WordPress is currently the most popular weblog software in the world since millions of bloggers use it to power up either their blogs or their dynamic websites. One of the reasons why this platform became so successful is because blog owners are able to find a large variety of plugins to extend the functionalities of the core WordPress engine.
Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
What is a WordPress plugin ?
What is a WordPress plugin ?
A WordPress plugin is an application or add-on that improves your blogs functionality and also make your blog easily or automatically manageable. In simple terms, it helps your WordPress business blog do a lot of really cool things.
You see, WordPress is open source software. Meaning, there are tons of smart programmers online creating these cool little WordPress plugins for FREE! There are also “premium” WordPress plugins you have to pay for but for the most part, the free ones do just fine.
There are more than 15000 of WordPress plugins in the WordPress community and new plugins are coming out everyday. However, not all plugins are useful, in fact some are very bad written that will mess up your site or harm your WordPress installation. So how do you know which plugins are right for you? Well, here is a list of plugins that I have used or played around before. Hopefully you will something useful here.
Essential Plugins
Your “brand new” Wordoress website will work “out of box”. Before you finish it completely consider to install some plugins.
Here is the list of essential plugins that every WP website should have: