>> MOST POPULAR AND POWERFUL WORDPRESS PLUGINS [intro music] >> Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has come a long way from a blogging platform to a powerful and versatile content management systemPlugins further enhance the functionality of WordPress sites by handling functions that WordPress cannot
Now, these are programs or set of functions that can be uploaded to extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress site Let us take a look into some of the most popular WordPress plugins >> WordPress SEO by Yoast [music] >> This plugin offers a complete web optimization solutionThis includes optimization of pages content, images titles, and meta descriptionsIt also helps in the creation of XML sitemaps that support images
The snippet preview gives you an idea of how your page appears in the search page, allowing you to edit the extra long or too short titles and meta-descriptionsThe Page Analysis feature allows you to write meta titles and descriptions for all your category, tag and custom taxonomy archivesThis multi-site compatible plugin comes with a Facebook OpeGraph implementation for social media integration and a premium News SEO module if you need Google News Sitemaps >> Jetpack by Automattic [music] >> This feature filled plugin helps you to manage your WordPress site with easeThe array of services ranges from increasing your traffic, viewing your statistics, improving the speed to providing an overall security
The tools like Related Posts, Publicize, Enhanced Distr bution, and Sharing helps to give you an idea of how many people visit your siteJetpack optimizes and speeds up images using the global WordPresscom content delivery networkIts centralize dashboard allows you to publish posts, manage plugins and themes and view enhanced site statsWhile protecting the site from brute force attacks, it also provides features that make your site bespoke, like Custom CSS, Contact Forms, Galleries and Carousels, Notifications and Subscriptions and Configurable Widgets
>> WooCommerce by WooThemes [music] >> This is a free, powerful WordPress eCommerce plugin enables you to sell anything online in a professional wayIt comes along with a huge catalog of extensions and themes to help you run a successful online storeIts highly configurable shipping lets you choose the various options for free shipping, flat rate shipping, or making real-time calculationsIt allows a hassle free payment options like accepting major credit cards, PayPal, BACS (bank transfers), and cash on deliveryYou can also integrate region specific payment gateways like Stripe, Authorize
Net, and Amazon Payments >> NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati >> With its launch in 2007, NextGEN Gallery is the most powerful gallery plugin availableIts features allow you to build enthralling galleries that can satisfy even the most demanding photographers and visual artistsIt provides two album styles � compact and extended which furthers come with a wide range of options to controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and moreFrom the back end you can upload in batches, import metadata, sort images, edit thumbnails and group galleries into albums
>> W3 Total Cache by W3 Edge >> This plugin improves the user experience and page speed by improving server performance, decreasing the time for download and providing a transparent content delivery network (CDN) integrationIt can also help to improve web server performance during high traffic periods, which is very important for larger websites with high volumes of traffic >> Akismet Anti-Spam Plugin >> Akismet was first created in 2005 by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, and since then it has been successfully removing spam from the blog�s �Comment� section by automatically checking all comments and filtering out the ones that look like spam The plugin determines if the comments are spam or not by running the comment through the Akismet web serviceIt also has a discard feature that completely blocks the worst spam, thus saving you disk space and speeding up your site
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