Wordpress

PLUGINS

Plugins are tools for your WordPress website that can extend its functionality. Each plugin offers custom functions and features, enabling users to tailor their sites to their specific needs. Plugins can help you build a better website. For example, plugins can offer a range of features for your website, from search engine optimisation to help you add HTML tables to your WordPress site.

There are thousands of WordPress plugins available – most of which can be downloaded at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or you can install them via the Plugins page in your WordPress Dashboard.

Below are 12 of our favourite plugins:

JetPack Jetpack adds powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users including, customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools. DOWNLOAD

WordPress SEO by Yoast Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. DOWNLOAD

Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen. The major features in Akismet is that it automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. DOWNLOAD

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. DOWNLOAD

TablePress Embed beautiful and feature-rich tables into your posts and pages, without having to write code. DOWNLOAD

W3 Total Cache W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. DOWNLOAD

Digg Digg With Digg Digg by Buffer, you have an all in one social sharing plugin for your blog. Display all social sharing buttons nicely on your blog and make it look amazing, just like Mashable. DOWNLOAD

NextGEN Gallery NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, and one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time, with over 12 million downloads. It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload. DOWNLOAD

HTML Sitemap Adds an HTML (Not XML) sitemap of your blog pages (not posts) by entering the shortcode [html_sitemap], perfect for those who use WordPress as a CMS. DOWNLOAD

Facebook Like Box Widget Facebook Like Box Widget is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes & Recommendation Comments from their own website. DOWNLOAD

Disqus Comment System The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Disqus, pronounced "discuss", is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community. DOWNLOAD