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Top 10 WordPress Website Plugins You Must Have

Michelle Givens 2/20/13 10:51 PM

Looking for some added functionality for your WordPress website?

Here is our top 10 list of most useful must have WordPress website plugins:

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an extensive, yet easy to use, eCommerce plugin for WordPress. It’s extendability makes it highly flexible and highly capable of meeting any and all of your online shopping cart needs.

upPrev

Keep visitors on your website longer and make your site look like the bigger news sources. The upPrev WordPress plugin pops up a related news article or blog post when your site visitors get to the end of the current article.

TinyMCE Advanced

Make WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor even better with the Tiny MCE Advanced plugin. This WordPress plugin allows you to easily add even more word processor functionality, such as: tables, super scripts, references, etc.

Broken Link Checker

Keep all of the links on your website updated. Easily check all internal and external links on your site with the Broken Link Checker WordPress ;lugin. Never send your visitors to 404 errors, and keep your content current.

wpStickies

Tag photos on your website with text or rich content such as videos. This WordPress ;lugin may cost, but it is definitely powerful.

Akismet

Tired of sorting through spam blog comments? Save your precious time by getting rid of the spam comments all together with the Akismet plugin! You can also remove spam comments currently on your WordPress website. There is a minimal yearly fee with this plugin, but it is well worth it!

WP Smush.it

WordPress Smush.it is a very useful plugin that can reduce the image file size without losing quality. This will make your website load faster allowing your website visitors’ to have a more pleasant experience.

W3 Total Cache

Speed up your site with some simple caching and htaccess edits. W3TC is a great addition to any WordPress website. It does exactly what the author, Frederick Townes, says it will do: “improve user experience and page speed.”

WordPress SEO by Yoast

Looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress? Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin is it! It allows you to control all aspects of meta tags. It even provides feedback when coming up with page titles, meta descriptions, and keywords. This plugin also adds in the Open Graph meta tags to the headers so your website can better integrate with the social graph.

Events Manager

Manage events on your WordPress website easily with the Events Manager plugin. This plugin is very flexible and customizable out of the box. It allows you to enter one time events, recurring events, locations, and can handle event bookings!