Blogging wasn’t that cool 5 years ago. It was for geeks. Since then geeks have become sexy. Now blogging is done by almost everyone.
I think there is a link between the two!
WordPress is “the” platform if you want to take your blogging to the next level. Sure you can do Tumblr and Blogger…. but in the “I am serious about blogging” category, WordPress is the “go to” platform
Why WordPress rocks
One of the best things about WordPress is the global community that creates plugins that make it sing and dance. Want to optimize your content and posts for search engines… there is a free plugin for that. Need a contact form…again there is a plugin already developed for you.
Other benefits include a vast global pool of experts that can design, develop and optimize your blog or website, then there is its low cost and the flexibility.
The top 25 WordPress plugins
So what are the top 25 WordPress plugins?
One of the biggest problems with a WordPress blog is “spam comments. Akismet stops almost all spam in their tracks.
Need to optimize your blog for search engines? Then this one is the most popular. Another one worth checking out is “
WordPress SEO Plugin” by Yoast.
One of the most important key elements for a blog or website is the ability for people to contact you and this is a very simple plugin that helps you do that.
Making it easy for Google to crawl and index your site is vital. This plugin automatically generates a sitemap for you that makes it easy for Google’s bots to do that.
The rise of a visual web has made it important to have images and photos as part of your content publishing tactics. NextGen makes this easy to do.
Want to see the next on the list then check out the infographic below!
Top WordPress Plugins
If you’re running your website on WordPress, chances are you’re using a handful of plugins and widgets to extend your site’s capabilities. And why not: One of the most enticing things about the open source CMS and blogging software is the endless ways in which you can customize your site.
WordPress’ Plugin Directory features over 30,000 free and premium plugins, ranging from caching engines to forum software to blog importer tools. There’s a good chance you’ve downloaded and are using some of these already. There’s an even better chance that there’s a few plugins you missed along the way that can help you do whatever you’re doing with your WordPress site, but better.
We put together an embed-able infographic of the top WordPress plugins ranked by downloads.
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You can find these plugins below in our list of the top 100 WordPress plugins. If you find one that interests you, don’t hesitate to try it out on your site – your fellow WordPress users have given their stamp of approval on these, since number of downloads is how the plugins are ranked.
Make sure to check back here each month as we update the top 100 most popular plugins for your WordPress site.
