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We share 100+ WordPress plugins, categorized under social, security, e-commerce, sliders galleries, speed optimization, SEO optimization, comment and form builders and much more. Just take a look at the table of contents below.

These 100 WordPress Plugins will make all the difference on your website. They offer better security, easier content management, higher conversion, and of course, your WordPress website will look amazing as well. Dig in!

Who doesn’t love WordPress? According to W3Techs, WordPress has a huge 58.5% market share of all content management systems! Yep, WordPress is popular. From small personal blogs to the largest of eCommerce sites, WordPress completely dominates the Web.

So, what do you need to transform your WordPress-powered site into a feature-rich powerhouse? You need the best WordPress plugins!

You might also like to take a look at the Top 50 Premium WordPress Themes of 2017.

WordPress Social Plugins

Social media is one of the crucial components of online marketing. So, choosing the best social plugins for your WordPress site is important. From simple to richly featured, below are some of the best WordPress plugins for social media.

1. Social Network Tabs For WordPress

Social Network Tabs For WordPress combines all of your favorite social network profiles & feeds into slick slide out or static tabs. Each social network tab is loaded using AJAX only when required, making the plugin very fast loading!

2. Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress

Add social buttons to encourage visitors to share your content.

Add social buttons to encourage visitors to share your content.

We are using this plugin ourselves because it looks great and it allows visitors to see a total number of shares in a beautiful way. With this plugin, you can use up to 20 of major social networks and encourage readers to share your content.

There are 19 templates, 12 display locations, 4 button display styles, 9 counter styles and after share actions you can add to your website. You can also add social media sharing to images and have social fans counter added. Check the full feature list here.

3. SocialBox – Social Profile Showcase Plugin

Add a social media widget to increase your social following.

Add a social media widget to increase your social following.

With SocialBox you can add a widget to your sidebar, that will help you increase social following as well as increase brand trust if you have a healthy following.

We are using similar feature ourselves, because for the first time visitors when they see 1WD has more than 200,000 followers; they take notice that this website is being trusted by many other people.

There is support for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dribbble, Forrst, Youtube, Vimeo, Mailchimp, Pinterest and more. You can either display following for each of these social networks as well as the total number of followers.

Pick between premade designs or create your own. Check the live preview for more.

4. Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin

Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate Lightbox featuring social media buttons (Facebook Like, Facebook Send, Pinterest ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’ and now LinkedIn, StumbleUpon & Tumblr) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!

5. Ultimate Social Meta Pro

This plugin is the ultimate solution for your Social Meta Data problem by automatically grabingb social meta data enriched with Google+ Snippets, Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Card.

6. Social Traffic Pop for WordPress

Social Traffic Pop combines 4 of the most powerful social media tools to make one of the best social media marketing tools ever. Social Traffic Pop builds on everything that made the original Facebook Traffic Pop such a hit and takes it to the next level.

7. Ultimate Social Deux

Ultimate Social Deux is a plugin that gives you 10 popular custom-styled social media sharing buttons with counters.

WordPress eCommerce Plugins

More and more people are buying things online so it is a great idea to add e-commerce functionalities on your site. With big names such as Amazon and eBay already doing great business, the web has evolved to become a great platform for product and business exposure. Good thing WordPress can now integrate e-Commerce plugins. The following are some of the best e-commerce plugin you use for your business site.

13. WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates – WordPress Plugin

Keep track of Amazon products you promote and analyze your conversion rates.

Keep track of Amazon products you promote and analyze your conversion rates.

WooZone Report is a cool plugin, that you will want to use if you promote Amazon products in your WooCommerce shop. You will be able to keep track of the Amazon products and see how many views, how many products were added to cart and redirected to Amazon. You can receive reports straight in your inbox.

14. WooCommerce Plugin – excelling eCommerce

Add shopping cart and store to your WordPress website with WooCommerce.

Add shopping cart and store to your WordPress website with WooCommerce.

WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress plugin for eCommerce solutions. With this plugin, you will be able to transform your WordPress website into eCommerce store.

Note that all the promoted themes and most add-ons there are paid, and only WooCommerce plugin itself is free, but it’s still a great deal.

15. WP e-Commerce Car/Parts Filter Plugin

WP e-Commerce Car/Parts Filter Plugin is the best plugin for a vehicle or vehicle parts website. With this plugin, the administrator can show filter plugin on the sidebar or footer widget. He can also add car models, products at the backend.

16. WooCommerce e-Commerce Bundle Rate Shipping

The WooCommerce e-Commerce Bundle Rate Shipping allows you to provide special bundled shipping rates when a customer purchases multiple items. The plugin is designed to be flexible, so you can define bundled shipping rates based on the shipping destination, the categories of the products being sold, or their shipping class.

16. WP eCommerce Authorize.Net

WP eCommerce Authorize.Net is a WordPress Plugin which allows the WP e-Commerce Store owners to accept credit cards. It can take less than 5 minutes to set up. This is, by far, the quickest way to integrate Authorize.net.

17. WorldPay Gateway for WP E-Commerce

WorldPay Gateway is a payment service provider for all sizes of business. Accept debit and credit card payments online and in multiple currencies.

18. Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce

Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce provides an easy-to-use and flexible way for you or your client to process orders directly from the WordPress backend without having to go through the payment process necessary on the front end of the site.

Sliders provide a great way to display images, videos or other content in an engaging way. If your theme doesn’t have one built-in or you would just like to add something a bit more exciting then take a look at these premium plugins.

19. Metaslider WordPress Slideshow Plugin

This plugin is the most popular WordPress slider plugin with over 2 million downloads, 500,000 active installs, and 250 five star ratings. There are four different slideshow types – Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive Slides and Coin Slider. Check out their website to see live demo.

With Metaslider you will be able to create responsive and SEO optimized slideshows in seconds. You also can crop images, drag and drop reorder slides, preview slides within admin panel and configure your slideshow a lot.

20. RoyalSlider – Touch-Enabled jQuery Image Gallery

RoyalSlider is an easy-to-use jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. For its menu, you can use thumbnails, tabs or bullets. Use it as image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery, carousel or even presentation.

21. Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin

Slider Revolution is currently the top-selling plugin on Codecanyon. It is widely-used by theme authors on Themeforest. It is a responsive (mobile friendly) or full-width slider with must-see-effects. It also keeps or builds your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines).

22. LayerSlider Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin

LayerSlider Slider Plugin is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that’s possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions.

23. Slider PRO – WordPress Premium Slider Plugin

Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress in the market. The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. It provides 150+ options, 100+ possible transition effects, from simple ‘fade’, ‘slide’ or ‘swipe’ effects to more complex ‘slice’ effects, 15+ skins and much more.

24. Showbiz Pro Responsive Teaser WordPress Plugin

Showbiz Pro is a responsive teaser displaying solution that allows you to show WordPress posts or any custom content with a set amount of teaser items.

25. Accordion Slider – Responsive WordPress Plugin

Accordion Slider is a fully responsive and touch-enabled WordPress plugin that combines the functionality of an accordion with that of a slider.

26. Soliloquy Lite – Responsive WordPress Slider

WordPress Slider Plugin

WordPress Slider Plugin

Soliloquy is a very popular WordPress slider plugin, which is paid, but now there is also available free and lite version of this plugin. What makes this plugin special is that it is really simple to add sliders wherever you want with just a few clicks.

By utilizing custom post types, this plugin allows you to create as many sliders as you want with as many images as you want. You can do all of this with just a few clicks.

Gallery is a cornerstone of many websites today, allowing you to showcase pictures, illustrations, videos and more. If you’re looking for the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress to help you display your images for maximum effects on your blog or website. The following I listed are the best WordPress gallery plugins that will surely blow your mind.

