WordPress started out as a bloggers paradise, it stayed and evolved as one of the best stops for bloggers for years, and has now slowly and steadily enticed the business bigwigs to sell their products through it.

And why not, its accessibility and user interface is much more easy and interactive than its many competitors. Moreover, its hands-on services are like no one out there! All you would need to do is get yourself some bang on plugins and you are on! And if this seems like a big task to you, simply hire a WordPress developer.

What these plugins are, really? Let us check out the best ones.

Best WordPress Plugins for ECommerce Sites

1. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a simple, powerful and extendable e-commerce platform for WordPress. It promises to woo your customers when they visit your online store. It has been rated at 4.1/5 by WordPress and has nearly 2 million downloads in its kitty, It surely looks like the plugin that is capable enough to boost up your store in a good way.

WooCommerce is flexible in a way that it allows you to customize your store based on your products and business nature. It has the strength and advantage to be built around WordPress best practices.

The plugin offers a very user-friendly interface that allows you to keep up with the performance of your online store without much hassle of clicking and coding, as it is all available on the dashboard.

The plugin is entirely customizable, compatible with WordPress themes and also offers a PayPal Gateway for easy shopping and payment. Apart from these, it allows credit card payment options, cash on delivery and all other payments being secured by Mijireh.

It is even tied up with ShareThis and ShareDaddy to allow you to socially link your store.

2. WP E-Commerce

This Plugin may race ahead of WooCommerce where the number of downloads is concerned, but it lacks in ratings from WordPress. This is due to the fact that it is far behind WooCommerce where functionality is concerned.

Nevertheless, it is compatible with WordPress, fully customizable, and provides priority support for privileged members. Like WooCommerce, WP e-commerce also offers PayPal integration and various other payment options making it a likeable tool by store owners.

cThe plugin is workable out of the box and provides multiple options that make your store market-ready. These include Google sitemaps, new product widget, flexible coupon rules, Bulk purchase discounts, Google base integration etc.

This plugin offers a drag and drops option to users which makes the whole shopping experience blissful for your customers. The plugin makes your store SEO ready, offers SSL certificates and catalog management.

It may not match up to WooCommerce where functionality is concerned, but with its unique features, it gives a good fight.

3. Cart66 Lite

Cart66 is touted to be the easiest plugin to install for WordPress. The plugin is integrated with PayPal and also Amazon 3 which allows you to manage orders, promotions, shopping options, etc.

That is not all; Cart66 also allows you to do your taxes without breaking a sweat. You can send customized currencies, and email through this plugin to add a little oomph to your online experience.

The plugin is available for free download, but it is just better to configure it so that you have the whole package and your online experience does not get bottlenecked just because there is a certain feature that is not available for the free download.

4. MarketPress

This plugin is, of course, easy to use, and also provides the standard features any e-commerce plugin would provide such as being compatible with other WordPress themes; it is based out of AJAX and provides various payment options such as PayPal, Google Checkouts etc.

This Plugin offers internationalization options that can make your store go global. Loaded with features, and compatible with WordPress, this plugin is just what you need to take your online store to the next level.

It does not only allow you to customize the store but also provides shipping options which make this a global platform. This plugin was developed to offer its users a good interface and a state of the art user experience, the awful experience that other plugins offer inspired WPMUdev to work on MarketPress. A plugin made just for the user has to be something, right!

5. Easy Digital Downloads

This plugin caters to a specific market. It allows for easy digital downloads. If your business is all about the digitized era and your store sells digital media, then this is the go-to plugin for you.

This plugin is not like others that are loaded with features. It is more character-specific and focused on catering to a very specific market. All its features are integrated to help make that experience better.

It boasts 200,000 downloads and a 4.8 ratings. Having said it is not loaded with the whole bag of features, it still does come with the basic ones that are needed to get your store online. Easy digital downloads include various payment gateway options – Obviously – Promotional code system if you happen to have offers and things, option to download multiple files, bulk purchases, etc.

Even though this is not a plugin for all, it does cater to your needs.

6. Ithemes Exchange

Developed by iThemes, and a rating of 5/5 the plugin is well worth your time. It has a very simplified interface that makes it a breeze to work with. Apart from this, it is fully customizable and compatible with WordPress.

It is packed with features that would help you get through the hassle of setting up an e-commerce site unscathed. Ithemes Exchange is compatible with WordPress, fully customizable, and provides priority support for privileged members.

Like WooCommerce, WP e-commerce also offers PayPal integration and various other payment options making it a likeable by store owners.

7. Jigoshop

This is the big guy, built by an experienced set of designers, for the big brands, of the big people. This plugin offers superb functionality and customizability with a whole load of features that suit almost any and every platform of the online store.

As we said, this is the big guy; this plugin offers the features of Easy digital download and WooCommerce. So you can have a store selling some fancy products while giving your customers the option to download media files at the same time.

This plugin will also allow you to offer affiliate products, group products, and other products. Jigoshop also provides the required sales reports to keep you updated with the performance of your store while keeping track of the stocks available.

This plugin is internationalized offering various shipping methods, is fully extendable and has a strong support community.

This plugin is free with nearly 300,000 downloads with a user rating of 3.9/5.

8. Shopp

Shopp adopts a very professional front. The plugin offers a secure cart that is integrated within the plugin which means you don’t have to have security add-ons.

It has catalogue management, Discount feature, and multiple image options and is super SEO friendly. It has JavaScript enabled a very responsive design, which makes the user experience all the more special.

The plugin does have a lot of features, and when we say a lot – it is more of an understatement, and it is free with a package available for starters and go pro versions.

9. Eshop

Very simply, Eshop is an online e-commerce store plugin for WordPress. This plugin not only allows you to sell your products but create them as well. Every e-commerce success story has strong customer relation behind it, this plugin allows you to create customer sign ups to help you build and stay in touch with your customers on a regular basis.

This plugin also allows you to offer downloadable products and for the physical kind, it offers various shipping methods.
Where the money is concerned, multiple gateways for you to receive the money are provided, and options to calculate taxes are provided so you can ethically run a respectable business.

