Since Wordpress is one of the richest and most user-friendly
content management systems available, our Chicago web designers decided to
blog about another group of plugins we love for Wordpress. Wordpress originally impacted
the web design industry by being a free and very customizable software. The
amount of extensions and plugins available make the platform truly one of a
kind. With hundreds of Wordpress plugins available, it may be overwhelming to try
to find exactly what you’re looking for, but regardless you will end up finding
a variety of options to choose from. Our web designers in Chicago have compiled
an extension to a previous post, Awesome Wordpress Plugins, so here’s our
second list of awesome Wordpress plugins:
Akismet
Unfortunately for our Chicago web designers and many other
Wordpress fanatics, Wordpress is not flawless. It has been brought to our
attention that Wordpress-based blogs occasionally have issues with spam
messages being posted in the comments section. As a Chicago web design company
that likes building websites in Wordpress, we grew concerned about the
issue. We started seeking out plugins to
help in case we have an issue with spammy blogs. We found a plugin called Akismet that works
wonders when you want to ensure all unwanted comment posts are kept far away
from your Wordpress blog.
Slider Revolution
Responsive
At the moment, we are in the middle of a website redesign of
our own company’s website. We are currently moving our site to WordPress to
create more functionality and help improve our search engine optimization.
While planning our new redesign, we couldn’t find the perfect front slider for
our homepage. Our web designers eventually found the WordPress plugin, Slider
Revolution Responsive. This plugin creates a responsive and mobile friendly
slider for your WordPress page. This allows you to display animation effects
and it can be very easily customized.
Quform
There is no need to use online form generators that charge
your company a monthly fee when you install the Quform plugin for your website.
This plugin allows web designers to create totally custom forms in a very short
amount of time. The setup and maintenance is very easy for WordPress users and
gives users total control over their forms. Our designers in Chicago now have
the ability to create a fully functional form without even touching any code.
Styles with
Shortcodes
If your building your own WordPress site or customizing a
theme, it may be hard to stay consist between all of your pages and blog posts.
With the Styles and Shortcodes plugin, users can easily create short codes to
generate consistent style between each of their pages. If you are a graphic designer
that is not fully familiar with PHP, CSS or Javascript, this plugin can
definitely help you out a ton. Style your website and content faster and easier
with shortcodes.
wpStickies
As demonstrated on Facebook, pictures may be easier to
identify if they are tagged images. Just like tagging photos on your Facebook
page, web designers can tag pictures on their web creations with a premium
image tagging plugin called wpStickies. Not only is wpStickies a highly
customizable plugin for your WordPress page, it is also deeply integrated with
WordPress. The best thing about this particular plugin is how compatible the it
is with most web browsers. With this plugin, our designers in Chicago can also
allow users and visitors to tag photos on their pages.
Which Wordpress plugins are your favorites? Feel free to leave us a comment or contact us.