27. NextGen Gallery WordPress Plugin

NextGen Gallery Plugin

NextGen Gallery Plugin

This plugin has been around for a very long time; it has over 12 million downloads, and it has over one million active installs. One red flag is that it has received quite a bit 5-star and 1-star ratings, but still active installs are the highest ever seen on WordPress repository for gallery plugin.

28. Responsive Photo Gallery WordPress Plugin

Responsive Photo Gallery

Responsive Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery is an advanced plugin, which allows you to add and edit images for different views. You can create image galleries and albums to posts, pages and add them as widgets.

This gallery is fully responsive and has several gallery views you can choose from.

29. Essential Grid WordPress Plugin

Essential Grid Building Solution

Essential Grid Building Solution

This is one more plugin similar to Justified Image Grid, but functionality and design preview look different. Live preview for Essential Grid is great since they have collected all the best user works, you can use as the base for your designs.

The plugin also has lots of included skins you can use to display any content on grid-like portfolios, price tables, service listings, product sliders, video grids and more. You can easily import or export your grid, skin or meta date later to use for another WordPress installation.

30. Justified Image Grid – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin

This plugin aligns thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, just like Google image search.

This plugin aligns thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, just like Google image search.

This plugin will take existing WordPress galleries and display them, the way you want. You can alternatively load images from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram or use NextGen (image manager) as a source for images. You can also pull image RSS feeds and videos from Youtube or Vimeo and much more.

You can also control every aspect how the gallery will be displayed, there are lots of options. You will also get 87 pages of PDF documentation to learn how to use this plugin.

31. Responsive Lightbox by dFactory

WordPress gallery plugin

This plugin allow readers to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox overlay effect, which is optimized for mobile devices. It has more than 100,000 active installs and have received 250 five star ratings.

32. Media Grid – WordPress Responsive Portfolio

A responsive and filterable portfolios with ease on your website. Media Grid comes with masonry layout; it is designed to adapt each portfolio to any situation and mobile optimized for responsive themes.

33. Video Gallery WordPress Plugin /w YouTube, Vimeo

Responsive, localized, awesome, fully featured and fast gallery. This is the most advanced stock video gallery in the world and, now, as a WordPress plugin.

34. Simple 3D Coverflow WordPress Plugin

Simple 3D Coverflow is a fully responsive media 3D coverflow WordPress plugin that allows you to display media content with an unique original layout from a 3D perspective. It’s perfect for any kind of presentation, for anyone that wants to deliver a great impact on their visitors.

35. Awesome Gallery

It’s another great gallery plugin that comes with a horizontal flow, vertical flow and classic grid. Especially helpful when you use both portrait and landscape images at the same gallery. Ideal for presenting your photographs and really close to the way images are presented in Flickr.

36. Thumbnail Gallery (WordPress Plugin)

This plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

37. Mikado Grid Gallery for WordPress

Mikado Grid Gallery is a gallery for WordPress based on random grids with a lot of features. It’s responsive, and images will adapt with a nice and smooth animation when the browser is resized. You just need to decide width (also percentage) and height and Mikado will create a random grid inside the rectangle.

Security And Backup WordPress Plugins

WordPress is pretty secure against hacker attacks, but since WordPress is being used by 20% of all world websites, you should take security precautions nevertheless. Better be safe than sorry, right?

All websites should have regular backups, in case something bad happens, but other things are just like icing on cake.

38. Backup WordPress Plugin

Premium WordPress Backup Plugin - BackupBuddy

Premium WordPress Backup Plugin – BackupBuddy

This is the most popular premium backup plugin for WordPress, and it is the best way to backup and move your WordPress website.

Backups come handy in case something troublesome happens to your databases or server.

Backupbuddy isn’t free, but if you are looking for high quality and reliability, and you can pay a little for that – BackupBuddy is the top choice.

39. iThemes Security Pro

Ensure your site is safe and protected at all times.

Ensure your site is safe and protected at all times.

This is another plugin created by iThemes, they also have created BackupBuddy mentioned before. iThemes Security is a premium and comprehensive plugin, including all the things you will ever need to secure your website.

40. UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration

UpDraft Plus Backup And Restoration WordPress Plugin

This is the most popular free plugin on WordPress repository and with over 2.4 million downloads, more than 400,000 active installs and 1400 5-star ratings is a good choice. UpdraftPlus allows you to backup your data to the cloud to places like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive and much more. You can later restore this backup with a single click.

41. Wordfence Security

Wordfence security and performance WordPress plugin.

Wordfence security and performance WordPress plugin.

Wordfence is a free enterprise class security and performance plugin that makes your site up to 50 times faster and more secure. This plugin provides a complete anti-virus and firewall package and tools that will help you to recover from a hack. It has more than 900,000 active installs and more than 2000 5 star ratings.

42. Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening

Sucuri Security WordPress plugin

Sucuri Security WordPress plugin

Sucuri Inc. is the most recognized company when it comes to website security. They were the ones who first discovered the HeartBleed bug, which haunted WordPress websites in 2014.

43. Login Lockdown

Simple security WordPress plugin protecting your admin area.

Simple security WordPress plugin protecting your admin area.

Login Lockdown is a simple plugin that records the IP address and time of every failed login attempt. Usually hack attempts rely on breaking into your website admin area buy inputting lots of password lists to guess the password. This plugin locks IP out for 1 hour after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes.

44. Hide My WP

Hide the fact you use WordPress for your site with Hide My WP plugin.

Hide the fact you use WordPress for your site with Hide My WP plugin.

This handy security plugin lets you hide the fact you are using WordPress making it harder for anybody to breach your security.

You can use the plugin to control access to PHP files, which will protect your site from almost 90% of SQL-Injection and XSS attacks, which are caused by accessing PHP files directly. This means you can install unsafe plugins without worrying about security.

Install new plugins and themes on your website without worrying about being exposed to common web attacks and new vulnerabilities that are discovered within plugins.

45. Security Ninja

Security Ninja WordPress plugin

Security Ninja WordPress plugin

This plugin allows you to perform 35+ security tests including brute-force attacks. It will automatically scan your website for security vulnerabilities and holes, and you will receive notifications via email.

46. Core Scanner add-on for Security Ninja

Core Scanner add-on for Security Ninja can scan WP core files with one click. It quickly identifies the problematic files that occurs in your WordPress core files.

47. WP Security Manager

WP Security Manager is a WordPress plugin that provides all in one security solutions to your WP site.

48. Smart Security Tools

Smart Security Tools is a powerful plugin for improving security of your WordPress powered website. Plugin contains collection of tweaks and tools for extra security protection along with Security Advisor that can help you determine what needs to be done.

49. WP-Lens – Security and Analysis

WP-Lens – Security and Analysis is the ultimate plugin for WordPress security analysis on your current theme and WordPress installation. WP-Lens combines a variety of checks and mechanisms that give you a clear picture of your current state of security and installation.

WordPress Speed Optimization – Responsive, Mobile Support Plugins

As we know optimization of a website is critical as our visitors don’t want to wait for the site to load or just leave because there is no way to get support. In today’s world website has to be mobile friendly. So here are some plugins that can help you achieve that in no time.

50. W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin

Ensure that your website loads fast for visitors.

Ensure that your website loads fast for visitors.

We are using W3 Total Cache on 1WD, because it really helps to improve the speed your website loads. This plugin is a must have on any high trafficked WordPress website, because of it’s CDN (content delivery network) integration.

