge our vanity or our desire for a “shiny new object”.
In this post, I listed the different plugins that I normally used in my wordpress projects. You may suggest a plugin that you may think useful, I am open for it. Just let me know.
1. Advanced Excerpt
-Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included)
-Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count
2. BackupBuddy
-Database or Full Backups
-Send your backups (individually or on a schedule) to offsite storage destinations like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud, FTP or email.
3. Better WP Security
-New name is iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
-Changes the URLs for WordPress dashboard areas including login, admin and more
4.Contact Form 7
-Manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.
5. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
-This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site.
-This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.
6. Enable Media Replace
-This plugin allows you to replace a file in your media library by uploading a new file in its place.
-No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files!
7. Google Analytics for WordPress
-This plugin uses the asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code, the fastest and most reliable tracking code Google Analytics offers.
-Automatic Google Analytics site speed tracking.
8. Jetpack by WordPress.com
-Supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
9. Maintenance Mode
-Adds a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance.
-Full access to the back- & front-end is optional.
10. Obfuscate E-mail
-Deter e-mail harvesting spammers, while retaining the appearance and functionality of hyperlinks.
-"Obfuscation" simply means that techniques are employed to modify e-mail address strings that appear on your site in such a way that bots scraping your site are unable to identify those addresses.
11. PHPEnkoder
-Encodes mailto: links and e-mail addresses with JavaScript to stifle webcrawlers.
-It is used to display text in a way that users can see and bots can't.
12. Really Simple CAPTCHA
-Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins.
-It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
13. ShareThis
-Features Social Analytics, CopyNShare, Open Graph Sharing, and the Hovering Bar!
-Use small or large buttons, add counters or use one of the Sharing Bars
14. Simply Exclude
-Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include Post Types, Taxonomies and Authors 4 actions used by WordPress.
15. Subscribe to Comments Reloaded
-Allows commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications of subsequent replies.
16. TinyMCE Advanced
-This will let you add, remove and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor toolbar.
-Enables the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.
17. W3 Total Cache
-The only WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework; designed to improve user experience and page speed.
-Improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
18. Wordfence Security
- is a free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, anti-virus scanning, cellphone sign-in (two factor authentication), malicious URL scanning and live traffic including crawlers.
19.WordPress SEO
-Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.
20.WP-Optimize
-This simple but effective plugin allows you to clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without phpMyAdmin.
21. WP-Testimonials
-The plugin includes the option to display a random testimonial in your sidebar using PHP code or the built-in widget.
22. WP Mail SMTP
-Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings.
