The 10 Best Wordpress Plugins of 2015

The primary attraction of Wordpress has been that it is simple yet never short of features. It is a CMS that can be used easily by beginners and experienced developers alike. In this article, we take a look at 10 of the best Wordpress plugins to have come in 2015.

1. Wordfence

In this age of unfettered virus attacks and spambots, you need to protect your Wordpress website. With a rating of 4.9 on 5, Wordfence is the security plugin that has the stamp of approval of a wide spectrum of Wordpress users.

2. W3 Total Cache

Users will take to your site as fast as your site is. To optimize speed and performance, Wordpress has the W3 Total Cache that sets up page and browser caching and also a CDN for static files.

3. Infinite SEO

With Infinite SEO, you get a sitemap for your website wherein you can add titles and descriptions that are SEO friendly.

4. Woocommerce

Woocommerce is the No.1 Wordpress ecommerce plugin and gives you a lot of features while being extremely easy to use. You can get it on a 1 year license.

5. Regenerate Thumbnails

Your Home page is the first thing that attracts the visitor to your site. This plugin makes it easier to redesign your website and adjust the size of images or other graphics on your screen.

6. Wordpress Style Guide

Wordpress style guide is a great boon for beginners who still have to learn the ropes of website design. With Helper classes and jQuery UI components, it is the best way to get a good design.

7. Visual Forms Builder

This plugin lets you simplify forms like text fields, radio buttons etc. and also lets you customize them and store data in the database.

8. WPtouch

For a truly responsive design, screen responsive is necessary and WPtouch improves the screen responsiveness of your website. It also has built-in support for ecommerce.

9. Edit Flow

If you’re running a site that has contributions from various authors, this plugin is for you. ManagingEdit Flow provides efficient editorial workflow for Wordpress, assign posts and more.

10. Login Lockdown

Breaking the admin password and changing the login credentials is the preferred mode of hackers today. Login lockdown prevents unauthorised access this way.