There is up to 10x improvement on overall site performance, when W3 Total Cache plugin is fully configured. Page load speed is very important, because it improves user experience and helps you rank higher on search engines. There are many more features like catching of minified CSS, Javascript, feeds, search results and more. There is also a mobile support.

51. WPtouch Mobile Plugin

Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly with just a few clicks.

Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly with just a few clicks.

WPTouch helps you make your website fully responsive, it will help even for responsive themes, because they usually don’t work well with third party WordPress plugins you install. WpTouch claims to be up to 5x faster than desktop or responsive themes, because their mobile solution is 100% CSS.

52. EWWW Image Optimizer WordPress Plugin

Reduce file sizes for images with EWWW Image Optimizer

Reduce file sizes for images with EWWW Image Optimizer

This plugin reduces file sizes for images in WordPress using lossless methods and image format conversion. It’s important to keep file size low because the faster it takes to load your pages the more visitors will stay on the page and you will also rank higher in search engines. EWW Image Optimizer compresses JPG and PNG files without any loss of image quality. There are so many benefits to having smaller image file size, read more on their plugin page.

SEO Optimization Plugins

Another important subject. SEO optimization is important as this is our ticket to the top of search engines. Here are a few great plugins that will make your life easier when SEO optimizing your website.

53. WordPress SEO by Yoast

1WD is using this plugin every day to optimize our posts and website for SEO.

Every WordPress website should have this plugin installed if you want to be well optimized for search engines and Google. With this plugin you can optimize every page, post and overall website optimization, including XML sitemaps.

This plugin will also help you to understand how well each post is optimized and how it will look in Google. It is a very, very helpful SEO plugin – definitely a must-have.

54. Premium SEO Pack – WordPress Plugin

Premium SEO Pack includes several unique SEO optimization features, you won't find anywhere else.

Premium SEO Pack includes several unique SEO optimization features, you won’t find anywhere else.

This is a great new SEO plugin which has lots of great functionality not found in Yoast plugin.

Premium SEO Pack will help you optimize your website speed performance and load time.

55. WordPress Auto Spinner – Articles Rewriter Plugin

Automatically rewrite your post to convert it to fresh content.

Automatically rewrite your post to convert it to fresh content.

Use this plugin with precaution: this plugin won’t be ideal for high-quality blogs, but if you want to have more content on your site, or be able to republish original content to get more good backlinks, you can use this.

WordPress Auto Spinner rewrites existing content by replacing most of the text with synonymous words and phrases. This is a popular plugin on CodeCanyon, check more of it’s features to understand if you want to use it. If you are into building SEO sites, you might be interested trying this plugin out. I wouldn’t recommend it for your company website, since the content won’t be readable for real visitors, but only help you rank well on Google.

56. Rankie – WordPress Rank Tracker Plugin

Keep track of your keyword rankings on Google straight from your dashboard.

Keep track of your keyword rankings on Google straight from your dashboard.

Rankie is a WordPress rank checker plugin that helps to keep a close eye on each keyword position on Google. This plugin will update keywords ranking positions daily and generate handy reports for you. You can get these reports in a daily email delivered straight to your inbox.

You can also use Rankie’s keyword research tool which generates keyword list that other people are using to search for topics which interest you. Check Rankie’s plugin preview video to learn more.

57. All In One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack is an alternative to Yoast SEO plugin. For full description Check the plugin page. With out the doubt it will help you to always have your site optimized for SEO.

58. Broken Link Checker

It can be used to keep tabs on 404 pages and the plugin will send you an email. You can then go in and manually fix or redirect them.

59. Simple 301 Redirects

Provides an easy way to add a 301 redirect for the posts, pages on your WordPress site. You can even set wildcard redirect rules using this plugin.

YARPP comes with a lot of features like cached related posts, adding related post in RSS feed.

WordPress Comment And Form Builder Plugins

If you have a blog, an important feature is having a comment section below your posts. For every site, however, there is importance to have a contact form. Check these plugins for building forms and comment sections.

61. Gravity Forms

Add advanced forms to WordPress website.

Add advanced forms to WordPress website.

Gravity Forms is a well known plugin, because it allows you to create WordPress forms quickly and easily. Anything form related – Gravity Forms can do it. Create order forms, customize content and style, even add advanced fields, like file uploads.

62. Contact Form 7

QuForm - Drag and Drop Form Builder.

QuForm – Drag and Drop Form Builder.

This simple plugin, will empower you to create contact forms on your website. It supports CAPTCHA spam filter and Akismet spam filtering.

63. Quform – WordPress Form Builder

Encourage and manage comments better with Disqus.

Encourage and manage comments better with Disqus.

QuForm plugin is a drag and drop form builder, that lets you create unlimited forms with 15 form elements you can choose from. Entries will be saved on WordPress with an option to export data. There are lots of customization you can do, like enabling Ajax, using CAPTCHA, add animation and more. Check Quform live preview to see what’s possible.

64. Disqus Comment System

Add custom input fields and start collecting data you need.

Add custom input fields and start collecting data you need.

Disqus is a free comment system; that replaces your WordPress comment system with Disqus comments. Since many websites are using Disqus (more than 200,000 active installs), it is already widely recognized. Its best feature is its connection with a large discussion community where commentators can keep track of their comments across the web encouraging them to comment more.

65. Advanced Custom Fields Plugin

There are more than 20 field types you can choose from, making custom data management and collection real easy and simple. Make surveys and collect necessary data from your clients without any issues now!

Ads and Affiliate Marketing WordPress Plugins

You can do almost everything on your website. If you want to advertise affiliates of yourselves these plugins below are your saviors.

66. Pretty Link Pro Affiliate Link Plugin For WordPress

Cloak your affiliate links and optimize your site by testing links.

Cloak your affiliate links and optimize your site by testing links.

Pretty Link Pro will help you to shrink, cloak, track and organize your links. The most helpful feature is that it lets you cloak your affiliate links, but you can do much more with it.

67. Ninja Popups for WordPress

Use Ninja popups to grow your mailing list.

Use Ninja popups to grow your mailing list.

Ninja Popups is great plugin to convert website visitors into qualified leads, by getting them to subscribe to your email list. This plugin supports all the main (and not so well know) email marketing providers. It has all the features you would expect in a good popup plugin.

68. HelloBar

Great marketing tool, that allows to direct visitors to take desired action.

Great marketing tool, that allows to direct visitors to take desired action.

With this plugin, you can show a bar on top of your website, that you can use to promote your product, special post or drive more email subscribers to your list. We are using this tool on 1stWebDesigner too from time to time.

69. AdSanity Ads Banner Management Plugin

Ad Rotator plugin for WordPress.

Ad Rotator plugin for WordPress.

If you have a blog and want to have and manage ads yourself, instead of using 3rd party services like BuySellAds, you might consider this plugin.

Adsanity lets you pick between two custom widgets – one is for displaying single ads, another for showing ad groups and rotate them. You will also be able to keep statistics on views and clicks on each ad, so you can quickly see how ads are performing.

Membership Plugins

You want to offer more for you members, but don’t know how? These plugins are your answer!

70. UserPro WordPress Plugin – User Profiles with Social Login

Create users easily, have content restrictions and member directory with UserPro plugin.

Create users easily, have content restrictions and member directory with UserPro plugin.

UserPro will allow you to start your own user community, create profiles and open registration for new users in minutes! You will be able to sync UserPro with WooCommerce, BuddyPress and BBPress as well as integrate with email auto-responders like Mailchimp, Aweber and Campaign Monitor.

If you are in need of creating a community or upgrading existing one, you should check out UserPro live preview, to see if it’s for you.

71. CSS3 Responsive WordPress Compare Pricing Tables

CSS3 Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress

CSS3 Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress.

