28
Inspirational
Wordpress
Plugins

Making website management really easy in 2015

The divine world of WordPress consists of
34,541
PLUGINS &
782,249,789
DOWNLOADS
as of
November 2014
.

That's huge! And so, with
2015
approaching near, its high time
you should consider developing a site using WordPress.

If you ask why only WordPress ? Well, it leads the CMS market with huge pie of 61%

Wordpress Pie Chart- Webby Monks
  • WordPress
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  • Magento
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If you decide to take pious bath with WordPress, here’s the rundown of most popular plugins to be chanted in 2015.

Plugins symbolizing Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks are the ones recommended by Webby Monks.
Wordpress Security - Webby

SECURITY

1

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the
Akismet Web service to see if they look
like spam or not.

2

WordPress Simple Firewall

Not only does it protect your site like a firewall,
but it also offers WordPress login protection, and
comment spam protection.

3

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks Wordfence

Wordfence includes a firewall, anti-virus
scanning, malicious URL scanning and
a very fast caching engine.

Wordpress Security - Webby

SEO/Cache

1

WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin provides
better SEO options for more advanced
SEO experts. So, this will help boosting
the performance of small sites too.

2

W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin will
optimize your WordPress website/blog
by following Google page speed guidelines that will
make your website super-fast.

3

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks All in one SEO pack

All in One SEO Pack WordPress
plugin provides more flexible SEO options in a
single all in one pack.

Social Media

Social Media

1

Shareaholic

Shareaholic is an all-in-one content
amplification and monetization platform,
that includes related content recommendations,
promoted content, social sharing, following,
site monetization apps such as affiliate linking,
and social analytics.

2

Social Media Feather

It is a simple, high-performing social plugin that
keeps the speed up and load times down by not
using JavaScript. The buttons have a clean,
modern look and you can customize the
appearance with social icons skin.

3

AddThis Share Buttons

This plugin lets you integrate with more than
330 social platforms and bookmarking sites,
as well as email sharing.

4

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks ShareThis

ShareThis is one of the popular social media plugins
for WordPress that’s been
downloaded more than 1.5 million times.

Contact Forms & Comments

Contact Forms & Comments

1

Jetpack Contact Form

You can add a contact form to any page or post,
add and reorder fields, customize your email notifications,
prevent spam comments, redirect links,
customize the form appearance, including the text for
the submit button.

2

WP Contact Form

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for
users to contact you.

3

Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms allow you to easily create
any type of form you can imagine.
It is used by over 1 million WordPress sites.

4

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks Contact Form 7

Simple, popular and flexible; Contact Form 7
has been downloaded nearly 16 million times by
WordPress website users.

5

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks Disqus

It loads fast and it has a very intuitive interface.
For follow-up comments, it allows email notifications.
Your readers can log in and comment using their
social networking accounts like Facebook and
Twitter and it also offers support for
mobile devices and other blogging platforms.

Wordpress Statistics

Statistics

1

Google Analytics

Google Analytics plugin by WordPress
allows you to track your blog through
its tracking code which is fast and reliable.
It also allows automatic tracking of outbound
clicks and page views.

2

WP Stats Dashboard

Display your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic,
social engagement and social influence directly in
your dashboard. See how you’re ranking on Alexa,
check out your Technorati authority, monitor your
ranking across multiple sites and much more.
Once you install this plugin you’ll wonder how you ever
managed to track your social media worth without it.

3

Jetpack

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges
your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome
cloud power of WordPress.com.

4

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator, a plugin that displays
Google Analytics right into the dashboard.

Smooth Slider

Sliders

1

Smooth Slider

Smooth slider adds smooth content and
image slideshow with customizable background
and slide intervals to any location of your blog.

2

Wow Slider

Add beautiful image slider to your WordPress.
It provides awesome effects, fancy templates,
point and click wizard, pure CSS fallback and
so much more.

3

Wordfence Thumb- Webby Monks Meta Slider

Meta Slider provides 4 slider options like Nivo slider,
Flex slider, Coin slider and Responsive slider.

Backup

Backup

1

BackWPup

This plugin allows you to easily backup your
WordPress blog and restore previously saved versions.
Simply choose a day, time and
how often you wish to perform your backup.
It’s then automatically send to your Dropbox!

2

WP-DB-Backup

With more than 2 Million downloads,
WP-DB-Backup is one of the most popular
WordPress backup plugins.

3

VaultPress

Setting up VaultPress and restoring from
backups is just a matter of clicks. With
some of their packages, they even offer security scans.

Content Management

Content Management

1

Editorial Calendar

Especially designed for blogs, this calendar plugin
lets you zoom out and view the entire month
making it easy to see your schedule,
add post ideas, drafts and more.

2

Content Scheduler

When you write or edit a post, this plugin lets you
specify a future date to review the content.
You can set the scheduler to automatically
take an action you specify on that date,
including unstick a post, change the
post category, change the status to draft,
pending, or private, add or remove tags and
move the post to the trash.

3

Aged Content Message

It displays a message at the top of a single post published
x years ago or earlier, informing about content
that may be outdated.