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Best Of WordPress Database Plugins

Database

Database always works as a backbone of any website but it is important that how it is maintained well over with time. Here you will find the best of WordPress database plugins which will help you take better care of your website.

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions

The plugin is a ‘One Click’ WordPress Database Cleaner / Optimizer.

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WordPress Database Reset

The plugin allows for a secure and easy way to reinitialize the database back to its default settings without having to reinstall WordPress yourself.

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WP Database Optimizer

The plugin lets you schedule database optimization. The user can specify (in days) how long in between automated optimizations.

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Database Browser

The plugin lets you easily query and browse tables in your database, and download in XML, JSON, CSV, SQL and HTML format

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WP Clean Up Optimizer

The plugin will extensively clean up your WordPress database along with Optimizing without manual queries.

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Participants Database

The plugin lets you build and maintain a fully customizable database of participants, members or anything with signup forms, admin backend, custom lists, and CSV support.

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WP Database Backup

The plugin helps you to create Database Backup and Restore Database Backup easily on single click.

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WP-Optimize

The plugin is an extensive WordPress database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to clean and optimize your database tables.

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2015 Best SEO, CRO And Social WordPress Plugins

When someone says that their site is hosted at WordPress, it speaks for itself. You are sure to come across a site that is elegantly laid, sophisticated in its own right and unlike any other you may have encountered on the web. Additionally, the siteoutlay is extremely fluid, easy to use, with just enough icons and options. But to get the combination right can be a bit of a struggle.

WordPress alone plays host to over 74 million websites, these also include some very famous news, fashion and various hobby sites. Now for such a popular platform, it is only justified that you have plugins that takes care of every little detail, leaving you, the webmaster, to choose from over 36 thousand plugins. This, although amazing in every way, can get vey overwhelming, when you have to scan through, for the ones that you would probably and most definitely need.

So when you have such a conundrum, what do you do? Well, there is a simple solution to it – the infographic set up by setupablogtoday.com. The infographic is a great tool for those looking for SEO plugins for WordPress, CRO plugins and Social Plugins. Each category boasts the top plugins, with star ratings and a small description for each plugin, making it extremely easy for you to make the final choice while another cool piece of information that the infographic shares is the popularity of the plugin, in terms of how many people have used it thus far.

So if you are looking to create your blog and are in the need for some help with your plugins, why not try the infographic. The best part about the whole thing  is that its simple and straight forward, giving you the information without you having to read a whole lot of junk or getting bummed by technical jargon. It’s just the information you need in just the right number of words!

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100+ Best Free And Premium WordPress Plugins

With 26,672 plugins available via WordPress respiratory and still counting, finding the best WordPress plugins can sometimes be a hard and time-consuming job. There are a plenty of plugins being created by developers almost every day which are useful in nature and will provide something new which in turn will leads to enhance the Blogging experience. In this article not one, not two, but I have showcased more than 100 of such best available WordPress plugins which will helps you save a lot of your time.

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Article INDEX:

  • Backup Plugins
  • Search Plugins
  • Authentication Plugins
  • PayPal Plugins
  • Anti-Spam Plugins
  • Plugins For AdSense
  • Archive Plugins
  • Membership Plugins
  • Facebook Plugins
  • WooCommerce Plugins
  • Filter Plugins
  • Forum Plugins
  • Contact Form Plugins
  • Dashboard Plugins
  • Portfolio Plugins
  • Post Rating Plugins
  • Data Performance Plugins
  • Typography Plugins
  • SEO And Usability Plugins
  • Slider Plugins
  • Comments Plugins
  • Author Box Plugins
  • Attention-Grabber Plugins

Backup Plugins

1. BackUpWordPress

BackUpWordPress

Using the BackUpWordPress plug-in means you have been opting for keeping the back up of your entire site, including that of your website’s database and all other files on a schedule that you select according to your convenience.

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XCloner – Backup and Restore

Designed for PHP/MySQL websites, XCloner is a Backup and Restore component that can work as a native plug-in for WordPress. The plug-in generate and store the backups, move the backup as well as restore script to the new location and even restore the backup by launching the XCloner.php restore script.

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Online Backup for WordPress

The plug-in provides protection for your WordPress website and their data. It allows you to easily backup your WordPress website with encryption to email, download or free 100 MB secure online storage.

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WP Complete Backup

WP Complete Backup plug-in will backup the WordPress entire database as well as the file system. It is an easy to use, complete backup solution for WordPress. The plug-in offers users the ability to backup both the database as well as complete file system.

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Search Plugins

Search Everything

The Search Everything plugin allows you to search number of elements which would not be included in a default WordPress search tool.

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Better Search

Better Search replaces the default WordPress search engine with a more powerful search engine as the default WordPress search is limited and it doesn’t give you results based on the title or content of the post, but by date. The plugin supports templates for perfect integration into your blog template.

