20 Useful Wordpress Plugin to use

20 Useful Wordpress Plugin to use
In the matter of Wordpress powered sites there are a lots of plugins you can find to make your site beautiful plus those plugins are somewhat very useful for use. Here such useful and fancy wordpress plugin listed, let’s read on to know what plugins I’m talking about-

(Social network dedicated)

1. Facebook
Add Facebook social plugins and the ability to publish new posts to a Facebook Timeline or Facebook Page. Official Facebook plugin.

Features-
  • Open graph protocol markup optimizes your content for social sharing and rich story previews on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Mixi, and more
  • Display large images, link to author pages, and improve story distribution through social news feeds
  • Facebook insights (Track rich audience data powered by Facebook profiles (age, location, language) and see how your content is shared on Facebook)
  • Add like, follow, send button every content
  • Embed facebook post, composer, creating a shortcode, calling a function from your theme
  • Facebook social comment box enabling, login support for AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! accounts
  • Recommending bar for recommending posts and encouraging Like shares posts and encouraging Like shares
  • Configure your Facebook application for Open Graph action news publishing support for improved Facebook distribution of author Timeline stories and news-specific highlights
  • Customize and extend the plugin through custom actions and filters

2. WP to Twitter
Auto-posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or blogroll, with your chosen URL shortening service

Features-
  • Use tags as Twitter hashtags
  • Use alternate URLs in place of post permalinks
  • Support for Google Analytics
  • Support for XML, RPC remote clients
  • Url shorter  t.co service
  • Pro service has much more

3. Floating Social Media Icon
Easy to Use Plugin 2 Show Social Media Icons That Floats,Can Configure Social Icon Design, Order & Size at Plugin Settings, Support Widget & Short

Features-
  • 20+ Icon Styles, Set Icon Size & Order
  • Multiple Widget & Shortcode Support
  • Auto/Manual Integration
  • Enable/Disable Floating
  • Less Load - Essential Social Medias Only
  • Pro service has much more functions

4. Pinterest "Pin It" Button
Add a Pinterest "Pin It" Button to your site and get your visitors to start pinning your awesome content!

Features-
  • Let the reader select an image when pinning.
  • Pre-select an image for the reader to pin.
  • Default to the first image in the post.
  • Specify a specific image to pin per post.
  • Pick from official "Pin It" button colors and sizes.
  • Hide the "Pin It" button on specific posts and pages.
  • Add a "Pin It" button to your sidebar or footer as a widget.
  • Place "Pin It" buttons anywhere using shortcodes.
  • Pro service has much more options

5. Login radius social login
Let your users log in, comment and share via their social accounts with Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vkontakte, QQ and over 25 more!

Features-
  • Users can register by logging in with social ID such as Gmail, Twitter, Facebook etc and they will not require usernames/passwords
  • Choose as many ID Providers as you want
  • It automatically creates account for the users after logging in with their existing IDs
  • Fully compatible with s2member, Buddypress and bbPress
  • Choose social icon themes and login interface (widget) design
  • API connection check feature for error notification, REST API access and HTTPS support, Validate API key and secret Enable, API connection check
  • Allow users to post comments with their Social Accounts, The comment will appear with users name, his/her avatar image and link to his/her profile
  • Options to add social sharing widget on homepage, posts, feeds, content pages, etc plus Choose social sharing interface designs
  • Enable email verification of end users, Fetched data include Email addresses, name, date of birth, etc
  • A nice and clean user friendly WP admin U/I with tab structure with various options for social login, sharing and commenting
  • Custom Login Redirection i.e. set a URL to redirect your users after logging in, Custom Logout Redirection i.e. set a URL to redirect your users after logging out
  • Pro service has much more functions

(Better customization on theme dedicated)

6. SlideDeck 2 Lite Responsive Content Slider
Create responsive content sliders on your WordPress blogging platform. Manage SlideDeck content and insert them into templates and posts

Features-
  • Responsive slider plugin that lets you easily create content sliders out of almost any content
  • Connect to a variety of Content Sources like YouTube, Flickr, WordPress posts and Pinterest to create gorgeous, dynamic sliders in a few clicks
  • Embed video several source supports
  • Unlimited slidedeck add into a post
  • Pro upgrade has lot more function

7. Meta Slider
Easy to use slideshow plugin. Create SEO optimized responsive slideshows with Nivo Slider, Flex Slider, Coin Slider and Responsive Slides.

