The document lists the top 10 WordPress plugins, including NextGen Gallery for managing image galleries, Contact Form 7 for creating contact forms, and iThemes Security for scanning websites for malware and securing passwords. It also discusses plugins for popups, XML sitemaps, SEO, caching, social sharing, and linking author profiles to Google+.

1. Top 10 WordPress Plugins
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2. WordPress is popular because of how easy it is to
customize to your own requirements with easy to
install plugins to make changes to your design or add
additional functions to a site. But, with over 30,000
plugins available in WordPress can be a bit
overwhelming in deciding which one is the right one for
your website.
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3. NextGen Gallery
● 6 million users
● Powerful engine for uploading and managing
galleries of images.
● It also has the capability of:
o batch uploading
o import metadata
o add/delete/sort images
o edit thumbnails, and more
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4. Contact Form 7
● Manage multiple contact forms
● Customize the form and the mail contents
● Flexible with an simple and easy markup.
● Supports other plugins:
o Ajax
o CAPTCHA
o Akismet
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5. iThemes Security
● This plugin uses a site check to scan your website
for:
o Malware,
o Blacklist status,
o Website errors
o Out-of-date software.
● Secures any passwords that are being saved in
your website.
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6. Popup Domination
● Increase the number of people who sign up to your
email list.
● The more people on your email list:
o The more traffic you can control.
o Meaning more money you are capable of
making.
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7. Google XML Sitemaps
● Generates a special XML sitemap
● Helps search engines like Google to better index
your website
● Much easier for the crawlers to see the complete
structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
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8. All in One SEO Pack
● 1 million users
● Most popular SEO plugin.
● Offers standard requirements that are needed for
an SEO plugin:
o Canonical URLs
o Sitemap creation
o ect.
● Plugin is beginner friendly, working out the box.
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9. WP Super Cache
● Generates a static html file from your WordPress
site.
● Webserver will serve that file instead of processing
the comparatively heavier and more expensive
WordPress PHP scripts.
● Simple and effective caching plugin for beginners.
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10. WP Socializer
● Advanced plugin for inserting:
o Social bookmarkers
o Sharing buttons.
● Features include buttons on:
o Posts
o Sidebars
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11. Gplus-author
● Get your author’s profile linked with Google+
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12. FB & Twitter Social Plugins
● Use text widget
● Download a simple plugin from
WordPress’ directory
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