Awesome Wordpress Plugins (Part 2)

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.