What are the most popular WordPress Plugins?

The most complete all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog, this plugin has a huge list of features, including: Post title and meta description meta box to change these on a per post basis for ultimate SEO. Taxonomy (tag, category & custom taxonomy) title and meta description support. Google search result snippet previews, let your ed…

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 cu…

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular sites like: mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, kiss925.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com, tutsplus.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, css-tricks.com, yoast.com and others — W3 Total Cache improves…

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. Plugin’s Official Site Contact Form 7 (http://contactform7.com) Docs – FAQ – Support Contact Form 7 Needs Your Support It is har…

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin allows you to track your blog easily and with lots of metadata. Check out the Google Analytics for WordPress video: Full list of features: Simple installation through integration with Google Analytics API: authenticate, select the site you want to track and you’re done. This plugin uses the asynchronous …

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. Major new features in Akismet 2.5 include: A comment status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet, and which were spammed or…

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. For more information, check out Jetpack.me. Features include: Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Previously provided by WordPress.com Stats. The WP.me URL shortener. Hovercard popups for your …

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Upgrade to Pro Version Support | Change Log | FAQ| Translations Some features: Support for Custom Post Types Advanced Canonical URLs Fine tune Page Navigational Links Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality ONLY plugin …

Wordfence Security is a free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall and anti-virus scanning for WordPress websites.\nRemember to visit our support forums if you have questions or comments.\nWordfence is 100% free. You need to sign up on Wordfence.com to get a free API key.\nWe also offer a Premium API key that adds additional …

iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security), #1 WordPress Security Plugin iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and…

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Features Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional). Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects. Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email. Makes broken links display differently i…

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed…