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Home » Best Free WordPress Plugins 2013: Who To Trust?

Best Free WordPress Plugins 2013: Who To Trust?

I've been experimenting with a new blog, and I've been struggling to choose the best free WordPress plugins available in 2013.

As I'm sure you know, the deeper you dig into the 26,000+ WordPress plugins, the trickier it gets. For one thing, you don't want to install a plugin that hides a malicious script that spreads spam.

If you go overboard and install too many plugins, you can slow down your site.

Then there's the problem of wondering whether your blog will break if you install a plugin or new theme, and then upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

You could simply go to WordPress.org and choose the most popular or highest rated plugins, but there's no guarantee you'll actually end up with the BEST ones. Old plugins that have been around for years skew the voting.

So I decided to narrow the choices by seeking out the opinions of four highly successful, veteran affiliates – Rosalind Gardner, Neil Shearing, Rae Hoffman and John Gibb – to find out which free WordPress plugins they think are the best.

Here's what they use and recommend. To make it easy to find the plugins, I've added a summary and brief description of each one.

Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner, successful affiliate, author, speaker, affiliate coach, and Internet marketing consultant, recommends:

Akismet (free for personal blogs)
BackWPup
Broken Link Checker
Breadcrumb Navigation XT
Contact Form 7
Deactivate Visual Editor
Dynamic Content Gallery
Exec pHp
FAQ-Tastic
Allow HTML in Category Descriptions
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Login Lockdown (not updated in over 2 years)
Mass delete unused tags
Platinum SEO Pack
Popshops
Quick Cache
Search and Replace
Search Everything
Shareaholic | share buttons & related posts
Sharebar
Subscribe to Comments
Theme Test Drive
WP-EMail
WP Simple Firewall
WP No Category Base
WP-Polls
WP-Print
WPtouch
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

(Rosalind also uses a variety of Genesis plugins, designed to go with the Genesis Framework, a premium theme, which adds a lot of versatility to WordPress and has dozens of beautifully designed themes.)

“What I've found is that as WordPress steadily improves, its creators and WordPress theme developers incorporate the most useful plugin functions,” Rosalind told me.

“For example, in using the StudioPress Genesis themes, I have been able to eliminate some navigation plugins such as those used to create breadcrumbs and menu navigation.

Warning About Broken Link Checker

“I've discovered that some plugins should be used with caution, such as the Broken Link Checker,” Ros says. “It was sending so many 'empty clicks' to Commission Junction merchants that they sent me a warning letter to suspend its use. Now I use it sparingly and deactivate the plugin when not in use.”

UPDATE: Ros says that list makes her look like a plugin fanatic. “I should have mentioned that I don't use all of them on each of my blogs.”

Neil Shearing

Neil Shearing, successful affiliate and author, recommends:

Broken Link Checker
Contact Form 7
Flash Video Player (not updated for 2 years)
Google XML Sitemaps
Minimum Word Count
Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
UpdraftPlus Backup
W3 Total Cache
WordPress SEO
WPSocialite
WPtouch

“I don't generally like having a huge number of plugins,” Neil says. I suspect that the more plugins you have, the more they clog up your WordPress database like too much software on your desktop machine slows it to a crawl.

“Some I use rarely, for specific tasks, such as the Broken Link Checker, and some I use just because I'm too stubborn to remove them and they still work, like Google XML Sitemaps (its functionality is also in WordPress SEO),” Neil told me.

“Some may have been superceded, like WPtouch if you use a “responsive theme” which changes depending on how it's viewed. Although, those themes are more likely to be ‘premium' than freebies. I would be more likely to embed a YouTube video now than use Flash Video Player, so that's pretty much “legacy” too. The others I still use.”

Rae Hoffman

Rae Hoffman, AKA Sugarrae, successful affiliate, SEO consultant, speaker, and CEO of Pushfire, recommends:

WordPress SEO
Ad Injection
Display Widgets
Broken Link Checker

“My top free plugin that I use the most is the Display Widgets plugin,” Rae says. “I wrote a post about it here How to Create Targeted Sidebar Advertisements (Without Using Code) but essentially, I love the flexibility of being able to show or not show widgets depending on the page the user is on – and the intent of said page.

“And while there are several widgets that offer this option, Display Widgets has the most functionality without being daunting – meaning it doesn't need a manual to learn how to use,” she says.