The plugin boasts a user rating of 3.8/5, fairly good, maybe not the best but it does have 500,000 plus downloads, and we don’t think so many of them will go for a product which is not worth their time.

10. Quick Shop

Quick Shop plugin has the bare basics and is so simple; it is just the right thing for a beginner. With emails and PayPal integration you can start earning money about 10 minutes after you download.

The plugin is customizable, compatible and oh so simple to use.

And if any of the above plugins fall short of any of the functionalities, even though they have the whole online store, shopping cart, money matters covered, you can always use extra plugins or customize the existing ones by hiring a WordPress developer.

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59% of B2B marketers firmly believe that email is the most effective channel for generating revenue. Furthermore, McKinsey & Company showed that email is almost 40 times more effective in acquiring new customers compared to social media.

Email is the most market competitive method of gaining, building, and retaining customers. Currently, there are over 2.6 billion email users across the globe, however many startups and companies avoid investing in emails, thinking it is meant primarily for big or established players and companies in the marketplace.

This is primarily because of the misconception that email marketing and campaign in general are either obsolete or ineffective.

This is far from the truth.

You don’t have to be a large company or have a huge budget to effectively implement and manage an email marketing campaign. Here are ten WordPress plugins that simplify the task of creating and managing powerful email campaigns.

WordPress Plugins For E-mail Marketing

1. OptinMonster

OptinMonster is a lightweight, modular plugin. Hence, you only need to install the kind of subscription for that you need instead of installing/integrating the whole package.

Once the plugin has been activated, you select, configure, and customize the type form that you want to display on your website (e.g. Slide in, Footer bar, a Lightbox, etc.). Configuration includes adding the duration, exit intent, loading delays, opti-in title, etc. Finally, you can choose a form design and customize the opt-in.

The exit intent pop-up is an important feature of the plugin. It allows you to “catch” the visitors to subscribe to your emailing list when they are about to leave your website.

2. LeadPages

LeadPages is a full-fledged tool for creating landing pages, but can be integrated with its WordPress plugin. It allows you to create custom landing pages using templates and then hooking them up to your email list.

Additionally, Leadpage offers various modules that allow you to create custom opt-ins and in converting website links into popover subscriptions form, and allow visitors to subscribers to join your primary emailing list or other sub-lists (e.g. a webinar).

3. SendinBlue Subscribe Form and WP SMTP

SendinBlue is an email marketing solution provider, similar to MailChimp. The “SendinBlue Subscribe Form and WP SMTP” is it plugin for WordPress that allows you to leverage SendinBlue’s tools to create custom subscription forms. You can also create and send newsletters to your subscription lists.

The plugin offers SendinBlue’s powerful analytics as well. You can segment your contact lists and easily track emails using WordPress’s built in wp_mail() function, and gain access to real-time statistics on clicks, opens, and bounce rates.

4. MailChimp

MailChimp is a popular and powerful email marketing platform that seamlessly integrates with WordPress websites. The installation is simple. Once installed, MailChimp allows you to create custom sign-up forms and add sign-up checkboxes on different forms on your website e.g. contact form and comments section.

You can design email newsletters using ready-made and customizable email templates, setup autoresponders, easily manage subscribers, track emails and view analytics for different email campaigns.

5. Layered Popups for WordPress

Pop-ups are one of the most aggressive, yet a highly effective method of building your emailing lists. Their effectiveness, however, depends on how well-configured they are: their timing, non-intrusive nature, and possible actions that the visitor can take.

The “Layered Popups for WordPress” is a plugin that allows you to easily create custom, attention grabbing pop-ups. These popups can be configured to match your visitor’s preferences and the actions you want them to take on your site. Change design, type, dimensions, adds animations, buttons, and CTAs.

Additionally, you can A/B test different opt-ins in real-time and see how they affect user engagement, and selecting the one that best resonates with your audience and drives your goals. The plugin integrates with Google Analytics allowing you to track the performance and further improve the popup.

6. Opt-in Panda for WordPress

This plugins allows you to gate your valuable content by showing a glimpse of the content. If the visitor wants to further read the content (article, blog, etc.), and scroll further down, an opt-in will ask them to subscribe to your emailing list. The opt-in gives the option of subscribing using social media as well.

Additionally, the plugin also allows you to show exclusive in-content freebies before your visitors (e.g. short eBooks, whitepapers, and other downloadable material). You can easily track how visitors interact with your opt-ins using built-in analytics.

The plugin is SEO-friendly, allowing bots to easily crawl and rank your content. The opt-in can easily be integrated with all the major email service providers including MailChimp, SendinBlue, AWeber, GetResponse, and ActiveCampaign.

7. Attention Grabber Plugin

A handy notifications bar is an effective method of grabbing a visitors attention when they visit your website. The Attention Grabber plugin is the free alternative to the more costly Hello Bar. It’s easy to install and is quick to integrate with your WordPress website and offers a range of features including customizations and tracking sign-ups.

8. FreshMail for WordPress

This plugins allows you to easily create custom and pre-configured sign-up forms and popup opt-ins. Additionally, you can setup automatic checkbox subscriptions based on user action (e.g. leaving a comment, completing a survey, etc.).

The plugin seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce checkout, Contact Form, and Google Analytics. Once integrated into GA, you can easily track the effectiveness of your opt-in.

9. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular contact forms for WordPress because of its ease of use and customizability. The plugin allows you to create multiple contact forms and place them on any of your website’s pages.

You can easily customize the appearance, mail contents, and form fields of the form, and integrate with MailChimp.

10. SumoMe’s List Builder

Catch visitors to subscribe to your emailing list when they are about to leave your website using a Lightbox from SumoMe. The lightbox is customizable, optimized for mobile devices, allows sharing of content to social media channels, and easily integrates with email marketing service providers including  MailChimp, SendinBlue, AWeber, GetResponse, and ActiveCampaign.

Additionally, the plugin offers a scroll box for gathering email addresses when visitors scroll down the content. It also comes with a range of analytics tools including heat maps and the ability to integrate with Google Analytics and see visitor stats in real-time.

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Attracting more people on social media depends firstly on how you create and deliver the content and secondly on what you create. The social media audience tends to read the attractive and captivating content more than less appealing content, which is why the use of other types of media including short videos, infographics, and photos has increased in recent years.