This plugin is a pure CSS3 web pricing tables with 2 table styles and 20 predefined color versions. You have lots of configuration options within admin panel to edit table, columns, rows, active columns, hover states, tool tips, column ribbons, tick/cross icons and lots of more.

Plugins With Misc Functionality

72. Full-width Audio Player Plugin

Ultimate audio player for your WordPress website.

Ultimate audio player for your WordPress website.

With this plugin you will be able to add an audio play at the top or bottom of your website. Audio player is fully HTML5 audio engine powered and will run on all the mayor browsers and mobile devices.

73. Maintenance PRO Plugin

Add the maintenance mode when updating a website.

Add the maintenance mode when updating a website.

Use this plugin to easily setup and customize your coming soon, under construction or maintenance pages. It comes handy whenever you are upgrading your WordPress installation or plugins, so your visitors don’t see a broken page if anything goes wrong.

74. Team Member Showcase Plugin

Display your About Us team member area with style.

Display your About Us team member area with style.

Have you ever wanted to display your About Company area with style? With this plugin you can. You can add the images, customize the number of columns, image shapes, hover effects and add special styles like grayscale, image borders and shadow styles.

75. wpDataTables – Responsive Tables and Charts in WordPress

Create and manage tables and charts on WordPress.

Create and manage tables and charts on WordPress.

Have you ever wanted to display tables, pie charts, bar or area charts on your WordPress posts or pages? Now you can do it without additional coding.

76. Ultra WordPress Admin Theme

Ultra Admin brings your WordPress admin panel to life.

Ultra Admin brings your WordPress admin panel to life.

With this plugin, you will be able to make your WordPress back-end beautiful. There are 30 premade admin themes, and you also have the option to create your own design. You can customize everything, from the admin menu, buttons, typography, forms, background colors, branding, etc.

77. Visual Composer: Responsive Page Builder for WordPress

Visual Composer Page Builder Plugin

Visual Composer Page Builder Plugin

This is the most popular WordPress plugin on CodeCanyon, as it is being used by more than 500,000 websites. Visual Composer is a drag and drop page responsive page builder plugin with frontend and backend editors. The best thing is that you can use it for any WordPress theme. If you don’t prefer to always work from NotePad, you will appreciate this website builder, that will save lots of your time, because you won’t even need to touch code.

78. UberMenu – WordPress Mega Menu Plugin

UberMenu is the most powerful mega menu plugin I've ever seen.

UberMenu is the most powerful mega menu plugin I’ve ever seen.

UberMenu is a very powerful and responsive mega menu WordPress plugin. It works well with WordPress 3 menu system, so it’s easy to start creating highly customized and powerful mega menu configurations.

It is important to note, that UberMenu looks great on different devices, it is fully responsive. It is also touch-enabled making it intuitive to use on touch screens.

79. EventOn – WordPress Event Calendar Plugin

EventOn - WordPress Event Calendar

EventOn – WordPress Event Calendar

If you need to display lots of events on your website, show locations and be able to filter them, EventOn is the plugin of choice.

80. Interactive World Maps Plugin

Create as many maps as you want with interactive and colored markers, countries or regions.

Create as many maps as you want with interactive and colored markers, countries or regions.

With this plugin you will be able to show hundreds of different kinds of maps. You can add highlight regions to the map and display them either as regions (color whole region) or as markers (colored bubble). You can also add a tooltip or action to highlighted active regions and customize lots of other things.

81. Special Recent Posts PRO Edition

Display your recent posts with thumbnails with a beauty.

Display your recent posts with thumbnails with a beauty.

Manage your WordPress posts with thumbnails just the way you want with just a few clicks. Special Recent Posts plugin will be great for web magazines as it comes with more than 120 customization options. Check out their official website to find out more.

82. Bookly – Responsive WordPress Appointment Booking and Scheduling Plugin

Bookly- Appointment Booking Plugin

Bookly – Appointment Booking Plugin

This plugin is a great tool to let people book your service online. Bookly will be the best for online companies, who need their visitors to do reservations through websites.

Every person who wants to book your service will be lead through clear 5-step booking process. No need to talk with every person one by one – both you and person, who wants your service will receive email notifications to remind about their reservation.

83. Google Analytics by Yoast

Keep track of Google Analytics on your dashboard.

Keep track of Google Analytics on your dashboard.

Simple plugin to integrate your Google Analytics with WordPress and keep track of your traffic stats easily. Handy to keep track any custom events, custom internal affiliate links or downloads as well as 404 error pages.

84. Jetpack by WordPress.com

Must have plugin in every installation.

Must have plugin in every installation.

Jetpack is a plugin created by Automattic (WordPress official company) and it adds lots of powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users including customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools.

85. WordPress Importer Plugin

Simple importer plugin.

Simple importer plugin.

This WordPress plugin will help you import the data from one WordPress installation to another. You can import posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, authors and more to WordPress export file. With more than one million active installs, this plugin is proving to be useful for many.

86. Edit Flow – Editorial Workflow Management Plugin

Add editorial calendar to your WordPress dashboard.

Add editorial calendar to your WordPress dashboard.

Edit Flow is a handy plugin if you have several people in your editorial team. It lets you collaborate between members with notifications, editorial calendar and editorial comments.

87. TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

Have advanced editing features to your visual editor toolbar.

Have advanced editing features to your visual editor toolbar.

This plugin will add more functionality to visual post and page editor. With TinyMCE you will be able to create tables, search and replace within editor, set font family, font size and many more. With more than one million active installs TinyMCE is a very useful plugin to use when you want to customize pages and posts more than available by default.

WordPress Plugins For Easy Social Sharing

When you spend a lot of time writing a blog post or creating a landing page, you want people to be able to share it. Here are several social sharing WordPress plugins to help your readers share your hard work.

88. Animated Twitter Bird

While this social sharing WordPress plugin doesn’t add a direct social sharing option, it does let your readers connect with you outside of your site. There are a lot of people who may comment on Twitter but not say a word to you in the comment section.

89. Respond (advertising and social sharing with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)

There is always a cost to having a site. Even if that cost is just a web host, the money needs to come from somewhere. Respond is a dual purpose social sharing WordPress plugin packaging social sharing with possible revenue. You will need to sign up for an account with them and let them check out your site before you can start earning though.

90. Trackable Social Share Icons

When you are marketing anything, there is a good chance you will want to track what you are doing to make sure your efforts aren’t wasted. Trackable Social Share Icons is a good place to start tracking how people are sharing your site. One feature here that differentiates Trackable Social Share Icons is it links to Google Analytics.

91. Add Google +1 (Plus one) Social Share Button

Google+ is growing like crazy and shouldn’t be overlooked. If your audience is there, it is a good idea to give them a way to share. Add Google +1 lets you add the +1 button to the location of your choosing with a bit of code, or by setting the default location and size.

92. Social Media Widget

This sidebar widget lets you have a ton of different social icons in your WordPress Sidebar. Many times, if people don’t see the social site they want to share on, they don’t dig any further than a glance to find it.

93. Follow Me

Follow Me is one of those icons that stick to the side of the page and stays in the same spot as you scroll up and down the page. At the time of this writing, there are 43 different social sites you can ask people to follow you on. Some sites are not your normal choices like Blip.fm and Mahalo.

94. Social Metrics

If you can’t track something, it never happened. Tracking the reach you have on social networks is a must these days. Social Metrics is a social plugin for WordPress that tracks your awesomeness on these sites. You can see how many people are sharing your information and who they are. If they are already talking about you, don’t you think you may want to see what they are talking about and maybe add your 2 cents?

Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Easy Customer Access

If you have an online store or you offer services that sometimes need answers right away these plugins are a must. Even if you don’t have such sell such things, now days is a good addition to your website. As we all know, we all appreciate a responsive business.

95. Bankcle Chat

Bankcle Chat

Bankcle Chat is a WordPress plugin that provides a reliable, highly customizable, and economical platform for live chat. Besides giving live support to customers, it also keeps you updated regarding your site visitor activity and tracking.

96. ClickDesk Live Support

ClickDesk Live Support

This WordPress plugin is one of the fastest live chat services available. ClickDesk allows the web visitors to click to call and voice chat with you (website owner) directly from the browser. Visitors can also dial the local access numbers available in 40+ countries. You can manage your emails and offline chats with new integrated help desk. Agents can answer live chats and calls from online agent panel through Google Talk and Skype.

97. WP ChatBlazer

WP ChatBlazer

This plugin allows you to embed the Chatblazer application to chat on a WordPress page. You can post with an easy to use shortcode. You can host your own chatroom on your blog for interacting with your audience.

It has an easy-to-use interface that allows users to video chat, chat by sending instant messages, and share all types of media.

98. Video Chat Plugin

Video Chat Plugin

This plugin is highly flexible and supports and rooms, moderators, private messages, and public and private video chat, etc. It is BuddyPress-compatible, and automatically adds the avatars to user profiles in the video chat. It is simple to install and compatible with all search engines.

99. Flexy Talk

Flexy Talk

The Flexy Talk plugin allows you to get started with chatting to the Facebook fans and site visitors. You can easily do it from any device, including the mobile and tablets, etc. You can create a free account and enjoy unlimited chats with your visitors.

100. Vivocha Activation Tool

Vivocha Activation Tool

This is a multi-channel communication platform for the websites. This plugin can be used to assist customers during their visit, provide support, and answer questions. There is no coding skill required for it. This plugin will enable Callback, VoIP, and Video on your website. Also, it includes fully customizable graphics and real time analytics.

101. Formilla Live Chat

Formilla Live Chat

This plugin allows you to chat with your visitors with a clean and easy to use interface. You can respond to chats from your iPhone or Android device. You can also enable the proactive chat to trigger live chat automatically with visitor after some defined seconds.

102. Live Chat by OggFlow

Live Chat by OggFlow

This plugin lets you easily add beautiful live chat to your site or blog. You can handle all the live chats, emails, tickets, Facebook and Twitter feeds. You can easily modify the look and feel of this plugin with custom CSS, logos, and messages.

103. Chat

With this chat plugin, you can bring two-way chat to your website. You can host your own live sessions, interact with your visitors and boost your sales without taking help from third party JavaScript or other codes. Chat plugin allows you to add a site wide-chat window in the bottom corner of your site. You can also add chat to any blog post or page, and answer support questions.

104. WordPress Live Chat Plugin

Chat with your visitors on your website.

Chat with your visitors on your website.

Live Chat plugin is a simple great plugin, that lets you chat with your potential customers or visitors of the site. Live chat is a great marketing tool because you can address visitor issues right before they are making a decision. You’ll get up to 30% more sales by actively using this tool and having it on your landing page.

105. Visitor Chat

Visitor Chat

This plugin is fully featured real-time chat for your WordPress website. This plugin has a window-based client out of the box. Without having to visit the admin interface, you will be notified from your Windows tray from where you can start chatting straight away.

106. WordPress Live Chat

WordPress Live Chat

This plugin provides real time chat for the customer support. The plugin has a 3-way widget embedding including auto, shortcode, and a WP widget. It also provides high quality emoticons and avatars.

107. Chat X

Chat X

Chat X answers the support questions and solves the technical problems and product defects on your website easily. You can easily customize your chat skin, and change the colors to fit your website look and feel. The plugin runs on Firebase technology to make your chat faster and reliable.

Plugins allow your blog or website be more effective and functional. The list that we’ve provided are premium plugins that are worth every money. Since they are premium, the full features will be utilized compared to the free ones. So download them now and let your WordPress site rock!

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  • Hi, for all time i used to check blog posts here in the early hours
    in the morning, because i love to gain knowledge of more and

  • Great article, you named big contact form plugins, also I would throw Zigaform – https://wordpress.org/plugins/zigaform-form-builder-lite/ in there as well. The editing via admin panel is a breeze. It’s just dragging and dropping plus the submissions are stored in a database.

  • Ajani Ashish

    Interesting list, I’ve used many of these plugins. But to test all of them I will need to make few more WordPress sites, LOL :)

  • Saurabh Mehta

    Great list! Thanks…Your list contains some very useful plugins. Personally I would like to include two more plugins to your list 1) Avartan Slider & 2) Blog Designer. Avartan simplyfies sliding of contents while Blog Designer is used to design blog pages easily. Both plugins have free & paid versions.

  • Thanks for the informative post. I like the way you have segmented the plugins and described how they are useful. I have been using many of these and I like Yoast, Contact Form 7, and Jetpack.

    My most favorite plugin in SumoMe because it replaces many plugin and it has very nice user interface.

    I hope you add it in your list.

    Yogesh Shinde

  • Hi,

    A great list of plugins, you tried to brief. Thanks for your hard working for this collection. But you don’t put any logo slider plugin or testimonial plugin in this list. What’s the reason?

  • Chris R

    I am curious which plugin was 101 and hence didn’t make the list? What criteria did you use to winnow the list to “only” 100? Ratings on WordPress? Personal assessment of each plugin against its niche competitors? Is the description of each plugin written by your staff or copied and pasted from the plugin’s description?

    Why 100? Why not 50 or 500?

    In other words, is this article anything more than click bait?

  • beth2017

    Hey there, this is an excellent list. One minor niggle, the image you’ve used for Quform is actually Disqus.

  • Bashir Ahmed

    You’ve shared the best list of WordPress plugins to use on our sites. I’ve used few plugins from the list but most of the plugins are new to me and I’ll surely try them on my sites. Would you please tell me which is the best responsive slider plugin?

    Appreciate the list!

  • Amol

    Amazing !! thanks for nice post !!

  • Thomas Haugen

    Great list! Found some I haven’t tried before. :) A couple of my favourites is Wordfence for Security and W3 Total Cache to speed things up..

  • Slider Revolution and Layer slider are absolutely amazing, its incredible how much flexibility and freedom both of these plugins provide.

    There is no one plugin to increase your site speed, there are however multiple ways to significantly increase your site speed. For example Gzip compression and leverage browser caching will increase your speed by 30 percent(may be more). Check out this article, Speed up WordPress

    • Dainis Graveris

      Thanks Luis! Good tips!

  • Lucas

    Hi, for all time i used to check blog posts here in the early hours
    in the morning, because i love to gain knowledge of more and

  • Harpal Singh

    Great and very useful list. What i need is a security plugin to make my blog more secure.

  • Laurence Caro – Website Designer in Banbury

    Great list of plugins Sam. I have just started using WooCommerce and I’m loving it! Great article.

    Navaneeth, I have used W3 Total Cache for helping with website speed before. I also find Google Page Insights a great tool to use as it tells you which areas to work on.

    Cheers Sam!

  • Navaneeth

    Is there any Plugins for increasing website loading speed.

    • fred

      Yes, Uninstall as many as possible

    • ben

      just search for wp cache tools


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-bright coloured shoes give the same effect as the jacket but also gives the character the representation of being sporty.

-the bright coloured running joggers also make the character seem happy because of the bright colours.

-the headphones will be used to represent a change between diegetic and non diegetic sound by having the protagonist taking them off of his head.

