Lots of bloggers are using WordPress and for good reason. It is the most popular blogging software in use today and one of the biggest reasons is the ability to add functionality through the use of plugins. Plugins can turn your run-of-the-mill blog into a high-powered online tool capable of driving traffic and revenue to your site. Consider using major WordPress plugins on your current WordPress blog or a future blog. You won’t be disappointed. Happy blogging.
7.PageMash
This is a simple WordPress page management plugin. The Ajax interface allows you to drag and drop pages in any order you like, modify the page structure by dragging a page to make it a child or parent, and toggle the page to be hidden from the output. You can also see the page id, which is often useful for theme developers. If you have a WordPress site with more than a handful of pages, PageMash is extremely useful.
6. All in one SEO package
The All in One SEO Pack plugin automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for search engine by letting you adjust things like your page title and meta tags. This plugin is extremely easy to use as it works great right out of the box. If you’re an advanced user, you can customize pretty much everything. And if you are a developer, this plugin has an API so your themes can access and extend the functionality of the plugin.
5. Google XML Sitemaps
Perhaps the most downloaded WordPress plugin, the Google XML Sitemaps plugin not only automatically creates a sitemap with a link to all your pages and posts, but also notifies Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.com when you make changes to your place. If you want to include pages that are part of your site but not part of your WordPress managed content, you can do so.
4. WP Super Cache
If you have a popular WordPress website, you should seriously consider running WordPress Super Cache to improve the performance of your website. If you’re not caching your pages, then every time a visitor lands on your site, WordPress has to gather various pieces of information from a database to put together your page. If you have a high traffic site this can really become a problem. WP Super Cache will store a copy of each of your website’s pages so that after the page has been assembled from the database once, WordPress can rest and continue to serve the static html copy of the page. This can be a bit techy, but the idea is that you can drastically speed up your site and reduce the load on your server by using WP Super Cache. If for no other reason, use this plugin so you don’t have to panic when your friend says, “I just dug your site.”
3. NextGEN Image Gallery
Whether you want to display a photo gallery, display a series of product images, or simply post a slideshow of your most recent vacation, NextGEN Image Gallery is the plugin for you. NextGEN Gallery is a fully integrated image gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Among the many features, NextGEN Gallery includes a thumbnail generator, sortable albums, and a watermark feature.
2. cforms II form supplement
If you are looking for a free form management plugin, cformsII is an extremely powerful plugin for setting up contact forms on your WordPress site. You don’t need to know anything about PHP or write any code. You can create forms visually in the WordPress admin panel. Then navigate to the page or post where you want to use the form and there’s a button in the WYSIWYG editor that you click and a list of forms you’ve created comes up. Just click on the one you want and your form will be inserted on your page. Refresh your page and the form is active. You can specify required fields, default values, and there are plenty of styles to make your form blend seamlessly with your site.
1. Gravity forms
If you want the best forms the WordPress plugin has to offer, you need Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms is an amazing plugin for managing online forms. Some of the incredibly useful features include conditional form fields, which means you can show or hide a field or entire sections of the form based on a selected value in another field. You can pre-populate form fields using a query string, shortcode, function, or hooks. Suppose you want to run a contest where the first 50 people to complete the form win a prize. Gravity Forms allows you to set a limit on the number of entries a form can receive. Just about anything you ever wanted a form to do, Gravity Forms can do it.