50 WordPress Plugins I Use to Run and Maintain my Blog

Now-a-days, most of the bloggers and webmaster use WordPress CMS to build, run and maintain their personal or professional blog and websites. Like other people, I also use WordPress to run and maintain my blog. We know it is really easy to build a blog or website using WordPress and people use this CMS because its one of the most popular CMS and user friendly. To run and maintain our WordPress Blog, we need to use some WordPress Plugins. Some plugins are premium and some are free. We must choose the perfect plugins so that we can easily operate our blog.

So today, I’m going to share Top 50 WordPress Plugins those I use to run, build and maintain my WP Blog.

Top 50 WordPress Plugins

1. AddThis Smart Layers – This is a fantastic WordPress Plugin helps to increase visitor engagement easily. With the help of this plugin, you can show your social profile icon, social sharing options, related posts and recommended posts.
2. AdSense Click-Fraud Monitoring Plugin – Helps to protect Google Adsense account by preventing fraud clicks on ads. It also monitors and prevents malicious clicks on Adsense Ads.
3. Akismet – One of the most popular plugin to prevent spam comments on blog posts and pages. Not only me, millions of webmasters and blog owners use this plugin to keep safe their blog and website.
4. All in one Favicon – This is a popular plugin to manage your blog/site Favicon. Add a Favicon to your site/blog and admin panel. You can add a Favicon with 3 different format .ico, .png and .gif.
5. All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets – One of the most powerful plugin to configure rich snippets and show on the search engine results page. It will help to get more impression in the SERP as well as get more traffic from search engines.
6. Broken Link Checker – Helps to keep my blog clean and fresh from broken links and missing images. Automatically send me notification via email when found broken links or missing images.
7. BruteProtect – A fantastic free WordPress Security Plugin helps to keep safe my blog from brute force, various and malicious attacks.
8. BulletProof Security – Protect my blog from hacking attempts, various and malware. This plugin helps to keep safe my blog in several ways such as locks .htaccess file, security logging, DB backup, web site monitoring and much more.
9. Captcha – Helps to prevent spam comments by asking a match questions to visitors when they drop a comment.
10. Click To Tweet – Easily add Click to Tweet options in your WordPress blog page and posts to get more share on social sites.
11. CommentLuv – Helps to get more comments to your blog post by engaging readers. It will automatically add last post link to readers blog at the end of their comment.
12. Date Exclusion SEO – Remove date from the post, category archive, tag archive and front page keep fresh your blog. This will help to get more traffic from search engines easily.
13. Disable Directory Listings – Prevents to listing your blog contents in virtual directories.
14. Display Widgets – A fantastic WP Plugin for bloggers. It will help to show specific widgets in posts, category archives, front page, tag archives etc.
15. Facebook Popup Box – Show your Facebook fan page box in a popup box to get more fans.
16. FeedBurner Form – Add Google Feedburner subscription forms to get more subscribers as well as get more returning visitors to your blog.
17. GC Message Bar – Show specific message or call to action button at the top or the end of your blog to get more conversion rate as well as revenue.
18. Google Analytics Plugin – Integrate Google Analytics code to your WordPress blog.
19. Google XML Sitemap for Images – Help to generate an XML images sitemap for your blog to get more traffic from search engines.
20. Google XML Sitemap for Videos – Generate an XML Video sitemap file to index videos in search engines easily.
21. Jetpack by WordPress.com – A powerful WordPress Plugin that comes with various functions and features for WP CMS users. Easily connect to wordpress.com to get more features.
22. JM Twitter Cards – Helps to get more referral traffic from twitter.
23. Lazy Load – Great plugin to improve page load time by loading images that only visible in the viewport.
24. Limit Login Attempts – Helps to protect your blog from unwanted login attempts as well as hacking attempts.
25. Login LockDown – Add extra security to your blog admin panel to keep it safe from hacking or unwanted logging.
26. MailChimp for WordPress Lite – Helps to collect visitors email ID by adding different sign-up method to my blog.
27. ManyContacts Bar – Free Contact Form – Another plugin that also helps to encourage visitors to sign-up for newsletter and collect visitors email ID.
28. Markerly WordPress Plugin – Get more shares on social profiles by readers.
29. Open Graph Protocol – Helps to make your blog pages and posts rich object in the social graph.
30. Optin Forms – Create and design sign-up forms for your blog newsletter and add it in the post or pages of your blog.
31. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – Identify which plugin slow your blog loading time.
32. Pretty Link Lite – Hide affiliate link easily and insert a new custom link in the post or page.
33. Scroll Triggered Box – Collect more email ID from readers using this sign-up form.
34. SEO Friendly Images – Helps to make your blog images SEO friendly by adding ALT tags automatically.
35. Shareaholic | share buttons, analytics, related content – Get more share of your blog post by adding this stylish social share plugin.
36. Shortcodes Ultimate – Add various effects with unlimited shortcodes.
37. TablePress – Add table in the blog post.
38. Thank Me Later – Send thank you message to your blog commenters.
39. Theme Check – Check your theme, is it comfortable with the latest WordPress standards and practices.
40. Twitterlink Comments – Insert comment author twitter link when they insert their twitter user name during drop the comment.
41. Ultimate Nofollow – Add a rel=nofollow tag to an individual link.
42. W3 Total Cache – Most popular caching plugin for WordPress blog and site. Helps to load your blog/site faster.
43. WordPress Database Backup – Take your WP blog database backup easily.
44. WordPress Popular Posts – Display popular posts in Widgets.
45. WordPress SEO – Most popular SEO plugin for WordPress blog and site.
46. WP-Optimize – Optimize your blog/site to keep its database fresh and clean.
47. WP Author Slug – Keep an author URL secret by rewriting the author URL.
48. WP Post Navigation – Show next and previous post options at the end of the post.
49. WP Review – Write a better product/service review to get more impression in the SERP as well as get more sales.
50. WP smash.it – Helps to reduce image size automatically.

Above WordPress Plugins I use in my all of WordPress Blogs to build, run and maintain easily and quickly. So, which plugins do you use in your WP blog, Please let me know by commenting below. You can also suggest me some plugins that’s are important, but yet I’ve not been installed and used in my blog.