“I use it to target advertisements as I discussed in that post, to run specific AdSense channels and also to detract attention on a sidebar where they're already where I want them to be (AKA they're on a ‘money page') or ATTRACT attention when they're on a popular page that doesn't have a money focus within the content.”

John Gibb

John Gibb, successful affiliate, affiliate coach, and owner of hundreds of blogs, recommends:

All in one SEO
Better WP Security
Facebook Comments For WP
Redirect
Vixy YouTube Embed And Download
WP Captcha Free
W3 Total Cache
Google Sitemap
Comment Luv (for some blogs)
Compfight

300 Blogs Hacked
 
John was stressed out, dealing with problems when I contacted him.

A few days later, he said:

“Recently, I had over 300 blogs hacked and deleted. Since then, I now use a low cost plugin called Sick Network, which helps keep my blogs secure and updated with a few clicks. You can manage 200+ domains from one simple dashboard interface.”

Also because of the multiple hackings, John is now using the free Better WP Security plugin, which helps protect your WordPress installation from attackers. It hardens standard WordPress security by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files via htaccess, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting attack attempts, and more. It will email you when a file changes on your site.

Fortunately, John had backups of those hacked blogs.
 
“I was using Backup Buddy, but do manual backups for large blogs, with my tech support. I am going to get ManageWP soon and run that alongside Sick Network,” John said.

(Using ManageWP, you can manage, update, and back up all your WordPress sites from one dashboard. You can upgrade all your WordPress blogs with one click.)

“I will use Sick on a portion of domains, and ManageWP on a portion of domains. Sick is not so good for backups though – seems to freeze.”

John says free backup plugins are available, but with the amount of volume he has, he would rather just pay for premium services and plugins.”

Joost de Valk (Yoast)

A BIG question for many bloggers is: “Which is the best plugin for SEO?”

An old favorite free WordPress plugin, All in One SEO Pack, has been downloaded 14.9 million times, compared with 5.5 million for the newer WordPress SEO by Yoast. However, Yoast's plugin has been voted a higher average rating.

Which is better?

Search Engines News, a search engine optimization resource I've trusted for years, chooses the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast (Joost de Valk), narrowly over All in One SEO Pack.

To me, that makes Joost an SEO expert, so I've included his plugin recommendations here, too. (You can find his WordPress SEO recommendations here.)

Joost de Valk recommends:

WordPress SEO (naturally, it's his plugin!)
W3 Total Cache
SEO Friendly Images (free and paid versions available)  
WP-PageNavi
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Comment Redirect (by Joost de Valk). Looks good but not updated for over 2 years.
Google Analytics for WordPress (by Joost de Valk)

Summary (in alphabetical order)

