8 Of The most beneficial Plugins For WordPress

WordPress are awesome tool, I use it on so many websites, I truly would live at a loss without it, but what one of the things that makes it so great is the over whelming amount of plugins that are usable. If there's something you need to do in WordPress, there's usually a plugin to assist you do it.

SEO Ultimate - I guess this plugin deserves more recognition than it's gotten up until today. I've never seen a plugin with so much a massive range of features, this acts everything that platinum SEO and All In One SEO, also puts in the functionality found inside SEO Smart associates and a number of other plugins it is basically the swiss army knife of WordPress plugins. Some cases of its extra features include; code inserter (for use with adding Google Analytics, Adsense segment targeting etc) Webmaster verification assistant, Link Mask Generator, Robots.txt editor program and there's even an alternative for exporting your SEO Ultimate settings to a data file so you can import afterward or use on different blog whenever you need to, along on support for importing post meta data from All In One SEO - and there's more, easily worth checking over.

W3 Total Cache Plugin - This plugin when fully configured can give at least 10x improvement in overall web site performance and afford you up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify and HTTP compression of HTML. In A/B testing this great WordPress Plugin beats other optimization plugins like WP Super Cache hands down in terms of page load time, and not only that but it's Amazon S3 integrating. This plugin is so beneficial at carrying out optimization that it is trusted by web site* such as mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com and many others.

Cbnet Ping Optimizer - inside your WordPress admin board, if you click on the writing option inside the settings tab, you'll see at the bottom a section called Update Services, now for each one time you publish a post or update a post WordPress will ping the sites in this list. So if you update an post frequently, some of these services might blacklist your web site, this handy plugin stops WordPress by pinging these services once you edit a post, but permits it to ping them when you first add the post, moving out the possibility of being blacklisted as a spammer on those services.

TinyMCE Advanced - WordPress applies the standard version of TinyMCE as its WYSIWYG editor, this is the advance version that will add 17 plugins to TinyMCE. These include: Advanced HR, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Advanced List, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Embed Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.

WPtouch - Once this WordPress plugin is installed and activated it will transform your blog into an iPhone application-style theme when it is viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and Blackberry Storm/Torch mobile devices. With web browsing via mobile devices this is an highly important plugin to apply, because it will provide fast and user-friendly browsing from the mobile devices mentioned and this will not impact your desktop theme in anyway. On top of that you are able to customise various aspects of its appearance inside the admin panel and it will also display ads from Google Adsense which is very handy.

Maintenance Mode - This nifty plugin will bring a splash page to your blog to allow its visitors know that your WordPress blog is down for maintenance, it will also inform the visitor when the site will be accessible. The message is totally customisable and logged in administrators will get full access to the blog including the front-end.