Akismet Plugin – This plugin helps to moderate the comments that come in. Especially targeting the comments that are considered spam comments.
Captain Favicon – Just install the plugin and you’ll then be able to upload a favicon for your site! Upload a 16px x 16px image for normal support or a 32px x 32px for retina-support. Any sized image will work though!
Contact Form 7 – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple
markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Flamingo – Flamingo is a WordPress plugin created to be a total CRM package. With this version, you can manage your contact list and messages submitted via contact form plugins. It has not yet matured, but we are enhancing it rapidly.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
Jetpack – This plugin is very similar to W3 Total Cache. It helps to cache images to make them download quicker when being viewed by a web browser.
Slideshow – Slideshow provides an easy way to integrate a slideshow for any WordPress installation. Any image can be loaded into the slideshow by picking it from the WordPress media page, even images you’ve already uploaded can be inserted into your slideshow right away!
Sociable – As you know, Sociable continues being the fastest growing leader in the sharing space of WordPress plugins. We really appreciate your feedback, so, here you are latest version including Pinterest icon, font changes you suggested and other terrific features you get totally Free.
TinMCE Advanced – This plugin will let you add, remove and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor toolbar. It includes 15 plugins for TinyMCE that are automatically enabled or disabled depending on what buttons are chosen.
W3 Total Cache/WP Super Cache – This plugin will take your website, and essentially make a quick access copy of your site to help the speed that your website loads when being brought up by a web browser.
WooCommerce- This is probably one of the most important plugins as well. This plugin allows you to create a complete e-commerce store. Comes with all the functionality to create categories, products and more. It also includes the ability to tap into shipping modules to use FedEx, USPS etc.
WooCommerce Product Archive Customiser – Allows you to customize WooCommerce product archives. Change the number of product columns and the number of products displayed per page. Toggle the display of core elements and enable some that are not included in WooCommerce core such as stock levels and product categories.
WooCommerce Weight & Country Based Shipping – Weight and Country based shipping method for Woocommerce.
WordPress SEO by Yoast – Plugin is hands-down one of the best plugins for WordPress SEO around and is used by hundreds of thousands of bloggers. https://managewp.com/google-seo-by-yoast-guide
The plugin’s main strength comes from the comprehensive options: WordPress SEO does everything you’d expect a good SEO plugin to do, and it does it very well. That’s why we recommend using it to help power your site up the rankings.
WP Google Search – If you would like a Google search feature on your WordPress site, you only need to register to Google Custom Search, get your Google Search Engine ID, and enter it in the plugin settings page. Then your custom search engine is ready for use, just put the new Google search-box widget on the sidebar, and enjoy it!
Here are a couple of sites that have additional plugins to consider:
http://penguininitiatives.com/best-wordpress-plugins-free-2014/
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2013/08/best-wordpress-plugins.html
https://wordpress.org/plugins/
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