It might seem so much of surprise that one-quarter of websites is currently powered by Wordpress.

Founded in 2003, WordPress has risen to become one of the most popular open-source content management systems based on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress prides itself as the most powerful and comprehensive website and blog content management system on the planet.

Regardless of the capability of WordPress, the task of creating informative and exciting content to a website remains the prerogative of content creators. WordPress Plugins, however, can be greatly utilized for proper content management, and this could make all the difference.

It should even be more surprising that there are some 44000 plugins that can be installed and used with WordPress. It is not possible nor is it necessary that all of these plugins be used, of course. However, there are some which are of crucial importance—at least for blogs and websites that need to be a step ahead of the competition when it comes to content creation and management.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that regularly creating long, high quality posts remain the most important strategy in content marketing. ​

Of all WordPress plugins WordStat can be considered the single most useful one. For it helps provide the keyword count, word count, plus even what is known as readability analysis of a website or blog content.

It also has the ability to help monitor and analyze posts from a particular author, in that it shows the type of posts, top 20 keywords, and word count of content relating to the author.

Above all, there is a diagnostic table that links posts that require attention—both old and new. These could be posts that have been judged to be difficult to read alongside the ones that have been found too short or to contain too many keywords. To summarize, here is list of some of the major things that can be done with word stat:

• Word count
• Keywords count
• Graph showing monthly word count for each kind of post
• Post type by number and percentage

In order to build creditability, it is important for contents to be unique. Apart from uniqueness, it is also of important to keep an eye on such things as keyword density, image optimization, broken links, as well as Meta tags. Whatever it might be, the WordPress plugin, PrePost SEO, provides the solution.

In short, this tool can help content creators improve on their craft, helping them to understand what a great content should and should not contain. In a nutshell, then, here is breakdown of what this particular plugin can be used for:

• Shows broken links in a text
• Counts the number of links
• Helps calculate keyword density
• Useful for analyzing meta tags
• Provides suggestion on how can content can be improved
• Can optimize the title of posts

Sometimes thinking up content for a specific niche can be a daunting task as it is quite demanding to constantly come up with high quality posts that will appeal to some target audience.

However, the WP keyword Suggest plugin of WordPress provides keyword suggestion based on search information from search engines like Google yahoo Bing and so on.

There is a downside to the use of this plugin: some results might not be related to the kind of contents a website creates. But this should not be taken to undermine the power of the tool; for it does occur often that a good portion of the results is useful.

Because posts—particularly blog posts—are made quite often, it is possible that a content manager loses track of the number of posts, the posting schedule, and could just be totally disorganized. This is the problem the editorial calendar plugin seeks to solve in that it makes for easy management of content: sharing content with the target audience at the right time and at all times.

Some features of this plugin include:

• Keeping track of when posts are scheduled to be published
• Quick check of the status of each post
• Furnished with tools for managing posts from a different authors
• It also has drag and drop capabilities

Blogs that have grown quite big will often discover how difficult it is to continually provide fresh content to an eager audience that has taken years to gather. When, this is the case, most Blogs will often find it useful to link or reference previous posts that deal with the subject matter at hand. One way to do this is to manually research the WordPress dash board to find related posts. 

It is, of course, needless, to say that this is a time consuming process, one which can be easily avoided with the search or research-everything robotic tool. Once this plugin is installed and configured, it automatically handles the task of linking related posts in the desired manner.

It is often desirable for blog content to be shared on social media platform as this helps market the content to a large audience. After all, blog content serves no practical purpose except it is shared to the largest audience possible.

Although a good number of bloggers prefer to manually post the links to their blog posts on social media, there are times when posting the links automatically might be preferred. In such times, it is possible to link posts to Facebook, for instance, using the add link to platform plugin. With this plugin, it is much easier to tell the kind of content is especially suited to Facebook.

It is one thing to create content that are optimized for search engine performance; it is another thing to create contents that will provide readers with a rich experience. Both can be achieved if one knows how to tailor posts to meet certain needs of readers.

For instance, creating internal links to blog posts has been known to provide site visitors with a rich reading experience. 

And the SEO internal links plugin makes this task very simple as it can be fully customized and, therefore, cannot negatively impact a visitor`s experience. There are a few other things that this plug can be used to perform:

• Helps in setting up personal keywords and urls
• Creates a custom keyword list
• It also has a stream lined admin panel which makes for easy usage

The Zedity plugin in WordPress is used for creating visual posts and pages which have a professional look, and it requires no programming skills at all. In addition to the impressive results it gives, Zedity is one of the most efficient and easy to use plugins whenever it is a matter of adding WordPress themes to posts or creating add unique designs.

From its editor menu, it is possible to add a wide range of design elements, moving them around and changing them until the desired look is obtained. Even though it is common knowledge that the actual word content of a most is what aids in brand building and search engine rankings, it shouldn’t escape the mind that how a post looks and feels is also important.

Zedity, which offers so much flexibility when compared to other design plugins, can be used to alter the look and feel of any page in order to make it more visually stimulating.

It is now common knowledge that posts which are furnished with related images are more appealing to most readers. But the major discouragement to blogs and websites is obtaining royalty free images related to the posts—in real time.

To salvage this situation, the Image Inject plugin of wordpress searches from the huge database of flickr.com, in order to find creative commons images that can be used to enhance blog posts. And there are other key benefits for using images in posts asides from appeal.

For one thing, it makes for search engine optimization. It also helps to break up content and this alone adds to how easily the piece can be read and comprehended. To be frank, there are certain posts that cannot be said to be excellent if they are not accompanied with pictures.

Of course, expository contents would be much better if they had in them, charts, graphs, symbols, and pictures that help drive home the point.

On a final note: the various plugins so far discussed are not by any means exhaustive; It was stated in the beginning that there are some 44000 WordPress plugins that blogs can profit from.

The ones discussed, however, rank among the most popular and versatile plugins for a website. The idea is to know how a blog should be improved and the plugins that will help with the said improvement.

In all, it possible that one finds, or, rather, decides that one or more of the WordPress plugins are not exactly useful to one`s plug. Whatever is the case, the plugins discussed deserve a second look.