If you are a WordPress blogger and want to attract more people to your website, then search engine optimization solely is not enough. Try the given 8 essential social media WordPress plugins to make your content more attractive on the largest communication platforms of the world.

1. Fat-Free WordPress Sharing Buttons and Digg Digg

There are different ways to add social media sharing plugins to your website. You may ask you web designer to attach attractive sharing buttons which may be heavier and reduce the loading speed of your website.

Fat-Free social media WordPress plugins allow you to not only make your website more alluring but also improve social media sharing with light-weight buttons.

The coding of popular social networks is automatically installed on the buttons on your website. Digg Digg is a plugin which speedily adds the social media sharing buttons to any desired position on your website. When setting up Digg Digg, make sure that you add your Twitter account and Twitter name.

2. Open Graph Protocol

Many bloggers take advantage of the social networking sites and build audiences by creating groups or pages on the social networks and sharing their content on them. Open Graph Protocol is one of those social media WordPress plugins which support content sharing and promotion on Facebook.

When you share content on Facebook, you have the authority to edit the information for making the post more attractive.

But Facebook fetches some information from the edited and shared post for re-sharing by the social network’s audiences. This is called cut-off titles. The process may reduce the attractiveness of your posts and make your content appear vague.

The official Facebook plugin is integrated with Open Graph Protocol to allow you to craft the updates on Facebook. Open Graph Protocol also provides insightful graphs and reports about your posts. The graphs and reports analyze the content sharing and liking on the basis of geographies and demographics.

3. Twitter Cards

For ideal search engine optimization on Twitter, there are two essential elements for every post shared on Twitter. Firstly, the name of the author should be included in the post, and secondly, a short link should redirect the users to your content directly. But both the necessary elements should not make your content unattractive or boring. When you share the content without using Twitter cards, it will appear like this.

But if you use the Twitter cards, your content will not only be optimized but it will also appear richer and appealing. Here is how your tweets will be customized.

Given here are the most important WordPress plugins or Twitter cards. The plugins can either be integrated with the help of a WordPress developer or you can also read the CMS Integration Guide by Twitter to know the techniques of integrating these plugins.

JM Twitter Cards – It help implement Twitter cards.

Jetpack – It is also used for other social networking sites. It helps improve search engine optimization.

WordPress SEO by Yoast – It is also an SEO related plugin which can alos be used for Facebook, Google+ and other social networking platforms.

4. Customize Text with WordPress SEO by Yoast

If you want simpler and manual text customization other than Twitter Cards and Open Graph Protocol then you may also use WordPress SEO by Yoast.

After installing Yoast, go to meta title and meta description sections and edit the information for every post. The edited information will be automatically used to share and promote content on social media.

Even if you are not using social media WordPress plugins, still it is important to edit the meta titles and meta descriptions for better presence and performance on the internet and social media.

5. WP Video Lightbox

Making video embedding easier and reducing the loading speed are the primary functions of WP Video Lightbox. It helps you to embed the video links without making them appear messy or tacky. WP Video Lightbox supports video sharing and embedding from all platforms including Youtube, Vimeo, Flash, and iFrame.

6. SocialBox

There are different ways to promote your content and motivate the visitors to become your subscribers or share your posts. SocialBox is one of the simplest but highly professional social media WordPress plugins. Its allows you to include the toolbars to your sites and pages and showcase the number of likes, visitors, subscribers and followers in the simplest possible way. It also helps you to build better audience and improve your social media reputation.

7. Monarch

Like Fat Free, Monarch is also a social media sharing plugin which allows you to display the social media sharing buttons on your desired positions. It also allows you to edit the sharing toolbar, add effects to the hover or add more buttons or columns to the toolbar. You can also further customize the buttons for different posts and designate them to appear as fly-ins or pop-ups. Monarch simply allows you to customize the social media sharing toolbar completely according to your choice and without the help of a web engineer.

8. Social Comments

A lot of people step back from commenting on your posts or sharing their ideas just because of the long visitor forms required to fill for commenting on the posts.

For maximizing the social engagement, install the Social Comments plugin which allows the people to start the conversation or share their views using their social networking accounts on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and others. Most of the readers are either already logged in to their social networking accounts.

Otherwise, the WordPress fetches their personal information from their social media accounts without asking them to fill long-tail forms. The Social Comments not only improves social engagement but also makes your website popular across the globe.

By taking advantage of the social media WordPress plugins, you can improve the presence and performance of your website and attract greater number of people.

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WordPress is packed with many interesting and user-friendly plugins which can be installed even by the beginner users. Your WordPress website needs to be upgraded on search engine rankings in order to spread the world to bigger audience. Given here are 10 essential and popular WordPress plugins which developers must install to uptick their websites in 2015.

10 Best WordPress Plugins

1.Infinite SEO

WordPress has made content and image optimization for search engines easier with Infinite SEO plugin. Infinite SEO automatically established a sitemap for the website and guides you to add customized and search engine friendly titles and descriptions.

The search engines are optimizing your websites on the basis of correlation i.e. tracking the relationship between keywords and optimizing them for a customized niche.

For example the keyword Apple may be optimized as the fruit Apple but Apple can also be optimized for technology if you use the keywords Tim Cook or iPhone in the articles. Infinite SEO is a fresh WordPress development plugin that improves the correlation-based optimization and boosts the search engine ranking of your website in this way.

2.Wordfence

As the search engines are offering better security to the readers and visitors by optimizing the securer websites only, Wordfence comes as an angel to protect your WordPress website. The free plugin with 4.9 star rating out of 5 can help you get rid of spam, threats and hackers not only from the frontend but from the backend as well. It also clears the website cache and improves the speed of your website, offering the services of killing two birds with one stone.

3.Regenerate Thumbnails

As media is increasingly becoming important for increasing the importance, visitor base and ranking of your website, more people are focusing on giving more space to photos, videos, webinars, and audios along with text documents.

If you want to redesign your website, give it a new theme or want images and videos to appear bigger or smaller on the screen, you may adjust the size of all images, videos and graphic works with the help of Regenerate Thumbnails.

