{"id":13437,"date":"2012-04-21T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2022-10-18T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:13:04","slug":"essential-wordpress-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Useful WordPress Plugins You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, just about everyone can consider themselves a blogger. The tools and plugins made available online are making it even easier to break into the blogging scene. Competition is rife and you might do well to get help from any source you can find.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways is to get yourself plugins that will help make certain processes smoother for you and your readers. There are plugins for various purposes including to aid caching and image optimization, SEO, anti-spam, commenting, content-sharing, bookmarking and so on.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I have compiled a list of WordPress plugins that WordPress users might find a use for. Instead of searching in the Internet jungle, take your pick from the list of plugins below. The plugins are free unless stated otherwise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wordpress-tweaks-for-post-management\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: 29 WordPress Tweaks to Enhance Posts and Pages\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">29 WordPress Tweaks to Enhance Posts and Pages<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/wordpress-tweaks-for-post-management.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-71063 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/wordpress-tweaks-for-post-management.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">29 WordPress Tweaks to Enhance Posts and Pages<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWordPress is a fantastic CMS, but sometimes its default settings, especially how posts are displayed, might not fit...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Shortcut to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#cache\">Caching plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#seo\">SEO plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#antispam\">Anti spam (security) plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comment\">Comment plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#social\">Social-bookmarking plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#stats\">Statistics plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#backup\">Backup plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#forms\">Forms plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"cache\">Speed\u00a0Up & Caching\u00a0Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/cloudflare\/\"><strong>CloudFlare<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 CloudFlare ensures better protection of your blog from spammers. It shows the correct IP addresses of commentors who are commenting on your blog. You can protect your site from online spammers and hackers, and it helps your website load faster as well.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/\"><strong>WP Rocket<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 An all in one WordPress optimisation plugin to improve your site performance with page caching, cache preloading, static files compression, CDN, and many more.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/\"><strong>W3 Total Cache<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 W3 Total Cache is a complete WordPress caching plugin available. It can improve your website\u2019s performance by caching the pages, objects, minifying the databases by content delivery network support. <\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-smushit\/\"><strong>WP Smush.it<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin reduces the file sizes of the images by using the Smush.it API from WordPress. The images are compressed almost without any loss and automatically in WordPress. It also has features to compress multiple images in bulk.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/\"><strong>WP Super Cache<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 WP Super Cache is a very fast WordPress caching plugin that generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. So instead of loading the heavy PHP scripts of your blog, your visitors will be served with these static html files which will make your blog appear to load faster.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/cache-enabler\/\"><strong>Cache Enabler<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 A fast and efficient plugin for page caching and page compression. The plugin is compatible with WordPress Multisite, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/autoptimize\/\"><strong>Autoptimize<\/strong><\/a>, WP-CLI, and works with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keycdn.com\/\"><strong>KeyCDN<\/strong><\/a> out fo the box.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/hummingbird-performance\/\"><strong>Hummingbird<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin optimise WordPress site by addressing several key metrics in Google PageSpeed Insights such as gzip text compression, minify and defer unused CSS, defer JavaScript, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/pantheon-advanced-page-cache\/\"><strong>Pantheon Page Cache<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 this plugin applies an advanced cache mecahnism that not only enables page caching but also allows you to accurately purge the cache more accurately.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simple-cache\/\"><strong>Simple Cache<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin makes enabling page caching simple with just a one-click instead of dozen of complicated configuration options. But you going more with the advanced option to enable object caching with Redis or Memcache.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-redis\/\"><strong>WP Redis<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Enables WordPress to cache MySQL query to Redis. The plugin adds several new WP-CLI commands where you can enable or disable, and interact with Redis CLI.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/redis-cache\/\"><strong>Redis Cache<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Another good plugin to connect enable object caching in WordPress. On top of that, it supports some advanced stuff of utilising Redis such as Replication, Sharding and Clustering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"seo\">SEO Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/all-in-one-seo-pack\/\"><strong><strong>All in One SEO Pack<\/strong><\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin is the first choice for new and inexperienced WordPress users, who want their blogs to be fully Search Engine Optimized without digging deep into SEO. It provides you with almost every function needed in just a single page.