Some best utility plugins for WordPress website

The most successful, effective, free and robust blogging platform available today is WordPress, it is one of the most widely used open-source CMS for website development. WordPress is successful due to its large base of users and thousands of plugins available which makes life very easy. Where you are new to WordPress or aware of it, you can build a website using WordPress in a very short time thanks to the readymade plugins available for most of the features commonly used nowadays in websites.

There are some utility plugins that exist and I often use these plugins in development.

Advanced Custom Fields

Advanced Custom Fields is the perfect solution for any WordPress website which needs more flexible data like other Content Management Systems.

- Visually create your Fields - Select from multiple input types (text, text area, WYSIWYG, image, file, page link, post object, relationship, select, checkbox, radio buttons, date picker, true/false, repeater, flexible content, gallery and more to come!) - Assign your fields to multiple edit pages (via custom location rules) - Easily load data through a simple and friendly API - Uses the native WordPress custom post type for ease of use and fast processing - Uses the native WordPress metadata for ease of use and fast processing

All in One SEO Pack

“All in One” provides a multitude of easy-to-understand options to get your blog up to par SEO wise. 99% of WordPress users will agree when I say this is an absolute must-have when it comes to plugins. With over 2 million downloads and growing, you can’t go wrong.

Image Widget

A simple image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.

- MU Compatible
- Handles image resizing and alignment
- Link the image
- Title and Description
- Very versatile. All fields are optional.
- Upload, link to an external image, or select an image from your media collection using the built-in Thickbox browser.
- Supports override of template so that you can override the template for your theme!
- Responsive

Post Types Order

Over 370.000 DOWNLOADS and near PERFECT rating out of 200 REVIEWS. A powerful plugin, Order Posts, and Post Types Objects uses a Drag and Drop Sortable JavaScript capability. It allows reordering the posts for any custom post types you defined, including the default Posts. Also, you can have the admin posts interface sorted per your new sort. Post Order has never been easier.

Duplicate Title Checker

WordPress allows entering the same title for multiple posts. Sometimes we already used a title and we are not aware of that when we create another post with the same name, WordPress by default is not providing an alert that this title is already used. The benefit of default functionality is that WordPress allows multiple posts with the same title and automatically generates unique URLs for duplicate posts which is very helpful.

but what if we need that each post should have a unique post title and there are a huge number of posts already created?

In this case, this plugin can be used to check the title we are using for a new post is unique or not. Right now this plugin is only for posts but with minor modification, it can be used with custom post types and pages. Although this plugin allows creating of multiple posts with the same title as it just provides an alert that the title used is not unique

wp-donate

WP Donate provides a payment form and recent donor widget by utilizing Authorize.net.

What wp-donate provides:

- Listing of donors in the admin area
- At the admin area it allows set details related to the payment gateway
- From displayed on the client side using Shortcode
- Autherize.net payment gateway integration for accepting donation

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.

ShareThis for social sharing

Increase social activity on your site with ShareThis!

- Choose from to 120 social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
- Use small or large buttons, add counters or use one of the Sharing Bars
- Access to greater insights by creating a Social Analytics Dashboard account

Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order

Order Categories and all custom taxonomies terms using a Drag and Drop Sortable javascript capability. No Theme update is required the code will change the query on the fly. If multiple taxonomies are created for a custom post type, a menu will allow choosing the one you need to be sorted. If child categories (terms) are defined, those can be ordered too using the same interface

Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog. This plugin makes it easy for you to enable GA logging on your WordPress blog. Will also show visitor stats and track all links on pages.

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