4.WordPress Style Guide

Beginners still struggling with WordPress designing and not willing to pay to the website engineers can simply install WordPress Style Guide. It includes Forms, Dashicons, Helper Classes and jQuery UI Components, allowing you to design and operate WordPress like the website designers and engineers.

5.Backup Buddy

The beginner users can keep a track of their data and schedule their posts with the help of Backup Buddy. It not only operates the WordPress websites while you are resting on vacation or sleeping in a cozy night, but it also keeps your data safe to extract at any time.

6. Gravity Forms or Visual Form Builder

Gravity Forms is a $39/year plugin which allows you to create simply forms including radio buttons, checkboxes and text fields. The forms can be customized according to your needs. The form building features come with the added benefits of anti-spam CAPTCHAs, conditional fields and honeypots and allow you to store the user data in the WordPress database.

You can create registration forms, visitor information or subscription forms, event registration forms and event calendar forms simply with the help of Gravity Forms, making Ecommerce easier even without web engineers.

Visual Form Builder helps you develop a visual contact form for not only gathering the visitor information, messages and feedback but also for organizing digital events like webinars. The easy-to-use form has anti-spam verification fields which also helps you build a trustworthy relationship with the visitors.

7.Fancier Author Box

All the social media giants are now using the author box at the end of the articles. These boxes give general information about the author briefly. Their impact on visitors is strong as they help build a relationship with the visitors and introduce the author as a credible source of information.

Fancier Author Box plugin is the most commonly used plugin for creating simplest author box in the articles. The colors of author box can be customized according to the theme of your website. It also shows the social network updates and latest posts by the author on the website.

8.AdSanity

Ad posting, scheduling the time frame of different ads on the page, adjusting the position of ads and running infinite ads on the pages in different time frames have become quite easier with AdSanity.

The plugin not only allows you to position, control and post the ads but also provides you complete statistical and graphical representation of the ad data flow including the number of clicks, number of page visits and number of ad views.

If you are looking to increase your WordPress website’s search engine and earn money with ad posting then AdSanity is the right choice for you.

9. Login Lockdown

Websites with improved search engine ranking tend to be more attractive for hackers than other websites. Most of the hackers use the trick of breaking the admin password and logging into the website to change information or login password. Login Lockdown allows the visitors and users to enter the password for three times only.

If someone mistakenly enters the wrong password, the second and third attempts can allow him logging into the account. Login Lockdown is specifically designed to protect the website from hackers.

10. WPtouch

The website owners are spending thousands of dollars to optimize their ranking by improving usability and navigation not only for desktop computers but for mobile and tablets also. WPtouch plugin improves the screen responsiveness of your websites which is much better than the websites that are exclusively designed for high responsiveness.

Some added benefits of WPtouch include custom content designing, mobile advertising, and built-in support for eCommerce. The special feature is a free app for your website which does not require to be downloaded from the App Store.

WordPress is one of the most advance content creation platforms. It offers you more than 12000 plugins that adapt to the latest standards of social media and search engine ranking

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But wait! There are more than 33 thousand plugins in the WP repository. How do you know which ones are good to go and are the best according to your business? How do you find the right plugins to add exciting features and give a revenue boost to your website in 2015? Ok, if you’re an expert, you might be already using some of the best plugins on your WP blog. But in case you’re a beginner or have just planned to launch your first WP site in the coming year (2015), the huge list of available plugins might scare you!!

To save you from all the research work, here I’ve compiled a pretty good list of 12 excellent plugins that everyone must consider in 2015 to supercharge their websites & blogs. I’m sure these plugins will help you for all your digital needs, may it be SEO, Performance Optimization, Contact Forms, Analytics, Security and Social Media. To keep it simple, I’ve divided all the necessary plugins into separate sections and categorized them with appropriate headings so that you can quickly find what you exactly need for your WordPress site.

Must Have Plugin in 2020 for WP Performance Optimization: W3 Total cache

Is your website suffering from downtime, longer page load times or resource-intensive modules that breakdown your online presence?? Welcome the first quarter of 2015 by giving a performance boost to your WP website or blog with W3 Total Cache – the best caching plugin that has been downloaded over 3,815,469 times and offers advanced caching features along with CDN integration. You don’t even require installing WP Super Cache if you’re using this. In fact, to avoid any issues or errors, I strongly recommend not using any other caching plugin with it or disable other caching plugins if you already have one installed. Also, make sure you have the following settings to let it work properly –

Page Cache – Enable

Page Cache Method – Disk (Enhanced)

Object Cache – Disabled

Database Cache – Disabled

Must-have Plugin in 2020 for Contact Forms: Contact Form 7

Contact forms are the heart and soul of every website and blog. With Contact Form 7 Plugin, you can manage multiple contact forms, customize it according to your needs and can quickly mail all the contents using simple mark-up. This plugin also supports Ajax powered submissions, Captcha and the Anti spamming WP plugin – Akismet.

Must-have Plugins for SEO in 2020: Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin, All in one SEO pack, Google XML Sitemaps and Broken Link Checker

All in one SEO Pack and WordPress SEO by Yoast

Both these plugins are very popular for effective SEO – optimizing posts and pages of websites and blogs. From Title settings to Meta descriptions, webmaster verification to Homepage settings, adding Keywords to inserting Google Analytics ID and setting nofollow and noindex options for robots; both these plugins provide you a complete solution for all your SEO needs.

Tip:You should either install WordPress SEO by Yoast or ALL in one SEO, whatever you think suits you most. But don’t install or at least enable both the plugins simultaneously, else you may screw up your site.

Google XML Sitemaps

This is one of the best plugins to generate XML-compliant sitemap and get the content of your WP site/blog recognized and indexed by all major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask.com.

Broken Link Checker

This plugin scans the complete site, informs you if any broken links or missing images are found via email or by displaying notifications in the WP dashboard and also allows you to replace the broken URL with the correct one that would work.

Tip:  While optimizing your WordPress site/blog for the coming year(2015); be careful with keyword density or using any black hat techniques to pull traffic, else Google may penalize you.

Must Have Plugin in 2020 for Analytics – Yoast Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics for WordPress

This plugin makes it pretty easy to add Google Analytics with extra engines, automatic clickout and tracking code to your WordPress blog.

