WordPress plugins are meant to extend the functionalities of your WordPress blog. And, to achieve professional blogging success in 2013 you should use the best possible WordPress plugins available in the industry.
After reviewing 100s of top plugins, I have hand-picked 10 Best WordPress Plugins to use in your blog for better results.
The plugins I have mentioned below are Essential, and either Free or Cheaper (Premium). Which can be afforded by any blogger.
BONUS: WPMU Dev Plugins (Premium)
WPMU Dev Premium is a WordPress plugin, theme and support community that is especially known for their plugins. Although there isn’t one specific plugin that stands out, they have a wide selection of quality plugins that they are well known for.
Highlights include their great backup plugin, Snapshot, Infinite SEO, and MarketPress, which helps power an e-commerce site.
I suggest you check out the full selection of affordable plugin solutions. They also offer a package option where you can get all of them for one affordable price.
BEST WordPress Plugins for 2013
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast (Free)
Every blogger wants a better and safer SEO for search engine visibility and traffic.
Developed by WordPress consultant and developer Joost De Valk, WordPress SEO by Yoast is an ultimate SEO plugin which offers the best on-page search engine optimization solution.
Find related keywords, Page analysis and Social integration are the top 3 features of this plugin. Moreover, it helps you to make your WordPress theme SEO friendly by its setting features. I like the Snippet Preview and SEO Score features very much.
Recently, I have switched over from “All-in-One SEO Pack” to “WordPress SEO by Yoast” only because the extra and advanced features it offers. Thanks Valk!
2. SEOPressor (Premium)
If you are looking for perfection in your SEO efforts and want something extra, then go for SEOPressor.
SEOPressor is a great WordPress SEO plugin, and if you use sincerely, it helps achieve you higher search engine rankings. It take care of almost every aspects of professional SEO needs.
Keyword density, title tag optimization, image optimization and on-page SEO scores are its main features. One of the Best Premium WordPress SEO Plugin for 2013.
3. Social Media Tabs (Free)
An awesome WordPress plugin to rule the social media world.
It allows you to add Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, RSS etc. in a tab format. You can either add the tabs to an existing widget area or make it slide-out from the side of your browser.
An advanced, beautiful and best social media WordPress plugin for your blog.
4. Pinterest Auto Pin (Premium)
It’s a proven fact that, if used cleverly, Pinterest can drive more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined.
It adds a slick, smooth and hover effects to your images, making them instantly pinable on pinterest.
This cross-browser compatible plugin with 4 different hover effects is a must have WordPress plugin for 2013.
5. Google+ to Download (Premium)
If you want higher search engine ranking and organic traffic, leverage the Google+ to the maximum.
Here you have to offer your visitors an E-book, or a free product, or simply an article to download in exchange of a +1.
Any serious blogger who thinks of long-term and want to drive search engine traffic from Google, this is the best WordPress plugin for him.
6. Online Backup for WordPress (Free)
It helps you to easy backup your WordPress site to your E-mail, download or free 100 MB secure online storage.
This plugin backup your blog’s database like settings, posts, pages and comments as well as its file system like themes, plugins and media. This free online back WordPress plugin is the best backup solution for any security conscious blogger.
7. Security NINJA (Premium)
Within minutes it performs 27+ security checks including brute-force attacks.
Check your blog for any security vulnerability, take preventive measures against attacks, don’t let script kiddies hack your site and prevent 0-day exploit attack.
With increasing number of hacking of WordPress blogs in recent times, this is a great security WordPress plugin for your blog in 2013.
8. Disqus (Free)
This plugin replaces your WordPress comment system with comments hosted and powered by Disqus.
Helps comments indexable by search engines with support for importing existing comments.
It increases exposure and readership by E-mail notification, RSS subscription, Social media mention and SPAM filtering. The best WordPress plugin for your blog commenting system.
9. WP Hello Bar (Free)
With this beautiful plugin you can direct your visitors and promote your blog’s most important contents.
Useful for capturing leads, promoting blog posts, selling products, E-mail sign ups etc. This plugin is highly customizable for look and feel, messages and styles. You can analyze clicks, and add RSS and Twitter feeds for social promotion in an unique ways.
This plugin is gaining huge popularity among WordPress bloggers due to its features and benefits.
10. Pricing table (Free)
The best plugin to generate pricing table in an easy way for your WordPress blog.
Using a simple short-code you can embed this beautiful and professional looking pricing table on pages and posts.
With plenty of customization option, this WordPress plugin is best suitable for product sales on your blog.
Hope you liked my Best WordPress Plugins Collection for blogging success in 2013.
About Nandita B.
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Really Awesome List..
Thank your So Much Nandita. I was using half of the Plugins from this list, but now I started using Pinterest Auto pin and Pricing Table.
Hi,
Thanks for liking my Plugin List. Stay tuned, as I will be adding few more interesting and advanced plugins to this list to boost your WordPress blog.
Thanks for the review of our plugin – social media tabs
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Hi Lee,
Your plugin Social Media Tabs is a plugin to die for. It’s like a must have WordPress plugin for any social media conscious blogger. Moreover, it’s FREE.
Nandita, one thing I want to ask, Which one is the Best one? All-in-One SEO Pack or WordPress SEO by Yoast?
I have a huge confusion between the two..?? Your Suggestions??
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Murtaza – I prefer All in one SEO just because it’s familiar to me and I’ve used it for so long. Yoast is good as well but I like the simplicity of All in on SEO.
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Hi Murtaza,
Both the plugins are great. If you are new to SEO or just 1 yr of blogging experience with your WordPress blog, then you should go for All-in-One SEO Pack.
WordPress SEO by Yoast is usually for advanced users. The keyword and SEO Score features may misguide newbie bloggers ending in over-optimization penalty.
