<img src="https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/25-top-wp-plugins-header.jpg" alt="25 Top WordPress Plugins" width="900" height="127" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5355" />
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What are the 25 Top WordPress Plugins?</h2>

WordPress is one of the most powerful blogging platforms and content management systems available. It's by far the most popular and with the right WordPress plugins, you can make your website/blog function properly.

Comparing different WordPress plugins and what they can do for you, will help you choose the right ones for your needs. We are comparing the top 25 plugins to others in the same category, if available, to show you which ones are the best choices. Most of these plugins won't cost you a dime and as long as you have hosting with WordPress, you can use these plugins to create a better website/blog.

<h3 style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 15px; margin: 25px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #eee; color: #4F75A3; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #fff, 2px 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);">Here's a look at the 25 top WordPress Plugins:</h3>

<div class="clear"></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h3>Eight Benefits from Top WordPress Plugins</h3>
<p>WordPress plugins bring many benefits, depending on which ones you choose. 
Some automate sharing, while others provide security benefits.</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;">Top benefits from WordPress plugins include:</h4>
[one_quarter]<h5>Automation</h5>
Some of the best plugins will automate the process of sharing your blog posts with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other social networks and profiles. This can be very helpful if you plan to schedule blog posts or if you want to save a little bit of time, and can help drive lots of targeted traffic to your website.[/one_quarter][one_quarter]<h5>Tracking and Analytics</h5>
With the right plugins, you can see who has been visiting your website, where they are coming from, how much time they spend on each page and a whole lot more. This can help with new blog post ideas and with the direction of your blog as well as your SEO strategy.[/one_quarter][one_quarter]<h5>Better Security & Performance</h5>
Some of the best WordPress plugins won't change the way your site looks or share blog posts. However, they are still very important. Some plugins will help to better secure your website and blog from hackers and viruses. Other plugins will help to speed up the load times of your website, which also provides SEO benefits.[/one_quarter][one_quarter_last]<h5>Basic Functions</h5>
WordPress can do many things, but some of the basic functions need a little tweaking for specific projects. With the right WordPress plugins, you can change simple tasks, such as which pages show up in your main menu and what goes in your sidebar. These functions can be customized to fit your specific needs with some of the basic plugins.[/one_quarter_last][one_quarter]<h5>No Coding Necessary</h5>
Maybe the most beneficial part of using WordPress and the top WordPress plugins is anybody can do it. You won't need to do any coding with the help of the plugins. They are easy to install and they will do just what you need without any HTML coding or any other type of coding.[/one_quarter][one_quarter]<h5>Massive SEO Benefits</h5>
Just a couple of SEO plugins can provide massive benefits. You can automatically generate your sitemap and make sure the right tags, descriptions and titles are displayed for the search engines. Some of these plugins will even give you an SEO score to help make sure each post or page fits perfectly with your overall strategy.[/one_quarter][one_quarter]<h5>Share Related Posts</h5>
Have you ever found a blog post with related posts listed below and wondered how they do it? If you were to do this by hand, it would take quite a bit of time. However, with the use of the right plugins, you can create a list of related posts or display them with an image, without doing anything more than installing and setting up the plugin.[/one_quarter][one_quarter_last]<h5>Cost of Upgrades</h5>
These free plugins allow you to quickly and easily add functionality to your WordPress website that could easily cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to implement on your own.  In addition, the developers maintain the code and keep it secure, further reducing your costs.[/one_quarter_last]</div>

All of these benefits and many more, come from the top 25 WordPress plugins. Of course, before you can use the best plugins, you need a domain, hosting and WordPress installed on our website.

At ITX Design, we provide WordPress free with every hosting account. It takes less than five minutes to get it installed on your domain name and our hosting packages start as low as $4.95 per month.

<div class="start-empire3" style="text-align: center;">[abutton color="green" link="https://itxdesign.com/billing/cart.php"]SIGN UP[/abutton]</div>
</div>

<style>
.top-plugin {
float: left;
width: 49%;
margin: 10px 0.5%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.top-plugin img {
border-radius: 15px;
border: 2px solid #fff;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
.top-plugin h3 {
text-align: center;
font-size: 18px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #fff,
2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1),
2px 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
.top-plugin p {
text-align: center;
width: 300px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.top-plugin:nth-child(even) { clear: both; }
.top-plugin .last-plugin {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 1.4em;
padding: 60px 40px;
}
</style>