FREE PLUGINS

DESCRIPTION AND COMMENTS

Ad Injection “This free plugin can take a little getting used to, but it's fantastic for inserting ads with varying factors on your blog,” says Rae.
Akismet Hugely popular anti-spam plugin (comes free with WordPress)
All in one SEO Pack A good free plugin for basic on page SEO, says John.
Allow HTML in Category Descriptions When you add text to a category description, WordPress strips out all most of the formatting. With this plugin, any HTML you add to the category description will not be deleted.
BackWPup You can schedule easy and complete automatic backups.
Better WP Security “Due to hacking, I am now using this plugin,” John says. It helps protect your WordPress installation from attackers… Hardens standard WordPress security by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files via htaccess, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting attack attempts, and more.
Breadcrumb Navigation XT “Generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress blog. Used on all of my blogs … You don't need this if you're running StudioPress or Thesis as it's built into those themes,” says Rosalind.
Broken Link Checker It spiders and checks all your links for broken ones. Neil was surprised to find thousands of broken links on his blog. It's useful, but use it sparingly and deactivate the plugin when you're not using it, says Rosalind.
CommentLuv Helps you encourage comments by giving links back to other people's most recent blog posts. “I use this on websites where I am aiming to build a long-term following,” says John.
Compfight “Lets you easily add images you can use on your blogs (legally),” says John. It helps you find Creative Commons licensed photographs.
Comment Redirect Redirect commenters who have just made their first comment to a page of your choice. On this page, you could thank them for commenting and ask them to subscribe to your blog, like you on Facebook, or whatever you want. (Not updated in over 2 years.)
Contact Form 7 Simple and flexible way to create contact forms.
Deactivate Visual Editor Deactivates the visual editor for a specific page or post by a custom field set by the author. “For use with Exec-PHP to ensure that you don't break your php code,” Ros says. (Not updated in over 2 years.)
Display Widgets “I love the flexibility of being able to show or not show widgets depending on the page the user is on,” Rae says.
Dynamic Content Gallery Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content posts, categories, pages and Custom Post Type posts.
Exec-PHP Executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets. (Not updated in over 2 years.)
FAQ-Tastic An easy way to build an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section on your site.
Facebook Comments For WP “This one, when set up right, will allow your readers to comment using their Facebook accounts,” says John. “Since many people practically live on this site nowadays, it's good to have it integrated.”
Flash Video Player “Lets me stream Flash .flv files from my blog,” says Neil. “I use it a lot less nowadays as I prefer to embed YouTube movies after uploading the .flv files there first … this one is old and hasn't been updated for a long time, so you may want to skip it.”
Google Analyticator Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics data display.
Google Analytics for WordPress Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author and category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews. By Yoast.
Google Sitemap Plugin Good for a sitemap and gets you indexed fast, says John.
Google XML Sitemaps “Google checks for the sitemap often, so why not add it to your blog in a few clicks with this plugin?” Neil says. (It's needed if you use WordPress SEO by Yoast, because that plugin includes an XML Sitemap module.)
Jetpack by WordPress.com Heaps of features (comes free with WordPress).
Login Lockdown Limits the number of login attempts from a given IP range. (Not updated in over 2 years.)
Mass Delete Unused Tags Tidy up your blog by deleting unused tags.
Minimum Word Count You can set a minimum word count required to publish a post. You can exempt administrators.
Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions Clean up your database: Options include: Delete redundant revisions of posts and pages, delete trashed posts, pages and comments, delete spammed comments, delete unused tags, etc. “This is the plugin that helped me shrink my WordPress database by over a THIRD in just a few clicks,” Neil says.
Platinum SEO Pack This SEO plugin allows you to specify keywords, description and more, says Ros. “I use it most often to specify a title that is more search engine friendly than the one used on my posts.” (Not updated in over 2 years.)
Popshops “Use to build product feeds with affiliate marketing networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale, LinkConnector, buy.at, Pepperjam and more,” says Rosalind.
Quick Cache Speed up your site. Quick Cache takes a real-time snapshot (building a cache) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc., for faster loading of pages.
Redirect Helps protect (cloak) affiliate links and you can track your conversion, clicks to certain products/merchants etc., John says. (Not updated for over 2 years.)
Search Everything Adds versatility to the basic WordPress default search. “I use this specifically to exclude pages from my search functions,” Ros says.
SEO Friendly Images “It can automatically add the title of the post and or the image name to the image's alt and title tag,” says Joost. (free and paid versions)
Shareaholic | share buttons & related posts Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu and related content widget.
Sharebar Adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites.
Subscribe to Comments Allows commenters to subscribe to email notifications for subsequent comments.
Theme Test Drive Safely test drive any theme as an administrator, while visitors use the default one.
TweetMeme Button Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
UpdraftPlus Backup Easy and complete backups and restoration. Manual or automated backups. You can do backups to a variety of places. Neil uses it to make backups to Dropbox.
Use Google Libraries Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google's AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from WordPress's own copies.
Vixy YouTube Embed And Download “Lets you integrate YouTube videos easily. I always use it on my blogs,” John says.
W3 Total Cache “A bit of work to set up, but that should make your blog an awful lot faster,” says Joost.
WP Captcha-Free “Blocks comment spam without using captchas. Will never block all spam, though,” says John.
WordPress Simple Firewall Protects your blog with a fire wall and your WordPress login against bots and brute force attacks.
WP-PageNavi “You'll want to make sure that if a bot goes to a category page, it can reach all underlying pages without any trouble,” says Joost. Otherwise, if you have a lot of posts in a category, a bot might have to go back 10 pages…” This plugin solves the problem.
WP No Category Base Removes the mandatory ‘Category Base' from your category permalinks (e.g. ‘/category/my-category/' to ‘/my-category/').
WP-DB-Backup WordPress database backup. (Not updated in over 2 years)
WP-EMail Allows people to recommend/send your post or page to a friend.
WP-Polls Add a poll into a blog post or page.
WP-Print Provide a printable version of your posts or pages.
WPSocialite Faster loading pages. “Unlike a lot of social media plugins, which load the images along with the page and make loading slow to a crawl, you can set WPSocialite to load the images when a visitor scrolls down a page,” says Neil.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin “One way of getting search engines to get to your older content a bit easier, thus increasing your WordPress SEO capabilites a LOT, is by using a related posts plugin,” says Joost.
yaCAPTCHA Helps you block comment spam from bots. (Not updated in 2 years.)