Must Have Plugin in 2020 to Redirect Links – Redirection

Want to migrate your webpages from an old site to a new site without losing visitors?? Use the Redirection plugin to redirect important links, avoid page not found errors (404 errors) and fix other link based issues. This plugin is super-useful for those who’re not taking any migration support from external developers. Here is a screenshot to make you understand the functionalities of this plugin better.

Must-Have Blog Security Plugin & Antispam Plugin in 2020

All in One WP Security & Firewall

This plugin will add high-end security to your WP site through advanced security scanners & automatic database backups. From implementing firewall protection to checking vulnerabilities; protecting your website against malicious scripts, Brute Force Login attacks by fake bots and disabling the right click, text selection and copy option so that no one can steal content from your blog; this plugin safeguards your online presence completely.

Akismet

With over 22 million downloads, Akismet is the most reliable plugin to safeguard your blog from spam comments, pingbacks and trackbacks. Not just this, it pushes all your spam to the spam folder automatically after filtering it out completely and also processes massive data from millions of sites and communities in real time.

Must-Have Social Media Plugins in 2020

Shareaholic

This is an all-powerful & feature-rich plugin which is currently the highest rated social sharing plugin on WP directory amongst other popular ones like Digg Digg, Social Media Feather, Flare and Share This etc and offers more than just social sharing. Not only it supports all major social networking sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ etc but comes packaged with advanced features like Classic Bookmarks, Recommendations & Related Content Tool, Built-in Social Analytics and official support for Google Analytics as well as Google’s URL shortener; which no other plugins offer.

Microblog Poster

This plugin is a different kind of versatile social plugin that automatically pushes your WP blog posts to various social media platforms including Facebook(auto publish to wall), Twitter(auto tweet backlink of new blogpost), Tumbler & Blogger (auto publish to your blog), Linkedin(auto publish to profile wall), Delicious(auto submit bookmark to your account) and more. Besides this, it also supports shortcodes and multiple accounts per social site while auto-updating all your social media profiles with a formatted message & backlink as soon as a new blog is uploaded.

Note– You can also use Digg Digg instead of Shareaholic if you want to have an all-in-one share buttons plugin with a floating share bar just like you see in Mashable with more customization options.

A piece of Advice

Since WordPress runs faster with fewer plugins, please don’t be eager to grab & install every other WP plugin that fascinates you!! I strongly recommend you to install only essential plugins that are supposed to meet a specific purpose for your website or blog. If you need technical help, you can either checkout this infographic – Steps to upload WordPress Plugin to get quick information on how to actually upload and optimize a WP plugin according to your own requirements or you can also take advice from dedicated wordPress developers.

I hope the list curated by me includes your favourite plugins too!! If you’ve tried and tested any other suitable plug-in that makes your tasks easier & faster for your project.  I also recommend you to hire experienced wordpress developers, who can perform this task for you with great accuracy and promptness

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In today’s mobile web world, missing a mobile friendly website is not acceptable as it will impact the overall performance of your business pessimistically among your competitors since, the usage of Smartphones and tablets have tremendously increased in the past decade that have changed the scenario of SEO completely from desktop focused to mobile focused services. But the main question is what if your website is also counted among the millions of website running on WordPress? In that case, you will need plugins to make your website mobile friendly and easily accessible for the Smartphones and tablets users. With tons of plugins available for WordPress, there is nothing that can beat the charm of WordPress websites, but your ability to choose the best plugins is the only way of making your website more manageable and interactive.

Lack of responsive in your website might frustrate your targeted mobile customers and you will be surprised to know that around 48% of mobile users whine about the websites being not optimized to be used on mobile screens.

Certainly being a professional business owner, you never want your customers to become frustrated and if you have a WordPress website, then you are lucky to have the option of installing plugins for making your website responsive and interactive.

For your convenience, I have sorted out the top 6 WordPress plugins that you can install on your WordPress site to make it responsive.

Top 6 WordPress Plugins

1.WPTouch

Considered as one of the most popular WordPress plugin, the WPTouch easily converts your WordPress site into a mobile friendly website, which can be optimized on different screen sizes. The most remarkable feature of this plugin is that it selects the theme automatically according to the new mobile version of your website.

Other advantages of WPTouch plugin includes:

• You can easily customize the layout for including the logo of your business and changing the colors schemes.
• You can also alter the fonts of your website and enable the social media buttons according to the requirements of your website.

2.WP Mobile Detector

If you want your website to become adaptable to various screen sizes in a couple of clicks, then WP Mobile Detector is an ideal mobile plugin that targets almost all different screen sizes including more than 5 thousand web-enabled phones, tablets, Smartphones, and small screen devices.

Other impressive benefits of using WP Mobile Detector for making your website mobile friendly are:

• It includes nine different mobile themes
• Images are resized and the content is automatically formatted for the intended devices
• Multilingual websites can easily be developed
• This plugin has the ability to record access statistics to help the users in recognizing traffic from basic to advanced mobiles.

3.JetPack

Completely integrated with 24 modules, this plugin allows you to efficiently alter your WordPress site to make it adjustable to different screen sizes. Most of these modules are very impressive making it easier for the developers to make the website mobile friendly and interactive. Once this plugin is used, it makes your website very clean with an uncluttered interface making it easily accessible for the mobile phone users.

Advantages of Using JetPack as a WP Mobile Friendly Plugin are:

• This is a very lightweight theme for the developers.
• The mobile theme will be easily viewed on a mobile operating system.
• It comes with custom menus, header and background.
• It uses one column layout making it easier for your content to adjust comfortably on small screens.

4.WordPress Mobile Pack 2.0

If you want to make your website looks like an application and take the user experience to higher levels of satisfaction, then WordPress Mobile Pack 2.0 is a good choice to make your website interactive and responsive. This impressive mobile plugin of WordPress lets the developers to deliver and package the existing content on their websites across different platforms, devices, and operating systems. Besides, this plugin also allows a responsive user interface, cross-platform access, post sync and readymade theme with six different covers.