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3. Relevanssi

The Relevanssi plugin replaces the default search with a partial-match search which sorts the results based on relevance. The plugin also indexes comments and shortcode content, allowing you to give better results and better presentation of results.

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WP Search

The WP Search allows you to control the importance you give to both of the titles and the content. The plugin lets you increase relevancy by keeping a focus on titles and content instead of ordering search results by date.

The plugin along with this, allows you to choose to include attachments, revisions, navigation menu items, comments and categories along with wildcard and Boolean operator support.

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Authentication Plugins

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WP Email Login

The plugin will let you use your email address instead of a username to log into your WordPress.

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Membee Login

The plugin will add member authentication and access role management to your WordPress site via Membee’s powerful Member Single Sign-On web service.

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Duo Two-Factor Authentication

The plugin will let you easily add Duo Security two-factor authentication to your WordPress website. Enable two-factor authentication for your admins and/or users.

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Login Security Solution

The plugin lets you get security against brute force attacks by tracking IP, name, password; requiring very strong passwords.

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Peter’s Login Redirect

The plugin redirect users to different locations after logging in and logging out.

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ManageWP Worker

The plugin allows you to remotely manage your WordPress sites from one dashboard.

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Google Authenticator

The plugin gives you two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator app for Android/iPhone/Blackberry.

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WP Login Security 2

The plugin provides enhanced security by requiring users to whitelist their IP address. If the IP address is not recognized, the plugin will send an email to the user with a link that contains a one-time key. Optionally the blog administrator can also be notified.

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PayPal Plugins

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WP PayPal Simple Donation Widget

The plugin allows you to place a PayPal button within your WordPress theme. Choose between 3 standard PayPal buttons or use your own custom button. This great PayPal payment/donation widget will also allow you to put in custom text or html to display before the button within your widget.

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WP Easy PayPal Payment Accept

The plugin is an easy to use WordPress plugin to accept PayPal payment for a service or product or donation in one click

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WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart

The plugin allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button for your product on any posts or pages. This simple shopping cart plugin lets you sell products and services directly from your own WordPress site and turn your WP blog into an ecommerce site.

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PayPal Digital Goods powered by Cleeng

The plugin helps you to make money with your quality content.

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Easy PayPal Custom Fields

The plugin allows you to easily add a PayPal ‘donate’ or ‘buy now’ button to your site.

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Multi Currency PayPal Donations

The plugin allows you to receive PayPal donations through WordPress in multiple currencies with the lowest possible fees.

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PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode

The plugin lets you add a shortcode to display PayPal’s pay now, buy now, donation and add to cart buttons with facility to customize your PayPal checkout page.

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PayPal Framework

The plugin gives you a great framework to use for integrating with PayPal. It stores both live and sandbox API credentials and allows you to switch back and forth easily.

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Anti-Spam Plugins

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Spam Free WordPress

The plugin blocks automated spam with zero false positives.

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Anti-spam

The plugin blocks spam in comments automatically, invisibly for users and for admins.

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WP Anti Spam

The plugin can anti automated spambots or anti spams by “comment”, “ip”, “name”, “email” and “url”.

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Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin

The plugin defeat automated spambots by adding a client side generated checkbox asking the comment author to confirm that they are not a spammer.

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Spammer Blocker

The plugin prevents users from commenting or viewing your website if a comment of theirs has been marked as spam.

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Plugins For AdSense

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Google AdSense

The plugin provides a streamlined interface to deploy Google ads on your blog. You can customize the colors and sizes of the ad blocks and activate them right from the plugin interface.

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AdSense Now!

The plugin is the simplest possible way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. Aiming at simplicity, AdSense Now! does only one thing: it puts your AdSense code in up to three spots in your posts and pages (both existing ones and those yet to be written).

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Google AdSense for Responsive Design

The plugin allows you to easily place responsive (asynchronous optional) Google AdSense in your website’s content via the use of the shortcode [GARD] while custom shortcode option available in GARD Pro.

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Google AdSense Plugin

The plugin allows you to set parameters of the ads displaying, such as format (text ad, image, text with an image or link), size, color of the elements in the ad block, rounded corners and the ad block position on the website.

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Quick Adsense

The plugin offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Adsense or any Ads code into a blog post. Besides, it can randomly place the Ads anywhere within a post. It comes with a simple setting page, and it does not overwhelm you with complicated customizable options.

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WP Simple Adsense Insertion

The plugin is an easy to use WordPress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar.

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Better AdSense Targeting

The plugin will help the ads being displayed be more relevant to the content on your pages.

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Archive Plugins

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Archive

The plugin archive your post types, also possible with cron and list via shortcode on frontend.

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jQuery Archive List Widget

It’s a simple jQuery widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.

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Grid Archives

The plugin offers a grid style archives page for WordPress, just put “[grid_archives]” in your Post or Page to show the grid-style archives.

