Top WordPress Plugins That You’ll Need to Manage Your Blogs

Licensed under the GPL2 and developed by Curtiss Grymala from the University of Washington- Extended Super Admins plugin is allowing WordPress users an ability to revoke special privileges from any super admin on the network.

For example, if you want to create sites delete sites, manage networks, manage network users, manage network plugins, themes, and options, upgrade or even set-up a new network- this plugin will help you add new roles to your WordPress blog site and then connect Super Admin to that role, by easily removing the appropriate privileges.

Developed by Oliver Schlobe with thousands of active installations, Admin Management Xtended allows WordPress users to instantly manage their posts and pages without having to switch over to another browser or tab.

For example, if you want to postpone or prepone a post, or even change the title for your posts- this plugin will eliminate the need to enter the edit screens with its Ajax-driven actions. This way, you won’t have to wait for the page reload to highlight the changes made to your post or pages.

This plugin developed by Vladimir Garagulya is helping WordPress owners an ability to change user role (except administrator) capabilities in few simple clicks. Offering a multisite support- User Role Editor is popular for personal, business, unlimited and once and for all blog editing solutions.

For example, if you want to add/remove users, activate or delete a plugin, edit pages and publish posts, manage links, export/import lists, upload files and many other role customizations- this plugin will allow you quickly assign/deactivate user roles and even hide them from other users.

An open source plugin designed by Macho Themes, Simple Author Box allows bloggers to customize the Author Bio section to match the look and feel of your ever-changing blog page needs. Additionally, the plugin offers a Right-to-Left Language support that allows WordPress users to add-on customized solutions to enhance the value of your blog post design/layout.

For example, if you want to customize your Author Bio section to target specific audience separately for specific blogs, this plugin will make it easy for you to change the author gravatar, name, website description, and social icons.

A multi-author WordPress plugin, Adminimize is developed by Frank Bultge. With over 200,000+ installation this plugin is helping WordPress blog owners an ability to activate/deactivate parts of menus and sub-menus of the blog page. Apart from allowing WordPress users to hide items, they can also be adjusted as per your contributor user group.

For example, if you want to want to allow read-only access or limited screen options to a particular contributor, this plugin will allow you modify setting and make it look more logical and secure. The editing and delete options can be controlled too.

Built by The Beaver Builder Team, WordPress Page Builder offers the simplest blog layout management solutions with its drag and drop builder capabilities. Additionally, this lightweight WordPress plugin eliminates the need for writing HTML or wrestling with confusing codes.

For example, if you want to add or remove blog page elements that include video, audio, map, gallery, buttons, contact form, subscription form, and testimonials- this popular plugin makes it easy to perform your WordPress blog layout management with a click of the mouse.

Developed by the Black Studio, this plugin allows you to enhance your content by adding WYSIWYG rich text and media objects in your WordPress blog page sidebars with no knowledge of HTML required. Black Studio TinyMCE Widget helps bloggers to overcome the limitation of the default WordPress text widgets and add-on elements to the blog pages.

For example, if you want to insert images from the WordPress media library, covert to a multi-language mode (available in 20 languages) and more, this plugin will allow you to switch between visual mode and HTML mode with no hassle.

With over 100,000+ installations, Form Maker by WD offers a user-friendly drag- drop HTML form building solutions (highly customizable and responsive forms) in few minutes. Developed by WebDorado Form Builder team, this plugin will allow you to showcase your forms in embedded, popup, topbar and scroll box appearance types.

For example, if you want to change the name/type of the form for your certain blog sites or blog pages, elements of the form, or even add a security Google reCAPTCHA functionality- this plugin will allow you to create complex HTML forms and configure them with easy-to-use drag and drop interface.

This plugin developed and contributed by Donncha O Caoimh, Ron Rennick and Automattic, is allowing multisite bloggers (WordPress MU) to map their website with multiple domains and subdomains to one site.

For example, if you offer a network like EDUblogs that allows people to create their own WordPress blogs, eportfolios, and websites- this plugin will allow you to map your multiple sites under one parent WordPress install.

A popular WordPress monitoring and audit plugin developed by WP White Security currently has over 60,000 active installations and used by administrators, owners and security professionals.

For example, if you allow contributors to publish blog posts along with certain admin rights, this multisite plugin will ensure to log everything that includes changes to a particular role, password, and other profile settings of another user.

A PHP-based plugin developed by LiteSpeed Technologies is supporting WordPress MU and is compatible with other popular plugins that include WooCommerce, bbPress and Yoast SEO. With over 100,000+ active installations, LSCWP is also helping multisite users with additional optimization feature that includes data optimization, CDN support, lazyload images and image optimization.

For example, if you have a visually oriented website and are still struggling to improve the speed of your blog page, then this plugin in-built page cache (LSCache) feature will help you automate and perform the regular caching process to ensure the best performance for your WordPress sites.

Whether you are looking to install an application on your web server, perform in-time plugin updates, security features, backup and restore solutions, or even manage editorial tasks like writing posts and switching between websites- this plugin makes it easy to run multiple sites from one master login. Infinite WP Client is contributed and developed by Revmakx with over 400,000+ active installations.

For example, if you have identical plugins for your multiple blog sites, you will have to have to login on each website to update them individually and maintain backups, this is where Infinite WP Client allows WordPress multisite bloggers to settle for a centralized solutions for your multisite management needs.