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8 Of The Best Plugins For WordPress

(Our Tech Blog) WordPress is an incredible tool, I use it on many websites, it really would be a waste without it, but what one of the things that makes it so great is the overwhelming amount of plugins that are available. If there is something I do in WordPress, there is usually a plugin to help you do.

Ultimate SEO - I think this plugin deserves more recognition than it has achieved so far. I've never seen a plugin with a massive array of features, this is all platinum and SEO All In One SEO, it also takes the functionality found in smart SEO links and a number of other plugins is essentially the Swiss Army Knife of WordPress plugins. Some examples of their features include: code injection (for use with the addition of Google Analytics, Adsense section targeting, etc.) Webmaster assistant verification, mask generator link, Robots. txt editor and even an SEO option to export the final configuration for a file so you can import, or use on another blog, if necessary, plus support for the import of meta data after All In One SEO - and no more, well worth checking out.

W3 Total Cache Plugin - This plugin when fully configured you can give at least 10 times improvement in overall site performance and give you savings of up to 80% of the bandwidth through compression and HTTP minify code HTML. In A / B test this great plugin WordPress plugins and other rhythms to optimize WP Super Cache hands in terms of time loading the page, and not only that, but it has Amazon S3 integration. This plugin is so good at performance optimization that is trusted sites such as mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com and many others.

Cbnet Ping Optimizer - Inside your WordPress admin panel, clicking the option in writing within the settings tab, you can see at the bottom a section called Update Services, now every time I publish a post or update a WordPress post ping the sites in this list. So if you update a message frequently, some of these services can blacklist your site, WordPress plugin that lets hand to ping these services when you edit a message, but allows you to ping when you first add the charge eliminating the possibility of being blacklisted as a spammer in these services.

TinyMCE Advanced - WordPress uses the standard version of TinyMCE as WYSIWYG editor, this is the advanced version of TinyMCE plugins add 17. These include: Advanced HR, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, advanced list, the context menu, Emotions (Caritas), date and time, ieSpell, layer, insert media, no separation, print, search and replace, style, table , visual character and XHTML Extras.

WPtouch - Once this WordPress plugin is installed and activated will transform your blog into an iPhone application-style theme when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, touch, Samsung and Blackberry Storm / Torch mobile devices. With web browsing through mobile devices this is a very important plugin is used, as it provides quick navigation and easy to use mobile devices mentioned and this will not affect your desktop theme anyway. On top of which you can customize various aspects of their appearance in the admin panel and also show Google Adsense ads that is very handy.

Maintenance Mode - This elegant plugin to add a splash page to your blog so that visitors know that your WordPress blog is down for maintenance, also inform visitors when the site is accessible. The message is fully customizable and is registered in the Administrators have full access to the blog as the front-end.

Broken Link Checker - can be very frustrating for the reader to a page on his blog that has engaged in any article / post is what they are reading when they try to click a link on your page and the site is broken. However, this will always happen from time to time and can not be avoided, but when you've been writing for a while and has promoted an important file of messages and articles that would be impossible to control all.

WP-DBManager - The worst that can happen to any blogger is to put your heart and soul into writing large items and then just lose it all, either down to your hosting service or something else. This great plugin for WordPress that makes it so easy to back up your WP database, and even optimize and repair as well. It supports scheduling backup and lets you download any file from backup or by email to you. This plugin is a must for anyone who is serious about using WordPress.