If you try adding any of these plugins, I recommend you try one at a time, and then check to see if anything has broken. Because I'm not a programmer, I avoid ones that haven't been updated for years.

If you try any backup/restore plugin or software, it would be wise to do a trial backup and TEST the restore function. You wouldn't want to discover AFTER a disaster that the restore function doesn't work!

What do think? Are these the best free WordPress plugins?

I'd love to see your comments.

Aug 1, 2013Allan Gardyne
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Comments: 21
  1. Jim Czarny
    5 years ago

    Thanks for the WP Plugin overview! I have 3 sites and I believe I might of bloated each site with needless plugins. I am a bit leary of deactivating some plugins as they might affect a few pages I have used to evaluate the plugin. I believe I'll have to deactivate plugins one at a time to see the effect. Anyway, thanks for the plugin summary!

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  2. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi John, Thanks again for your help on this project. Let's hope your bad experience helps warn people to protect their blogs from attack.

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  3. David Murray
    5 years ago

    Many thanks for this Allan. I've recently been doing a plugin rationalisation on my major sites. It's been surprising to see what a variety has built up over the years. Your lists have introduced me to several options that I hadn't previously seen, and the comments from other experienced users are very helpful. Thanks again.

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  4. John Gibb
    5 years ago

    Hi Allan, Another fantastic article. Nice to see my contribution and how you pieced it all together - great stuff my friend. This should be a reference point for all aspiring affiliates... Hope you deliver more of these value driven articles over the coming months ;)

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  5. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi Robert, Expression Engine looks interesting. I see it has lots of modules and plugins. What's the learning curve, compared with WordPress? Is it a tool for the average blogger, or do you need certain skills?

    In my experience, WordPress isn't really "free" - you pay for web hosting, a domain name, and one or two premium plugins to make WordPress more useful. You fiddle around learning, and then you pay someone else for an instruction manual. :)

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  6. Hawareyaw
    5 years ago

    I was actually looking for these type of Plugins but free.

    Thanks for condensing all of them here. I will look forward to studying some of the plugins and use for my site.

    thanks again

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  7. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi Jake, Thank you! I must admit the article took me a lot longer to do than I expected. I'll be using it as a reference, too.

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  8. Jake
    5 years ago

    Thanks so much, Allan, for doing all this legwork and sharing your results here. While I don't do much work with WordPress lately, your reviews on this page are a fantastic reference if and when I restart some blogging or related WP consulting in the future.

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  9. Eva
    5 years ago

    Hi Allan,

    Really useful - many thanks for taking the time to gather all this info together. So many plugins around. Good to know what is actually working for people.

    Cheers, Eva

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  10. Evelyn Guzman
    5 years ago

    Thank you so much for this.  As always you over delivered.  I will try some of them, one at a time as you suggested and see what happens.

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  11. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi Robert, Just one point... These days you CAN use WordPress to build a site containing thousands of pages. One way is to use a premium theme like Genesis Framework from StudioPress, which I bought recently.

    Once you get the framework, you can choose from dozens of beautiful and professional themes. For example, if use the News theme, you can create heaps of categories and sub-categories for articles. It's very flexible.

    Sorry, I deleted all your links to articles about Expression Engine. This is a discussion on WordPress plugins. :)

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  12. Robert C -The Wholesale Guy
    5 years ago

    Good question. Yes, there is a learning curve. And, no, it is probably not for the average person or blogger. I know little about HTML or CSS and I am told that it is a must if I were to buy it. However, being the stubborn person that I am, I will probably buy it anyway, despite my lack of knowledge. Because, well, I am stubborn like that - lol.
    While I can't get into all the features of EE the few things I will say about the CMS is that it is more flexible then WP. You can do more with it.
    You can add thousands of pages, where, I think, in WP you don't have that option. There are more things then just that of course, but like I said, I will let the articles explain. 
    Yes, WP does offer ease of use. And yes, you have to pay for a domain and hosting, but I guess my main point was that it's popularity make it a target for those looking for for a hostile take over of a particular site. Where as EE's security problems have a minimum blue print. In addition, I thought that if a person like John can afford the hosting and domain costs of 300 sites, then why not buy a few sites, concentrate on niches where you can add thousand of pages with just one license and much less security hassles. I don't know how much designer or web progamming knowlege he or any other super affiliate has, but I am almost sure that the people developing their sites could do the job for them. If they are familiar HTML or CSS already then most of the battle is already won. 
    Less sites, less money on hosting and domains. Win,win - I think! I know people have their own vision of what works for them, and I dare not lecture anyone who is making thousands from their marketing methods. Just thought this would be a better way to go..
    Again, stay excellent..Love your newsletter
    Robert C
    [Links deleted.]