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EG-Archives

The plugin provides a widget (and a template tag) to display archives in yearly mode, AND monthly, according a specified pivot date.

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Smart Archives Reloaded

The plugin easily display posts grouped by year and month, in one or more elegant formats.

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Membership Plugins

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WordPress eMember

The plugin is a powerful tool which can turn your existing or new WordPress site into a fully featured membership site easily.

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Suma

The plugin is a purpose-built for WordPress and is designed specifically to run membership-based sites. It provides the three functions necessary for a Membership site.

More Info | Price: $29

MemberWing-X

The plugin allows quick and easy building of Powerful, Secure and SEO Optimized Professional Membership Portals.

More Info | Price: $199.95

aMember

The plugin lets you accept subscription payments, manage customer profiles, deliver digital content, integrate with your blog, forum, or CMS, send opt-in newsletters, run your own affiliate program.

More Info | Price: $179.95

Members

The plugin will extend your control over your blog. It’s a user, role, and content management plugin that were created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS.

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s2Member

The plugin suited best for professional WordPress membership management, integrating seamlessly with User Roles & Capabilities for WordPress.

More Info | Price: $69

WP Premium Members + Pre Advertisements admin

The plugin display Premium content to your paying members only as well as manages Pre Post Advertisements. The plugin is designed to work both as a standalone premium membership plugin and it works together and extends the possibilities of the WP Pre Advertisement plugin.

More Info | Demo | Price: $20

WP-Membership Plugin

The plugin helps you sell your content; you only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account. Don’t hesitate and purchase it today.

More Info | Price: $25

Facebook Plugins

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Simple Facebook Connect

The plugin make it easy for your site to use Facebook Connect in a wholly modular way.

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Spider Facebook

The plugin is a WordPress integration tool for Facebook. It includes all the available Facebook social plugins and widgets to be added to your web

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Recent Facebook Posts

The plugin is actually a Widget that lists your recent Facebook page or profile updates / posts. A faster/prettier/more customizable alternative to Facebooks Like Box.

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Facebook Tab Manager

The plugin makes WordPress function as an editor for tabs you can embed in a Facebook page for your business, campaign, or organization.

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Social Facebook All In One

The plugin is a customizable jQuery accordion for WordPress which gathers Facebook social plugins together.

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WooCommerce Plugins

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WooCommerce Dynamic Gallery

The plugin lets you bring your product pages and presentation alive. It brings your store to life with a beautifully stylish sliding image gallery on every product page.

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WooCommerce Facebook Like Share Button

A WooCommerce plugin that implements facebook share and like button on product page with flexible options.

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WooCommerce Cart Tab

The plugin display a sitewide link to the WooCommerce cart which reveals the cart contents on hover.

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YITH WooCommerce Ajax Navigation

The plugin allows you to filter the products in the Shop page without reloading the page.

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WooCommerce Correios

The plugin adds Correios shipping to the WooCommerce plugin

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Import Products from any XML or CSV to WooCommerce

The plugin lets you easily import products from any XML or CSV file to WooCommerce with the WooCommerce add-on for WP All Import.

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WooCommerce – Store Exporter

The plugin export store details out of WooCommerce into a CSV-formatted file.

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WooCommerce Checkout Manager

The plugin manages WooCommerce Checkout

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Filter Plugins

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WordPress Options

The plugin allows you to easily add options to your products, themes or plugins.

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Advanced Post Manager

The plugin allows you to turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of metaboxes.

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WP Hide Post

The plugin enables you to control the visibility of items on your blog by making posts/pages hidden on some parts of your blog, while still visible in other part.

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wpautop control

The plugin allows you to add a global setting to turn the wpautop filter on and off as well as to override this default for any post by adding a wpautop custom field.

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LionScripts: IP Blocker Lite

The plugin allows you to stop the Spam Visitors and malicious IP Addresses. You can block IP addresses by using the manual method or the Bulk IPs Upload method.

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Display Widgets

The plugin simply hide widgets on specified pages as well as add checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page.

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WebPurify Profanity Filter

The plugin with the help of powerful WebPurify Profanity Filter API will allow you to stop profanity in comments.

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Allow HTML in Category Descriptions

The plugin allows you to use unfiltered HTML in your category descriptions by disabling selected WordPress filters.

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CryptX

The plugin hides all your email adresses, with and without a mailto-link, by converting them using javascript or UNICODE.

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IP Filter

The plugin allows you to grant or deny access to a list of IP addresses.

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Forum Plugins

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WP-Forum Latest Posts

The plugin will list the latest posts from your WP-Forum although there are some option to customize the output and others.

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Forum Restrict

The plugin allows restricting forums to certain users.

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Vanilla Forums

The plugin integrates Vanilla Forums with WordPress, including embedded blog comments, embedded forum, single sign on, and WordPress widgets.

