The Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• WordPress SEO by Yoast – Yoast’s all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs & much more.

Blog Statistics Related

• Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

Caching Plugin

• W3 Total Cache - The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. After you use the w3 total cache plugin you won’t go back to using WP Super Cache.

Contact Forms Related

• 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.

Social Networking

• Sociable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
• Share This – This is a very useful plugin that allows your visitors to share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.

For Google Adsense

• Google Adsense Plugin - Google AdSense Plugin allows you to set parameters of the ads displaying, such as format (text ad, image, text with an image or link), size, color of the elements in the ad block, rounded corners and the ad block position on the website.

List of the Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins

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This page has a list of some of the best WordPress Plugins out there. Check out this list of top WordPress plugins and find out which plugins you should be using to improve your blogging efficiency.

Must Use Plugins

• Akismet – best guard against comment spam for WordPress blog!
• WordPress Database Backup – This plugin is a life saver when things go wrong! It allows on-demand backup of your WordPress database.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• WordPress SEO by Yoast – Yoast’s all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs & much more.
• All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. If you are using the “WordPress SEO by Yoast” plugin then don’t install this one.
• Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

Blog Statistics Related

• Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
• WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. This plugin requires a WordPress.com API key to function.

Caching Plugin

• W3 Total Cache - The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. After you use the w3 total cache plugin you won’t go back to using WP Super Cache.
• WP Super Cache - WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Blog Security

• WP Blog Security Tips – This is not a plugin but all the tips mentioned here should help you securing your WordPress blog.
• All In One WP Security & Firewall - The All In One WordPress Security and Firewall is the ultimate security plugin that will take your WordPress site’s security to a whole new level.

RSS Subscription Related

• FeedBurner FeedSmith – This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
• Add to Any: Subscribe Button – Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader.
• Category Specific RSS Menu – A simple WordPress plugin to add category specific RSS subscription menu into your posts, pages, sidebars. Very handy when your blog covers multiple topic from non related subjects. This plugin was developed by me.

Contact Forms Related

• 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.
• cforms – cforms II is the most customizable, flexible & powerful ajax supporting contact form plugin.
• WP Contact form – WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you.
• Gravity Forms - Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building.

Social Networking

• Sociable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
• Share This – This is a very useful plugin that allows your visitors to share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.
• Fat Free WordPress Social Share Buttons Plugin - This is a very simple and FAT FREE share button plugin that adds Google plus one, Facebook and Twitter share buttons to your blog posts.

For Google Adsense

• Google Adsense Plugin - Google AdSense Plugin allows you to set parameters of the ads displaying, such as format (text ad, image, text with an image or link), size, color of the elements in the ad block, rounded corners and the ad block position on the website.
• Simple Google Adsense insertion – Easy to use WordPress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar.
• Adsense-Deluxe – Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Capable of handling complex adsense management.

Photo Gallery Plugin

• NextGen Gallery - The most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins of all time. I use it whenever I need a photo gallery plugin.

E-commerce, Paypal Donation and Payment

• WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart – is a very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. Very useful when you want to sell eBooks or digital products from various posts and pages and need a WordPress Shopping Cart solution.

Post by Atul Savaliya (Website Developer)

Best wordpress theme 2013

The Best Premium WordPress Themes 2013

Theme selection can be more easy while checking its reviews and rating. These Premium WordPress Themes are picked from themeforest and elegantthemes. These premium themes are responsive themes so it can give great view for the users who are accessing site from smartphones, iPhone, tablets and other mobile devices. This premium collection includes themes for blogging / magazine, photography, business, portfolio, personal, music and shopping. I hope the price will be fair for you.

Modelish

Modelish WordPress theme is attractive and it is designed in modern style. The theme is designed for photography but it can be easily customize to blog, Portfolio or business site. Theme options have so much options. There are different options for homepage, portfolio page, journal page and contact page. Backup and SEO setting makes the theme more user-friendly.
d rating. These Premium WordPress Themes are picked from themeforest and elegantthemes. These premium themes are responsive themes so it can give great view for the users who are accessing site from smartphones, iPhone, tablets and other mobile devices. This premium collection includes themes for blogging / magazine, photography, business, portfolio, personal, music and shopping. I hope the price will be fair for you.

Muse

Muse is an awesome premium WordPress theme that is highly responsive and Retina Ready. It is built using HTML5, CSS3 and semantic. Theme is best for musical and events sites.  It have three different post formats.

Foxy

Foxy is an another theme from elegantthemes. This theme is best for business websites. Foxy also have epanel theme option.

 BresponZive – 3 Style Magazine

BresponsZive is multi purpose free WordPress theme. This theme  can be used for News/Editorial sites, Technology Magazine blogs etc.

Andrina Lite – Free Business WordPress theme

Demo | Download

Simple n Bright

Demo | Download

Liquid

 Clean Business

Demo | Download

Fusion Business WordPress Theme

If you are looking for a very good theme, you should use this, as you will get all you need in one place, without hiring any web designer. The admin panel has a feature through which you can adjust the colors of the different parts of your theme. This means you can make the background and fonts to have any desired color. Another cool feature also makes it possible for you to add social media or analytics snippets to your website.
Live Demo / More Info Fusion - by Elegant Theme

StyleShop eCommerce WordPress Theme

This theme is sleek and powerful, and best for launching a profitable online store. It can be browsed on mobile devices using most widely used internet browsers. Like the most modern themes, it is WC3 compliant. StyleShop theme is responsive as it uses media queries to activate various layouts for small screen viewing. Creating galleries, product brochures, sitemaps, contact pages and blog feeds is breeze easy. A truly eCommerce friendly theme for you.
Live Demo / Download StyleShop 

eStore eCommerce WordPress Theme

eStore is another theme you should consider if you really want to make more money through the internet. Without programming knowledge, you can configure it, and there are lots of integration options so that you can use eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart or any other of the free and popular ecommerce plugins on your site. The theme is also coded with valid HTML and CSS3 so that you would have a secure site for your visitors to shop.
Live Demo / More Info eStore – by Elegant Theme

Lucid WordPress Theme

Browser compatibility is one of the things which make this to be one of the most popular WordPress themes. The theme works well with the most popular internet browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and many others.
Live Demo / Download Lucid WP Template

One Touch – Multifunctional Metro Stylish Theme

 Post by Atul Savaliya (Website Developer)