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  13. wally
    5 years ago

    Thanks so much Allan for taking the time to compile this very extensive list of WP plugins. I will definitely be adding some of these.

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  14. Robert C - The Wholesale Guy
    5 years ago

    Ah, very good. I will have to look into that. Did not know you can go that deep in the page arena with Genesis.

    Once again, I am educated by your due dilligence and experience.

    Not to worry about the links. It's your world - I just live in it - lol............Robert..

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  15. Robert C - The Wholesale Guy
    5 years ago

    I understand why so many people use WP. It is free, has tons plug-ins and can be relatively easy to install. However, the downside is the fact that it is open source, extremely popular, and has become a magnet for hackers.

    I know WP does it's best to provide updates. But plugging up the security holes usually happen after the fact and can be somewhat on the slow side to materialize.

    And even when they are found someone finds another exploit, and yet another tale of WP hacking ensues. Who knows when the next update will appear that will fix that particular problem.

    I can't imagine losing hundreds of blogs like John Gibb. I lost one site to Google's Penguin just in keywords and I am still bummed about it - lol..

    In addition, like you have said, you never know what malicous script might be hiding in the various plug-ins that are supplied to WP tool chest...

    I just have come to the conlusion that if you want to avoid this type of impending headache just build a good solid site with a paid CMS like Expression Engine or any paid CMS that is not open source. I will bet that not too many people reading this post have even heard of Expression Engine!

    They have a vibrant community and you pay about 300 bucks for the license and seperate charges for plug-ins but it is worth the peace of mind. They have very few security problems (not that they are immune from hacking) and they are taken care of swiftly.

    Just type into bing or google "how to hack a word press site" and "how to hack an expression engine site" and see how many listings you get. There is one video that explains on You Tube how to hack into any word press blog in less then five minutes!

    Yes, there are related some hacking problem with EE, but some of them are minor and not as detailed in their instructions as they are with WP.

    Also, there are no videos (at least as far as I can find) that show you how to hack a Expression Engine site in "five minutes".

    I know not everyone can afford paid CMS. But large affiliates like the ones mentioned in your article, "Best Free WordPress Plugins 2013: Who To Trust?" should be able to easily.

    I just read too many stories like this of WP hacks and the laundry list of plug-ins that have caused folks problems. Free sometimes is not. It comes with a price. And John Gibbs looks like he paid a hefty one...

    Just sayin..

    Stay excellent Allan..

    Robert..

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  16. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi Jac, Thanks very much for the useful tip! It's good to know that Limit Login Attempts still works.

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  17. Jac
    5 years ago

    Hi,

    Love that you provided with some plugins I hadn't considered.

    With the increase in WP hacking attempts, I found that using something as simple as Limit Login Attempts, you can decrease the chances of getting your WP Site hacked into. Though it hasn't been updated since 06/12 it still works like a charm on my sites.

    (http://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/)

    Thanks for a great article

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  18. Switchtoecig
    5 years ago

    Just want to thank you for this article. I've been building my websites with SBI and WP. Now, I've got used to SBI which is a good system for us non-tech types, but I have some issues with the plethora that I have to learn when using WP. This type of content shortens my learning curve. So, thanks a bunch again.

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  19. lee
    5 years ago

    I see it has lots of modules and plugins. What's the learning curve, compared with WordPress? Is it a tool for the average blogger, or do you need certain skills?

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  20. Allan Gardyne
    5 years ago

    Hi Lee, With the SBI system, there IS a lot to learn, because you're learning how to build a long-term, online business, with options of generating revenue in a variety of ways.

    However, there's a 10-part Action Guide which takes you through it, step by step, and videos, too, for people who prefer to learn by watching instructional videos. For about 10 years, I've been recommending SBI because of the high quality of the training you get as part of the package.

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  21. Sharad Gupta
    3 years ago

    Nice list for useful WP plugin ..
    Yes the free version of plugins also having great capacity to increase bog performance ..

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