Top 10 Free Wordpress Plugins of 2014
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Top 10 Free WordPress Plugins of 2014
1.GuiForm: Awesome form builder with lots of features like what you see is what you get user interface, display form in other website, no conflict with themes CSS and much more.
2.Google Publisher Plugin (beta): The Google Publisher Plugin enables you to easily use Google's products - including AdSense and Webmaster Tools - with your WordPress site. Adding AdSense ads usually requires you to generate snippets in AdSense and paste these into your site, or to manually edit PHP files. This plugin lets you place AdSense ads using a simple point-and-click UI. This beta version of the Google Publisher Plugin allows you to: • Easily add AdSense ads to your site to make money from advertising. • Verify your site with Webmaster Tools with just one click.
3.WP-DraftsForFriends This plugin will generate a unique link that you can send to your friends to allow them to preview your draft before they are published. You are able to set the expiry for the link as well. Modified from Drafts for Friends originally by Neville Longbottom.
4.PhotoPress - Gallery This plugin adds a variety of additional features to the core gallery shortcode that expand the options for specifying which images should be included in the gallery including the ability to create dynamic galleries of images that match a specific taxonomy "term". This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the PhotoPress - Image Taxonomies plugin which allows you to easily associate a wide variety of custom meta data with images. Also, the plugin can be used to create gallery containing with the featured images of any Pages/Posts (even custom post types) that you specify. This is particularly useful when creating a "Gallery of Galleries" or any grouping of Posts that you want to be styled like your other galleries.
5.Featured Image Zoom Add the [zoom] shortcode to a page, post or custom post-type entry. The featured image at the 'large' size will then be displayed on the page. When you move the cursor over the image, the image zooms to show the 'full' size featured image masked within the boundary of the image. The Featured Image Zoom plugin uses the elevatezoom script. This plugin was built to enable specific functionality for a customer project so there are no options in the initial version. Some options may be added in later versions. On my site you can see a demo of the plugin. Usage: Use a [zoom] shortcode to add a zoomable version of the featured image to your page.
6.JSJ Code Highlight JSJ Code Highlight is a simple syntax highlighter for all your WordPress code snippets. The plugin includes four visual themes to enchance the look and feel of your code. These themes (taken form Highlight.js) have been enhanced for a more contemporary feel. Above all the plugin aims to be simple and intuitive. Rather than bloating the plugin with features, the plugin has only a small set of carefully curated options to maximize simplicity and ease-of-use. The plugin includes the ability to: • Choose from a variety of themes • Choose from various mono-spaced typefaces • Add line numbers to your code automatically • Activate tab replacement for your code
7.WP Post Series WP Post Series is a lightweight plugin for making a series of posts and showing information about the series on the post page. The information box is prepended to the post content, and it can work with any theme (given a bit of CSS styling) - no setup required. Features • Add post series using the familiar WordPress UI and give each one a description. • Assign post series to your posts. • Filter posts in the backend by series. • Shows the series above the post content. • Developer friendly code — Custom taxonomies & template files.
8.Eventissimo Now into your site WordPress you can create and organize your events. • Create events • Events only date or repeat • Gallery of the events • Also generate your events on Facebook • Post Events automatically on Facebook • View Calendar of your events Multilanguage: English, Italian Use Widget for view events
9.GZip Ninja Speed Compression Very simple plugin that allows you to quickly compress and GZip your site. Only Works On Apache Servers (almost all WordPress installs are on Apache Servers). This will give you the ability to increase your speed and possibly even your rank in Google from a speed increase. Google is very transparent on their desire for your website to be GZipped, so why isn't it yet? Download, install, done. No gimmicks, no paid versions, just kind and helpful plugins for your website.
10.Subscribr Allows WordPress users to subscribe to email notifications for new posts, pages, and custom types, filterable by taxonomies. The plugin supports tons of actions and filters too! More documentation will be coming soon.
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