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WP-United: phpBB WordPress Integration

The plugin integrates phpBB and WordPress to make a social site. It lets you enable any of these modules: sign-on, theming, widgets, cross-posting and behaviour.

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BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts

The plugin allows users to rate forum posts in BuddyPress. Good posts are highlighted and poor posts diminished. Highlighted karma points shown for each user. It only works with forums for groups; not compatible with site wide forums.

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bbPress

bbPress is forum software, which have been made the WordPress way.

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bublaa forum and comments

The plugin embed a bublaa forum into your site and replace your comment system with bublaa comments (optional).

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U BuddyPress Forum Editor

The plugin is a tinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML editor for BuddyPress Forum.

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Threader

The plugin utilizes the regular WordPress comments to create a very simple guestbook, or a more elaborate (but still very simple) forum.

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Q&A by Degree3

The plugin lets you add social Q&A to improve user retention, generate content, and engage your users throughout your site.

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WP Bulletin Board

The plugin is an easy to use forum for your WordPress site which features Facebook authentication, support for displaying your twitter account on your forum which your members can follow and much more.

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Contact Form Plugins

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Fast Secure Contact Form

The plugin allows you to easily create and add contact forms to your WordPress site. The contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin as well also send a meeting request to talk over phone or video.

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Contact Form by ContactUs.com

The plugin offers an end-to-end contact form system for websites to capture and manage inquiries.

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Gravity Form

Gravity Form is a paid service (starts $39) if you need a form but the features, including Visual form editor, multi-page forms, order forms, conditional fields on offer are amazing.

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Popup contact form

The plugin allows user to create and add the popup contact forms easily on the website. That popup contact form let user to send the emails to site admin.

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Simple Basic Contact Form

The plugin is a clean, secure, plug-n-play contact form. It comes with an easy to set up and style as per your theme.

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CP Contact Form with PayPal

The plugin is a perfect option for those who want to have contact information and payment option avail in one single go. With this plugin you can insert a contact form into a WordPress website and connect it to a PayPal payment.

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Contact Form 7

One of the best contact form plugin out there. The plugin allows you to manage multiple contact forms, along with giving you an option to customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and more.

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Contact Form to Email

The plugin sends the data to email and also to a database list and CSV file.

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Contact Manager

The plugin allows you to create and manage your contact forms and messages.

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WordPress Contacts

The plugin helps you to display information about the group of people more intelligible, effective and convenient.

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Dashboard Plugins

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WP Admin UI Customize

The first thing which makes you tangled most of the time on keep seeing the same old dashboard.  Using the plugin will lets you customize the management screen user interface, which includes dashboard, display option tab, output meta site, admin bar, admin menu, management of meta box as well as login screen.

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WP-UserLogin

The plugin will add a UserLogin Widget to display login form or dashboard links depending on user role.

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Super CAPTCHA Security Suite – One and Only 3D CAPTCHA

The plugin uses a clear, non-distorted, easy-to-read image that requires reasoning and deducing skills that only humans possess. It secures your site by an image that forces the user to use reasoning and deduction; impossible tasks for bots.

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Usernoise modal feedback / contact form

Responsive in nature (for users having WordPress 3.5+ version), the plugin is a “just works” modal contact / feedback form.

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Google Analytics Dashboard

The plugin gives you the ability to view your Google Analytics data in your WordPress dashboard. Moreover, you can also allow other users to see the same dashboard information when they are logged in or embed parts of the data into posts or as part of your theme.

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Google Analytics Dashboard for WP

The plugin will display Google Analytics data and statistics inside your WordPress Blog.

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Peter’s Login Redirect

The plugin redirect users to different locations after logging in and logging out.

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Portfolio Plugins

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Filterable jQuery Portfolio Plugin

The plugin lets you transform your portfolio in to a cutting edge jQuery powered gallery that lets you feature and sort your work like a pro.

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Simple Portfolio

The plugin allows you to easily manage your portfolio. You can append snippets, YouTube and media from the built-in Media Library to projects.

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Portfolio

The plugin allows you to create a page containing the information about your past projects.

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One Page Portfolio

The plugin made it easy to create one page portfolio using pinterest-like style.

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Awesome Filterable Portfolio

The plugin lets you create a very modern and outstanding portfolio.

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Post Rating Plugins

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kk Star Ratings

The plugin allows blog visitors to involve and interact more effectively with your website by rating posts. The plugin will display a user defined amount of star ratings in your posts/pages. It supports Google Rich Snippets with the ratings will get indexed in Google search.

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Polldaddy Polls & Ratings

The plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard by letting you create polls with an option to choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in.

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Comment Rating Field Plugin

The plugin will add a 5-star rating field to the end of a comment form in WordPress, allowing the site visitor to optionally submit a rating along with their comment.

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Rate This Page Plugin

The plugin allows registered user and visitor to rate an article posts or pages. Using cookies, the plugin stores a session if a guest user rates certain posts or pages and it uses AJAX to store the rating information.