Other benefits of using WordPress Mobile Pack are:

• Allows you to customize the appearance of your website
• Integrates easily with Google Analytics for featuring a “full-screen” mode
• Easy customization of fonts and colors
• Formats the website content to fit the different screen sizes

5.WP Mobile Edition

It is true that responsive websites makes it easier for the mobile phone and tablets users to access the website with ease however, pure mobile websites are definitely known to offer much enhanced viewing experience to the target users. Therefore, if you want to turn your existing WordPress website into a purely responsive site optimized to fit the different screen sizes of tablets and Smartphones, then you can opt for WP Mobile Edition plugin that comes integrated with a mobile switcher feature, which automatically senses devices while helping the users switch to different versions of their website.

Important benefits of using WP Mobile Edition are:

• You can optimize your website to work for different operating systems including Windows, IOS and Android
• The standard mobile theme of this plugin is lightweight and very quick to upload
• Come with smart formatting and device adaptation
• It has 8 different color schemes including a complete commenting system
• The mobile theme is SEO friendly so that you website’s rank remains unaltered while switching its version from desktop to mobile
• It comes integrated with mobile advertising

6.Wapple Architect

Another versatile plugin of WordPress, the Wapple Architect helps in making your website mobile friendly within minutes. It means that you can mobilize your website quickly. Besides, you can also increase the usability of your website by using all the integrated set if impressive features that comes with this plugin.

Benefits associated with using Wapple Architect plugin are:

• It makes the website easily compatible with varied mobile devices, which is a remarkable feat by all standards.
• The sophisticated set of features that comes with this plugin includes mobile friendly navigation, automatic resizing of pictures, mobile advertising integration, and improved pagination.

If you are looking to make your existing WordPress website into a mobile friendly site with an interactive user interface, you can use any of these 6 above mentioned plugins as all of them are designed specifically with amazing bundle of features to make the conversion from desktop version to mobile version very efficient and easy.

However, we have an experienced and qualified team of WordPress developers that will make your switching from desktop to mobile versions much convenient. However, if you have already made up of your mind to make your website mobile friendly using any of these plugins, do let me know which of these plugins you will chose? Or do you have any other plugin or third party application in your mind for making these changes? Do share your views in the comments section given below.

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WordPress is unquestionably one of the most popular CMS for small business websites and there are many reasons that contribute to its unparallel success. However, the availability of a limitless number of WordPress Plugins is what makes this open-source CMS popular among its competitors.

You don’t have to think much or put extra efforts if you want to add some extra functionality on your WordPress site. The bundle of plugins packed with this open-source platform gives you the liberty to add numerous new features to your website without investing much from your pocket. Depending on your specific requirements, you can browse navigation menu plugins, social media plugins, security plugins, or any other WordPress plugins to make your website easily navigable for the visitors.

WordPress Website and its Plugins so Popular?

WordPress is easily customizable CMS software, which means you can achieve almost anything you crave with this software. It also has an efficient developer support system and it is loaded with amazing plugins to make your website unique and well turned-out as per the requirements of your target audience. If you know how to install the WordPress plugins to your website for enhancing its effectiveness, then you must be aware of the best plugins of WordPress to choose.

Here are some great plugins for your WordPress website that are not necessarily the best but they are essential for incorporating more features to it.

Plugins for Affiliate Marketing

Pretty Link Pro (PLP): The PLP is one of the most effective affiliate marketing plugin, which is used for creating as well as managing internal links and affiliate links to allow the users receive their resources and information conveniently. It also helps the websites in getting more traffic because the more links we create through this plugin, the more traffic will get driven towards your website thus improving the chances of better conversions and revenue.

Plugins for Security and Anti-Spamming

Akismet: Do you want to protect your blog from trackback spam and comments? Akismet WordPress plugin is the best choice for you as its installation will keep your website protected and secured from spam messages and comments even if you are not active on your website so often.

Plugins for Content Marketing

Zemanta: Considered as a Ninja plugin, Zemanta offers access to indefinite supply and campaign analytic via a single dashboard. It also provides legal pictures, suggested tags and related articles to your blog posts.

Plugins for Lead Generation

Hello Bar: An opt-in plugin, it is used for improving conversion rate on your website thus increasing the chances of generating notable revenues.

Hybrid Connect: If you are looking for a WordPress plugin for light boxes, web forms, and after-connect web forms, then Hybrid Connect is an ideal choice for you. This plugin has the ability to integrate your site with Facebook, MailChimp, and Aweber.

Formidable Forms: This plugin lets the users to create easily customizable forms with several fields in just a few minutes. It thus saves your time, which is required to create forms through proper coding. The user has to install this plugin for creating customized forms with different fields.

Optin Skin: Do you want to create impressive and high converting opt-in banners and forms? Optin Skin is a popular WordPress plugin that helps you in creating and managing high converting opt-in forms and banners that you can place anywhere on your WordPress website virtually.

Math Captcha: This plugin avoids spamming by adding math captcha in the formidable forms in few simple steps.

Plugins for Product Retailing and Ecommerce Solutions

Price Table: With the help of this plugin, you can easily create price table custom post type with the help of drag and drop builder. It will be based on the dashing price table thus minimizing the efforts required in creating a price table with full-fledged coding.

Plugins for Genesis Framework

Genesis Custom Backgrounds: If you will install the first generation of this WordPress plugin, you will set up a default picture for posting thumbnails for Genesis framework. It also facilitates custom background and creates an option for enabling choice of a default background from then varied sets of choices.

Genesis Simple Sidebars: For creating and using new sidebar widget areas, the Genesis Simple Sidebars is an ultimate WordPress plugin that makes managing sidebars very easy for the website owners. 

Genesis Layout Extras: This WordPress plugin dedicated for Genesis Theme Framework uses the Genesis theme setting for letting you modify the default layouts of your home page, archive, singular, and search, attachment, and bbPress 2.x pages.

Plugins for Social Media

Facebook Like Box Widget: This simple Facebook widget when installed gives you the details of how many likes you have received on your Facebook page thus letting you interpret the measures, which must be taken for the improving your shares and posts for increasing traffic on your website.

Social Media Widget: This plugin helps in adding links of your web pages to all your social media profiles, which eventually promotes your website over social media platforms. This widget comprises of tons of icons in different sizes such as 4 icon styles and 4 animations.

AA’ Digg Digg Alternative: Another social media plugin for a WordPress site, this is represented as a floating share bar, which allows users to share your content among their social circles. However, Facebook Like Box Widget and Social Media Widget are preferred over this plugin as it slows down the site’ loading speed.

Plugins for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Yoast WordPress SEO: The WordPress plugin by Yoast helps in improving your site’s ranking over popular search engines by optimizing your website according to the necessary technical optimization techniques. This plugin let you choose a focused keyword while writing content for your website, which is mandatory for maintaining its ranking over top pages of search engines.

Google Analytics for WordPress: This plugin let you install the Google Analytics code on your WordPress site so that your users can easily share your content over Google + pages thus increasing the chances of better leads to your website.

Broken Link Checker: This Plugin of WordPress is very useful in maintain your site’s quality and ranking as it helps in detecting and notifying any broken lines in your articles, blogs or web content.

404 Redirection Plugin: It helps in permanently redirecting all 404 errors to the URL of the main blog and its primary aim is to recover Google Page Rank from the missing pages.

Plugins for Enhanced User Experience and Engagement

Lightbox Plus: A simple yet effective plugin for WordPress sites, this widget implements the ColorBox as a Lightbox picture permitting users to view bigger versions of pictures, videos, content, and simple slide shows in an overlay.

Yet Another Post Plugin: When installed in WordPress template, this plugin displays the list of related posts using a powerful algorithm. This will help the website owners in earning revenue through sponsored content.

Plugins for Online Marketing and YouTube

Video Thumbnails: This plugin for WordPress allows you in to salvage the video thumbnails for your posts and also exhibits them in your theme. It simplifies the process of displaying the thumbnails automatically on your template and offers support for custom post types and fields.

TubePress:  If you really want to take advantages of online marketing through YouTube and Vimeo, this plugin is the perfect selection to make as it shows impressive Vimeo and YouTube galleries in your pages, posts and sidebars. You can also upgrade this plugin to TubePress Pro for getting advanced features with it.

YouTube Subscriber Widget: Are you interest in displaying YouTube subscription box in the sidebar of your site? If so, install the YouTube Subscriber Widget and showcase your subscription box of YouTube in the sidebar of your WordPress template thus improving your techniques of online marketing.

Final Note

I hope you must have understood until now which WordPress plugins are important to install on your website however, I might have skipped a few ones from this list. With thousands of WordPress plugins available to explain, it sometimes becomes difficult to design a list that accommodates everyone’s favorite’s plugins but I would recommend you to take help from skilled WordPress developers for uploading and optimizing the plugins efficiently on your site. Ultimately, it’s your decision on how you can make your WordPress site more useful and appealing by installing these plugins successfully.

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One of the considerations that all WordPress plugin developers have to make is how to actually upload and optimize their plugin. If you are a veteran WordPress plugin developer, you already know how to hook up and promote your plugin at WordPress directory. But for those who don’t; this infographic will explain everything you need to know. This infographic also explains why it is important to develop plugin for WordPress by showing amazing statistics about WordPress. At the end of chart, various popular plugins are given with percentage of total searches, so that you can know which plugin development is more beneficial for you.

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Navigation menu is an important part of any website not only from the optimization view point but also from the user experience perspective. If you are running a website based on WordPress platform and on a lookout for the best navigation plan, then WordPress menu plugins can be the most apt option for you. Built with jQuery technology, WordPress menu plugins provide great usability and cross-browser support. While searching for perfect WordPress menu plugins, you will find two types of plugins:

• Plugins that enhance the menu management and page structures in the WordPress admin side
• Plugins that improve the front-end navigation of any website

After in-depth research work, I have gathered ten best WordPress Navigation Menu Plugins that allow you to enhance the menu management, improve the front-end, and optimize the page structures.

1. JQuery Accordion Menu Widget

• Requires: 3.0 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.4.2
• Last Updated: 2012-5-14
• Downloads: 181,861
• Ratings: 4.8 out of 5 stars

Free Download

This amazing WordPress plugin allows you to add a jQuery-powered accordion menu to your website with the help of short codes or widgets and is extremely customizable. Offered for free, this plugin provides support to multi-level menus, multiple animation speed, several skins for you to choose from, and lots of other useful options.

This plugin is useful due to its following features:

• Handles multiple levels
• Auto Expand Based on Current Page/Item
• Close menu, Class Menu, Class Disable
• Saved state using cookies
• Option of selecting “click” or “hover” events for triggering the menu
• Disable parent links
• Hover delay

2. JQuery Drill down Ipod Menu Widget

• Requires: 3.0 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.1.4
• Last Updated: 2011-5-15
• Downloads: 24,208
• Ratings- 4.9 out of 5 stars

Free Download

This plugin is quite useful to create a drill down style menu for your website. It is ideal for people who need to create complex yet compact menus for their sites or blogs. Drill down menus is ideal for managing large and complicated menus in a vertical, small, compact and fixed-sized area. In addition to this, drill down menus also offers a great alternative to accordion style and drop down menus. The drill down menu offers 3 different ways to navigate:

• A back button to return to previous options
• Using a breadcrumb style menu at the top of the drill down menu
• Selecting previous link headers, which are fixed at the top of the menu so the user can see the path

Some incredible features of this plugin are as follows:

• Saved state using cookies
• Multiple menus on the same page
• Customizable animation speed
• Cross-browser comparability
• Smooth height auto adjustment functionality
• Mobile platform ready
• Keyboard navigation
• Smart search option

3. Responsive Select Menu

• Requires: 3.6 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.8.3
• Last Updated: 2014-2-12
• Downloads: 105,729
• Ratings- 4.4 out of 5 stars

Responsive Select Menu plugin automatically transforms a WordPress 3 Menu into a mobile-friendly menu. Therefore, it is perfect for people who want their sites to be easy to navigate on smartphones or tablets. People who access your website using a mobile device will be presented with select box navigation, which is more touch screen-friendly and smaller than traditional menus. Some outstanding features of this plugin are given below:

• Easier navigation for touch screens
• Takes up less screen
• Works automatically
• Width breakpoint
• No need to add extra PHP code

4. Admin Menu Tree Page View

• Requires: 3.8 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.8.3
• Last Updated: 2014-1-26
• Downloads: 82,729
• Ratings- 4.8 out of 5 stars

Free Download

The name of this WordPress plugin shows its work. It adds a page tree to all your web pages, which is directly accessible in the admin menu. In this way all your web pages will be available within just one click of mouse, no matter where you are in the admin area. With the help of this plugin, you can add web pages directly in the tree and you can quickly find your pages by using the search box.