| 1 | Akismet | 18,749,554 | 4.11 | 3/18/2014 |
| 2 | All in One SEO Pack | 17,836,756 | 3.85 | 2/24/2014 |
| 3 | Contact Form 7 | 16,167,721 | 4.36 | 2/26/2014 |
| 4 | Google XML Sitemaps | 12,364,384 | 4.67 | 11/24/2013 |
| 5 | NextGEN Gallery | 9,535,494 | 3.91 | 3/18/2014 |
| 6 | Jetpack by WordPress.com | 9,225,039 | 3.88 | 3/17/2014 |
| 7 | WordPress SEO by Yoast | 9,052,417 | 4.70 | 3/21/2014 |
| 8 | WordPress Importer | 6,951,206 | 3.21 | 1/14/2014 |
| 9 | WP Super Cache | 5,600,045 | 4.17 | 2/25/2014 |
| 10 | Google Analytics for WordPress | 5,540,749 | 4.32 | 2/7/2014 |
| 11 | WPtouch Mobile Plugin | 5,020,809 | 3.86 | 3/21/2014 |
| 12 | Fast Secure Contact Form | 4,502,985 | 4.49 | 12/16/2013 |
| 13 | WP-PageNavi | 4,289,335 | 4.08 | 1/28/2014 |
| 14 | WordPress.com Stats | 3,225,798 | 3.19 | 8/20/2013 |
| 15 | TinyMCE Advanced | 3,189,113 | 3.86 | 12/13/2013 |
| 16 | W3 Total Cache | 3,152,665 | 4.52 | 11/25/2013 |
| 17 | Google Analyticator | 3,105,921 | 3.69 | 1/10/2014 |
| 18 | Share Buttons by AddToAny | 2,948,580 | 4.13 | 3/21/2014 |
| 19 | Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) | 2,858,126 | 3.84 | 3/17/2014 |
| 20 | WP e-Commerce | 2,736,880 | 2.80 | 1/17/2014 |
| 21 | WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce | 2,693,167 | 4.15 | 3/6/2014 |
| 22 | Broken Link Checker | 2,356,961 | 4.07 | 12/16/2013 |
| 23 | Ultimate TinyMCE | 2,191,067 | 4.67 | 1/3/2014 |
| 24 | Sociable | 2,133,149 | 4.04 | 4/15/2013 |
| 25 | Really Simple CAPTCHA | 2,051,003 | 4.39 | 3/23/2014 |
| 26 | BuddyPress | 1,975,495 | 4.02 | 2/5/2014 |
| 27 | WP-DB-Backup | 1,941,391 | 3.76 | 9/30/2013 |
| 28 | Contact Form | 1,892,945 | 4.48 | 3/6/2014 |
| 29 | SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam | 1,889,444 | 3.86 | 11/19/2013 |
| 30 | WP to Twitter | 1,888,143 | 3.89 | 3/7/2014 |
| 31 | Share Buttons by AddThis | 1,877,511 | 3.25 | 2/13/2014 |
| 32 | Advanced Custom Fields | 1,786,418 | 4.90 | 3/18/2014 |
| 33 | Better WP Security | 1,761,459 | 4.83 | 3/17/2014 |
| 34 | ShareThis: Share Buttons and Social Analytics | 1,721,186 | 3.23 | 3/14/2014 |
| 35 | Captcha | 1,685,210 | 4.58 | 3/10/2014 |
| 36 | Smart YouTube PRO | 1,677,176 | 3.52 | 3/10/2014 |
| 37 | Redirection | 1,597,661 | 3.90 | 12/22/2013 |
| 38 | GTranslate | 1,586,951 | 3.51 | 1/18/2014 |
| 39 | Facebook | 1,527,332 | 2.69 | 3/11/2014 |
| 40 | Add Link to Facebook | 1,490,807 | 4.64 | 3/22/2014 |
| 41 | Wordfence Security | 1,454,956 | 4.90 | 2/4/2014 |
| 42 | WP-Polls | 1,436,986 | 3.68 | 11/29/2013 |
| 43 | Page Links To | 1,389,587 | 4.19 | 7/15/2013 |
| 44 | Acunetix WP Security | 1,351,695 | 3.38 | 11/6/2013 |
| 45 | Simple Tags | 1,325,033 | 3.38 | 7/5/2013 |
| 46 | Breadcrumb NavXT | 1,284,270 | 4.52 | 1/1/2014 |
| 47 | Viper's Video Quicktags | 1,283,334 | 3.78 | 1/10/2013 |
| 48 | SEO Ultimate | 1,262,386 | 4.21 | 3/19/2014 |
| 49 | Social Media Widget | 1,235,276 | 4.07 | 4/11/2013 |
