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Recently we published a post that showcased many of the best free WordPress e-commerce themes. If you’ve been thinking about using WordPress for an e-commerce website you may be wondering which Ecommerce plugin is the best fit for your needs. There are several different options available, and in this article we’ll look at 10 of those options. Hopefully this information will help you to find the plugin that is best for your project.



WooCommerce

WooCommerce, from WooThemes, is another extremely popular e-commerce plugin. One of the biggest benefits of using WooCommerce is that the selection of premium themes that are available to purchase. WooThemes of course sells their own themes that are ready to use with WooCommerce, but there are also a number of third-party themes that have been developed to integrate with WooCommerce.



WooCommerce can be downloaded for free, with extensions available for purchase. WooCommerce features include sales reports, control over shipping and tax charges, a customer account area, order management, product and inventory management, coupon codes, and more.

WP e-Commerce

WP e-Commerce is one of the plugins that has been around and has been popular for several years. Before many of the other e-commerce options for WordPress existed WP e-Commerce was on the scene. The plugin itself is available as a free download, with a variety of upgrades and add-ons available for purchase.

WP e-Commerce includes features like flexible coupon codes and discounts, control over shipping calculations, product and category RSS feeds, multilingual, support for multiple currencies, PayPal and Google Checkout integration, one-page checkout, admin dashboard for sales overview, basic inventory control, and much more.

eShop

eShop is a free e-commerce plugin that has been downloaded nearly half a million times. It includes features like multiple product options, basic stats and sales data, shipping and sales tax options, configurable email templates, basic inventory control, and more.





Jigoshop

Jigoshop is another long-standing e-commerce plugin for WordPress users. Jigoshop is also available for free download with premium themes and extensions that can be purchased. The themes will help you to get a professional-looking site without the normal costs associated with having an e-commerce site designed and developed. The extensions of added functionality, such as different payment gateways, marketing enhancements, and more. Some of the extensions are offered by 3rd party developers.

Features of Jigoshop include order management, a customer account area, inventory tracking, product import/export, discount codes, related products, control over tax and shipping charges, product search, and more.


Cart66

Cart66 offers a free version and a professional version with a few different license options available. The free version includes the basic e-commerce features like order management, promotions, control of tax and shipping charges, support for multiple currencies, customizable email reports, and more.

Cart66 has a few features that I think make it a unique plugin and possibly a better fit depending on the needs of your specific project. The professional version offers support for recurring payments and membership access. Also, both the free and the professional version allow you to sell products from any page or post. The professional version integrates with the popular Gravity Forms plugin, which can open up a lot of possibilities as well.

Shopp

Shopp is a premium plugin that has been around and has been one of the more popular e-commerce plugins for several years. A single-site license is available for $55 with unlimited developers plugin for $299. Features includes things like coupon codes, control over tax and shipping, related products, RSS feeds, grid and list view, order management, email notifications, integration with many payment gateways, and more.





YAK for WordPress

YAK is a free “shopping cart plugin for WordPress which associates products with weblog entries.” It supports both pages and posts in products, and customizable purchase options. Additional features include order management, configurable shipping, basic sales tax support, sales reports, promotions, and more.




Ecwid

Ecwid offers e-commerce widgets for several different content management systems, including WordPress. The Ecwid WordPress plugin is available for free download, and it integrates with your social profiles, such as your Facebook page or profile. The free plan includes all of the standard e-commerce features, and paid plans are available starting at $15 per month. Paid plans add features like discount codes, volume discounts, and inventory management.




Easy Digital Downloads

If you’re looking for a solution to sell digital products, Easy Digital Downloads is a great option. It was creating specifically for selling digital products, so it won’t include extra features that you have no use for if you are not selling physical products. It’s a free plugin with extensions and themes available for purchase. One of its biggest advantages is the simplicity, but it also includes features like discount codes, user purchase history, sales reports, file download log, and more.




