10 Useful WordPress Admin Plugins to Boost Productivity

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An ultimate list of useful WordPress admin plugins that helps to boost productivity by simplifying the tasks. Most of these plugins are required periodically and no need to keep them in “Active” state always. Whenever you feel there is a necessity, just activate that particular plugin and get your job done. Unlike other lists, this one is so special as each of these plugins are tested and are useful to great extent. Almost all sort of admin requirements are covered by these plugins and most of them are still under active development.

WordPress is such an awesome blogging platform which always helps bloggers and web masters stay productive by making use of free plugins. Most of the admin based things can be automated by using a set of plugins. For example purpose you can consider backing up WordPress to Google Drive and an easy way to auto post to Google Plus from WordPress.

WordPress Admin Plugins to Boost Productivity

Every WordPress Admin Plugin listed here is useful to improve productivity upto some extent. Screenshots are attached for every plugin and you can know further info on official page. So check this list and install those plugins which you feel most useful. You can also read How to Install WordPress Plugin in case if you are new to WordPress.

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Faster Image Insert

After uploading images or other media into posts or pages, you have to insert them one by one. If you have uploaded many images then it will sure take more time to insert them all. Faster Image Insert is a handy plugin that helps to insert multiple images into WordPress posts.

Faster Image Insert

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Broken Link Checker

This plugin checks all posts, pages, comments etc for broken links and notify you via Dashboard or Email. Broken Link Checker also helps to prevent search engines from following the broken links. If you want to display broken links differently, then that is also possible with this plugin.

Broken Link checker Plugin

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Better Delete Revision

It is not necessary to keep all the old post revisions and if you are looking to speedup WordPress then its recommended to delete old post revisions. Better Delete Revision is a useful plugin that checks for old post revisions and  remove them. Apart from deleting revisions, it also optimizes database.

Better Delete Revision Manager

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Insights

Insights is a popular WordPress plugin that helps to easily interlink articles on your blog. It also helps to include references from Wikipedia and Blogs. Apart from adding links you can also add images, videos etc related to the topic by making use of the inbuilt search box.

Insights WordPress Plugin

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WordPress Database Backup

WP DB helps to automatically backup all the database tables to local computer or to your email inbox. It is one of the most recommended backup plugins for WordPress and scheduling backups is very simple in this plugin. Install WP DB backup and it will take care of your database backups.

Backup WordPress Database

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Social Metrics

Social Metrics is one of those innovative WordPress plugins that helps to easily track the social influence of your blog posts directly from dashboard. Just install it and a new menu page will be created, from where you see the share counts of your articles across popular social networking blogs.

Social Metrics Settings

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Editorial Calendar

Editorial calender is an useful WordPress Plugin which helps to drag and drop draft posts on certain dates. Very useful incase of multiple author blogs and perfectly suitable to organize and schedule articles based on the date. This plugin works great and I recommend to use it.

Editorial Calender Plugin

Install Editorial Calendar »

Simple Logic Lockdown

Simple Logic lockdown is a free WordPress plugin that prevents login attempts on your WordPress blog. Immediately after installing WordPress, install and setup Logic Lockdown plugin and stay ahead in terms of security. You can also configure login attempts and the time to lockdown also.

Simple Logic Lockdown

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WordPress Admin Notepad

WP Admin Notepad adds a custom text box in the right corner on dashboard. This text area can be toggled and notes can be added to it, which can be viewed by other authors, contributors of that blog. Permissions can be configured to view or edit notes. Simple yet useful plugin in my view.

WordPress Admin Notepad

Install Admin Notepad »

Adminimize

Adminimize is an useful plugin that gives you complete control over backend items on your WordPress dashboard. You can hide unnecessary items or can organize them based on your wish. It also works with custom post types and is flexible in terms of functionality and usage.

Adminimize Plugin WordPress

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Bonus: Akismet

Akismet is an Anti-Spam WordPress plugin that automatically filters all SPAM comments and kepp your blog clean. It works on an unique algorithm and is accurate in most of the cases. Just install and configure Akismet by using an API key, which you can get for free from official website.

Akismet WordPress Plugin

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Apart from these WordPress Admin plugins, if you know any other useful ones then drop a comment here with a link to it. I will update this article and make it more resourceful.

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Comments

  1. Joe Boyle says:

    I’ve always kind of skated on thin-ice when it came to back-end enhancing plugins. I mean, they’re great for being more productive, but I think it’s better to stick to the “old school” ways – instead of the Editorial Calandar plugin, I prefer my nice desk calander. I feel as if it’s more efficient. Maybe that’s just me, though.

    I really do enjoy the WP DB Backup plugin, though – I have it send a database backup to my secondary email twice a day. I know that’s probably not completely needed, but I am more on a procautious side ever since I had a crashed DB table – I was out of commission for a few hours and lost the last weeks worth of content. It was pretty upsetting.

  2. Mahesh Verma says:

    Really all plugin useful and valuable thanks for sharing :)

  3. Naveen says:

    All plug-ins are indeed for every blog, according to usage, we can install these plug-ins. Wonderful suggestions here. WP data base backup is must one for any WordPress blog.

  4. Koundeenya says:

    I’m glad that all the plugins that you’ve listed are actually installed in my dashboard. Among them, Insights is a great one. Awesome for interlinking articles

  5. GoWebBaby says:

    Really a very good collection. Thanks for sharing with us.

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