In this post I will talk only about the ways to improve your sidebar structure and make your blog more accessible to your visitors. What is your favorite sidebar plugins for WordPress? Sidebar plugins are an important part of most blogs. The majority of all WordPress blogs have sidebars and contain at least one plugin.
In this article, we’re taking a look at the best free wordpress sidebar plugins for of all time. You should choose the ones you think that fits your needs and try to avoid the situation described bellow. You may be interested in the following posts: Organization WordPress Premium Themes, Facebook Share WordPress Widgets, Maintenance Mode WordPress Plugins and Free Photoblog Themes for WordPress.
1. Benchmark Email Lite
Benchmark Email Lite lets you build an email list from your WordPress site, and easily send your subscribers email versions of your posts and pages.
2. Gallery Bank
Gallery Bank is a WordPress Plugin designed to create elegant and beautiful gallery albums with images, videos using Grid Albums, List Albums, Individual Albums, Masonry Layouts and Thumbnail Layouts, Special Effects & Animation Effects.
3. Easy Media Gallery
Easy Media Gallery is a wordpress plugin designed to display various media support including grid gallery, galleries, photo album, multiple photo albums, portfolio, photo gallery or image gallery, image slider, Google maps and Google street view, YouTube video.
4. Contact Bank
Contact Bank is a WordPress Plugin designed to create elegant and beautiful contact forms easily and hassle free within few seconds.
5. Category Column
The Category Column does simply, what the name says; it will show excerpts of the latest posts in your sidebar.
6. Advanced Category Column
The Advanced Category Column is mainly designed to give your blog a bit more of a newspaper behavior. E.g. The plugin shows the latest posts from all categories with an offset of three posts on your homepage.
7. SZ – Google for WordPress
Plugin to integrate Google’s products in WordPress with particular attention to the widgets provided by the social network Google+.
8. Sharing Buttons & Analytics by AddShoppers
Easily add sharing buttons to your WordPress site and track sharing activity from networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and more.
9. SocialRadios
HTML5 Radio Station player with Social Media by SocialRadios.net. New HTML5 World Radio Station Player integrated with Social Media to enable your visitors to listen to radio stations and increase your visitor retention.
10. NO CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Keypic is not a CAPTCHA provider, we completely remove the concept of CAPTCHA! Keypic checks your forms against the comprehensive Keypic Web Service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
11. Categorized Tag Cloud
Categorized Tag Cloud is a free plugin for WordPress, developed by the Whiletrue.it staff to generate a cloud with the website’s most used tags, in a sidebar widget.
12. Social Contests
Run promotional campaigns on your WordPress site that spread quickly on Facebook and Twitter and drive new customers.
13. Live Support, Chat rooms & Private Chat
Flyzoo provides a complete chat platform for Live Support, Chat rooms and Private Chat! Customizable online, offline and login messages. Eye-catching, responsive chat layout on Smartphones.
14. YouTube Channel
Sidebar widget to show latest video thumbnail, playable flash object or chromeless video from YouTube Channel or Playlist.
15. Shortcode Exec PHP
Using this plugin you can execute arbitrary PHP code using shortcodes in your posts, pages, comments, widgets and RSS feeds, just like manually defined shortcodes.
16. The Welcomizer
This Ajax powered plugin allows you to quickly animate your WordPress blog using jQuery effects. Designed for webmasters, marketing consultants, web designers and bloggers.
17. Share Buttons by AddToAny
The WordPress sharing plugin to help people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, Reddit, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, and well over 100 more sharing and social bookmarking sites.
18. wizScriber
wizScriber is a unique plugin to create engaging whiteboard animated video messages quickly and easily without technical or design skills. It’s simple, handy and you can use it to grab your visitors’ attention.
