WordPress is one of the worlds’ most popular website and blogging tools and it’s latest version makes it easier to manage the look of your website. There is always lots of questions and discussion one can notice on different WordPress discussion forums that what are the best and essential plugins for WordPress multisite. I’ve been running WordPress as a multisite network and I often get asked about what are the best plugins for WordPress.
These plugins will help you define user roles, manage themes and plugins, search across network, map domain, control traffic and much more. If you liked the post, bookmark on Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon etc to spread the word. We appreciate it! You may be interested in the following posts: Premium WordPress Directory and Listings Themes, Useful Contact Us Form WordPress Widgets, Free Photography WordPress Themes and Free WordPress Christmas Plugins.
1. Yuzo – Related Posts
Yuzo is intended to show related post plugin as accurate as possible, also has multiple features with more customization options +50 much as estrutura as design. Also in this new version features a super widget to display related or the best post your wordpress blog. This fast to use and configure intuitive and the best thing is free. Displays related post your stories with different features of text and image size.
2. Login Page Styler
Login page styler helps you customize your wordpress login page easily with few clicks and can change the entire look of your login page. This plugin will not make your wordpress slow.
3. Multisite BBPress Slave
If you have a multisite setup, you normally cannot have the same BBPress forums across all sites of the network. Now you can. Install this plugin and activate it on the main site and for each subsite that should use the main site’s forums, or network-activate to enable on all sub sites.
4. xili-language
xili-language provides for a bilingual (or multilingual) website an automatic selection of language (.mo) in theme according to the language of current post(s) or page. Theme’s behavior can be fully personalized through settings, hooks and api. Ready for CMS developers and designers.
5. iRemoteWP Multiple WordPress Control
The iRemoteWP WordPress plugin is a amazing multiple WordPress sites management service from one location and works with iRemoteWP.com. Remotely manage all your WordPress sites from one, easy dashboard. You can install theme or plugin selected group with Group operations. Secure, fast and easy solution for manage all your WordPress sites from one easy dashboard.
6. GeoDirectory
Turn your WordPress website into an interactive Business Directory, now 100{f48cdb843be78821f3e6bad1e0e37d22b133730599e0a9a60c52ba26b491813c} Multisite compatible and with a new set of shortcodes available! Built based on over 3 years experience developing and supporting GeoTheme, one of the most succesful directory themes for wordpress, over one year of development and testing, GeoDirectory is finally released to the public.
7. WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam
An extremely powerful and user friendly WordPress anti-spam plugin that stops blog spam cold, including comment spam, trackback and pingback spam, contact form spam, and registration spam. See what it’s like to run a WordPress site without spam! Includes spam-blocking contact form feature. WP-SpamShield is an all-in-one spam solution for WordPress.
8. WordPoints
This plugin lets you create one or multiple types of points which you can use to reward your users by “hooking into” different user actions. WordPoints also includes a Ranks component, which lets you create ranks for your users based on how many points they have. You can be selective in which post types get awarded points, and award different amounts for different types. Points will automatically be removed when a post is deleted.
9. A5 Custom Login Page
With this plugin, you can even go further and style your whole login page according to your needs. At the moment, there is only the way for ‘dummies’ to style the page, but in a future version you will be able to enter some css code yourself and the final goal is, also to offer the possibility to copy an entire stylesheet into the plugin, to have the most freedom of styling and changing the items on your loginscreen.
10. BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation
You have made your BuddyPress multilingual by installing it on a multisite WordPress with a different language for each site and you are using the BP_ENABLED_MULTIBLOG constant to make BuddyPress available on each sub-site. If that is your setup, you will find that the extended profile field names are only available in one language.
11. ManageWP Worker
ManageWP is a revolutionary service designed to automate most of your daily tasks when managing multiple WordPress websites, allowing you to use your time on more important matters. With ManageWP the data from all of your sites is compiled and shown on a single easy to use dashboard, allowing you to check up on your websites in a single glance.
12. Code Snippets
Code Snippets is an easy, clean and simple way to add code snippets to your site. It removes the need to add custom snippets to your theme theme’s functions.php file. A snippet is a small chunk of PHP code that you can use to extend the functionality of a WordPress-powered website; essentially a mini-plugin with less load on your site. Code Snippets provides graphical interface, similar to the Plugins menu, for managing snippets.