The Antagonist, the killer

– heavy work boots are to represent an antagonist who works outside with a manual job that requires heavy boots.

-the tool belt is dark and also like the boots, presents manual labour.

-the bandanna covering the face makes the antagonist seem hidden and mysterious. The audience therefore is more intrigued by the character.

-The long dark coat makes the character less visible as it is very dark and therefore more mysterious, as if the character is concealing something.

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  • Make sure to check the connection of your flat iron plates. Clamp the plates together, and check to see if a gap between the plates. If so, you will need to pinch the ends of the flat iron together as you pull the tool down your hair.
  • Make sure to only take about an inch of hair at a time, starting an inch from the roots.
  • In order to protect your hair, use a product designed for heat styling.

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During pregnancy, the body doesn't shed hair as quickly as it normally would, but it catches up after giving birth. Your hair should be back to normal by your child's first birthday, but always consult your doctor with concerns!

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How The Queen’s Thief Stole My Heart

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Behold, my favorite series ever.

Most people have trouble picking a favorite book, and I admit, depending on how recently I’ve read other amazing books, I sometimes doubt my go-to answer: The King of Attolia, book three of the Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. But since the first time I read this series, easily half a dozen years ago, my answer has always come back to this book.

I reread these books (for the fifth? seventh? time) in the last week before school started, and I completely and utterly remembered why this series is so important to me. At first, I was going to try to review each book, but I honestly have trouble forming complete sentences when thinking about how much I love these books, so I decided to skip individual reviews and write this post instead, describing what exactly makes this series a must read.

Here is the plot synopsis for book one, The Thief (a mashup of Goodreads’ and Amazon’s descriptions)

“I can steal anything.” Gen’s bragging lands him in prison . . . but then the king’s magus needs the thief’s skill for a near-impossible task: to steal a priceless magical jewel from a faraway land.

The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities.

What Gen is interested in is anyone’s guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.

I have a confession to make: I did not want to read this book when my mom bought it for me. I was in elementary school (third grade, I think) and nothing about this book grabbed me. The plot sounded “whatever” and the first page (though it now occupies a special place in my heart) was dull. The Newbery Honor seal on the cover sealed the death sentence; have you noticed that children’s books that get these awards are always boring? At least that’s what had been true up until this book.

Since this series remains hype-less, I have to assume that a lot of people felt the same way. But I am so glad that I finally picked it up and got past the first pages–and fell in love.

Reasons I Love This Series

  1. GEN. He is such a great character. There aren’t words to describe his personality–you just have to read about it. I guarantee you will love him. The best (and often used) word to describe him is incorrigible
  2. SO MUCH HAPPENS. It is really hard to talk about why I love book two because where it starts is entire football fields away from where you expect book one to end. The same thing holds for talking about book three–if you haven’t read the second book, you will never guess the turn of events that leads The King of Attolia to happen.
  3. But the series still has continuity. Even though each book has a strong and independent plot, the series still maintains continuity. The feeling you get reading the first few chapters of The Thief is the same feeling you get reading the last chapter of A Conspiracy of Kings (book 4).
  4. Everything is so effing intricate. I’m sorry, the half-curse-word is necessary. You haven’t read these books until you’ve reread them; you haven’t understood the immense web of details that Turner created until the fifth time you’ve read the books. I’m not kidding–the most recent time I reread the series, I was still having OH MY GOD moments when I realized the significance of certain scenes or lines of dialogue.
  5. This series makes you think. These books don’t spell things out for you. They leave breadcrumbs and trust that you are smart enough to follow them. The broad strokes of the plot are simple and easy to read, but the true power of the series is hidden, waiting for superfans to discover (*raises hand*). It also uses complex vocabulary that you don’t often see in YA/MG books. Incorrigible, for instance.
  6. It breaks the rules. There are certain things that authors generally don’t do to their main character. MWT throws those guidelines out the window. Honestly, depending on how you categorize the POVs of books 1 and 2 (because there is a difference), each book has its own main character. But we still get the same story, and the plot of the series moves forward continuously. And those main characters get pummeled.
  7. It doesn’t play for unnecessary drama. In this way, these books honestly aren’t modern YA. Don’t get me wrong, I love dramatic romances and revolutions and awkward first days of school and even the occasional love triangle. But one of the things that captivates me about this series is the fact that it draws me in without any of those flashy plot devices. It is just incredible storytelling.
  8. Unique fantasy. I consider the series to be in the fantasy genre, but none of the characters have magical powers. The setting (a made-up island that resembles ancient Greece) has the feeling of a fantasy series. Also, there are gods, and they interact with the politically-oriented plot to weave in fantasy elements.
  9. The romance is mature and simple and utterly perfect. Because the series has so many different POVs and plots, I can’t say more than that about the romance. It is a subplot, carefully woven into the later books without ever dominating the series. It is amazing and plainspoken and blows all YA couples out of the water. THEY (avoiding names here) are my OTP, unquestionably.

Have you bought the books yet?

No? Are you driving to the store?

(I’m kidding…kind of.)

Seriously, people should read this series. I’ve never read anything like it, and from the discussions on nameless book 5’s Goodreads page, I’m not alone in my obsession.

If you’ve read these books, fangirl/fanboy with me in the comments!

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“I Finally Gave In”

I’ve just spent a few days in Perth at the National Housing Conference 2015.  Props to AHURI and the WA Housing Authority for organising a thought-provoking and fun conference.Stream3door

There were lots of presentations from high powered academics, senior officials and CEOs of well resourced organisations.  There was lots to ponder, some great ideas and some moments of despair at the scale of the task.

However, the presentation that impressed me the most was at a little “think tank” session on the final morning.  Yarra Community Housing presented a short workshop on their approach to tenant participation, and as part of this one of their tenants talked about her experiences.

She was a mature woman who was stably housed and in a long-term relationship before a series of events took all this away from her and left her alone and homeless.  Over the next year or two she slept in her car, couch-surfed with friends and family, lived in a leaky caravan and got entangled in an abusive relationship.  After all this, she said, “I finally gave in and went to community services”.

Why, I wondered, should seeking help through the formal service system be seen as “giving in” rather than something helpful and to which she was entitled?  The rest of her story made the answer perfectly clear.  She found her engagement with the system both humiliating and unhelpful.  She was given the runaround, before finally being placed in a boarding house most of whose residents had serious mental health issues.  In this stressful environment she was still short of money and often had to travel around town in search of free meals.  Once, caught travelling without a ticket as she had no money, she was berated publicly by a police officer for the “crime” of being broke and homeless.

During the closing session of the conference, a Q&A hosted by Tony Jones, one of the audience participants pointed out that the majority of people who ask for help from homelessness services are turned away because the system doesn’t have capacity to cope with demand.  Would this be acceptable in the health sector, she asked?  Would it be OK for hospitals to turn half the ambulances away because they didn’t have enough beds?  Would it be OK for schools to make students wait years for enrolment?  Why do we tolerate this situation in homelessness?  And why is it OK for people like the woman who addressed us to receive a substandard, humiliating response to their plea for help?

Fortunately the woman’s story has a happy ending.  She is now
securely housed by a well-run community housing organisation that values her contribution.  She has completed further education and has gone a long way to rebuilding her life.

She has a lot to offer the community.  So do most of the 100,000 people who are homeless in Australia each night.  Surely we can do better for them than offer them the crumbs off our table.

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Nordzee: The Seafarer

The Seafarer is an Anglo-Saxon poem that is preserved in a single copy in the Exeter Book or Codex Exonienis, a tenth century anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry donated to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, the first bishop of Exeter sometime after 1050. The translation is taken from Richard Hamer, ed.  A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse. London: Faber & Faber, 1970.

