10 Free Useful Plugins for Bloggers

10 Useful WordPress

Plugins for Bloggers

Raushan Jaiswal

Founder of Codewing Solutions

Co-founder of Rara Theme

Blogger

PublicSpeakingResources.com

Trekroute.com

Disclaimer

Neither I am associated with any of the plugins

mentioned in this presentation nor I get any benefit

from them by giving presentation about them.

Floating Social BarSocial media sharing plugin

Floating Social BarSocial media sharing plugin

• Floating social media

• Optimized for Speed

• Handful of social network that matters

Drawbacks

• Not good user experience in case of sticky menu

Welcome MatEmail list builder by SumoMe

Welcome MatEmail list builder by SumoMe

• Effective to build email list

• Easy to configure

Drawbacks

• Couldn’t disturb the users

• May increase bounce rate

Yoast SEOSearch Engine Optimization Plugin

Yoast SEOSearch Engine Optimization Plugin

• Add titles and descriptions

• XML Sitemap Creation

• Add Open Graph Meta Data

• Provide SEO suggestions – page analysis

Drawbacks

• Gives unnecessary notifications

StreamTrack content changes

StreamTrack content changes

• Track when changes were made

• Track who made the changes

• Useful for blogs having multiple users/authors

Drawback

• Load on database

Lazy LoadLoad images only when visible to the user

Lazy LoadLoad images only when visible to the user

• Improves page load time and server bandwidth

• Useful to blog having several images

Drawbacks

• Personally experience compatibility issues in few blogs

Google XML SitemapGenerate XML Sitemap

Google XML SitemapGenerate XML Sitemap

• Supports all kind of WordPress generated pages

• Supports custom URLs

• Notifies all major search engine every time new post is

created

Drawbacks

• Could cause performance issues on large websites

• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting.

Example, mediatemple.net, wpengine.com, etc.

Udinra All Image SitemapGenerate Image Sitemap

Udinra All Image SitemapGenerate Image Sitemap

• Automatically creates image sitemap

• Ping Google, Bing and Ask.com

Title Experiments FreeSplit (A/B) test for multiple titles

• Write multiple titles for a post

• Discover which title has more CTR (Click Through Rate)

w3 Total CacheWeb Performance Optimizer using Caching

w3 Total CacheWeb Performance Optimizer using Caching

• More than 5 million downloads!

• Enables caching

• Improve web server performance

• Page speed improve – impact SEO

Drawbacks

• Malware issue

• Broke down some forms created by plugins

• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting

Sucuri SecurityWordPress Security

Sucuri SecurityWordPress Security

• Monitor security

• Offers real time alert

• Malware removal

• Website security scanner

Drawback

• Too many emails

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