Features-
  • Flex Slider 2 - Responsive, 2 transition effects, carousel mode, Nivo Slider - Responsive, 16 transition effects, 4 themes Responsive Slides - Responsive & incredibly light weight, Coin Slider - 4 transition effects
  • Simple, easy to use interface - perfect for individual users, developers & clients
  • Built in Widget and Shortcode
  • Create Responsive, SEO optimised slideshows in seconds, Unrestricted support for Image slides (supports caption, link, title text, alt text)
  • WordPress Multi Site compatible,  Fast, only the minimum JavaScript/CSS is included on your page
  • Simple, easy to use interface - perfect for individual users, developers & clients, Extensive
  • Developer API (hooks & filters)
  • Full width slideshow support, Drag and drop slide reordering

8. JQuery Mega Menu Widget
Creates a widget, which allows you to add drop down mega menus from any WordPress custom menu using jQuery

Features-
  • Hover/Click - Select the event that activates the sub-menu. Note that if using "Click" the parent menu links will be disabled
  • Skin - Several sample skins are available to give examples of css that can be used to style your own mega menu
  • Animation Effect - The effect used to display the drop down menu. Options are slide down or fade in
  • Animation Speed - The speed at which the dropdown menu will open/close - selecting "No Animation" will immediately show/hide the menu
  • Set Sub Menu To Full Width - If checked, the drop down mega sub menu width will be 100%

9. Sticky Header by ThematoSoup
Sticky Header by ThematoSoup allows you to add sticky header to any WordPress theme

Features-
  • Menu - You need to create at least one navigation menu before you can add it to Sticky Header. The menu in Sticky Header shows only first level items, so no submenu items will be shown
  • Logo - You can upload your sticky header logo by clicking on "Upload new" > "Select a file". Ideally, this logo should be 30px tall or it will be resized. If a logo image is not uploaded, site title will be used.
  • Custom background, text color
  • Sticky Header max width - This option allows you to match interior Sticky Header width to your content area width
  • Make visible when scrolled to - This is the distance from the top of the page at which sticky header will show, in pixels
  • Hide if screen is narrower than - Sticky header will not be shown on screens narrower than this value, in pixels. When people use mobile devices, they're used to vertical scrolling so it's not necessary to have sticky headers

10. WYSIWYG 3D Drag And Drop Visual HTML Editor & Web Page Builder
WYSIWYG 3D Visual HTML Editor & Drag And Drop Web Page Editor With CKEditor,
Desktop Publisher For WordPress

Features-
  • Build themeless pages inside the wordpress environment
  • INline HTML Editor CKEditor, 600+ Google fonts. Drag and drop images, Gradient Backgrounds.
  • Drag and drop text, videos, embeds
  • All Editor Items Click And Move, Graphical user interface
  • Load WordPress template inline editing, Load Personal templates for inline editing
  • Text fonts, Text Size, Text color, Text shadows, Text spacing, Text line spacing, Text align
  • Box back ground color, Box borders, Box border colors, Box border sizes, Box padding, Box rounded corners, Box transparency, Box drop shadows, Box border styles, Box border widths, Box Resizing - Just click and pull
  • Picture resizing, Picture transparency, Picture underlay, Picture overlay, Picture Gallery, Image Drop Shadows, Image Borders, Image Border radius- Just click and pull
  • Layers adjust levels, Layer naming, Layer positioning, Layers linkable, Layer height levels, Layer visibility toggle, Layer deleting
  • Floating palettes, Side palettes Undo step, Redo step and Auto backup
  • Inline editing, Get HTML HTML Source, Mini HTML Editor, Full HTML Editor
  • Embeds for adding html layers, Embeds for paypal, Embeds for youtube

(Media dedicated)

11. NextGEN Gallery
It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import Meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more

Features-
  • Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries
  • Edit galleries. Add or exclude images, change gallery title and description, reorder of images, resize thumbnails
  • Thumbnail Management. Turn thumbnail cropping on and off, customize how individual thumbnails are cropped, and bulk resize thumbnails across one or more galleries
  • Edit Individual Images. Edit meta data and image tags, rotate images, and exclude images
  • Watermarks. Quickly add watermarks to batches or galleries of images
  • Albums. Create and organize collections of galleries, and display them in either compact or extended format
  • Multiple Gallery Types. Choose between two main display styles: Slideshow and Thumbnail, and allow visitors to toggle between the two. Or display Imagebrowser galleries and Singlepics
  • Slideshow Galleries. Choose from a vast array of options for slideshows, including slideshow size, transition style, speed, image order, and optional navigation bar
  • Thumbnail Galleries. Choose from a wide range of options to customize thumbnail galleries, including 5 different lightboxes for individual images, optional thumbnail cropping and editing, thumbnail styles, captions, and more
  • Single Image Displays. Display and format single images, Work with Options Panel or Shortcode

