A list of top WordPress plugins that I’ve actually installed & used. Some are popular; some are not – but they are all extremely useful (at least to me)!
| Plugin Name | Rating | Category | No. of Downloads | Personal Exp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breadcrumb NavXT | **** | Blog/Breadcrumb | ||
| Contact Form 7 | *** | Form | 18,418,137 | big No for non-developer |
| Contact Form | **** | Form | 2,232,966 | |
| Google XML Sitemaps | MUST | SEO | ||
| TablePress | **** | BE/Table | ||
| Add this | Social | |||
| Adrotate | **** | Ads | ||
| Advanced Custom Fields | MUST | BE/Custom Fields | ||
| Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram | Social | Excellent! | ||
| Digg Digg | **** | Social | ||
| Disqus Comment System | ***** | Comments | ||
| Horizontal scrolling announcement | Others | |||
| Modal Dialog | Pop-up | |||
| More Fields | BE/Custom Fields | |||
| mTouch Quiz | **** | Quiz | ||
| Post Type Switcher | **** | BE/Blog | ||
| Remove slug from custom post type | **** | BE | ||
| scrolltriggered | Pop-up | |||
| ShareThis | Social | |||
| Soliloquy Lite | **** | Sliders | ||
| Subscribe2 | Subscription | |||
| Tabber Tabs Widget | **** | Widget | ||
| Thank You Counter Button | **** | Social/Likes | ||
| theme-my-login | Login & Reg | |||
| Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget | **** | Widget | ||
| Ultimate TinyMCE / WP EDIT | **** | BE/Editor (Emoticons, etc.) | ||
| User Access Manager | Login & Reg | |||
| Visual Form Builder | **** | Form | 4 everyone!! | |
| W3 Total Cache | MUST | Performance | ||
| Wordpress Popular Posts | **** | Blog | ||
| WordPress SEO by Yoast | **** | SEO | ||
| WP Polls | **** | Blog/Polls | ||
| Yet Another Related Posts Plugin | ***** | Blog | ||
| PhotoDropper | *** | Image | 142,509 | 4 Creative Commons license. Good! |
WP Smush.it | Performance | 883,338 | ||
| WP Migrate DB Pro | Dev | 163,472 | a Must 4 dev | |
| WordPress Backup to Dropbox | 833,180 |
* Number of downloads as per July, 2014
Note:
BE = For Back-end Usage only
MUST = the word already speaks for itself***** [5 start] = Top quality plugins, almost a must for most sites
**** [4 start] = What I’m using but may not necessary for all sites
Let me know if I’ve missed any great plugins! Thanks!!