| 50 | Xhanch – My Twitter | 1,225,796 | 4.35 | 10/9/2013 |
| 51 | Disqus Comment System | 1,208,434 | 4.07 | 1/4/2013 |
| 52 | BackWPup Free – WordPress Backup Plugin | 1,202,529 | 4.30 | 2/27/2014 |
| 53 | SEO Friendly Images | 1,193,660 | 4.00 | 1/3/2014 |
| 54 | bbPress | 1,162,619 | 4.33 | 1/11/2014 |
| 55 | Twitter Tools | 1,146,127 | 3.46 | 12/30/2013 |
| 56 | qTranslate | 1,129,663 | 3.73 | 1/26/2014 |
| 57 | WP-PostViews | 1,112,729 | 4.17 | 3/4/2014 |
| 58 | Regenerate Thumbnails | 1,090,971 | 4.52 | 12/15/2012 |
| 59 | WP Maintenance Mode | 1,078,095 | 4.38 | 7/25/2013 |
| 60 | BulletProof Security | 1,067,478 | 4.76 | 3/3/2014 |
| 61 | User Role Editor | 1,062,969 | 4.24 | 2/15/2014 |
| 62 | Image Widget | 1,023,959 | 4.76 | 7/26/2013 |
| 63 | WordPress Related Posts | 1,021,788 | 4.02 | 2/26/2014 |
| 64 | Lightbox Plus ColorBox | 1,005,646 | 4.25 | 2/4/2013 |
| 65 | WP-DBManager | 991,228 | 3.97 | 1/14/2014 |
| 66 | WP-PostRatings | 981,845 | 3.94 | 11/29/2013 |
| 67 | Grand Flagallery – Photo Gallery Plugin | 979,594 | 4.30 | 3/22/2014 |
| 68 | WP Photo Album Plus | 979,379 | 4.36 | 3/23/2014 |
| 69 | Acunetix Secure WordPress | 948,627 | 3.95 | 9/11/2013 |
| 70 | Platinum SEO Pack | 943,426 | 4.13 | 9/12/2013 |
| 71 | BackUpWordPress | 939,986 | 4.57 | 3/17/2014 |
| 72 | Newsletter | 936,207 | 4.56 | 3/22/2014 |
| 73 | Cincopa | 924,840 | 3.45 | 2/19/2014 |
| 74 | Maintenance Mode | 921,107 | 3.91 | 10/27/2010 |
| 75 | podPress | 909,351 | 3.27 | 3/19/2013 |
| 76 | Twitter Widget Pro | 903,847 | 3.81 | 9/18/2013 |
| 77 | NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster | 893,590 | 4.38 | 3/12/2014 |
| 78 | Exclude Pages | 887,368 | 4.03 | 6/13/2012 |
| 79 | MailPoet Newsletters | 882,564 | 4.90 | 3/19/2014 |
| 80 | SEO Smart Links | 855,791 | 3.76 | 3/7/2014 |
| 81 | Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons | 846,669 | 3.36 | 3/24/2014 |
| 82 | WP-Cumulus | 833,299 | 3.79 | 11/7/2012 |
| 83 | Events Manager | 830,557 | 4.25 | 12/21/2013 |
| 84 | Google Analytics | 828,864 | 3.98 | 1/28/2013 |
| 85 | Digg Digg | 826,545 | 3.47 | 7/2/2013 |
| 86 | Pretty Link Lite | 810,405 | 4.15 | 12/9/2013 |
| 87 | WP-Optimize | 807,505 | 4.58 | 1/8/2014 |
| 88 | Gallery | 806,378 | 4.52 | 3/5/2014 |
| 89 | WP SlimStat | 800,969 | 4.81 | 3/11/2014 |
| 90 | WP Smush.it | 799,807 | 4.20 | 2/13/2014 |
| 91 | Theme My Login | 794,470 | 4.04 | 12/23/2013 |
| 92 | CommentLuv | 791,146 | 4.32 | 1/14/2014 |
| 93 | Page Flip Image Gallery | 775,968 | 4.02 | 2/27/2014 |
| 94 | The Events Calendar | 772,292 | 4.06 | 1/25/2014 |
| 95 | Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu | 757,466 | 4.55 | 8/25/2013 |
| 96 | WP Multibyte Patch | 757,421 | 5.00 | 12/16/2013 |
| 97 | WordPress Backup to Dropbox | 755,351 | 3.90 | 2/1/2014 |
| 98 | FeedWordPress | 746,863 | 3.72 | 5/4/2013 |
| 99 | Widget Logic | 745,047 | 4.27 | 2/1/2014 |
| 100 | Audio Player |
Maggie Hibma
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