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/google-sitemap-generator\/\"><strong>Google XML Sitemaps<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This Google XML SItemaps plugin generates XML sitemaps for your WordPress blog, so that it becomes easy for crawlers like Google and Bing, to index your site better.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seopressor.com\/\"><strong>SEO Pressor (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin is a great WordPress plugin that can make on-page optimization easier than ever. It will take care of almost every single on-page factors of your posts and can help your site rank higher in the search results.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/codecanyon.net\/item\/smart-seo-wordpress-plugin\/224446?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=AA-Team\"><strong>Smart SEO (Premium) <\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This is a very simple SEO plugin that can make your blog SEO friendly with the SEO Scores it geneates for every single page. It has a very simple and effective admin panel that can seamlessly integrate into your existing WordPress admin panel.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\"><strong>WordPress SEO by Yoast<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This is one of the most complete WordPress SEO plugins available so far. You can perform almost any SEO functionality for your blog with the help of this invaluable plugin by Yoast. Not to be attempted by new users though. <\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/seo-by-rank-math\/\"><strong>RankMath<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Dubbed as the Swiss Army Knife of SEO plugin for WordPress, this plugin features, not only tools for SEO, but also Social Media Optimisation, Redirection tool and management, AMP and ACF support, and many more that will help on optimising your website to get larger audience out reach in both search engine and social media.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/autodescription\/\"><strong>The SEO Framework<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 SEO plugin providing the essential features to get your site optimised for the search engine. It\u2019s fast, features a clean UI, extensible (check out <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theseoframework.com\/extensions\/\"><strong>the extensions<\/strong><\/a>), and ad-free.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-seopress\/\"><strong>SEOPress<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Aside of the essential features to do SEO, this plugin enables you to work with Excel or Google Spreadsheets that allows you to do the optimisation more efficiently.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/slim-seo\/\"><strong>Slim SEO<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 A full-featured SEO plugin that aims to simplify doing SEO with WordPress. It has take care of most configuration automatically, so you do not need to deal with the complex options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"antispam\">Anti Spam and Security Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/akismet.com\/\"><strong>Akismet<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Akismet is possibly the best way to protect your website from web spam. Akismet filters comments and trackback spam, so that you can focus more on managing other important things. It runs on autopilot and provides 24-hour protection. <\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/antispam-bee\/\"><strong>AntiSpam Bee<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 AntiSpam Bee is a spam protection plugin that is made up of sophisticated techniques to handle digital rubbish and protect your website from every potential threat.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordfence\/\"><strong>Wordfence<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Full-featured Security plugin for WordPress. It provides firewall that\u2019s capable of identifying and blocks malicious traffic, checking core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/zero-spam\/\"><strong>Zero Spam<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Plugin that\u2019s capable of blocking 99.9% of spam without sacrificing user experience with captcha or other difficult questions.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/better-wp-security\/\"><strong>Better WP Security<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 A plugin that allows you to enable essential security measures for your website, such as rewrite the login URL, changing the database prefix, , in just clicks of buttons.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpscan\/\"><strong>WPScan<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Use this plugin to scan your WordPress installation on a daily basis to find security vulnerabilities in the plugins, themes, or the WordPress core itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"comment\">Comments Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/commentluv\/\"><strong>CommentLuv (Free\/Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Comment Luv helps you to increase comments and traffic to your blog and also gives the opportunity to your blog of going viral in Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. It also reduces spam, shows stats of links being clicked, allows commentors to use their name in comments, and many more.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/\"><strong>Disqus<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Disqus is a powerful commenting system that helps you to build an active community of users by effective tools and features like Realtime Comment System, Social Integration, The Community Box, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/intensedebate.com\/\"><strong>IntenseDebate<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 IntenseDebate is a commenting system that has features such as innovative discussion tools that can make conversations more fun and increase reader engagement.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-ajax-edit-comments\/\"><strong>WP\u00a0Ajax\u00a0Edit Comments<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin enables users to edit their own comments within a certain period of time. Users can also move, mark as spam, blacklist, moderate or delete a particular comment.