I sing my own true story, tell my travels,
How I have often suffered times of hardship
In days of toil, and have experienced
Bitter anxiety, my troubled home
On many a ship has been the heaving ways,
Where grim night-watch has often been my lot
At the ship’s prow as it beat past the cliffs.
Oppressed by cold my feet were bound by frost
In icy bonds, while worries simmered hot
About my heart, and hunger from within
Tore the sea-weary spirit. He knows not,
Who lives most easily on land, how I
Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea,
Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile,
Lacking dear friends, hung round by icicles,
While hail flew past in showers. There heard I nothing
But the resounding sea, the ice-cold waves.
Sometimes I made the song of the wild swan
My pleasure, or the gannet’s call, the cries
Of curlews for the missing mirth of men,
The singing gull instead of the mead in hall.
Storms beat the rocky cliffs, and icy-winged
The tern replied, the horn-beaked eagle shrieked.
No patron had I there who might have soothed
My desolate spirit. He can little know
Who, proud and flushed with wine, has spent his time
With all the joys of life among the cities,
Safe from such fearful venturing, how I
Have often suffered weary on the seas.
Night shadows darkened, snow came from the north,
Frost bound the earth and hail fell on the ground,
Coldest of corns. And yet the heart’s desires
Incite me now that I myself should go
On towering seas, among salt waves’ play;
And constantly the heartfelt wishes urge
The spirit to venture, that i should go forth
To see the lands of strangers far away.
Yet no man in the world’s so proud of heart,
So generous of gifts, so bold in youth,
In deeds so brave, or with so loyal lord,
That he can ever venture on the sea
Without great fears of what the Lord may bring.
His mind dwells not on the harp,
On ring-receiving, or the joy of woman,
Or worldly hopes, or anything at all
But the relentless rolling of the waves;
But he who goes to sea must ever yearn.
The groves bear blossom, cities grow more bright,
The fields adorn themselves, the world speeds up’
Yet all this urges forth the eager spirit
Of him who then desires to travel far
On the sea paths. Likewise the cuckoo calls
With boding voice, the harbinger of summer
Offers but bitter sorrow in the breast.
The man who’s blest with comfort does not know
What some then suffer who most widely travel
The paths of exile. Even now my heart
Journeys beyond its confines, and my thoughts
Over the sea, across the whale’s domain,
Travel afar the regions of the earth,
And then come back to me with greed and longing.
The cuckoo cries, incites the eager breast
On to the whale’s roads irresistibly,
Over the wide expanses of the sea,
Because the joys of God mean more to me
Than this dead transitory life on land.
That earthly wealth lasts to eternity
I don’t believe. Always one of three things
Keeps all in doubt until one’s destined hour.
Sickness, old age, the sword, each one of these
May end the lives of doomed and transient men.
Therefore for every warrior the best
Memorial is the praise of living men
After his death, that ere he must depart
He shall have done good deeds on earth  against
The malice of his foes, and noble works
Against the devil, that the sons of men
May after praise him, and his glory live
For ever with the angels in the splendour
Of lasting life, in bliss among those hosts.

One comment on “Nordzee: The Seafarer

  1. tallulah
    December 8, 2013

    good spot air. the sea. the best.

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Anxious Care

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you.”  Psalm 55:22

[Note:  Forgive me for the time lapse between posts.   Family concerns, travels, and unexpected events in life I frequently find writing and sharing more challenging, and time, too fleeting.   I admire others, many of you, who blog much more consistently than I.   I aspire to be more consistent.]

Today’s verse is among my many favourites.  I’ve written about this before, but what I really want to do is, APPLY it.  Spurgeon reminds us that, in our failure to cast our cares on Jesus, we are prone to sin.   We neglect to trust our Lord, the One who carries our burdens, our diseases, sicknesses, and sins.  We deceive ourselves, thinking our Lord is possibly uninterested, unable, or unaffected by our cares…none of which is true!  This errant thinking can lead to personal striving, anxiety, and distance from our Beloved.  Spurgeon writes:

“Care, even though exercised on legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin….the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting of ourselves into His place to do for Him what He has undertaken to do for us.

We attempt to think of that which we imagine He will forget.

“..anxious care often leads to acts of sin.  He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God’s hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself.  This sin leads to a forsaking of God as our Counselor, resorting instead to human wisdom.

“Anxiety makes us doubt God’s lovingkindness, and thus our love for Him grows cold.  We feel mistrust, and grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example marred, and our lives ones of self-seeking.  This lack of confidence in God leads us to wander far from Him;

but, if through simple faith in His promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon Him, and are “anxious for nothing” (Phil. 4:6) because He undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to Him and strengthen us against much temptation.”

“Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee; because He trusts in Thee.”  Isaiah 26:3

4 thoughts on “Anxious Care

  1. Hi Linda, this was an absolute great message and something that I really needed to hear. So often in our lives we have a back-up plan in case God doesn’t come through for us! How dumb is that?? By God’s own nature, he cannot refuse us anything that is good! (Psalm 84) He has the plan that he knows will work. Back-up plans aren’t needed and are sin!

    Thanks for the reminders! I enjoy your site very much.

    • That’s exactly why I have to focus and have written reminders of His Care 🙂 he wants me to rest in His care so much more than I do. He’s prove ‘o’er and o’er’ that we can trust Him, so why do we fret, doubt, or worry?.

  2. No doubt about it, we’ve probably all been guilty of exhibiting the kind of thinking your post speaks of. I have found myself taking things out of God’s hands on more than one occasion; those times were not productive at all.

    Thanks so much for posting this eternal message.

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Firewood grows on trees

From the “American’s provide the best entertainment” stack, comes this latest story from Afghanistan.  Inside an email chain researching the Afghan National Army’s supply system:

Here is something interesting.  So today I tried to fly two boxes of firewood out to a [location] for an ANA company that is displaced.  I was told not to do that because the ANA and AUP have a contract / agreement to obtain firewood on the economy locally.  Someone has to answer this riddle. . . we’ll find it.

The author of the email probably didn’t think supplying firewood by helicopter was “interesting.”  Admittedly, it is much more difficult to believe that the ANA could provide themselves firewood by any means than to believe that the Americans would more than double the embodied energy in firewood by their choice of delivery method.

This is reminiscent of some other, equally inconceivable, ideas:

But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg.  Of course, I don’t make the profit.  The syndicate makes the profit.  And everybody has a share.

This, of course, is from Joseph Heller’s, “Catch-22.”  Milo Minderbinder is starting to look pretty sane and Yossarian is indeed crazy.

The dangerous combination of online research, gratuitous assumption, and military math yields the following:

  1. Helicopters typically fly in pairs.  Assuming each carries a cord of firewood with an average of 20,000,000 Btu’s yields a delivery of 40 million Btu’s per trip.
  2. Assuming a round trip is 100 miles and each helicopter burns 1.5 gallons of JP8 fuel per mile, 300 gallons is required per trip.
  3. JP8 delivers 141,500 Btu’s/gallon.  At 300 gallons per delivery, 42.5 million Btu’s are consumed.

Result:  The U.S. is burns a cord of wood to deliver a cord of wood–that’s why we call helicopters “choppers” (Thank you, EP).

The Hill reported that the U.S. was paying $400 per gallon of fuel in Afghanistan.  This makes the delivery fee for the two cords $120,000.  That’s how you spend over $5 Billion per month. . . since you had to ‘axe.’

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  1. So how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck had Blackhawks?

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The UC Berkeley Academic Senate delivered a stinging rebuke to Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau for ordering police to remove Occupy Cal demonstrators from the front of Sproul Hall on Nov. 9.