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GD Star Rating

The plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings.

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Review Ratings

The plugin allows you to easily insert star ratings for your movie or book reviews.

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Data Performance Plugins

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Plugins Garbage Collector

The plugin scans your WordPress database and shows the various things old plugins (which you either deactivated or uninstalled) left in it. You do even cleanup the things also as the plugin brings an option for that too.

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Database Browser

There are often the times when you require checking some WordPress database tables, but you don’t have an access to PHPMyAdmin available. At such time, the plugin will help you out as you can easily query your data and export it in HTML, XML, CSV and JSON formats with a simple plugin.

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Contact Form DB

The plugin saves contact form submissions to your WordPress database and provides short codes in return to retrieve and display the data. The data you get saved from Contact Form 7 and Fast Secure Contact Form.

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WP-DBManager

The plugin allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. It also supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.

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User Meta Manager

The plugin lets you add, edit, or delete user Meta data with this handy plugin. It also easily restricts access or inserts user Meta data into posts or pages.

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WP Migrate DB

The plugin allows you to exports your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, then allows you to save it to your computer.

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WordPress Database Reset

The plugin is a secure and easy way to reinitialize the WordPress database to its default settings.

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Typography Plugins

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Typecase Web Fonts

Typecase Web Fonts is a unique and easy-to-use typography plugin which allows you to quickly browse, find and select fonts to apply to your website. It embeds over 500 fonts from Google Web Fonts.

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WP-Cufon

The plugin allows you to easily implement Cufon into your WordPress blog with all you have to take care of is that you would be converting your fontfiles and upload them into the plugins font directory.

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WP Google Fonts

The WP Google Fonts plugin allows you to easily add fonts from the Google Font Directory to your WordPress theme. The plugin even make it easier for you to use Google’s free service so as to add high quality fonts to your WordPress powered site.

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AnyFont

AnyFont allows you to automatically set any custom TrueType or OpenType font absolutely anywhere you want on your WordPress site. You can easily embed your custom fonts directly into your web pages using the new “@font-face” CSS rule.

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WP Super Edit

WP Super Edit plugin adds a host of WYSIWVG options to the standard WP visual editor. The plugin adds two full rows of additional features to your visual editor toolbar, including options for applying specific styles and for adding and formatting tables.

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SEO And Usability Plugins

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WordPress SEO by Yoast

The plugin lets you improve your WordPress SEO by having a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. The plugin is one of the best WordPress plugin ever created.

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Simple URLs

The plugin works as a complete URL management system which allows you to create, manage and track outbound links from your site by using custom post types and 301 redirects.

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Widget Logic

The plugin works as an extra backbone for every widget in use, giving an extra control field called as the “Widget logic.” The plugin lets you control the pages which the widget will appear on; letting you use WP’s Conditional Tags or any general PHP code.

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RB Internal Links

Although the plugin has not been maintained from over 2 years now, but still it’s worth a shot to try and use for your WordPress site. The plugin lets you link to posts and pages within your blog using shortcodes, which are similar to a wiki or a CMS with a best part is not to remember full URLs, post ids or slugs with the WYSIWYG.

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Slider Plugins

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Promotion Slider

Promotion slider is a jQuery slider which makes it easy to insert a simple slideshow or to implement multiple rotating ad zones on a webpage. Since it is highly customizable, you are in complete control of what shows on the slider, what shows on your promotion pages and over the top on how it all works.

Moreover, when you click on the image displays in the slider and when a user clicks on the image, they will be taken to the full promotion page. The plugin is designed with keeping SEO in mind gives an additional positive effect into in it. You can integrate the slider anywhere you like in your WordPress blog.

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SlideDeck 2

The plugin is a responsive slider plugin which allows you to easily create content sliders out of almost any content. You can connect to a variety of Content Sources like YouTube, Flickr, WordPress posts and Pinterest to create gorgeous, dynamic sliders in a few clicks with the best pros is that no coding is required.

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WP Parallax Content Slider

WP Parallax Content Slider is a plugin which adds automatically a content slider of your last posts where you want on your WordPress blog or website. It includes a customizable JQuery content slider with CSS3 animations and parallax effects.

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Smooth Slider

The plugin creates a dynamic slideshow for featured posts on a blog. The slideshow are JavaScript and Text based, which lets bloggers and site owners to get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are easily readable by Search Engine.

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Comments Plugins

In-Context Comment

The plugin lets readers leave comments right next to the content being commented, instead of only at the bottom of the blog post.

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Comment Timeout

This plugin extends the comment closing functionality in WordPress to allow you to extend the discussion time when older posts have recent comments accepted, or to override the comment closing time on a post by post basis.

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IntenseDebate Comments

The plugin enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. It will let you build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

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Comment Guestbook

The plugin will let you add a guestbook site which uses the WordPress integrated comments.

