The document outlines ten useful WordPress plugins for bloggers, highlighting their features, benefits, and drawbacks. Plugins discussed include Floating Social Bar, Welcome Mat, Yoast SEO, Stream, Lazy Load, Google XML Sitemap, Udinra, Title Experiments, W3 Total Cache, and Sucuri Security. Each plugin serves a specific purpose, such as improving SEO, building email lists, or enhancing site performance, but some may have compatibility issues or impact user experience.

2. 10 Useful WordPress
Plugins for Bloggers

3. Raushan Jaiswal
Founder of Codewing Solutions
Co-founder of Rara Theme
Blogger
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4. Disclaimer
Neither I am associated with any of the plugins
mentioned in this presentation nor I get any benefit
from them by giving presentation about them.

5. Floating Social Bar
Social media sharing plugin

6. Floating Social Bar
Social media sharing plugin
• Floating social media
• Optimized for Speed
• Handful of social network that matters
Drawbacks
• Not good user experience in case of sticky menu

7. Welcome Mat
Email list builder by SumoMe

8. Welcome Mat
Email list builder by SumoMe
• Effective to build email list
• Easy to configure
Drawbacks
• Couldn’t disturb the users
• May increase bounce rate

9. Yoast SEO
Search Engine Optimization Plugin

10. Yoast SEO
Search Engine Optimization Plugin
• Add titles and descriptions
• XML Sitemap Creation
• Add Open Graph Meta Data
• Provide SEO suggestions – page analysis
Drawbacks
• Gives unnecessary notifications

11. Stream
Track content changes

12. Stream
Track content changes
• Track when changes were made
• Track who made the changes
• Useful for blogs having multiple users/authors
Drawback
• Load on database

13. Lazy Load
Load images only when visible to the user

14. Lazy Load
Load images only when visible to the user
• Improves page load time and server bandwidth
• Useful to blog having several images
Drawbacks
• Personally experience compatibility issues in few blogs

15. Google XML Sitemap
Generate XML Sitemap

16. Google XML Sitemap
Generate XML Sitemap
• Supports all kind of WordPress generated pages
• Supports custom URLs
• Notifies all major search engine every time new post is
created
Drawbacks
• Could cause performance issues on large websites
• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting.
Example, mediatemple.net, wpengine.com, etc.

17. Udinra All Image Sitemap
Generate Image Sitemap

18. Udinra All Image Sitemap
Generate Image Sitemap
• Automatically creates image sitemap
• Ping Google, Bing and Ask.com

19. Title Experiments Free
Split (A/B) test for multiple titles
• Write multiple titles for a post
• Discover which title has more CTR (Click Through Rate)

20. w3 Total Cache
Web Performance Optimizer using Caching

21. w3 Total Cache
Web Performance Optimizer using Caching
• More than 5 million downloads!
• Enables caching
• Improve web server performance
• Page speed improve – impact SEO
Drawbacks
• Malware issue
• Broke down some forms created by plugins
• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting

22. Sucuri Security
WordPress Security

23. Sucuri Security
WordPress Security
• Monitor security
• Offers real time alert
• Malware removal
• Website security scanner
Drawback
• Too many emails

24. Questions and
Answers