12. Easy FancyBox
Easily enable the FancyBox jQuery extension on just about all media links. Multi-Site compatible. Supports iFrame and Flash movies

Features-
  • All other image types and image maps, SWF (Flash) movies, SVG media images
  • WordPress Galleries, NextGEN galleries
  • Youtube galleries via Youtube Simple Gallery plugin, Vimeo, Dailmotion
  • Hidden inline content
  • iFrames, PDF files
  • Auto-popup on page load, links inside Gravity Forms in ajax mode

13. Responsive Lightbox
Responsive Lightbox allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices

 Features-
  • Select from 4 responsive lightbox scripts (SwipeBox, prettyPhoto, FancyBox, Nivo Lightbox)
  • Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image galleries
  • Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image links
  • Automatically add lightbox to WordPress video links (YouTube, Vimeo)
  • Option to display single post images as a gallery, Enter a selector for lightbox
  • Highly customizable settings for each of the lightbox scripts
  • Multisite support

14. Video Thumbnails
Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template

Features-
  • Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template
  • When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and locate the thumbnail for you
  • Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically
  • There's even support for custom post types and custom fields!

15. WP Tiles
WP Tiles shortcode adds fully customizable dynamic tiles to your WordPress posts and pages

Features-
  • WP Tiles are automatically generated based on your 20 last posts, can be modified
  • Posts are automatically shown with either their featured image, the first attached image, or the first image found in the post itself
  • Posts that don't have an image automatically get a background color, randomly chosen from a selection of colors set in the options panel of WP Tiles
  • WP Tiles comes with a couple default tile-templates

(Other fancy option's dedicated)

16. Google Analyticator
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics.Includes widgets for Analytics data display

Features-
  • Supports Universal (analytics.js) and traditional analytics (ga.js)
  • Includes an admin dashboard widget that displays a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches
  • Includes a widget that can be used to display visitor stat information on the front-end
  • Supports outbound link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress
  • Supports download link tracking
  • Supports event tracking with outbound links / downloads instead of the old pageview tracking method
  • Support site speed tracking
  • Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides, Supports localization -get the settings page in your language of choice
  • Installs easily - unlike other plugins, the user doesn't even have to know their Analytics UID, Ability to hide Google UID dropdown
  • Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides, Provides complete control over options, disable any feature if needed
Star Rating System for WordPress - the most beautiful & user-freindly Thumb & Star ratings for WordPress

Features-
  • Secure Connection (Fraud protection)
  • No Ads in votes overview pop-up
  • Lots of rating icons
  • Most Rated post and other sidebar widgets
  • Remove (i) icon from Ratings
  • Pro version has many more features

18. WP Google Maps
The easiest to use Google maps plugin! Create custom maps with high quality markers containing locations, categories, descriptions, images and links

Features-
  • Super easy to use, Latest Google Maps API (V3), No advertising or links
  • Create as many map markers as you need by simply typing in the address, Edit your markers with the click of a button
  • Responsive maps, UTF-8 character support
  • Map can be included as a widget
  • Google Maps Street view supported, Support for localization
  • Define your own width, height and zoom level for your Google Map
  • Choose from four Google maps types: roadmap, terrain, satellite and hybrid
  • Add animations to your map markers!
  • Pro version has lot more function

19. Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup
Give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website with Fancier Author Box, The Only Author Box Plugin You'll Ever Need

Features-
  • Links offers Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & automatic Google Authorship verification (rel=author), LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, Vimeo, Job title(position), Company, Company URL
  • Show in posts (above, below, both, none), Show in pages (above, below, both, none), Show in custom post types (above, bellow, both, none)
  • Bio - This is a standard author bio description. It uses your Gravatar image and allows you to put social profile icons
  • Latest Posts, Shows number of latest posts you specify and dates
  • Inactive Tab, Inactive Tab Border, Inactive Tab Background, Active Tab, Active Tab Border,
  •  Active Tab Background, Tab Content, Tab Content Border, Tab Content Background