A packed gathering of faculty members passed a bloc of four resolutions condemning the administration. The stern language of the resolutions was nothing compared with the harshness of the speeches delivered during the hour-and-45-minute special session Monday afternoon called to discuss the role of protests at UC Berkeley. The attacks on Birgeneau were more personal and more pointed than I've ever heard leveled against a chancellor by his colleagues in my 28 years as a UC professor. Not a single soul spoke to defend him.

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What is Stroke?

Stroke is better explained as the sudden death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen, which is usually caused by blockage of blood flow or burst of an artery to the brain. This causes the part of the body that the injured brain controls to stop working.

Our brain cells need constant supply of oxygen from the blood, and this is why the brain suffers when the blood supply is cut off. Remember that every activity is monitored and controlled by the brain so if a part of the brain fails to work, some other part/s of our body will be affected.

Stroke can also be referred to as “cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack. Strokes are deadly and can result in death. They need to be properly managed when they occur. In fact it is advisable to rush a victim to the hospital straight away so the victim can be stabilized. You should also know that not all hospitals are well equipped to deal with stroke patients, so you should locate the nearest one as soon as possible for adequate care.

The fatality rate and level of disability caused by stroke can be significantly reduced by immediate and appropriate medical care.

It is a fact that stroke has permanently maimed many hundreds of thousands over the years. You should also know the fatality rate has not significantly reduced even with the campaign because there are still a lot of people who don’t know how to get help.

Some people erroneously believe that only those 50 years and above are susceptible to stroke. This has been proven to be false. Stroke can happen to anyone, regardless of the age, sex, race or belief.

This purpose of this article is to bring to light how deadly stroke is, the symptoms and causes, the necessary preventive measures and how it can be treated.

Facts about Stroke

According to research;

About 800,000 people in the United States suffer from stroke every year, with about three in four being first-time strokes.

It will surprise you to know that stroke is the No. 5 cause of death in the United States. It kills about 130,000 people a year. This proves that one in every 20 death in the USA is a result of stroke.

Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. It may seem hard to believe but it’s the truth

Every four minutes, someone dies of stroke. This is pathetic but it’s another hard fact we cannot ignore.

Stroke is a leading cause of permanent disability and the leading avoidable cause of disability. It’s a pity it can be avoided or prevented but sometimes we choose to ignore all the signs and campaigns.

More women than men have strokes each year, in part because women live longer.

Estimates of the overall annual incidence of stroke in US children are 6.4 per 100,000 children (0 to 15 years), with approximately half being hemorrhagic strokes.

87% of strokes are classified as ischemic. An ischemic stroke occurs when a clot or a mass blocks a blood vessel, cutting off blood flow to a part of the brain.

African-Americans are more impacted by stroke than any other racial group within the American population.

You can save lives by sharing this article and a lot more others on stroke. We can win this battle against stroke.

Types and causes of Strokes

There are two major types of strokes. They are;

  1. Ischemic stroke (part of the brain loses blood flow)
  2. Hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding occurs within the brain)

Ischemic Stroke

Ischemic means when blood and oxygen supply to a part of the body is reduced. It is usually caused by blood clot in an artery, which blocks the flow of blood. This is the most common type of stroke. It occurs in about 7 in 10 cases.

Usually the blood clot forms within the artery itself. This occurs over a patch of fatty materials called atheroma. Atheroma is commonly referred to as furring or hardening of the arteries. There are small patches of atheroma formed on the inside of arteries in most older people and if these patches become thick, they can trigger the blood to clot.

In rare cases, the blood may form in other part of the body and then transferred to an artery in the brain via the bloodstream. This is called embolus.

Hemorrhagic Stroke

When a blood vessel bursts inside the brain, we can say an “intracerebral hemorrhage” has occurred. This causes the blood to spill into the nearby brain tissue. The affected brain cells lose oxygen, and become damaged or die. This happens in about 1 in 10 strokes.

Blood vessel can also burst in the subarachnoid space of the brain. The subarachnoid hemorrhage is the narrow space between the brain and the skull. This space is normally filled with a fluid called the cerebrospinal fluid. It has been proven that about 1 stroke in 20 is due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Symptoms of Stroke

It is impossible for one to suffer stroke suddenly without noticing the signs. Before the very visible collapse, there must be some signs of the imminent stroke. It is possible most people ignore those signs till it is too late.

Some associate these signs with tiredness, old age, hunger, stress, just name it. Over 80% of stroke patients didn’t see it coming because they were too busy to pay attention to the changes in their body.

Signs that you may be having a stroke include:

  1. Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding speech.
  2. Sudden weakness or numbness of the arm, leg or face, especially on one side of the body.
  3. Sudden experience of partial or total blindness.
  4. Sudden experience of trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination.
  5. Sudden severe headache with no known cause.

Once you notice any of these signs in your body or someone close to you, do not waste any time to dial 911. Stroke does not manifest only when you experience all the signs. It could happen after just one of the signs. Do not hesitate to seek for help.

You should know delay is dangerous.

Treatment of Stroke

Just as the two main types of strokes are caused by different factors, also there are different ways to treat stroke.

  1. Ischemic stroke is caused by blockage of the arteries or when they are narrowed and so treatment focuses on restoring adequate flow of blood to the brain.

Drugs that can break down clots and prevent further ones from forming will be very useful here.

Some of these medications need to be taken immediately and only for a short time, while others may only be started once the stroke has been treated and may need to be taken long term.

Drugs that can be effective against ischemic strokes include

  • Alteplase. Very effective if started as soon as possible after the stroke occurs. It isn’t generally recommended if more than 4.5 hours have passed. It is important a brain scan is carried out to confirm a diagnosis of an ischemic stroke before using alteplase. This is because this medication can make the bleeding that occurs in hemorrhagic strokes worse.
  • Antiplatelets such as aspirin, clopidogrel and dipyrdamole.
  • Anticoagulants such as warfarin, apixaban, dabigatran, edoxaban and rivaroxaban. Anticoagulants prevents blood clots by changing the chemical composition of the blood in a way that prevents clots from occurring.
  • Antihypertensives such as thiazide diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers and alpha-blockers. These are drugs used for patients that have high blood pressure.
  • This is for patients that also have high level of cholesterol in the blood.

  1. Hemorrhagic strokes are caused by bursts of blood vessel in the brain. Surgery is recommended for hemorrhagic stroke patients. Occasionally, emergency surgery may be required to remove any blood from the brain and repair any burst blood vessels.

How Can I Prevent Stroke?

You can prevent stroke by observing the following;

  • Maintain a healthy diet. A low-fat, high-fibre diet is usually recommended, including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Avoid foods high in salt and processed foods.
  • Regular exercise. This can help lower your cholesterol and keep your blood pressure healthy. 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, such as cycling or fast walking, every week is recommended. Regular exercise may not be possible in the first weeks or months after stroke, but you should be able to begin exercising once your rehabilitation has progressed.
  • Avoid smoking completely. Smoking significantly increases your risk of having a stroke. This is because it narrows your arteries and makes blood more likely to clot.
  • Reduce your alcohol intake or avoid alcohol completely. Excessive alcohol consumption can lead to high blood pressure and trigger an irregular heartbeat, both of which can increase your risk of having a stroke.

Please note that this report does not in any way serve as a substitute or replacement for your doctor’s report. This is just to guide you.

If you feel this article has been helpful, kindly drop a comment to share your experience or thoughts.

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  1. Thanks for a great post on strokes. What I found most helpful was the acronym FAST!
    I will memorize that and be sure to go through it if I see anyone in distress. Really well done. Keep up the great work!

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