The Best WordPress Plugins 2012
WordPress is a wonderful platform that allows many website owners to take control of their websites and customize them. Among the many things that make WordPress great are small programs called plugins. These are teeny programs that, when in
stalled, helps to increase a website’s functionality. Plugins help to ensure that your WordPress blog runs at peak performance and those that allow you to make that happen are the best WordPress plugins 2012.
Among the many plugins available, there are those that can be considered as the best WordPress plugins 2012 as they are destined to be popular due to their functionality. Some of them have been around for some time but they have been improved by their developers and are certain to lead the pack.
Best WordPress Plugins 2012
- WordPress SEO
Among the best WordPress plugins 2012 is WordPress SEO. This unbeatable plugin allows you to optimize your website for search engines. This particular plugin is developed by Joost De Valk who is a legend in the SEO world. The settings can be used to optimize per page and create a lot of other features like XML sitemaps. It forces the user to stay focused on keywords when articles are being written.
- Akismet
This is probably the very best WordPress plugins 2012 when it comes to spam protection. Akismet is the most popular and most effective spam filter in my opinion. And, like WordPress, it is free if used for personal purposes.
- Contact Form 7
One of the most useful of the best WordPress plugins 2012 is Contact Form 7. The plugin allows you to manage several contact forms, customize those forms and the mail contents easily. The plugin supports CAPTCHA, Ajax-powered submitting, spam filtering like Akismet, and many others. So far, this plugin has been downloaded over 5 million times and it is free.
- Cart66
Probably the best WordPress plugins 2012 for e-commerce is Cart66. It is available in two versions; a premium (paid) and a free version.
- Sharedaddy
As social networking sites are more popular now than ever before, there is a need for a plugin that allows you to provide options for your site visitors to share your posts and the best WordPress plugins 2012 to do just that is Sharedaddy. It allows you to configure services in order for them to appear as text, icons, or both. This plugin includes Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Email, Print, and PressThis
- Facebook Page Publish
Because Facebook page is becoming a must for most businesses, being able to publish your blog posts to your Facebook wall, application, or page. The best WordPress plugins 2012 to enable that is Facebook Page Publish. Posts will appear on your wall the same way as when you share a link.
- Feedburner FeedSmith
The best RSS feed manager is probably Feedburner. The best WordPress plugins 2012 to take care of RSS feeds is Feedburner FeedSmith. This plugin allows you to avoid any hardcoding. This plugin will allow you to paste the Feedburner URL in the settings page and everything is set.
- BackupBuddy
It is safe to say that the undisputed best WordPress plugins 2012 for backups is BackupBuddy. It allows you to have automatic database and offsite file backups. Everyone knows that having backups means having peace of mind. The plugin allows you to have backup destinations like Dropbox. FTP, or many others.
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Article by Teddy Triton
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quick cache and seo ultimate are 2 I would add to the list
Look forward to the 2013 version
Have you ever thought of a tutorial on SEO for those that have had little to no experience on this side of it ?
Hi Rob,
We have discussed the idea of doing a full tutorial series on SEO and WordPress. Specifically, doing a tutorial series that focuses on “on page SEO” topics such as…
Those are just a some of the topics we plan to cover in the WordPress SEO tutorial. We hope to have that done in the next couple months so please watch for it.
Thanks for your question and support!
Adam
Look forward to them, as the structure and presentation of the videos i have watched so far are fantastic.
You offer up these videos for free, where other sites would want to charge a monthly fee. And also encourage those following by answering their questions as well.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the encouragement and support Rob!
Adam