20. Infinite-Scroll
Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page

Features-
  • Works out-of-the-box for many popular WordPress themes,  just activate the plugin and scroll
  • Fully customizable to adapt to your site and theme
  • Requires no (hopefully) template hacking, only a knowledge of CSS selectors
  • Relies on shared database of common themes to simplify installation process
  • Maintain local database of theme presets for all installed themes (shared across network on multisite installs)
  • Countless API endpoints to modify the behavior
  • Backwards compatible: Will not break RSS readers, mobile devices, or browsers with JavaScript

May be you using some of these plugins, if you still didn’t tried, lets try today :) got recommend some fancy useful plugin you use don't forget to mention....

13 Best Forum CMS/Script to use

13 Best Forum CMS/Script to use
Forum or bulletin board is the best way to start discussion with your website or product's user, clients or Just chilling out with a phenomenon, problem or solutions. To create a forum website you need to make a platform by coding, Or you can just use ready-made forum CMS (content management system). Here I've made a list for best forum CMS (platform) or bulletin board script/software. All forum cms gathered here are easy to use and management plus high end performance and satisfaction. Just read on the list, click on the names to get more information, download and use.

13 Best Forum CMS/Script to use



V Bulletin (Paid)
The best professional and business forum cms/software. You can find it anywhere all over the internet. They got customer like Nasa, Sony, Stream

Satisfaction:
  •     Real-time integration
  •     Extensive personalization (lot of third party themes)
  •     Content generation
  •     Mobile optimize
  •     Easy management ability to launch site under 15 minutes
  •     Integrated Seo
  •     Built in strong security
  •     Customer support
    (more)

Price starts from 249$-399$. Trial available

Invision power (Paid)
Another superb paid forum cms what trusted by thousands of forum large and small! It has lot of feature and good support.

Satisfaction:
  •     Effective discussion comprehensive tool to discuss effortlessly
  •     User engagement
  •     Flexibility
  •     Superb customization
  •     Tool for promoting and sharing media stuffs on website
  •     Build in .htaccess, brute force protection, Xss protections
  •     Customer supports
    (more)

Price starts from 30$ to 175$. Trial available

Mybb (Free)
Mybb has super easy to use interface. Standard discussion board structure what made with a motto ‘both for you and your visitor's' very popular and so on!

Features
  •     Have an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads - and anything else!
  •     Mysql Full text search capabilities
  •     As many copies as you like, one database.
  •     Completely customizable with our intuitive templates and theme system
  •     Install or create as many different languages on your forum as you please
  •     Developed in PHP, compatible with MySQL, PgSQL, and SQLite v2 and v3 database servers
  •     Powerful user control panel
  •     Custom profiles and settings per user
  •     Custom profile fields
  •     Advanced private messaging system with tracking and multiple folders
  •     Reputation system allowing members to rate each other
  •     Signatures, avatars, buddy and ignore lists and forum subscriptions
  •     Attach multiple files to a single post
  •     Automatic thumbnail generation for attached images
  •     Click-able smiles and BB Code
  •     Quick moderation options for moderators
  •     Email notification of new posts
  •     Create polls with multiple options and attach them to threads
  •     Multi-quote - quote multiple posts easily in one reply
(more)

Phpbb (Free)
The most widely used open source forum cms or bulletin board in the world. Millions of people use it to build small or huge corporate forum.

Features
  •     Modular design for the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel, and User Control Panel
  •     Support for multiple database management systems,
  •     Support for unlimited levels of sub forums
  •     Ability to create custom-defined BBCode
  •     Ability to create custom profile fields
  •     Permissions system
  •     UTF-8 Support
  •     User Preferences (customizable themes)
  •     Seo (Search Engine spider Handling)
  •     Unread message tracking
  •     Private Message System
  •     Statistics
(more)

Smf (Free)
Smf stands for Simple machine forum. Free and professional grade cms package what allows your own online community within minutes!