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Safe Report Comments

This plugin gives your visitors the possibility to report a comment as inappropriate. Once a threshold is reached the comment is put into moderation where the moderator can decide whether or not to approve the comment or not. If a comment is approved by a moderator it will not be auto-moderated again while still counting the amount of reports.

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Quote Comments

This plugin adds a tiny link that says “Quote” on each comment on your posts. Click it, and the contents of the comment are copied to the comment area, wrapped in blockquote tags.

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WP Ajax Edit Comments

Ajax Edit Comments allows users to edit their own comments for a limited time. Administrators can edit all comments on the front-end.

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WP Comments Manager

The plugin will let you manage your WordPress based blogs comments on the go from your Windows Phone 7 and get notifications on every new comment anywhere you are. Approve, unapprove, mark as spam, edit, delete, trash or just reply to comments right from your pocket.

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Livefyre Comments 3

Livefyre Comments 3 replaces your default comments with real-time conversations. Comments 3 centralizes conversations from around the social web back to your site, and encourage engagement between readers on your site to build community around your content.

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SEO Facebook Comment

This plugin will insert a Facebook Comment Form, Open Graph Tags and also insert all Facebook Comments into your WordPress Database for better SEO.

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Social Comments

This plugin adds Google Plus Comments system, Facebook comments and / or Disqus Comments to your site.

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Facebook Comments

It is a social plugin that enables facebook user commenting on your site. Features include moderation tools and distribution.

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Google+ Comments for WordPress

Google+ Comments for WordPress makes the comment section tabbed seamlessly adding tabs for G+ Comments, Facebook, Disqus, WordPress, & More

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Comment Images

Comment Images gives readers the ability to upload an image to their comment right from the comment form.

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Author Box Plugins

Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

The plugin will give an identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website. It will make your every post stand out and attract your readers’ eyes.

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DT Author Box

DT Author Box easily allows you to add an author box signature with custom profile image to the end of each author’s posts along with website and twitter link.

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Social Author Bio

Social Author Bio adds an author bio box with the author’s avatar with built-in and custom social icons on pages/posts.

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Attention-Grabber Plugins

Special Text Boxes

Adding a little style sheet file and a short code to your blog for highlighting some portion of text in post as colored boxes will make your readers’ aware that there is something extra special on board. This may be a warning, an alert, a message or a downloaded portion of post’s text.

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WP Alert

WP Alert plugin allows you to add images, icons, texts and links in a beautiful and smart way on your pages, posts. All you have to do is upload your images, set text and links and use it on homepage, pages or posts, anywhere you want. Moreover, you can even use it in a navigation or sub-menu Social tool bar, Buy/Download buttons, portfolio and image gallery. The plugin allows you to write your own text, link images and text anywhere.

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Responsive Attention Box

The plugin helps push important messages onto the screen in front of your users. It uses images and jQuery which have been used to enhance the User Experience. It allows you to easily display custom texts, Twitter posts, RSS feeds etc.

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EMC2 Alert Boxes

EMC2 Alert Boxes plugin uses jQuery and HTML5 animations to provide a great-looking, simple and functional alerting system. It makes a great way to notify your visitors of anything plus offer four different colors and will both fixed top and bottom positions.

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Most Downloaded WordPress Plugins

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Finalizing your WordPress theme, done with checking on all the development and designing stuffs, almost in process to knock now the final door but oops, wait something still missing. You haven’t installed the plugins yet. The question here strikes top your head that among the 26,205 plugins available with WordPress, which one you choose? Well, to help you out here and to give answer to your this question, I had compiled a list containing all the most downloaded WordPress plugins. These plugins – in actual – are the core plugins which every WordPress blog or website requires at first place.

Akismet

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

Downloads: 15,883,148 | More Info | Download

All in One SEO Pack

The plugin automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

Downloads: 15,021,171 | More Info | Download

WordPress SEO by Yoast

The plugin lets you improve your WordPress SEO. It lets you write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site.

Downloads: 5,572,278 | More Info | Download

Jetpack by WordPress.com

The plugin supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Downloads: 6,127,523 | More Info | Download

WooCommerce

The plugin is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything.

Downloads: 1,223,064 | More Info | Download

WordPress Importer

The plugin will import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

Downloads: 5,240,704 | More Info | Download

NextGEN Gallery

The plugin provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import Meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more.

Downloads: 7,682,049 | More Info | Download

Google XML Sitemaps

The plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.

Downloads: 10,560,055 | More Info | Download

Better WP Security

The plugin is an easiest, most effective way to secure WordPress. Improve the security of any WordPress site in seconds.

Downloads: 934,663 | More Info | Download

Wordfence Security

The plugin is a free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, anti-virus scanning, cellphone sign-in (two factor authentication), malicious URL scanning and live traffic including crawlers. The plugin can verify and repair your core, theme and plugin files, even if you don’t have backups.

