Improve the WordPress Administrator and Visitor Experience

Often a self-hosted WordPress blog doesn’t need a serious make-over or a major update to improve the visitor experience, just minor touches that can make the visitor experience more rewarding or easier.

Plus there are plugins that can make an administrators life easier.

So how about plugins that help both visitor and administrator?

Below we cover three such plugins.

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Contact Form 7

Contact forms have often been a frustration of website developers and administrators alike.

The Contact Form 7 plugin simplifies the process.

Once the plugin is installed you can customise your contact form.

Adding additional receiptants of messages?

No problem. Adding an upload option?

Easy. Then you copy the code and place in your contact page.

Et voilà!

You benefit from a highly configurable, easy to use contact form and your visitors enjoy a smooth contact form experience.

How often have you seen a contact form that looked out of place and inadequate for your message on a website?

I know I have many times.

With Contact Form 7 everyone should benefit.

WordPress Download Monitor

The larger your website grows the harder it becomes to manage and indeed keep track of any downloads you provide.

With the WordPress Download Monitor you can keep track and manage all your downloads, plus find out how many people actually are downloading your files.

wordpress download monitor

So how do your visitors benefit?

Well they benefit from you being able to more easily manage your files.

Often websites are being with updates due to administration time, this plugin can reduce the administration time involved.

Enabling administrators to get new versions to the website visitors quicker.

So instead of you going hunting for any download links within blog posts or pages, you can use the download monitor plugin to update the files from a central location.

For example if you needed to edit a download that is listed on five pages, it is no problem.

You edit the specific download, then the pages are updated without you visiting them individually.

NextGEN Gallery

When you want to place a gallery of images into a page or blog post, the NextGEN Gallery plugin, is probably the best WordPress plugin to use.

It makes the process a breeze for administrators and enables visitors to browse thumbnails and then look at the images.

Avoiding monster length web pages that scroll on what seems forever eating bandwidth as it goes.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a feature rich plugin that handles complex gallery management, but is easy to use. A well rounded plugin that most administrators and visitors should enjoy using.

Conclusion

So there you have it, three plugins to help improve your self-hosted WordPress website.

There are thousands of WordPress plugins, but these three visually show the end user that you care about how you present your website, providing rich features, whilst administrators benefit from plugins that save them time. Result!

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