With thousands of WordPress plugins floating around on the web today it has been one of my goals over the past 2 years to research, test, and review my experiences with these plugins and to attempt to locate the very best of the best. While I am by  no means finished with my “WordPress Plugin Exploration” I wanted to compile my findings into one location to make it easier for you.

10 WordPress Plugins That Will Inadvertently Boost Your SEO Efforts

Some WordPress plugins were specifically created to improve a site’s SEO. But in this article I wanted to list the WordPress plugins that primarily serve one purpose while benefiting your SEO at the same time. An example of this is the WP Super Cache plugin. While it’s primary purpose is to improve page load speed on your blog, you get secondary benefits in your SEO rankings because you are improving page load speed.

The Only 4 WordPress Security Plugins You Need

Protecting WordPress from getting hacked can be a daunting task if you don’t know the right plugins to help you with the job. In this article I talk about the 4 best plugins to help you beef up your security and the specific reasons why you want these plugins. Keep your blog from getting hacked (it happens more often than you might think) and install these open source plugins ASAP.

5 Most Useful WordPress Mobile Plugins

So you are probably already hearing the talk around town about how this Internet world of ours is going “mobile!” Well it’s true! More and more of your potential visitors are accessing web pages through their mobile browsers. This means in order to continue traffic and readership growth for your blog you need to “go mobile” as well. Well this is easier/cheaper than you might think. In fact it’s as cheap as free and as easy as installing a plugin or two.

10 Killer WordPress Social Media Plugins

There are so many WP plugins to choose from revolving around Social Media integration with your WordPress blog. Which one’s do you choose? Well that depends specifically on your needs. I break down each of the tested and proven plugins and help you decide which ones you should install. Be careful with Social Media plugins. They are a “dime a dozen” these days and you need to make sure you only install the most trusted ones.

4 Innovative A/B Testing Plugins for WordPress

A/B Testing is all the hype these days. It used to be reserved for companies with large budgets and IT staffs. But now with the free Google Website Optimizer and a few free WordPress plugins, you can setup A/B tests on your blog quickly with no cost to you. Test everything from headlines and images within your blog posts, to theme design elements such as your logo and banner ads.

Warning: 6 SEO WordPress Plugins You MUST Have

Ok you caught me… the Warning is just to get your attention. But this is an article that you do not want to miss at least scanning through. I’ve broken these plugins into two categories 1) you are crazy if you don’t install these and 2) optional yet still great to have.

12 WordPress Plugins To Help Your Readers Find Your Best Content

After blogging for a couple years you will find that you have SO MUCH content that sometimes it can be difficult for your readers to find your best stuff. Great content can be buried by your consistent production of new blog posts and articles over time. You may want to display the most commented articles to your readers in the sidebar so they can see where the conversations are at. You may want to display specific categories to your readers to expose them to certain topics that you want to become an expert on etc.

Oh… And Who Could Forget These Plugins!

These 4 articles are 4 of the most-read and commented-on blog posts in this entire blog. So rather than explaining each one individually i’m going to just link directly to them and not waste any more of your time. If you are looking to add to the overall functionality of your WordPress CMS, that is where they plugins come in to play. Check em out!

1. 7 WordPress Calendar Plugins
2. 9 of the Best WordPress Video Plugins
3. 5 Best Choices for WordPress Forum Plugins
4. 8 Cool WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins

Hope you enjoy these articles. I do my best to keep them updated month after month so that we can call rely on this information in the future. If you have a moment please retweet/like/stumble any articles that you thought were helpful to you. Cheers!