{"id":794,"date":"2012-08-30T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2012-08-30T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:14:44","slug":"the-15-best-wordpress-plugins-to-use-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/the-15-best-wordpress-plugins-to-use-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Best WordPress plugins to use in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons that I\u2019m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn\u2019t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it.<\/p>\n

This list will provide you with 15 of the best WordPress plugins available today. Only the 15 best WordPress plugins have made it while anything less than amazing has been kicked to the street.<\/p>\n

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  1. W3 Total Cache<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This is one of the best WordPress plugins for two reasons.\u00a0 First, it makes your pages load way faster.\u00a0 Second, since it stores static versions of your site, it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason.<\/li>\n
  2. HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple<\/a><\/strong>– Move over All in one SEO. There\u2019s a new guy in town. HeadSpace provides you with the features you need to drive your site to the top.\u00a0 People spend way to much time working on SEO and too little time writing great content.\u00a0 This plugin let\u2019s you put your focus back where it belongs.\u00a0 It takes care of all the SEO work that your blog will need.<\/li>\n
  3. Gravity Forms<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This is without question the best WordPress plugin for forms. There is no competition. This form creates posts, allows image and media uploads, allows conditional logic, and so much more. It is the all-in-one form plugin for WordPress.<\/li>\n
  4. MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This WordPress plugin is amazing as it massively cuts down on the amount of time it takes to promote affiliate products throughout your site. It converts keywords that you identify, tracks clicks, and much more. You won\u2019t have to keep chasing down your affiliate links when they\u2019re all stored in your WordPress dashboard and doing the work for you.<\/li>\n
  5. WP-DBManager<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it\u2019s most impressive feature is it\u2019s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.<\/li>\n
  6. Thank Me Later<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 This plugin is great.\u00a0 It sends an email to all first-time visitors.\u00a0 You can write up the email to remind them about your RSS feed or just to invite them to connect with you personally.\u00a0 I do both.<\/li>\n
  7. WP-PageNavi<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Those \u2018Older Posts\u2019 and \u2018Newer Posts\u2019 links are boring.\u00a0 With WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever page they want.\u00a0 Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.<\/li>\n
  8. SEO Smart Links<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Do you inter-link your articles?\u00a0 You should.\u00a0 Linking within an article to other articles is a great way to build Page Rank throughout your site and it\u2019s a great way to get readers to find your other articles on similar subjects.\u00a0 This plugin will interlink keywords to your other articles for you.<\/li>\n
  9. Digg Digg Social Sharing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 This simply WordPress plugin is what powers the floating social icons to the left of each post here at Site Sketch 101. With an easy to access Twitter icon, your friends and readers will be able to easily share and promote your content.<\/li>\n
  10. Feedburner Circulation<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The era of the feedburner chicklets are over. Install the Feedburner Circulation WordPress plugin and you\u2019ll be able to display your subscriber count just as you see in the top right corner of this page.<\/li>\n
  11. Revision Control<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 With the revisions feature of WordPress, it doesn\u2019t take long for your database to get bloated and begin slowing down your site. With the Revision Control WordPress Plugin you can limit the number of post revisions that remain in storage. I have mine set to 2.<\/li>\n
  12. Tweet Old Post<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 If you\u2019ve been engaging and building a community of friends on Twitter, then this WordPress plugin is the perfect way to sprinkle your posts into your tweets. It has options to add hashtags, leading text and more.<\/li>\n
  13. Widget Context<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 With the Widget Context WordPress plugin, you\u2019ll be able to pick and choose which pages you want sidebar widgets to appear on. You can literally create different sidebars for different pages and sections of your site with this.<\/li>\n
  14. WordPress Editorial Calendar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 This plugin provides a crisp, clean editorial calendar of your posts both past and present. You can drag and drop articles from one date to another, edit them and much more. This is an amazing organizational tool.<\/li>\n
  15. Pop Up Domination<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Popup Domination is the absolute best WordPress plugin in existence today for capturing leads. It\u2019s loaded with different themes and theme option to match the look and feel of your site and I\u2019m telling you that there are absolutely no popup software available that compares to the style and effectiveness of Popup Domination.Special Note:<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t like popups, but I can\u2019t argue with how incredibly effective this one is for rapidly building a massive list. If you\u2019re going to use one then\u00a0popup domination<\/a>\u00a0is the best WordPress plugin in the industry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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