WPdeposit

WPdeposit is a premium plugin that has been included on this list because it offers a unique alternative to the other e-commerce plugins. With WPdeposit you can sell credits, basically the same way stock marketplaces like ThemeForest, iStockphoto, and other stock sites sell prepaid credits. Customers then use the credits to make purchases.



Let us know below in comments if you come across any other awesome worpress ECommerce plugin so that we can include it in out list.

WordPress has quickly rose to become the world’s most widely used Content Management System. It is WordPress’s very stable system, easy to use interface, vast plugins, extremely huge community support, and security that has made WordPress the first choice of every Web Developer or User. But no system or web application is free from the security holes, undoubtedly wordpress managers are quickly bringing in the updates so as to cover any sought of security flaws but it’s the spammers and black hat hackers that remain a step ahead and use that particular security vulnerability to manipulate wordpress website’s by injecting malwares or spam.

A website if infected with virus can potentially have a big impact on your business and can affect you in more ways than you can think of. So the best solution in order to protect your website from these security issues is by installing a feature rich and very stable Security Plugin. There are actually hundreds of such security plugins that are available for wordpress but the one’s listed below in the list are the best ones and can keep threats away from your website significantly.

Better WP Security Click to Open Better WP Security Page Link.


Better WP Security is a free all in one wordpress security plugin that checks for all types of security holes in your wordpress installation and suggests or modifies it so as to prevent from any hacks. Better WP Security helps in reviewing, preventing, detecting and recovering your website from any malicious attempts or hacks. This security plugin is one of wordpress’s most popular plugins and must have if you want to keep your website safe.


Some of the key features of the plugin include: Scanning Complete Site to check for vulnerabilities and ways to correct them, ban bots, preventing brute force attacks, disable wordpress theme editing capability from dashboard area.

There are regular updates that are provided by the plugin authors and it is completely compatible with the latest WordPress Version 3.5.1 which make the plugin installation process very simple and quick.

Security Ninja-Only Paid Plugin in List Costs $10 per license > Click to Open Security Ninja


Security Ninja is the only premium paid plugin in our list of Free WordPress Security Plugins. The cost for this plugin is completely justified and hence it was a must to include this security plugin in the list. Security Ninja is available on CodeCanyon and has features like testing website on 31+ measures for security issues, helps taking preventive measures to get your website totally clean and back up. There are also a lot help guides available with the plugin that helps in resolving most common wordpress issues easily.

The plugin has been one of the most sold plugins in the Codecanyon Plugin market and is available for $10, it is compatible with wordpress 3.5.1 and plugin authors have great support.

Bulletproof Security > Click to Open Bulletproof Security


Bulletproof security is another free all in one wordpress security solution, it works in keeping your site safe from very dangerous potential threats like XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking. This plugin has been very well reviewed by wordpress users that justifies the plugin being places on top of our list.

Bulletproof Security is compatible with WordPress 3.5.1 and gets regular updates from the Author AITPro.

Wordfence > Click to Open Wordfence


Wordfence is one of the highest rated free WordPress Security Plugin in the market today. Wordfence has been able to secure thousands of websites from the hackers since its launch. The plugin is trusted by a lot of wordpress enthusiasts and this all in one plugin has features like firewall, anti-virus scanning, malicious URL scanning and live traffic check. One reason why this plugin has become huge is because it is the only plugin that can help you restore your hacked website even if you don’t have a website backup.
The Plugin is compatible with wordpress 3.5.1 and has regular updates.

Anti-Malware – GOTMLS > Click to Open GOTMLS


Get Off Malicious Scripts (GOTMLS) – As the name suggests this is a wordpress plugin that lets you remove malicious malware scripts from your website. Malware’s are one of the most common reason for a website getting hacked and this plugin does it’s work in the best way. It also updates you of the latest most dangerous malwares that are affecting the websites all over the world and lets you know the precautions that will keep you safe of those dangers. The plugin upgrades the timthumb version to cover security issues and let you run a quick or complete scan of your wordpress files so as to know if any of the wordpress core files were affected.
The plugin is completely compatible with WordPress 3.5.1.

