WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a fairly flexible framework that allows for every user/site owner — with the guidance of a trained developer, of course — to extend the functionality of their website by way of installing plugins. That’s great and all, but the WordPress Plugin repository contains more than 40,000 plugins to start with, so finding the best plugins can be a little daunting. We love discovering and suggesting new plugins to our WordPress userbase, and here are some of the best we’ve found.

Jetpack WordPress Plugins
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com! The plugin supercharges your site with a collection of powerful features, such as site stats, email subscriptions, forms, social networking and more.

Akismet WordPress Plugins
Whether it’s a small personal blog or a large corporate front end, spammers seem to love sneaking in their little useless comments in order to “juice up” the sites they are promoting. 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. In no uncertain terms, this is one plugin no site owner should live without.

W3 Total Cache
Caching is the best way to easily improve your users’ experience without having to make changes to your site’s content. W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. It’s the easiest way to supercharge your site’s performance and allow your server to handle more traffic.

This is just a small sampling of what we think are the most essential plugins for your business. Tune in next time for more tips and suggestions!