No less than 24,855 plugins are listed on the official list, excluding premium plugins. Suffice to say it is very difficult to make a choice ... To help you here is my selection of the best WordPress experience after my trainer WordPress plugins.
BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS?
Here is a small non-exhaustive list of WordPress plugins that draw in free for all new WordPress installation.Go directly to the category of your choice by clicking on the list below:
PLUGINS FOR COMMENTS
AskimetAkismet is quite possibly the absolute anti-spam solution. It is discreet, able to catch 99% of spam and is very easy to use. An absolute must!
Disqus
Love it or do not like, Disqus comments makes it easier and more interactive, recently updated, it incorporates useful features like native Gravatars, RSS, rating, etc.. You can also read the article on how to increase your comments.
Subscribe To Comments
A powerful WordPress plugin that allows commenters to register by e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain items, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail!
SPECIAL SEO PLUGINS
All In One SEO PackAn extremely powerful way to optimize your site for search engines. It automatically generates meta tags, allows you to change the page titles and descriptions, and many other features.
WordPress SEO By Yoast
SEO is the most complete WordPress plugin that exists today. It includes an overview of SERP extract that helps you to better optimize your page titles, meta descriptions on the basis of keywords. It also allows you to automatically generate XML sitemaps and optimizes overall limit duplicate content in short, a must have!
The Internet networking within your site is one of the principles of SEO. This plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases in your articles and comments to pages, items, categories of your choice. In addition SEO Smart links allows you to set your own keywords and a set of correspondence between URL. Attention in its free version, this plugin is used sparingly since Penguin.
HeadSpace2 SEO
HeadSpace2 manager is a all-in-one meta-data that allows you to refine the potential of your SEO. It allows you to control almost all aspects of your Meta data, including tags and statistics.
Google XML Sitemaps
This WordPress plugin allows you to generate an XML sitemap that will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With a sitemap, it's much easier for the robots to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve all URLs more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of pages and custom URLs. In addition, it notifies the major search engines creating new content.
PLUGINS PERFORMANCE
WP Super CacheBeyond a certain size, WordPress can be very slow. Caching your content is a great solution. WP Super Cache creates static versions of your site that are served instead of dynamic content. Give full measure when you have a big traffic.
CDN Sync Tool
Uploade / syncs your static files to the CDN of your choice such as Amazon S3 / CloudFront and CloudFiles (MaxCDN / NetDNA). You can select files from your media library or your directories as additions of new media upload to the CDN
WP Smush.It
A great WordPress plugin that automatically processes all images via smush.it service without requiring any user intervention, it automatically reduces the size of files (without damaging the image) and significantly improves performance.
WP Minify
Complementary to WP Super Cache, Minify capture the JS & CSS files in your page and send the list to the Minify engine, it then returns a consolidated and compressed in the header of your WordPress database.
WP-Optimize
This WordPress plugin is simple but really effective, it allows you to automatically clean and in one click, your WordPress database and optimize it without using phpMyAdmin. Can also rename any user name.
PLUGINS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS
SocializesAn easy way to selectively add a social action to your content. You can add bookmarks within the article or in a "Call to Action" box in your article.
AddToAny
This WordPress plugin allows visitors to share and / or submit your articles or pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 other social bookmarking sites.
Add Link To Facebook
You want to automatically publish your articles / pages on your Facebook page? This plugin is for you, Add Link to Facebook is easy to configure, it will, however, create your Facebook application, but the tutorial is very well done. Note the links on your Facebook page can be fully customized (image excerpt, custom text).
MEDIA
Scissors ContinuedAn unknown extension that adds cropping, resizing and rotating the image features of WordPress. Scissors Continued also automatically resize images during transfer and supports marking "watermarking" automatic or manual.
NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full plugin for Image Galleries in WordPress with slideshow option. Including dozens of options and features, NextGEN Gallery provides a simple administration system and can also handle multiple galleries.
PLUGINS FOR MONETIZATION
Advertising ManagerThis WordPress plugin allows you to manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognizes networks, including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo! PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks may also be added.
Ad Injection
Ad Injection injects any type of announcement (Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, TradeDoubler, etc) into the existing content of your posts and your WordPress pages. You can control the number of ads based on the length of the post and it can restrict the display of ads by age of the article, reference and visitor's IP address.
PLUGINS BACKUP
WP-DB-BackupWP-DB-Backup allows you to back up your database tables WordPress database. You can also backup other tables in the same database.
BackWPup
Much to say right now, is one BackWPup plugins saves more complete (see the full tutorial) for automatic backups of your site (files + database) at regular intervals (daily, hedbo, monthly ) on the space of your choice (DropBox, S3, etc.), while repairing and optimizing your database data.
PLUGINS STATISTICS
Google AnalyticatorGoogle Analyticator add the code necessary to activate the Google Analytics JavaScript code, it also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.