Features
  •     Comprehensive template system
  •     Advanced permission and user management.
  •     Supports multiple languages at once.
  •     Open and well documented source code.
  •     Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.
  •     Designed for optimal performance and scalability.
  •     Multimedia output.
  •     Multi language support from a large community.
  •     Package manager that automatically installs or uninstalls mods
  •     Search the entire forum, a category/board or within a topic.
  •     Search within your private messages.
(more)

Bbpress (Free)
Runs on Wordpress, Honestly wordpress is the only platform that can be shape in any cms. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; underneath the gleam, it’s got some powerful features and is highly customizable

Features
  •     Open Source, always and forever
  •     Simplicity is a feature
  •     Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience
  •     Put the user first
  •     Highly customizable as always!
(more)

AEF (Free)
Aef stands for Advance electron forum A Bulletin board or forum software what is more than meets the eye. More features, more customization and so on.

Features
  •     UTF-8 Supported
  •     Seo Tools
  •     IP Ban
  •     W3C Validated
  •     News System with articles
  •     Shout Box!
  •     Threaded Mode for topics JS DOCK (for easy navigation)
  •     WYSIWYG Editors
  •     Customizable Themes
  •     Multiple Languages supported
  •     Time Zone Adjustment
  •     Automatic Updates
  •     Export Files and Database
  •     Suggest Framework for usernames while writing Private massages
  •      Domdrag (for reordering Categories, Forums, emoticons A new feature included for the first time ever in a forum software)
(more)

Punbb (Free)
PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU (General Public License). Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards

Features
  •     Extension system based on hooking technique. One click extension installation, 
  •     No need to modify forum's code anymore.
  •     Full UTF-8 support.
  •     More customizable styles, template system.
  •     New layout: markup, Css, language files updated, markup helper functions added.
  •     URL rewriting schemes, nice URLs built-in.
  •     Split/merge topics functionality.
  •     Multiple groups for moderators allowed.
  •     Searches are now case-insensitive, extern.php improved, more global, 
  •     Per-group and per-user options added.
  •     Certain "bad" characters are silently stripped out from the text input.
  •     Got rid of extras folder
  •     Hot fix system based on extension system for quick bug fixes.
(more) 

Xmb (Free)
XMB stands for eXtmeme massage board. It’s lightweight PHP forum software with all the features you need to support a growing community. With outstanding community support and contribution, you will find XMB to be easy to setup, customize, and enhance.

Features
  •     Forum Organization with Categories, Forums & Sub-Forums
  •     Easy to use Member Management
  •     Anti-spam image verification for registration and anonymous posting
  •     Private Messaging
  •     Inline Mass Moderation
  •     Easy-to-use Theme Interface
  •     Board Rules & FAQ System
(more)

Vanilla (Free)
Another open source fast growing forum cms. Dedicated for users

Features
  •     Rich User Experience
  •     Slick Administration Capabilities
  •     Limitless Add-ons
  •     Custom Themes
  •     Change Title of add custom logo with one click
  •     Easily Import old Forum
  •     API system
  •     Social Connect
  •     Mobile optimization
  •     Vanilla Connect
  •     Banner
  •     File Upload
(more)

Fluxbb (Free)
FluxBB is a free open source forum software what designed to be fast, light and user friendly. BB's code, written in PHP, has a proven track record of stability and security. 

Features
  •     Supports PHP4 and PHP5
  •     Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
  •     Produces valid XHTML 1.0 Strict pages
  •     Easily translated into any language
  •     Support for UTF-8 (v1.4)
  •     Free for domestic and commercial use
  •     Distributed under GNU General Public License
  •     Built in Security
(more)

Fud forum (Free)
Full meaning of fud is fast uncompromising discussion forum. It’s a open source and extraordinary forum software. Super fast template supported, Usenet newsletter xml feed aggregator.

Features
  •     Spell Checker
  •     Template System, Fast loading performance
  •     Multi language
  •     Group Permission System
  •     Private Messaging
  •     File Attachments
  •     Polls launch
  •     Forum and Topic Subscriptions (via Email, Icq)
  •     Full Text Search
  •     Online Status
  •      Clickable BBCode supports
(more) 

Phorum (Free)
Phorum designed to be designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features. A Php and mysql powered free open source forum cms.

Features
  •     Performance a versatile product that can serve anyone's needs.
  •     Forum Customization flexible hook & module system.
  •     Forum Design able to rearrange the data in any shape, form or fashion user or developer's want
(more)

Last words, forums are extremely useful get to know what people talks and discuss about your site and product also a discussion group of any thing can bring out and solve problems and build networks community too. So decide what cms you will use for your forum website. Phpbb and Mybb are recommended but for business paid is always best and secure too. What you gonna use don't forget to mention.