12个在2013年必须有的WordPress插件

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast – Must have WordPress Plugin

WordPress CMS have many great features, but when it comes to SEO it lacks so many features, so every WordPress blog must have an SEO plugin. Here comes the WordPress SEO by Yoast, simple and very easy to understand SEO plugin with many useful features.

Few of its features are:

• Post titles and meta description
• Robots Meta configuration
• Canonical Linking
• Breadcrumbs
• Permalink clean up
• Generates XML Sitemaps
• RSS enhancements
• Edit your robots.txt and .htaccess
• Clean up head section & API Docs

2. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache Plugin claimed to be the only WordPress Performance Optimization framework designed to improve user experience and page speed. Like Yost SEO Plugin, W3 Total Cache is another very important and must have wordpress plugin for your blog.

It creates a cache of the static files in your blog and also it converts the blog posts into html version, so that the browser doesn’t send the PHP and MySQL database query requests to the server. The browser just has to load the cached content from WordPress. This saves a lot of time for a viewer as these PHP and MySQL query requests are the most time consuming part of your blog loading speed

Additional Features of W3 Total Cache:

• 10x improvement in page loading speed
• Enhances web server performance
• Saves 60% of the user’s Bandwidth
• Helps to sustain heavy traffic
• Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds

3. Akismet

Akismet is a very useful WordPress plugin for people receiving spam comments in bulk. Handling a few spam comments is an easy task, but if you get 500+ comments a day, it is very irritating to moderate those spam comments one by one. So, here comes the Akismet to that job for you, just enable this plugin on your blog, get the API key from Akismet and just relax.

Akismet Plugin has an automatic service which checks each and every comment before entering the WordPress dashboard. Akismet Plugin has its own algorithm, which checks if the comment is spam or not. If the comment is spam, then the plugin moves the comment to the spam area of wordless dashboard

Additional features of Akismet:

• The API key is free for personal websites
• A better comment history with spam stats
• Highlights links in the comment body
• Spam and Unspam reports include information of the spammers
• No need to humiliate the user by making him enter Captcha

4. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is another must have plugin for WordPress, allows your beloved visitors to stay connected by giving them a way to contact with the person behind the blog. Contact Form 7 is the uniquely best plugin to serve your purpose.

It is a customizable plugin that can be embedded anywhere on the website. After installing and activate this plugin, you have a new contact menu in the admin panel. Contact Form 7 Plugin allows you to make several forms to work simultaneously on single or multiple email IDs.

Additional features of Contact Form 7:

• Integrated with CAPTCHA to stop spam.
• Has a check box which works with Java Script (Bots cannot read, so saves us again from spam)
• Easy one click ready form which will generate HTML code.
• Short codes enabled.
• We can add plenty of fields to a form and make it a kind of survey.

5. Google XML-Sitemaps

As the name explains, Google XML Sitemaps Plugin generates Sitemaps for better indexing of posts on a website. This is basically recommended for websites which have a very complex or a static home page. We have lots of plugins for generating Sitemaps of WordPress blogs, but this is a unique plugin which shows the latest posts on the top of the sitemap.

Another factor that makes this plugin standout form the bunch of Sitemap generator plugins is that it automatically pings Google, Yahoo, Bing and other Search Engines when the website is updated with a new post.

Additional Features of Google XML-Sitemaps:

• No need to submit a sitemap on Webmaster Tools as it automatically Pings
• Has a very nice Crawler/Bot friendly layout
• Generates new site map automatically after a new post
• Set priorities to different posts and different pages
• Best for making easy indexing of a Static Website

6. Jetpack

Jetpack is an “All in One” WordPress plugin does not need any recognition; Features of this Plugin are very much diverse to be explained in details. The plugin integrates your WordPress.org blog to woprdpress.com account and gets your account API key to enable a few more in-depth features like stats, carousal with basic features like Image Widget, 推ter Stream and 非死book Fan page stream. It also has a recently released feature Photon, which connects out images to the WordPress.com servers to make our website bandwidth usage at a halt. The plugin also comes with infinite scrolling features (latest Web Design Trend) that loads more posts on the home page whenever user reaches the end of the home page.

Additional Features of Jetpack:

• Image widget
• Sharing Widget (Google+, 非死book, 推ter, LinkedIn)
• Publicize feature to automatically tweet and post to fan pages when we update a post
• Comments & subscription
• Post by Email
• Vault Press
• Beautiful math’s (to enable symbols used by mathematicians)

7. FD Feed Burner

FeedBurner is a free service by Google, allows you to track the stats of RSS subscribers and also comes with subscribe to RSS via email feature, this feature sends emails to subscribers automatically whenever a new article is posted on your blog. To integrate Feedburner with your blog, you need to have good Plugin. FD Feedburner Plugin is the best plugin to that job easily, it redirects your blog RSS feed to Feedburner.com

Additional Features of FeedBurner:

• Adsense implementation
• No Set up For a format to mail
• No need to set up another mailing service

8. Limit Login Attempts

Protecting the WP-admin will always save you from brutal login attempts being caused by hackers to your website. The Best way to get your Website safe is using Limit Login Attempts plugin for WordPress.

Limit Login WordPress Plugin allows you to easily customize and limit the login attempts on a website (if someone tries to login for more than 3 times with the wrong password his IP will be blocked to access the Admin Panel).

Useful Features of Limit Login Attempts:

•   Limit the several retry attempts when logging in (for each IP). Fully customizable
•   Limit the number of attempts to log in using auto cookies in the same way
•   Informs user about remaining retires or lockout time on the login page
•   Optional logging, optional email notification
•   Handles server behind reverse proxy
•   It is possible to white list IPs using a filter.

9. WP-DBManager

WP-DBManager is another must have WordPress Plugin, comes with automatic and scheduled database backup. It also comes with an easy way to restore the backup files

Additional Features of WP-DBManager:

• Allows you to optimize database
• Repair database
• Backup database& Restore database
• Delete backup database
• Drop/empty tables and run selected queries.

10. Autoptimize

Want to make your website to optimize at a very fast pace that too easily? Autoptimize is the Solution, It has an ability to minify and compresses the website to get a better loading time & also adds expires headers. Autoptimize can also cache headers, and moves styles to the page head, and scripts to the footer. This is a very light Plugin that has worth more than what it explains it does. Give it a try and you will get to know what the real difference is.

Additional Features of Autoptimize:

• It also minifies the HTML code itself
• Making your page really lightweight.
• Optimizes the website to Load fast
• Better SEO for fast loading pages

11. SEO Smart Links

For newbie’s, SEO Smart Links is the essential WordPress Plugin, it automatically adds no follow to external links which means link juice will never flow from you. SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. It is a perfect solution to get your blog posts interlinked or add affiliate links to other sites and that too automatically.

Additional Features of SEO Smart Links:

• Everything runs in the background
• One can edit the options
• Add affiliate Web sites in some words as set by the user
• Best to use with info links ad network.
• Has SEO benefits

12. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is the best social sharing WordPress plugin for your posts with no bad effects on SEO. This is the best combo for all kinds of sharing features. It allows you to add popular social Media sites (like 非死book, LinkedIn, Google +1, Reddit, DZone, TweetMeme, StumbleUpon) on your posts easily with just few mouse clicks.

Additional Features of Digg Digg:

• 非死book Like (Iframe or XFBML) & Support thumbnail generation
• Multiple languages
• Lazy loading to increase website performance. (iFrame loads after the website loads all the html content)
• Left or right scrolling effect
• E-mail & Print Service added