WP-Stats-Dashboard
View graph stats for your blog in addition to your traffic, social engagement and social influence directly from your dashboard. Follow your ranking on Alexa, check out your Technorati authority, monitor your ranking on several sites at once and much more ...
PLUGINS UTILITIES
JetPackThe plugin by Automattic is among the utilities simply because its features are so numerous that we can not really categorize. Sharing, through the managements of comments, the CDN, widgets, statistics, etc ... The list is too long to find my more comprehensive test on the Jetpack plugin.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of items and / or pages related to the current entry, offering visitors to other relevant content on your site. Using a customizable algorithm considering titles, content, tags and categories, YARPP calculates a relevance score for the displayed item.
Organize Series
Organize Series helps the organization and presentation of the articles you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for your blog readers all the series you have written and also easily find the ones that are part of the same series.
Custom Field Template
Custom Field Template added custom default for article writing and / or page fields. You can define any number of custom field templates and change the patterns when you write or edit the article or page.
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and content easily. The form supports AJAX, the CAPTCHA anti-spam filtering with Akismet and much more...
Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors. This is especially useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or if you change the directory of your WordPress installation.
WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced navigation and aesthetics of your WordPress site paging.
Simple URL Shortener
The plugin URL shortening the simplest, with more than 100 shortening services available.
TablePress
An extension to add a table in WordPress. TablePress can easily create and manage all kinds of pictures on your blog. No HTML knowledge is required, a comfortable interface to easily modify all the data in the table.
WP EXTENSIONS TRAINING
In this section, I will simply list alphabetically extensions that run on the blog WP Training 2013. This list is not the best, far from it, it's just my timing ...BlogVault
Paid service - BlogVault I discovered during my test on different backup services WP. Skeptical at first, I tested the service free for 7 days, and I admit I was convinced. Simple, transparent and efficient backups WP Training automatically make all 24:00.
Calendarize It! for WordPress
Premium plugin - I was looking for a simple way to display my internet training sessions. After trying several free and paid WordPress calendars, I discovered Calendarize It. Powerful, customizable excessive, able to handle custom post types, this is the ultimate in timing.
Gravity Forms
Premium Plugin - Everything has been said about this powerful form plugin, Gravity Forms knows almost everything. Logical conditions through purchase forms (PayPal add-on), the registration Newsletters (MailChimp, Aweber) form to post articles guests, etc.. The plugin stores the responses in a WP table and offers export, import.
KeywordLuv
Free Plugin - WordPress Plugin known, which offers optimized anchors. He replaced CommentLuv and is used here for its more playful side in the comments, in fact, I find it nice to get a comment Tartantion anchor type shoes cheap. Incentive? Surely! See the report KeywordLuv
Lazy Load
Free Plugin - Mix the loading of images to improve the loading time of pages, this is the main function of this plugin. It does not load the image when it is visible in the browser window.
Lightbox Evolution
Premium Plugin - The WordPress theme I use offers a native impractical lightbox shortcode with this plugin all images, videos, texts, maps can now be displayed automatically in a neat and customizable lightbox. Discover Lightbox Evolution.
Liveoptim
Premium Plugin - A WordPress SEO plugin for optimization on-site. This plugin enables live optimizing your content and fits on any website supporting PHP, to make its content 100% compatible with Google and other engines. LiveOptim has a niche: to save you time in optimizing your content! View test LiveOptim.
Quick Cache
Free Plugin - A plugin simple and easy installation cache. Far from gas plants such as W3 Total Cache and others, Quick Cache does allow some customizations but its main niche is simplicity, which does not prevent it from being effective.
Smart DoFollow
Plugin Free - Rewarding the best commentators on DoFollow offering the anchors optimized via KeywordLuv is the avowed purpose of this plugin. We can determine the configuration settings the number of characters in the comments triggering the passage DoFollow.
Table Of Contents More
Plugin Free - Table of Content is a WordPress plugin that automatically creates a specific summary or table of contents. More than just a table of contents, this plugin can also create site maps
WP Category Post List Widget
Free Plugin - A WordPress plugin that displays in the sidebar of your choice items sorted by category, random and / or date. We can simply change the HTML structure of the widget, it supports thumbnails added via the WP editor, then you can also set the CSS class with the proposed class or create your own themes.
Wysija Newsletters
Plugin Free - Management newsletters on your WordPress is what provides this great plugin. Previously on MailChimp, I tested and adopted it, very easy to use and configure, Wysija offers themes, widgets, manage multiple lists, etc ...
CONCLUSION
The part of this list is made primarily using only free WordPress plugins. However, there are some premium plugins high quality especially for CodeCanyon, the largest market place for your WordPress plugins.No less than 15 extensions running on WP training, as saying that the old adage "too many plugins slow down the site" is not up to me. Moreover, some plugins are disabled or removed to suit my needs or my tests.
It's all about choice, this list is far from final and will change over time, and new WordPress updates coming plugins. If you have any suggestions ... I'm interested).
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