WordPress Plugins That Helps Turn Your Blog Into A CMS

Last Updated on November 1, 2019 at 1:16 pm

WordPress has always been known to be famous for creating simplified blogging software. It has been one of my most loved platform of use not only because of how flexible the software was but because of how friendly the individuals within the community platform are.

When I got introduced to WordPress, it was like

How I do to install this
How do I do that
Is there a proper way to accomplish this

WordPress Resaech ( © kinsta )

Every time I saw various possibilities to perform multiple tasks.

From my perspective, what stood out was the support the community had, not only in its platform but various sites of other developers that talked about different ways to build and accomplish multiple possibilities within the software used.

Over my years of using WordPress, I got to understand the reasons why the platform could become a great CMS engine.

Which were is its flexibility and customizability, both in design and functionality?

What is a CMS?

A content management system (CMS) is a form of software application made of varieties of programs that are used to help create and manage digital content.

Content Management System ( © )

If you are planning to use WordPress to build a suitable content management system for any of your projects, below are few respectable plugins that I feel may help you accomplish your task.

1 Google XML Sitemaps

How to Setup Google XML Sitemaps - Complete Tutorial (© Jordan Alexo)

Arne Brachhold created the plugin
The plugin helps in the automated generation of sitemap and submission to Google, Yahoo and various search engines. The goal of the plugin is to successfully create a comprehensive index of your site to the various search engines, even without you knowing it.
2 Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO Tutorial 2019 | SEO For Beginners ( © Ferdy Korpershoek )

Team Yoast created the Plugin
One reason why I love the plugin is also that it helps automate most of the process in helping you gain an SEO advantage in making your site pages or post discoverable.
Where if a user should search the engine on a related topic and your one of your web content is grouped around that subject, then most likely, your page would be discovered in the listing.
Overall the plugin offers the flexibility of you also making decisions on how to use it.
3 Admin Management Xtended

Admin Management Xtended Demo ( © Oliver Schlöbe )

wpseek created the plugin
A perfect and simple plugin that allows you to manage your posts and pages quickly
4 TinyMCE Advanced

Tinymce advanced for Gutenberg - Enhance Classic and Paragraph blocks with this plugin ( © Design School by Wpalgoridm )

Andrew Ozz created this plugin
The plugin gives a wide variety of options to what the default editor offers in the Wordpress platform.
5 Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 Tutorial ( © Ferdy Korpershoek )

Takayuki Miyoshi created the plugin
The plugin helps you create and manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form structure and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form structure supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, and so much more