WordPress is always the better blogging platform for any kind of blogs. Any newbie can work on a WordPress blog at an ease within few hours, need for coding is not a must. If we use other blogging platform namely blogspot, we require a little knowledge of HTML in order to edit templates and add widgets to the blog. But in WordPress downloading & installing the plugins to the blog sums up 99.9% of work load and the remaining 0.1% is setting up the plugin. Out of thousands of plugins there are few outperforming plugins which every WordPress blog should have installed it. Here is the list of outperforming WordPress plugins for the year 2014. Do mention your favorite plugins and help out the other bloggers in the internet world.
Akismet
Akismet keeps away all spam comments from your blog. It checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Rating: 4.1 out of 5
Broken Link Checker
Broken link checker plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found. Reduces manual work load. To configure the plugin or check for broken links, go to Tools —> Broken Links
Rating: 4.1 out of 5
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. Create contact us page for blog, and make it easier for your blog visitors to reach you at ease.
Rating: 4.4 out of 5
Disqus Comment System
The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Fancier Author Box
Give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website with Fancier Author Box – The Only Author Box Plugin You’ll Ever Need.
Rating: 4.46 out of 5
Also Check Out: 10 Best Author Bio Box WordPress Plugins
Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML sitemaps plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. Generated XML sitemap will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Google Analytics By Yoast
The Google Analytics by Yoast plugin for WordPress allows you to track your blog easily and always stays up to date with the newest features in Google Analytics.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Google Publisher Plugin
The official Google Publisher Plugin for AdSense, written by Google. Supported products include AdSense and Webmaster Tools. The best ad-placement plugin to boost up your adsense earnings. The plugin automatically determines potential placements for AdSense ads, suggests an initial ad layout, and gives you control over the placement of ads on your site.
Rating: 4.4 out of 5
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Jetpack plugin supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. It also offers few built-in widgets to make your blog look good and socially applicable.
Rating: 3.9 out of 5
Ready! Backup
Backup your wordpress website to the DropBox, FTP, Local Computer, Email, Amazon S3, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. Protect your website in easy and fast way.
Rating: 3.7 out of 5
W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. The only WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework; designed to improve user experience and page speed.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
WordPress SEO by Yoast
The best WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s SEO and built some good traffic. WordPress SEO by Yoast helps you write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Social Share Button
Displaying social share button on your website is most powerful way to boost your website traffic and visitors from social media sites, best way to recommend website content to social media friends.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Also Check out: 9 Best Social Share Plugin For WordPress
Sucuri Security
The Sucuri WordPress Security plugin is a security toolset for security integrity monitoring, malware detection and security hardening. Sucuri Inc is a globally recognized authority in all matters related to website security, with specialization in WordPress Security.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
WP Smush.it
Wp Smush.it plugin reduce image file sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.
Rating: 4.1 out of 5
Here’s the editor’s pick, Related post plugin improves your blog page views and also in SEO.
Zemanta Related Posts
Zemanta Related Posts can increase your internal traffic up to 10%. Zemanta also brings new visitors from other sites and bumps your site’s unique visits. Add Related Posts from your own site and from across the web. Search for posts and hand-pick them with ease. Easily increase your reach and readership with Zemanta. Recommendations are provided by Zemanta’s world-class semantic service.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