Downloads: 675,348 | More Info | Download

Captcha

The plugin allows you to implement super security captcha form into web forms.

Downloads: 795,781 | More Info | Download

Fast Secure Contact Form

A super customizable contact form that lets your visitors send you email. The form blocks all automated spammers.

Downloads: 3,823,059 | More Info | Download

Contact Form 7

The plugin can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and more.

Downloads: 11,932,701 | More Info | Download

ShareThis

The plugin will let you social charge your content and include features Social Analytics, CopyNShare, Open Graph Sharing, and the Hovering Bar.

Downloads: 1,397,350 | More Info | Download

Ultimate TinyMCE

The plugin beefs up your visual tinymce editor with a plethora of advanced options.

Downloads: 1,656,993 | More Info | Download

Contact Form

The plugin will add Contact Form to your WordPress website.

Downloads: 1,043,753 | More Info | Download

WP Super Cache

The plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

Downloads: 4,798,360 | More Info | Download

Suggested Reading: WP Super Cache Vs W3 Total Cache – Which One You Choose?

W3 Total Cache

The plugin designed to improve user experience and page speed with having an easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching your browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.

Downloads: 2,436,836 | More Info | Download

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7 Best Free Author Box WordPress Plugins

Over the couple of years, using the Author Box plugins for WordPress sites have become an important requirement. In fact, it’s not only just meant for publicizing the thing but also to make aware the reader that who is the real face behind the post.

It is certainly quite possible that you are not using a WordPress theme which includes the functionality pre-installed into in it. The author box although brings in a short bio, author picture, links to all their posts as well as social media links, means the box will serves as a greater purpose resource.

With this article, I showcased seven of best free author box WordPress plugins.

Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

The plugin will give an identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website. It will make your every post stand out and attract your readers’ eyes.

Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

Key Features:

  • Show in posts (above, below, both, none)
  • Show in pages (above, below, both, none)
  • Show in custom post types (above, bellow, both, none)
  • Bio – This is a standard author bio description. It uses your Gravatar image and alows you to put social profile icons
  • Latest Posts – Shows number of latest posts you specify and dates

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DT Author Box

DT Author Box easily allows you to add an author box signature with custom profile image to the end of each author’s posts along with website and twitter link.

Key Features:

  • Great for those having multiple authors on a WordPress site and want to show author information at the bottom of every post.
  • Includes an image, a short bio, an author’s website link and the author’s Twitter.
  • Author can upload their own avatar profile image directly.

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WP Biographia

The plugin allows you to add a customisable biography to posts, to RSS feeds, to pages, to archives and to each post on your blog’s landing page as well as via a widget in your sidebar.

WP Biographia

Key Features:

  • Choose when to display a Biography Box; on the front page, in archives, on individual posts, pages, or any other custom post type and in RSS feeds.
  • Choose the border style and background colour of the Biography Box
  • Choose the amount of user profile information displayed in the Biography Box
  • Choose the avatar image size
  • Choose to display the Biography Box at the top or the bottom of content (universally)
  • Choose to hide the display of the Biography Box for pages, posts and posts/pages on a per user basis
  • Choose whether to display the Biography Box in the sidebar of your blog.

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Social Author Bio

Social Author Bio adds an author bio box with the author’s avatar with built-in and custom social icons on pages/posts.

Social Author Bio

Key Features:

  • Fully integrated Google+ authorship (shows Google+ Avatar in search results)
  • Added custom field (check box) on edit screen providing the ability to disable of author box on individual pages/posts
  • New shortcode [social_bio_icons] which displays only the Social Icons
  • Ability to adjust avatar size (admin)
  • Choice of location, top or bottom, for automatic placement of Social Author Bio
  • Number of custom links increased from 5 to 10
  • Added %home% (The home URL) variable to advanced HTML section

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WP About Author

The plugin allows you to easily display customizable author bios below your posts.

Key Features:

  • Three border styles to match any theme
  • Change background color with easy to use color picker
  • Display settings allow you to control when to display author bios
  • Display text links or icons to a users social media profiles

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Author Box After Posts

The plugin allows you to add an author box after your post contents. The box contains author’s avatar, name, post count, site link, description, Email, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Key Features:

  • Add Facebook, Google and Twitter custom fields to User Profile page (URLs are nofollow)
  • [who has written 100 post] link to the author page with rel=”author”, you just need to link back to the author page on your Google Profile Page to make your authorship information to appear in search results for the content you create. Learn more:http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
  • Customize the style by editing the authorboxafterposts.css file

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Author Box Plugin With Different Description

This Plugin will add an author box to your post contents. The box contains author’s avatar, name, post count, site link, description, Email, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Linkedin. It also gives a flexibility to add different description for the same author according to the post.