WordPress Firewall 2 > Click to Open WordPress Firewall 2

As the name suggests WordPress Firewall 2 prevents website requests from bad malicious sources. It blocks request of website whenever the particular source computer doesn’t looks trusted. WordPress Firewall 2 is a free plugin that whitelists and blacklists pathological-looking phrases, based on which field they appear within, in a page request (unknown/numeric parameters vs. known post bodies, comment bodies, etc.).

One negative point about this plugin is that the author hasn’t updated the plugin from over 2 years so the plugin might not be the best of what it actually was anymore.

The plugin’s compatibility has been tested by users for WordPress 3.5.1 and the good news is that the plugin seems to work well on latest best wordpress.

Login Security Solution > Click to Open Login Security Solution

Most of the time’s the security of WordPress website is breached through login panel, it can be because of easy to guess password’s of admin, author or editor or by login phishing. But the good news is that this free plugin prevents and minimizes such attacks. It tracks ip address of all the users the login to the panel, if the user is not able to login with correct password the plugin make’s the user reset the password after specific attempts so that it’s sure that its actually the designated user who is trying to access the panel. All the malicious attempts of login are sent to the administrator.
Plugin works with WordPress 3.5.1

WordPress File Monitor Plus > Click to Open WordPress File Monitor Plus


WordPress File Monitor Plus scans the wordpress file to see if any changes with the file has been made and notifies the admin of any such changes so that an action can be taken over it as soon as possible. The key features of WordPress File Monitor Plus includes: sending email or notification to admin when change is noted, ability to detect files based on file hash, time stamp and/or file size, can exclude files that admin doesn’t want to scan, multisite support, etc.
Plugin compatible with WordPress 3.5.1.

BBQ – Block Bad Queries > Click to Open Block Bad Queries


Block Bad Queries prevents your website from known bad or attacking url requests. The plugin although performs a basic function but is extremely useful since most of the threats are blocked by it since it doesn’t allow your website to be accessed through any attacking request. The plugin has extremely overwhelming rating and is fast become the favorite of wordpress site owners.

NOSpamNX is completely compatible with WordPress 3.5.1
Click to Open NoSpamNX


Comment spam is one of the most common issues with wordpress default comment system. But with NoSpamNX managing WordPress comments would become extremely easy. It changes the comments fields maintaining compelete wordpress compatibility, also lot of spam protection captcha are added at the right places so that no bots can particularly spam your blog/website.

Let us know below in comments if you come across any other awesome worpress security plugin so that we can include it in out list.

Every blogger is now concerned about the loading time of their blogs/websites and that is why this topic becomes very hot among blogging community. Why not? this is very essential factor because it contributes in overall performance of your website. If your website is currently takes more time to load completely then there is a need to reduce its loading time.

If your website takes more time to load, your visitors will hate your website and ultimately you will lose those visitors. So it’s better to reduce load time of your website otherwise you will face severe effects of this issue. Images are the most important factor to increase traffic from search engines but these are also responsible of your website load time. If your website has too many images you will get more and more traffic but at the same time your website takes more and more time to load than any other simple website which has no or little images.

Many bloggers use images to get good traffic from image search engines, to explain some thing and also use images for SEO purposes. Frankly speaking, you can never eliminate the use of images from your website because of the reasons outlined above. So you have to do something new where you can use images and which reduce load time of your website. So i have compiled a list of free image optimization plugins WordPress users. All WordPress users can use these image optimization plugins which will help you to optimize your images and speed up your website.

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EWWW Image Optimizer

The EWWW Image Optimizer is a very powerfull WordPress plugin. It will automatically optimize your images as you upload them to your post. The EWWW Image Optimizer plugin automatically optimize all new images and also already uploaded images. The EWWW Image Optimizer will automatically convert your images and will produce the image with smallest size as possible without loosing the quality of that image, so the quality of your image will be exactly the same. This plugin only change the size of your image so you don’t have to worry about the quality your image. It uses jpegtran, optipng, pngout, and gifsicle tools to optimize the images. Smaller image sizes means faster page loads hence this plugin is very important and useful because it will help your website to load faster.

