New year 2013 has arrived. I am wishing you happy new year. Today I decided to share 20 Best WordPress Plugins That I Used In 2012.
Here I am providing you the list of all the WordPress Plugins that I personally used in 2012 both free and paid, these plugins are best for SEO and Design and are MUST HAVE plugins.
Premium Best WordPress Plugins
Adds CommentLuv links to comments, protects you from spam, encourages twitter followers, adds keywords to names and increases traffic and community!
2. MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate
This plugin Automatically convert keywords on your blog into money making affiliate links. Also manage, track, cloak and shorten unlimited number of affiliate links from one central location of Maxblogpress Ninja Affiliate. This plugin helped me alot in saving my time and managing all affiliate links. Ninja plugin is a must have plugin for serious affiliate marketers.
3. Freebie Subscribe To Download For WordPress
Tap into your sites traffic and turn it into a newsletter / email list super builder! I’ve used this plugin to send iThesis template to those who signup to my email list.
Free Best WordPress Plugins
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Prevent virtual directory listing services from listing the contents of directories, and/or show a page in place of a directory’s listing. This plugin is one of the Must Have WordPress Plugins to protect directories.
6. Google XML Sitemap for Images
This plugin will generate a XML Image Sitemap for your WordPress blog. Just After installing this plugin Open the settings page to create your image sitemap.
Excellent plugin with lot of features. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
Easily display related content on your website. Very easy to configure and install.
9. Author hReview
A perfect plugin to boost affiliate sales and to write a great review. Add support for hReview and AggregateRating based on schema.org.
Generates a valid Google XML sitemap with a very simple admin interface
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).
12. WordPress SEO
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
13. Facebook Page Promoter Lightbox
All your visitors should know about your facebook page and tell their friends. With this plugin you can display a preconfigured Facebook Page-Like Box inside a lightbox. This plugin is still helping me to get more likes on my ABT Fan page.
14. Comment Reply Notification
When a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired.
Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
Must have WordPress Plugin to protect blog from hackers and limit the login attempts. It Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP.
17. RDFa Breadcrumb
RDFa Breadcrumb outputs fully customizable breadcrumb path. This plugin has inbuild RDFa markup, so google rich snippet will show breadcrumbs in search results. After activating, It started showing breadcrumbs in search result within 12-24 hours for this blog.
An elegant and easy way to present your posts, grouped by year and month. You can see live demo here.
19. WangGuard
Best plugin to stop spam registration. WangGuard protects each web site in a personalized way using information provided by Administrators who report sploggers world-wide, that’s why it’s very important that you report your sploggers to WangGuard. The longer you use WangGuard, the more effective it will become.
20. WP Smush.it
It Reduces image file sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.
So these were 20 Best WordPress Plugins That I Used In 2012. Don’t forget to share this post on social networks. I’m sure your followers will find it helpful! 
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What about you? Which and How many WordPress Plugins you’re using? Do let me know in comments.
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I have used most of these plugins but I have never used SEOPressor as it is paid plugin. Thanks for sharing your plugin collections
Welcome Ahsan!
hey..!!
nice plugins definitely use some of ur plugins.
btw ur sexy bookmark plugin url in not working….:)
pllss redirect it want to download that plugin or else mail it to my id.
Thank you..:)
Its working fine dude. You can also download it from here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/
Out of this, Jetpack is awsome..! You didn’t use Yoast SEO ?
Yes, I am using it. Its name is “WordPress SEO” by Yoast
which is better ?
all-in-one-seo or wordpress SEO
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WordPress SEO Yoast
I’m currently using 18 plug-ins on my blog. The premium plug-ins are WP SEO Ninja, CommentLuv Premium, Popular Posts Bar and Pippity plug-in.
Among free plug-ins I’m using some from the above list. I have one question to you, why you are using both the All in SEO and WordPress SEO by Yoast?
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Yes, I was using both but from last 4 months. I am only using Yoast!
My wish is to use SEOPressor. However currently I would like to use MobilePress from your list bro.
Can we use 2 or more than 2 seo plugins on a single wordpress blog .
Better only use 1!
Using more than one SEO plugin may cause conflict and mystification.
Btw, Ammar bro, good list.
i also use Jetpack and Yoast plugin on my blog…..its just awwesome
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Great collection of WordPress plugins you have listed here. This are some on the essential needs of a successful WordPress blogs. Thanks for listing them out.
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these are so many plugins. . don’t your site get speed issues bcz of so many plugins??
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Nope. These are just 20 plugins including Cache plugin. SO still my site is loading fine. no?
Doesn’t matter. Even if you’ve hundreds of plugins, doesn’t matter until those are coded-well.
Exactly! Thanks for your input Mairaj!
Many of the plugins I already use and some of them are new to me which I will surely use on My WordPress blog, well WP Super Cache Plugin is also good as an alternative of W3C.
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I have used most of the free plugins you have mentioned and now i wana have the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate.
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If you wish you can use my affiliate link. http://allbloggingtips.com/recommends/ninja
Sure Ammar. I will buy through your affiliate link.
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Hi Ammar, very good collection of plugins. Thanks for sharing and plz tell me how to make my links index in Alexa? I am making links but Alexa does not index them.
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I think it will take time to update.
WoW @Ammar. I have need this type “Comment Reply Notification” plugin for my blog. and You have solved my problem. I got it in this post. Really Nice collection and all plugins valuable and useful…………
But can you say me. How many Plugins I can install in my blog?
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Its up to you. Try to use as less plugins as you can.
Thanks Amaar for awesome plugins list, most of them were new to me.
Will give it a try.
~@Khajamoin1
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Dear i’m using all in one seo pack.. Is Wordpress SEO by Yoast is best ???
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Yes, WP SEO Yoast is perfect. Much better than all in one SEO.
Great post ! For me, Google XML sitemaps and W3 total cache are essential plugins to keep my blog running smoothly. I am going to try out a few of these plugins that you recommend to see how well they work for me.
Thanks
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Thanks for this list, Ammar. It is good to know what plugins other bloggers are using. I am also using most of the free ones you have listed but mbp ninja affiliate is the only premium one.
Good luck to you for 2013, may this year be much better for you.
Hi Ammar
Did you do anything after activating WP SmushIT on your site? Is there anything that needs to be done after installing?
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yup, After you activate plugin goto Media -> Bulk Smash.It
or you can see the setting page here http://yourWPsite.com/wp-admin/upload.php?page=wp-smushit-bulk
Ok great. Done. Times out after 20000 millisec.
Do you use DiggDigg on your site? I can see a floating bar on the left. After I upgraded to WP 3.5, it suddenly disappeared from my theme. Using Twenty Twelve theme
This year, I removed diggdigg, Instead I’m using custom code for floating social sharing buttons!
Care to share the code?
Does it have any effect on page load speed?
The code is specially made for this blog ABT.
But, you can visit this link http://goo.gl/wUPDI
and if you still face any issue. Use contact form of this blog and drop me email.
Thanks Ammar for the great List… I use Jetpack , W3 Total Cache and Wordpress SEO… Do u think All in one SEO is better than Yoast?
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No,
Yoast is best and is much better than All In One SEO. I’m using Yoast!
hmm Thank You bro
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All plugins are very good. But this list is too big, if all installed , the website may not afford the heavy load. you’re not supposed to install ALL of them. Many offer duplicate functionality anyway. The point is to use this list to find the best plugins suitable to your site.
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Smart Archives Reloaded plugin is not working. I am using genesis.
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try clean archives
Bro I think contact form 7 is not important because there is already a feature on Jetpack like this.
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