Quality WordPRess plugins add new functionality or extend existing functionality on your site, allowing you to create virtually any kind of website, from ecommerce stores to portfolios to directory sites. Search Engine Journal contributor Roger Montti has published an article featuring 11 useful WordPress plugins for your websites. He says, “There are many excellent choices for security plugins. Among the choices, three stand out to me as worthy of consideration. 1. Wordfence Wordfence hardens a website against external threats by locking down areas of the site that are commonly exploited... [...]

WordPress core committer Pascal Birchler has published a Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins to celebrate the software’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The table showcases 108 of the most popular free plugins on WordPress.org. He says, “Over 60‘000 WordPress plugins have been contributed to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Millions of websites are powered by these plugins, developed and maintained by an amazing open-source community around the globe. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of WordPress, this table showcases the 108 most popular WordPress plugins in a unique way.” Periodic... [...]

Google loves speed. So does Bing. Slow sites=low rankings in search engines. WP Profiler speeds up your WordPress sites. This new WordPress plugin is the latest tool in the WP Toolkit. Not only do search engines hate slow pages. So do customers. Slow-loading pages send conversions dropping like a rock; they increase your bounce rates; and they cost you more in Pay-Per-Click costs. In fact, Kissmetrics research reports that if your site takes 3+ seconds to load you lose at least 50% of your traffic. If you are unfortunate enough to have 20 second page load times you lose 95%+ of your traffic. They... [...]

WordPress is the most popular content management system as it controls more than 60% of the of the CMS platform market share. You can improve WordPress site performance with right plugins. Quick Sprout‘s Lars Lofgren has shared a list of  best WordPress plugins across 13 most essential categories. Lofgren says, “I’ve already created extensive guides for each one of these 13 categories. Every guide contains a list of the best WordPress plugins in each segment. And if you’re after something specific, you should check out that post — many of plugins I recommend are for particular... [...]

A year ago, Karin Haworth and Dreeick VanDyke released : WP Optins , a plugin that improves the visitor’s optin experience and makes it easier for the webmaster to build the opt-in page. Back then, they described it as “The World’s Easiest Squeeze Page Builder.” But now the easiest just got better. They have added new features, including: * Instant Graphical Headlines (no Photoshop needed) * Point-N-Click Graphics (buttons, bullets, arrows) * Custom Logo, Header and Footer Graphics They aren’t releasing it officially until January 22, but they have a special... [...]

You have heard of their popular plugins and themes. They have sold tens of thousands of copies. Now they have bundled 8 of their best into a special Christmas sale, called 12 Days Of Christmas WP Plugin & Theme Bundle, and it only lasts 12 days. Not only are they including their best products; when the plugin has an upgraded version, in the spirit of the season, you are getting that Pro version, not just the basic version. The 8 products, all of them enhancements to WordPress, are: ► Covert Action Bar Pro lets you add a familiar style of action bar on top of your blog (with the option to... [...]

Jonathan Teng has announced a Warrior Forum Offer of an “Automated Bonus Delivery Plugin”. The plugin automates the process of giving bonuses to purchases made through affiliate links. [WordPress Plugin] […]  [...]

Rosalind says, “I like placing tag clouds on my blogs’ sidebars or footers.Displaying your blog’s tags in cloud format is an easy way to point your visitors to your most popular topics.” [Rosalind Gardner’s Blog] […]  [...]