ImagePro

ImagePro is also very popular WordPress plugin which help you to perform smooth image re-size easily manage your media collection, change images, add multiple images and etc. The great feature of this plugin is, you can easily manage the media collection. ImagePro plugin will also simplify the default WordPress process of image upload and insert.

Lazy Load

Lazy Load is a good, intelligent and popular WordPress plugin and is totally free. This plugin works on lazy load images which help to improve your website load time. Lazy load plugin uses jQuery.sonar to load only an image which is necessary. It loads images when these are visible in the viewport. Rating of this plugin is 4.6 out of 5 stars. Lazy load plugin will help you to improve your website load time and reduce your server’s bandwidth to a great extent and also ensure you don’t lose your visitors.

WP Smush.it

WP Smush.it plugin offers an API that performs optimizing JPEG compression, convert GIFs to indexed PNGs and strip unused colours from indexed images which are recommend by many search engines specially Yahoo. When you add images these will automatically run through Smush.it. Basically Smush.it compress your WordPress images automatically without compromising the quality of your images. This plugin will automatically compress your existing images and all new uploaded images.

SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a very popular WordPress SEO plugin. This plugin automatically put proper Alt and Title attributes in your all images if your images do not have any Alt and Title attributes already set. This plugin is very useful because with this plugin you can get more traffic from search engines. Alt attribute is very essential for images and very crucial factor because search engines first see Alt attribute to find images against any search query. We recommend you to use this plugin with Lazy Load or WP Smush.it plugin for better image optimization.

We hope that this article helped you to use Image Optimization WordPress Plugins To Speed Up Your Website. Feel free to leave a comment below!

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the hottest topic for every blogger. Actually most of the blogger struggle to get more and more traffic to their blog from search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and etc) every day. Most of the bloggers are still keep their focus on delivering true value oriented content. WordPress is very popular, quite powerful and flexible publishing platform and WordPress plugin community values SEO and strong focus on doing SEO right. It has developed a number of plugins to help WordPress blogger to increase their search traffic. Search engines may not understand how relevant your content is to the specific search query, if you don’t have any SEO plugin or you don’t even know about SEO. Also read this article: What is SEO?



Here are Top 10 popular useful SEO plugins making your blog even more powerful from the SEO point of view. These plugin will also help you to optimize your post titles and description  tags and tell search engine’s spider what to work on. If you choose and use the right SEO plugin for WordPress, it will help you how to do SEO, to stay in the high online competition. Doing any SEO related task highly depends on your SEO needs and your own skills. So truly speaking, your own skills also matter in SEO. So make sure you know well about SEO and you are familiar with every things which have relation with SEO. On-page SEO optimization is one of the most important concern which you must address if you want to get high traffic from search engines and high page rankings. Basically it make very simple and easy for spiders to understand the relevance of your content to specific search queries. Although this is a very complex and technical process and many blogger don’t have enough knowledge about it and that’s why fails to attract many visitors. However WordPress is doing a lot of the work to solve this issue but this is where SEO plugins comes into the role.


There are many SEO plugins available that either not useful or on extreme fails to work. So you should always bear in mind that not all of SEO plugins work. It is not easy to find the right and best SEO plugin because it requires extensive knowledge of SEO and also requires time to search. The plugins listed below are those which are highly recommended by the professionals and developed by the SEO experts. Make sure to read the installation guides before proceeding.

