Essentials Plugins For Wordpress
Wordpress can be customized and developed by two means, in addition to the options offered by the administering panel: a theme to change the appearance, and plugins to add functions. Plugins are installed easily by storing files in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory and often add a menu of extra options.
Plugins for the content
They help to develop the features about the content of the site, to make it more dynamic in particular.
PHP and JavaScript code
If we want to add or insert code in the pages. Note that you can possibly generate JavaScript with the echo command of PHP. Inline PHP.
Image gallery
A plugin of gallery image is not required if you create post with the offline editor Live Writer: it allows you to create galleries very easily. Unless you want to add a name or description beside the photos because Live Writer does not. Awesome is an example of a gallery manager.
Plugins of presentation
They change the appearance of the blog regardless of the theme that we have installed.
Summary Articles
View a summary of articles on the home page and thus avoid duplicating the content of the articles on the home page even temporarily. This is obtained by the <!--more--> tag and for older versions of Wordpress with the Excerpt Editor plug-in.
Navigation
The plugin Pagebar replaces the words "older" and "newer" at the bottom of page by a list of numbers corresponding to sets of pages and thus allow to go to a group without shifting them one by one.
The "related posts" plugins are supposed to indicate the post in connection with the one displayed.
Plugins of site management
They complement the administering panel and add management functions.
Tag management
The usefulness of Simple tag is mainly in the overall management of tags. He adds indeed panels of administration for additional tags that will make the tag cloud.
SEO
All-in-One SEO eases engines in indexing articles. It allows to control the content of <title> tag, and possibly <description>, useful for the pages with small textual content.
Some plugins offer to generate the meta keyword for "SEO". It is unnecessary, the engines prefer to use the words in the visible text, rather than a hidden list that the visitor does not see.
Plugins on Scriptol.com
With this plugin you can add news to the home page of your website even if it is powered by another CMS.
Conclusion
Many other plugins are available to expand features of Wordpress, which can be used as a CMS and power all kinds of sites.