WordPress Developers Favorite Free Plugins this 2016

With many plugins available in WordPress, it makes you wonder what the best plugins to use especially this 2016 are. Well, if you're reading this then you must have been overwhelmed with the sheer number of new and good plugins in WordPress. Now, you don't have to worry at all. WordPress Developers will provide you a list of good, powerful and trending plugins for the year 2016.

Provide excellent user experience but highlighting your most popular or newest post. Guide them on your page with ease especially for new visitors so you can keep them on your site longer. Here is a good list of free plugins can simplify everything that you need. 

Jetpack by WordPress.com (Free)

Jetpack is by far the most popular and installed in more than one million websites. By default, they get the "Top Posts & Pages Widget" can display either the most liked posts, or the posts with the most traffic in the previous 48 hours. It also comes with an Extra Sidebar Widgets feature that can be enabled under Jetpack > Settings in the WordPress admin. Once that is done, the widget will show up under Appearance > Widgets, and can be dragged onto any sidebar you choose.

WordPress Popular Posts (Free)

Another popular plugin is the WordPress Popular Posts plugin, which is installed on over 200,000 websites. “Easy to customize” and “easy to use” are the terms that get used most often for this plugin. It enables you to add several plugins and even custom posts. If you don’t want to use the widget, a shortcode is available to insert the most popular posts within your site’s content.

Popular Widget (Free)

This widget lets you display the most popular posts, posts with recent comments, and tags. There are almost 10,000 active installs of this plugin. Display options for the widget include whether to display thumbnails, excerpts, and counts.

Post Hit Counter (Free)

This plugin is gaining popularity with its active 5,000 installs and more. It's a counter that lets you keep track of how many times your posts have been viewed. More than that, it enables you to display a list of the most viewed posts.

Those are just some of the best 2016 free plugins. You can make it better or improve it by customising it with the help of skilled WordPress Developers.