10 Powerful and Free WordPress Plugins

February 1, 2012 By 11 Comments

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10 Powerful FREE WordPress Plugins

Download Your FREE WordPress Plugins:

1)    Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

2)    WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

3)    All-in-One SEO Pack

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

4)    SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set.

5)    WP-DB Manager

Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.

6)    Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

7)    Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

8)    Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

9)    Secure WordPress

Secure WordPress beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version and much more.

10) Revision Control

The plugin allows the user to set a site-global setting (Settings -> Revisions) for pages/posts to enable/disable/limit the number of revisions which are saved for the page/post. The user may change this setting on a per-page/post basis from the Revisions Meta box.

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Comments

  1. Franto Hruz says:
    April 16, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    The two Online Marketing WP Plugins I have found to work quite well, are AffiliateZip and the Sales Automator …

    You can include these products in your existing product line AND/OR add your present product line into them so they can be re-sold once you have them installed.

    Here are some examples: http://goo.gl/AuIEL

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  2. czoka says:
    March 7, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    try out tab slide. it allows you to slide your target content in and out of the visible page. you can use it in tandem as a host to a lot of other plugins/widgets

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tab-slide/

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  3. Tony Short says:
    February 5, 2012 at 9:28 am

    Thanks for the good info Jessica. I use to use all-in-one seo but now use Yoast and find it to be much better. Have you tried them before?

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  4. Mark Smith says:
    February 1, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    I find your articles very interesting Jessica and have given me some good ideas for my new business.

    You have included Akismet in your list but it is not free for business use. It is only $5 per month for a single site so still in shoestring range.

    Personally I am using Spam Free WordPress, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spam-free-wordpress/

    I find that it blocks 99.9% of the spam that hits my site.

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  5. Judy Helm Wright aka Auntie Artichoke says:
    February 1, 2012 at 9:27 am

    Hello from Montana,
    Thanks for the list. We are using most of them plus Comment-luv. It is always great to share with other people who are trying to make a living online.

    Looking forward to even more great ideas coming from you. Thanks again.

    Judy H. Wright aka Auntie Artichoke, author and speaker

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  6. Randy Kemp says:
    February 1, 2012 at 7:32 am

    For Akismet, I would recommend running it in conjunction with the Bad Behavior and Cloudflare plug-ins to totally reduce SPAM. I would also recommend running Google Analytics with a plug-in like Google Analytics for WordPress.

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