Most Popular free wordpress plugins

July 5, 2011 | Written by Rawaf W | in Freebies Wordpress | 8 comments

During doing with wordpress script I used and tested so much free plugins for add some important additional functionality to the site that I built it for me or my clients and I’m sure most of us have use them because they are important and part of every site built by wordpress.

one of the reasons why people like wordpress is the thousands of open source plugins available that help developer or webmaster to develop him website without need to they are good in coding or php so today I like spotlight over a few plugins that I think absolutely warrant your attention. I’m sure there are other so much plugins so I wish you share it with us by the comments !!

Akismet

Akismet is quite possibly the perfect spam management solution.It check the comments on your blog to see if it looks like spam. The plugin is developed by the creators of WordPress,All you need is a WordPress.com API key to get it up and running.

All in one SEO pack

It’s helpful to create and set up the main title and description of your blog, page and every post you create, Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization), easy to use and free that it continues between the most popular.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. It is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features which provides a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

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.

Google Analytics for WordPress

Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews, If you are really new on the Internet and don’t know how to add your analytics code on your Theme, this plugin is for you, it’s easy .

WP Super Cache

It generates static html files to speed up the loading of your site. If you tend to have large spikes in traffic, this is a must have plugin to help your site from going down. There is also legacy support for the WP Cache plugin if you don’t want to serve html files, With this plugin you will have a faster loading of your pages.

WP-PageNavi

this plugin adds a more advanced navigation. You can also completely customize the display of the pagination By CSS, almost wordpress themes use it.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database, it’s better to be safe than sorry

Redirection

It is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Socialize

This provides an easy way to selectively add actionable social bookmarks to your posts content or below the post in a ‘Call To Action’ box. You can add bookmarks either inside the content or in a box below the content.

Conclusion

As you may have noticed, I’ve chosen to review to free plugins, and in next posts I will try spotlight about the most popular premium wordpress plugins as like details that show here, I’m of course , reviewed some plugins that saw it’s perfect and important for websites and now, have you use some of this plugins? or do you know another one is better? so share us the plugins you use and love here, I would like to hear from you, Thank you so much for reading!