Remarkable features of this plugin are as follows:

• Add link to view page directly from admin menu
• Add pages directly after or inside another post
• View the page hierarchy
• View all pages and change the order of pages with drag and drop interface
• Compatible with WPML

5. Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget

• Requires: 3.8 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.8.3
• Last Updated: 2013-12-16
• Downloads: 19,673
• Ratings- 4.5 out of 5 stars

Free Download

If you want to create a menu for custom taxonomies and their related terms, you should definitely try Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget plugin. Easy to configure, this WordPress menu plugin comes with lots of configuration options. With the help of this plugin, you can choose which custom taxonomies and associated terms to display in your menu and whether to hide or display terms without any posts. In addition to this, you can choose the order in which the related terms are displayed.

Some incredible features of this plugin are as follows:

• You can choose whether to display the list of terms as a hierarchy
• You can choose whether to display the taxonomy name as a title
• You can choose whether to hide terms with no posts
• User options to control how to treat display of new terms added to taxonomy

6. Advanced Menu Widget

• Requires: 3.0 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.5.2
• Last Updated: 2013-4-29
• Downloads: 51,200
• Ratings- 5 out of 5 stars

Free Download

This popular plugin adds enhanced “Navigation Menu” widget and offers many options which can be set to customize the output of the custom menu through the widget. Offered for free, this plugin is acknowledged for it’s below mentioned features:

• Custom class for a widget block
• Display only direct path to current element
• Display all menu items starting with the selected one
• Display menu as drop down
• Starting depth and maximum level to display “+” flat display
• Custom hierarchy

7. AllWebMenus

• Requires: 2.3 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.9.1
• Last Updated: 2014-4-25
• Downloads: 39,256
• Ratings- 2.9 out of 5 stars

Free Download

This WordPress plugin is widely used to create menus for your website. It works in combination with AllWebMenus Pro, which is a desktop application from Iikno software. This plugin allows you to create custom menus from your website’s structure, customize colors and behavior, add external links, and many more. It also creates cross-browser navigation menus that work alike in all browsers supporting DHTML. Some incredible features of this plugin are as follows:

• Full cross-browser support (Internet Explorer, all Mozilla based browsers, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and many more)
• Full SEO support
• Edit CSS menu properties through a WYSIWYG interface
• Auto Item Highlight
• Optimized menu building with separate java scripts for different browsers
• Multiple Rows and Columns on submenus
• Responsive Menus for your Responsive Website Designs (RWD)
• Full documentation on all features and properties
• Automatic Scroll on Mouse Over
• Use popup and hidden menus that appear on events specified by you

8. UberMenu- WordPress Mega Menu Plugin

• Compatibility: WordPress 3.9
• Latest update: 2.4.0.3
• Last updated on- January 16, 2014
• Ratings- 4.6 out of 5 stars
• Regular License- $19

Purchase

This WordPress plugin comes packed with lots of useful features that help you creating a powerful menu for your website or blog. UberMenu is responsive, therefore, it will work with smartphones and tablets, and it includes 20+ styles for you to choose from. This plugin is fully widgetized, and it also includes short codes in order to help you add Google Maps, a search bar, and latest posts to your website’s navigation. In addition to this, you can use UberMenu to create image-only menu items, add images and descriptions to menu items.

Some amazing features of this plugin are as follows:

• Fully responsive
• Enhanced CSS
• Lighter weight and more efficient JavaScript
• iPhone & iPad compatible
• Supports both slide and fade effects for sub menus
• Ability to create image-only menu items (no text)
• jQuery Enhanced

9. WP Sticky Menu Plugin

• Compatibility: WordPress 3.0 and above
• Latest update: 2.0
• Created- 14 May 11
• Last updated on- 11 July 13
• Ratings- 3.84 out of 5 stars
• Regular License- $15
• Extended License- $75

Purchase

One of the greatest mega menu plugins for WordPress, WP Sticky Menu Plugin is really powerful and supports option panel where you can choose different styles, width, animations, alignment of menu and much more. WP Sticky Menu Plugin is easy to manage and very flexible, and you can also select the animation effect for the sliding out and in of the menu.

Some special features of this plugin are as follows:

• Optimized JS
• Optimized CSS
• Hide Mega Menu Titles Function Added
• Sub Titles Activated and Restyled
• Responsive
• 10+ New Styles
• Settings Panel Optimized
• Mobile Ready

10. UI – Pro Simple Metro Style Navigation Bar

• Compatibility: WordPress 3.0 and above
• Created- 2 January 13
• Last updated on- 13 March 13
• Ratings- 4.00 out of 5 stars
• Regular License- $6
• Extended License- $30

Purchase

This simple WordPress menu plugin is used to create Metro (now called Windows 8 UI) style navigation bars easily. The menu plugin comes with the icon pack called ‘Iconic’ by P.J. Onori that can be effortlessly set with CSS classes. Some incredible features of this plugin are as follows:

• Short code to create link for open/close/toggle actions for both sides
• Change colors right from the admin panel
• Separated Custom Post Type for the links for easy manage
• Additional Settings Page for controlling the jQuery Plugin
• Metro UI style navigation bar
• Uses CSS3
• Lightweight JS/CSS
• HTML or Object source
• Left or/and Right panel
• Easy customization
• Free Help in Basic Setup

There are heaps of other WordPress navigation plugins available, but these ten plugins are my personal favorites which are also competent enough to transform your website into more than a simple blog by making your menus look stunning. If you want to enhance user satisfaction on your website, I recommend you to hire experienced WordPress developers, who can give a professional touch to your website.

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