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/comments-like-dislike\/\"><strong>Comments Like Dislike<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Easily add the Like and Dislike button to WordPress native comment system. You can configure the button placement, the icons, and the colors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"social\">Social Bookmarking Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-any\/\"><strong>Share Buttons by Lockerz\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Share Buttons make sharing articles in your site easy and simple, by providing a drop-down menu with more than 100 social networking and bookmarking sites to choose from and share to.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/novashare.io\/\"><strong>Novashare<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ocean-social-sharing\/\"><strong>Ocean Social Sharing<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"stats\">Stats Tracking Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/clicky\/\"><strong>Clicky (Free\/Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Clicky is a real-time web analytics for tracking your website\u2019s visitors. It has great features like Real Time Analytics, Visitor Segmentation, Twitter Analytics, Mobile Version, Video Analytics and many more.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/codecanyon.net\/item\/google-analytics-multisite\/22730562\"><strong>Extended Google Analytics for WordPress (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics tracking for your WordPress blog. It has other features like event tracking for downloads, tracking of outbound links and linking Adsense to analytics.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-site-kit\/\"><strong>Google Site Kit<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 An official plugin from Google to connect your site to multiple Google products and get a comprehensive insights. This plugin, at the moment supports these tools: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/about\"><strong>Search Console<\/strong><\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/start\/\"><strong>AdSense<\/strong><\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.google.com\/\"><strong>Analytics<\/strong><\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagespeed.web.dev\/\"><strong>PageSpeed<\/strong><\/a> and the Tag Manager.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-stats\/\"><strong>WP Stats<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"backup\">Backup and Database Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ithemes.com\/purchase\/backupbuddy\/\"><strong>BackupBuddy (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 BackupBuddy is a complete solution, which can backup, restore and migrate WordPress sites with ease. It can backup your entire WordPress as well as install, restore it with a single click, or migrate from one domain or server to another in a few clicks.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vaultpress.com\/\"><strong>VaultPress (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 VaultPress by Automattic is considered to be one of the best WordPress Backup and Security plugins for \"Every post, picture, and page. Every comment, revision, and setting. Everything.\" in the market. It is perfectly suitable for personal, professional, small and medium business sites.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-dbmanager\"><strong>WP-DB Manager<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin allows you to repair, backup and restore your databases. It also supports automatic scheduling of backups and optimization.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-optimize\/\"><strong>WP-Optimize<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 WP-Optimize is a simple yet effective WordPress cleanup plugin, which can clean your databases and optimize it without phpMyAdmin. It can optimize databases by removing post revisions, spam and unapproved comments.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-migrate-db\/\"><strong>WP Migrate DB<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin that allows to migrate a database from one site to another easy and fast. The plugin is developed for scale so regardless the size of the database it\u2019ll be able to handle it seamlessly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"forms\">Forms Plugins<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/\"><strong>Contact Form 7<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Contact Form 7 plugin is a simple and flexible plugin that you can use to manage multiple forms, customize and mail its contents. It can also be punched with Akismet of CAPTCHA for spam filtering and so on.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/cf7-grid-layout\/\"><strong>Contact Form 7 Grid Layout<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 this plugin add a capability to Contact Form 7 that allows you to arrange the form with a Grid layout with a user-friendly interface.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/\"><strong>Gravity Forms (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Gravity Forms is one of the best contact form plugins that can enable you to quickly design and edit forms right from your WordPress admin panel. It has various features like conditional logic, entry management, notifications, styles and layout, and many more that can give your forms a unique feel.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/codecanyon.net\/item\/quform-wordpress-form-builder\/706149?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=ThemeCatcher\"><strong>Quform (Premium)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Quform is an easy way of building forms in a few clicks using the drag and drop form builder. This plugin ensures that you have the best form design and functionality without having to touch a single line of code.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ninja-forms\/\"><strong>Ninja Forms<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin features a friendly drag-n-drop interface with more than 27+ type of fields. You can build almost any type of form from a simple contact form, regsitration form, MailChimp form, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/everest-forms\/\"><strong>Everest Forms<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 This plugin comes with a collection of pre-built templates and layouts allow that allows you to beuatiful unique forms.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/caldera-forms\/\"><strong>Caldera Forms<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 A very powerful WordPress plugin to create a form. It features an intuitive drag-n-drop interface, a handful of field types, conditional logic, auto-responder, and a built-in anti-spam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, just about everyone can consider themselves a blogger. The tools and plugins made available online are making it even easier to break into the blogging scene. 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