I hope you got your answer.
I prefer the All in one SEO, Disqus or commentluv, now I am confused!
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Hi Poonam,
Disqus or CommentLuv?
Well, CommentLuv is an altogether different Commenting System Plugin from Disqus, interns of features and advantage. You just figure out your goal and requirements of your blog and choose one. Both are great.
Great list of plugins, there’s one or two which I haven’t seen before and will consider adding to my blog.
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Hi Nandita. Out of 10, I have used only 2. It is the best opportunity for me to use all these essential plugins for my blogging website.
Good list taken from your experience. Pricing table and Hello Bar plugins are new to me. I come to know a new plugin today from your website which is useful for me in my upcoming website…
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How about mentioning All In One SEO for SEO (Free) and Insert Gallery plugin which allows you to post multiple photos in a post just by selecting and clicking on insert helps you save a lot of time.
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All-in-One SEO is a fantastic plugin for SEO purposes. But, WordPress SEO by Yoast has some advanced features (specific) which are missing in the previous one.
When I started my blog, I was using All-in-One SEO Pack, after one month I switched to WordPress SEO by Yoast.
I really like its extra features for on page basic seo. I am thinking to buy Pinterest Auto Pin For WordPress, if it is really good to get referral traffic. I’ll look all other you have mentioned in this post. Thanks.
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Nice ones but me too using All in one SEO
Need more list for Seo optimization.
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Great plugin lists, I am adding some plugins as they worth to share.
1- W3 Total Cache
2- Sharebar
3- Akismat
yes.. W3 Total cache is must Use… to speed up the Blog..!
and nandita What Happend? no nEw Posts from 3 Days?:P
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Hi,
Sorry for the delayed response. I was away to a small yet beautiful island called Kavartti (Capital of Lakshadweep Islands) with a Scuba Diving Team. But, still managed to post an article during the tour (Internet is a rare thing in Kavartti).
Have a nice weekend.
Nandita,
Good List of plugins , but most of the plugins you provide are for SEO & SEM I would suggest you to enhance the list by adding a Cache Plugin.
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Hi Chris,
Very soon, I will be adding few usable yet important plugins to this list. Please stay tuned..
With expanding list of more than 20, 000 plugins, often it’s a bit difficult to find out which is the best plugins to use!
This is a very good brief overview of 10 best WordPress plugins that I guess every blogger should use. And the great thing here is that most of them are totally free.
I would also suggest another plugin that is really helpful and that is Google Analytics Dashboard. This plugin gives you the fundamental info you have to see who is visiting every page of your blog or site from your WordPress dashboard, so you don’t have to log in to your account in Google Analytic. Plus it’s FREE!
Awesome collection of plugins. Thank you for providing this list. It helped me a lot and saved my time.
Good plugins to use. I was really struggling to check top WordPress plugins to use on my blog… thanks.
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There are some great plugins featured in this post, I’m personally fond of the Social Media Tabs plugin.
It’s hard to find good plugins for your blog, I always find my self searching for hours when I’m looking for a specific plugin I need on my site
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Thanks for sharing this post. This is very useful list. WordPress seo is very resourceful. It is used for researching for most searched keywords for your blog posts so that you can target the right thing. I admire your post. Keep us updating. It is of very help for me.
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These are few top WordPress Plugins which I will definitely use in 2013.
Thanks alot for providing a great list of plugins. WP-Optimizer; Akismet and Google XML Sitemap plugins are also must for any wordpress blog.
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These plugins also helps you much
W3 Super cache to improve the speed of the website
WP-DB Manager to back up data and
Quick Adsense-to insert the Google ads easily at any where
I would also suggest another plugin that is really helpful and that is Google Analytics Dashboard.Awesome collection of plugins. Thank you for providing this list. It helped me a lot and saved my time.
Hi.
Those are really great plugins. I love that!!!
I will definitively have a look at the pinterest, social media tabs and yoast!
This is a must.
HI nandita ,
i am a newbie trying to learn a bit abt blogging.
just need to know whether the wordpress plugins mentioned above can be used with wordpress free blogs all alone or it can be used with paid domains bought from sites ike bigrock.com ??
reall awesome list nandita.The plugin list really helped me a lot.Keep it up.
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good list. I liked hello bar plugin. thanks.
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Great Post I love this list and will use a couple of them
Thank you
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No doubt, really best described list of plugins, i love social media tab very much.
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there are many others better plugins for SEO, even for 2013 such as social media auto poster, ads manager, image SEO, ect.
No doubt, really best described list of plugins, i love social media tab very much.
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Me parece una excelente lista de plugíns para WordPress, alguno s vale mucho la pena pagar su precio.
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This plugin list has been extremely useful! I’m still a little new to WordPress as I’ve been blogging for 2 months now. Thanks
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Great list Nandita!! These plugins would be surely helpful for us !!:) Thanks!!
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Hi Nandita, I find your list very interesting. I have a doubt, since I see you recommend Disqus but use comment luv yourself. Which one do you think is better for a beggining web?
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Oh ya really! These plugins are absolutely best plugins, I used ‘WordPress SEO by Yoast’ and ‘Disqus’ and find really awesome.
Thanks!!
A Great List Of Plugins To Use On Your WordPress Blog.
I Am Using A Few Of Them But Now I Am Going To Check Them All.
Really nice list of plugins Nandita… Bookmarked. I will take some time to check some of those plugins.. Cheers!
Hello Nandita, these’re the amazing plugins that you’ve listed there! thanks for your effort!
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Hey Nandita, It is such an awesome list of wordpress plugins. Thanks for sharing such a great list.
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Those are really great plugins. I love that..
I will definitively have a look at the pinterest, social media tabs and yoast..
This is a must.
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