Guide for the best wordpress plugins today. Most of them are free and selected few are premium Originally posted in www.valuestartup.com

1. Best wordpress plugins guide
By Mohamed Anan
Internet Entrepreneur
Originally posted in www.valuestartup.com

2.  Here I list the very best wordpress plugins. I use
almost all of them on each and every website I
have. Majority of them are free to use and the
premium ones are listed together in
a separate group. I have briefly mentioned some
of them in my previous post about building a
wordpress website This is an extended tutorial
which I illustrate how to configure the plugins for
best results.
 The Best WordPress plugins Sorted
Alphabetically
 Akismet
 This is the best wordpress plugin for spam
prevention. It’s pre-installed in wordpress. To
activate visit the plugin website Sign up for a free
plan -As long as you are using it for your personal
blog- They would give you a key, copy it and Go

3.  BBpress Forum
 Are you interested in setting up a forum for your
website to let visitors interact together and form a
community?
 A very tempting idea indeed but the technical stuff
were always a major setback. But not with
BBpress forum.
 This is the top wordpress plugin. This is a light
weight powerhouse plugin developed by Matt the
founder of wordpress. Install the plugin, play with
the styles to make everything pretty and you are
done.

4.  Clicky by Yoast
 An awesome plugin by Yoast. This is the best
wordpress plugin to integrate the Clicky incredible
service, it’s similar to Google Analytics but it
offers a real time monitoring.
 So you can study your visitors behaviour towards
your posts and pages. So you can further develop
the weak points for better results. Just by
installing this awesome wordpress plugin and use
the clicky service you automatically gain an unfair
advantage over your competition who don’t have
that kind of real time monitoring and analytics.

5.  Comment Redirect A beautiful little plugin. It’s the
best wordpress plugin to add a beautiful first
impression in your commenters
When a visitor comment on your blog for the first
time, this plugin would take him to a special
Thank You page.
You should use this page wisely by thanking
and encouraging him so he would offer more
insights, feedbacks and cooperation.
Simply install the plugin, create a special thank
you page for the first commenters. Go to the
plugin and fill in the simple basic info, like the
URL of the thank you page. And you are done
doing one of the nicest things and your visitor
would love you for it.

6.  Contact Form 7
 Install the plugin, Go to Contact, choose the type
of form you want, customize it by adding fields,
generate the short code and copy it.
 Create a new page, name it accordingly and
insert the code in the body. You are done building
your form

7.  Disqus
 Simply the best and the most flexible comment
system in the world. Powering millions of blogs
worldwide. It’s reliable, lightweight and powerful. You
visitors can comment via their social media accounts
or by a 30 seconds sign up.
 They can rate your content and they can share it in
Twitter and Facebook.
 And they can RSS to any replies or comments at the
same post.
 And you can backup and immigrate the comments to
any website in the future, they will never be lost.
 Sign up for a Disqus account at their website. Install
the plugin and connect with your account details. You
are done building your awesome comment system.
And this best wordpress plugin made it a piece of

8.  Facebook
 Plugin developed by Facebook and Automaticc -
Parent company of WordPress- This all in one
plugin offers a wide range of new features such
as: Facebook comment system with full SEO
support, like and subscribe button, activity box,
suggestion box.
 All through an easy to use dashboard. All you
have to do is to install the plugin and check the
features you want and you are done.
 Again this best wordpress plugin would handle
everything with no coding necessary.

9.  Google Analytics By Yoast
 Another awesome plugin by Yoast. This is the
best wordpress plugin to inset the Google code to
your website automatically.
 Install the plugin and signup for Google Analytics,
Grab the ID and put it in the plugin at Settings >
Google Analytics. This would insert the tracking
code automatically for you.
 Better yet it would insert it at the head of your
pages as this is the best place for optimum
tracking and page loading speed.

10.  Google XML Sitemaps An awesome little plugin
to automatically generate your website XML
Sitemap, So search engines could crawl and
index your website much more effectively. This is
the best wordpress plugin I have ever used to
generate the sitemap to other plugin came close.

11.  PhotoDropper
 This one is the best wordpress plugin and service I
have ever used it solved a very time consuming
process for any webmaster, blogger and author.
Finding a beautiful photos which offers the right
distributions with proper attribute.
 This top wordpress plugin search for photos in Flickr
and display them to you. When you choose the one
you like the plugin insert it in the post and
automatically write the legal attributes for you.
 Not only this but it stores the photos at your server for
future usage and when a visitor clicks on a photo he
will view it larger in a separate window.
 Other plugins go to the original photo in Flickr so you
may lose some of your visitors. Simply install the
plugin and begin to use it. This plugin saved me hours
of searching for proper legal photos to use. Very
useful indeed.

12.  SEO Smart Links Small useful plugin to build your
interlinking structure. But I mainly benefit from it’s
No-Follow attribute to keep the page rank juice in.
 Sociable This is one of the best social plugins
available today. You can encourage your visitors
to share and syndicate your content by adding
the Sociable classic bar on top or at the bottom of
the post. Or both like I do.
And you can Add Sociable Skyscaper to
encourage social sharing even more. Very useful
plugin. Just install it and play around with the
options to get the best look an you are done.
 W3 Total Cache Keeps your website from falling
apart from any sudden unexpected traffic boost.
And it improves the speed of your loading pages
greatly. Simply install the plugin and keep the
basic setting. It’s almost always good for any
situation.

13.  WordPress Backup to Dropbox
 It’s very important to backup your website and
this plugin makes it a piece of cake by integrating
with the cloud storage giant Dropbox. Just signup
for a dropbox account. Install the plugin and
connect them together via the plugin dashboard
and you are done. The backup is done
automatically for you. Talk about productivity.
 WordPress SEO By Yoast The only SEO plugin
you would ever need. Install it and configure the
settings to your best interest. It has a very easy
dashboard and communicate with you regularly
recommending proper settings.
 Yet Another Related Post engage your visitors to
discover more of your website. This plugin show
related posts to the one the visitor reads that
maybe an interest to him.

14.  The Very Best Premium WordPress Plugins
 I use a handful of premium plugins separately,
below are some of the top wordpress premium
plugins that delivers much more added value than
it’s commercial price.
 AMember and Wishlist If you are planning to start
a membership website. Don’t look further these
two are the very best premium wordpress plugins
to date. Compare between them and find what is
best for you based on price and payment system.
Truly you can go wrong with either of them.

15.  Popup Domination (Please note that I promote Popup
domination and at no extra cost to you. I will earn a
commission if you decided to purchase through my link.
This plugin I have personally tested and was very satisfied
with the results. I only promote products that delivers
decent ROI and backup their claims and certainly this one
does. Thank you)
 If you are looking to grow your email list of subscribers,
look no further this can’t miss plugin do this for you. I
have successfully used it in my elearning hub and
increased my customers’ database by 300%
 It was awesome as I followed up with them regularly and
many of them -leads- turned to customers. This single
plugin remarkably increased my profits. It’s highly
recommended.
 It offers a wide range of beautifully designed popups, you
can target specific pages by specific popups as well as site
whole popups, the content on the popup is totally
customizable and it offers an integrated analytical system
from A/B to click analytics to better develop and optimize
your promotions for better conversion.

16.  These are by far the very best wordpress plugins
available today.
 Up next I will go deeper on how to monetize your
website by discussing the best online business
models available.
 If you found this article beneficial please
comment and share.
 Till next time.
 -Mohamed