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All-In-One SEO Pack

All-In-One SEO is one of the most popular SEO plugins with more than 12 million downloads and have a good ranking. Most of professionals and SEO experts specifically recommended to use this plugin because it has lots of SEO features. It helps you to choose the best post title and automatically optimizes your post title for search engines. It also help you to choose the best keywords and automatically generates meta tags. All-In-One SEO allows you to override your default post title and set SEO optimized description and keywords. It is very user friendly so you don’t need to worry that if you are a beginner. Both beginners and experienced blogger can use it and utilize all of its options and features.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

This SEO plugin is one of the best known SEO plugin and favorite of many WordPress bloggers. It provides a variety of options and features including a snippet preview and a page analysis that enables your blog to get high traffic and good page rank. A snippet preview will allow you to check how your page appears in the search results. On the other hand page analysis will help you to optimized Post titles, descriptions, keywords, content, images titles and much more. This will also provide guidance on SEO best practices whenever you write any thing in your post and allows SEO learners to learn how well posts are optimized using a visual overview. It’s other features include: it can, create XML site maps, clean up permalinks that direct back to your blog, fully customize breadcrumbs and etc. This plugin helps the beginners and contains advanced tools that are aimed to give you full control over search engine optimization (SEO).

SEO Friendly Images

Images attract many visitors and are good source of traffic. Search engines properly index those images which have alt’ and ‘title’ tags so ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags are extremely important for images. This plugin helps you to make sure that you have added ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags in all of your images so that search engine’s spider (robots) can properly index your images and don’t penalize your blog. Google will penalize your blog if your images don’t have any ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags. This plugin is Very easy to use, Includes help tips and beginner friendly.

HeadSpace 2 SEO

HeadSpace 2 SEO is also very powerful SEO plugin because it also provides a variety of options and great features. This plugi give you the full control over page titles, meta-data, meta-descriptions, keywords and tags. So you can install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to your blog/website’s pages and It also suggests tags for your posts. Although this plugin requires some knowledge but still beginners can make useful SEO optimization on their pages. If you become familiar with this plugin and know how it works, how to use it and how to work on it then i am pretty sure it works wonder.

Google XML Sitemaps

This is a free plugin and an essential tool for every WordPress Blogger. This plugin is a great site map generator that creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Google and also by other search engine’s spider like Ask, Bing and Yahoo. Basically this XML-sitemap help Google and other search engine’s spiders (robots) to index and crawl your WordPress website’s pages and posts. This plugin is very important SEO best practices.


Platinum SEO Pack

This plugin is very popular and contains very useful features. Its great features are automatic ‘meta tag generation’ and ‘automatic 301 redirection’ for your permalinks changes. Many professional suggest this plugin and many bloggers are actually using this plugin as it help to optimize post titles and pages of your website for search engine’s spiders.

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin is very useful and essential for your website because it has awesome collection of SEO tools that will enable boost your website search engine traffic. This plugin allows you to use SEO optimization features to make your website SEO optimized. This plugin includes a title tag re-writer, meta tags Editor, meta keywords editor and meta description editor. You can understand all of these feature by visiting SEO Ultimate (SEO plugin) Website.

Automatic SEO Links

Automatic SEO Links plugin is a great tool for every WordPress Blogger who has forgotten to add links. This plugin will allow you to select a phrase for automatic linking, add links across an entire webpage and choose if it should be “dofollow” or nofollow. Read more about ‘Dofollow’ And ‘Nofollow’ links.

SEO Rank Reporter

This plugin is a pretty useful for WordPress. It is vital for a blogger to track the page rankings, so this tool will help you to track your Google rankings. SEO rank reporter helps to monitor ranking for specific keywords and provide reliable reports every three days o you can easily check ranking with useful information and graphs provided by this plugin.

SEO Smart Links

Interlinking (also called internal link building  your post can be the key to getting more visitors to read more of your blog posts. But sometimes it is ime consuming to do so. This plugin will automatically interlinks your posts when you command it that what words to link to what URLs. You can also tell it what links should be ‘nofollow’ and/or Open in New Window. This plugin is very useful and beginners friendly.

We hope that this article helped you choose best SEO plugins for WordPress to your WordPress blog. Feel free to leave a comment below!