WordPress Plugins
WordPress.org is powerful on its own, but its functionality can be extended using WordPress plugins. Yoast offers several WordPress plugins to optimize your WordPress SEO, track its performance and tweak the minor usability issues power users sometimes encounter.
Essential Plugins
If you only want to pick two of the free WordPress plugins from this site, pick these two, they’ve both proven to be best in class and will help you take your blog to the next level.
Functionality Plugins
Some things should have just been built in in WordPress, these plugins make it look almost like it is.
Analytics and Metrics Plugins
Want to know what’s going on on your blog? Install one or more of these plugins and gain yourself the deepest insights!
SEO & Affiliate Plugins
WordPress is superbly optimized by itself, for a content management system, but it can still use a few free WordPress plugins here and there to get it to the absolute top.
Social Media Plugins
If you’re the kind of person who is social or shares his content elsewhere as well, these plugins might come in handy!
More useful WordPress info
Be sure to check out my info on WordPress SEO and WordPress hosting while you’re looking around this site, and if you’re looking to hire a developer, have a look at my WordPress consulting services!
Fixes and Tweaks
While WordPress is a wonderful system, you’ll sometimes want to tweak a couple of things here and there, these plugins are here to help.
WordPress Plugins by YOAST
WordPress Plugins
WordPress.org is powerful on its own, but its functionality can be extended using WordPress plugins. Yoast offers several WordPress plugins to optimize your WordPress SEO, track its performance and tweak the minor usability issues power users sometimes encounter.
Essential Plugins
If you only want to pick two of the free WordPress plugins from this site, pick these two, they’ve both proven to be best in class and will help you take your blog to the next level.
WordPress SEO Plugin
Google Analytics for WordPress
Functionality Plugins
Some things should have just been built in in WordPress, these plugins make it look almost like it is.
Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin
Yoast Breadcrumbs
FriendConnect commenting plugin
Simple Taxonomies
Analytics and Metrics Plugins
Want to know what’s going on on your blog? Install one or more of these plugins and gain yourself the deepest insights!
Google Analytics for WordPress
Blog Metrics
adCenter Analytics for WordPress
From RSS?
SEO & Affiliate Plugins
WordPress is superbly optimized by itself, for a content management system, but it can still use a few free WordPress plugins here and there to get it to the absolute top.
WordPress SEO Plugin
Meta Robots WordPress plugin
RSS Footer
Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin
Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker
Canonical URL’s for WordPress
Social Media Plugins
If you’re the kind of person who is social or shares his content elsewhere as well, these plugins might come in handy!
TweetBacks for WordPress
Upcoming for WordPress
SlideShare WordPress plugin
CrunchBase Widget
More useful WordPress info
Be sure to check out my info on WordPress SEO and WordPress hosting while you’re looking around this site, and if you’re looking to hire a developer, have a look at my WordPress consulting services!
Fixes and Tweaks
While WordPress is a wonderful system, you’ll sometimes want to tweak a couple of things here and there, these plugins are here to help.
Blog Icons
Search Suggest
Minimum Comment Length WordPress Plugin
Comment Redirect
Email commenters
Users to CSV WordPress plugin
Hide Tag Input
Plugin Downloads
Optimize DB
RSS Shortcode
CREDITS
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