Reliable Administration Plugins for WordPress Blogs

By john in WordPress Posted on February 1, 2013

Although WordPress started as a small blogging system, it has now become a powerful CMS because but administrating your blog can be quite difficult sometimes. The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts, pages and other custom post types. There are many WordPress administration plugins out there, but with each upgrade WordPress is improved thus rendering plug-ins unusable or the developer stops upgrading the plugin.

Here, in this post I have compiled a list of most useful administration WordPress plugins for the save the your admin panel. Keep in mind that you have to save lots of time in order to become more effective and I’m sure that using these plugins right will save you a lot of time. Let me know if you think there’s a plugin that should be on this list and I will update it. Related articles you will definitely find worth checking out: analytics plugins, business plugins and WordPress themes plugins.

1. Maintenance

Close your website on maintenance. Search engines and regular users don’t see your site. Access only by login.

2. Peter’s Login Redirect

Define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users.

3. Nofollow Case by Case

Dofollow but Nofollow Case by Case allows you to selectively apply nofollow to your comments as well.

4. WP Maintenance Mode

Adds a maintenance-page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance time.

5. Quick Post Management

Quick Post Management adds the following links visible to editors at the top/bottom of every page/post enabling one-click quick shortcuts.

6. Admin Menus Fixed

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu + WordPress Toolbar + Standard Admin Menu Fixed to the Top of the Admin Screens. Less Scrolling!

7. Ultimate Maintenance Mode

The Ultimate Maintenance Mode plugin displays a screenshot of your website with an overlayed window and the reason your site is down.

8. Simple Backup

Simple Backup Plugin for WordPress create and download backups of your WordPress website.

9. Bootstrap Admin

A clean, minimalistic administration theme based on Twitter’s Bootstrap. This plugin will completely re-style your WordPress admin area, offering a cleaner experience.