Author Box Plugin With Different Description

Key Features:

  • Supports custom description to your post and pages, with the custom field author_desc. Default author description is from user profile but if custom field is there it will display the author description from custom field.
  • Add Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Youtube, Pinterest and Twitter custom fields to User Profile page (URLs are nofollow).
  • Gives you an option to select the contact fields for the user profiles from admin panel.
  • Select where you want to show the author box, on the top of the page or at bottom.
  • Support for custom CSS, so you can customize your author box display. You can stop loading the Author Box CSS and create a custom tags for your author box.
  • [who has written 100 post] link to the author page with rel=”author”, you just need to link back to the author page on your Google Profile Page to make your authorship information to appear in search results for the content you create.
  • Option to show social media profile as an image or text, you can select it from Admin Panel.

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How To Speed Up Your WordPress Website?

WordPress is a great platform – yes, it is – that’s why hundreds of thousands of different websites running on WordPress around the world, but experiencing a slow speed on your WordPress website is common especially when you are using shared hosting. Still what, you do not want it to remain the same. I know you want your site running but what, unless and until you take proper measures in consideration.

Without taking the proper precautions and measures you could be end up with nothing but a sluggish site which will not be a hassle for visitors but also keep them away. You certainly lose your visitors, clients, potential customers as well as subscribers. Even, this is not it, as Google may also penalize your site and throw your site such far that you can’t even able to find on it.

Here is a breakdown on what all you require:

A Solid Framework / Theme

Framework

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The time when you have your WordPress installed, you did notice that you have got two themes pre-installed in it: the Twenty Ten/Twenty Eleven. Now, what makes you surprise is that these both default frameworks aka are the default WP themes are quite speedy framework to use. They are the light frameworks which in turn will let you to have a speedy site.

Secondly, do keep a note that themes are something that either can make or break your WordPress installation. You do want to have something stylish theme install but also remember technical wise it remains simple. Always try to choose themes with fewest possible images and a CSS-based design. You might want to choose a minimalist theme and modify it according to suit your needs. To check on various theme clubs collections, check on the following link.

A Good Web Host

Hosting

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You do often notice while on hosting provider websites that almost every other is offering Unlimited bandwidth, Unlimited storage offer and probably the first thought comes in your mind is WOW!!! It is certainly a jackpot but remember since it’s a shared host, your site would be running on same IP just like other 4099 sites are running.

Selecting the right host means more than just buying internet storage space for your site. A lot of hosting providers offer lucrative discounts from time to time, in which most of them are nothing but to fool you around, so it’s always better to have a check on what you are buying. You do take proper care of bandwidth, processor speed/type, databases allowed, domains allowed, which versions of PHP, MySQL are installed i.e. in short is your hosting provider matching up with WordPress minimum requirements or not.

Our Recommendation is HostGator as they are good both in product wise and customer support, details of which you can check at the following link.

Using A Content Delivery Network

CDN

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You might while researching heard the term “Content Delivery Network,” but still a large number of people either does not know or get confused while understanding it. You won’t be surprised over learning the fact that majority of sites these days using the CDN’s as they help in reducing page load times of your site.

Understanding more, a CDN takes all your static files i.e. CSS, Javascript and images and will serve to your visitors by letting them download in faster possible manner by serving these files on servers which are close to them as possible. Selecting a CDN provider often sounds as a huge decision as there are many CDN’s providers out there. In order to help you out, we have detailed out the list of the entire best content delivery network around the world, details of which you can check here.

Plugins

Plugin

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You often notice in your plugin list that you do have a collection of those plugins that you are either not using or are inactive. Such plugin also take part in lowering your WordPress site speed. It is always advisable or even recommended that you remove all those plugins that you don’t actually using as WordPress loads all of your plugins, including those inactive ones.

You need to take a special care of fact that you would be always running the latest stable release of both WordPress and your plugins. The older version plugins will nothing but slow your website down. You need to have all your plugin upgraded while with WordPress 3.0+, there are a revamped plugin update feature, which allow you to update plugins faster, smoother and easier. It also offers you to have your all the plugins updated in one go.

Optimization

Optimization

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There are three things in your WordPress site that you need to optimized from time-to-time: images (which can be done automatically), your homepage and your WordPress database. For the images, you can use this amazing free plugin called WP-Smushit which will do the optimization process automatically for all your images as soon as you upload them.

For optimization of your homepage, you have to make sure that you show excerpts instead of full posts, reduce the number of posts on the page (better if it would be between 5 and 7), remove all unnecessary sharing widgets from the home page as well as remove all inactive plugins and widgets and always make sure your homepage as minimal.

You can optimize your database by directly using phpMyAdmin by selecting all the tables followed by clicking on “Repair” and then “Optimize.” You can also scan for outdated tables which still making its place even after removing old plugins. If you think you are not technically able to do the job, then there are plugins also available which can help you make a fix in friction of seconds. You can simply use either of these plugins: WP-Optimize, WP-DB Manager, Optimize-DB or WP-DB-Optimizer plugin for optimizing your database.

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