5 Cool WordPress plugins for photographers

If you are a photographer then it will be a great idea to promote your business online. For this you can make a Facebook fan page or you can establish your presence on Twitter by making an account. But if your photography business has done very well then it would be a much better idea to start a blog for your photography business to get some more customers and exposure.

Today I will share some of the very best plugins that will improve your your images display, will help you to promote your images on Social media, will make your images SEO friendly, a plugin that will increase your blog speed because normally images put extra burden on browsers therefore the load time of your blog increases and finally a plugin that will help you to sell your images.

Slider Revolution

Slider revolution is one of the most used plugins on WordPress to create beautiful and attracting slideshows. Despite the fact that this plugin is a bit complex and time consuming but still it will work great for your Photography Blog. This wordpress plugin will help you a lot in show casing your cool work in a single slide show.

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Cart66 Cloud

Cart66 will be a great way to start selling your images online. By the help of this plugin you can make a wonderful stock photography sales system where you can create memberships, subscriptions and on time sales system by which people can purchase memberships, subscriptions of your blog or If they just want to buy a specific item then they can use the On time sales system.

Perhaps you have a big collection of different photos, each group contains different criteria and you don’t want to give away all of them in a single pack then you can make an upgrade system from which you can always get a upsell.

Or I should say you can make an easy system where people can upgrade their accounts to get more high level photographs or images from your blog.

Pinterest Pin it button for images

We all are very familiar with Pinterest and if you are not then you must be living in Sahara jungle. Normally e-commerce and online retail websites aren’t fit enough with Pinterest but when it comes to a Photography industry Pinterest will be a great match. We all know that normally people go on Pinterest to find new and cool images so it would be a great idea to promote your images on Pinterest.

So here is a plugin that can help you to get some more shares and pins on Pinterest by which your photography blog will get some extra exposure.

SEO Friendly Images

To get some extra views from search engines you need to make your images SEO friendly. Yes I am talking about images and not content. We all have heard a lot of times from SEO gurus that use SEO on your content to get some extra traffic from Search Engines, well they are right and this also applies on images.

A image with just a keyword in alt tag even with poor quality is suspected to get more top ranking on SERPs instead of a image which has high quality but no optimization.

So to make sure that everything is fine enough for Search Engine use this small but powerful plugin to make titles and alts a perfect match of what image describes in it.

W3 Total Cache

If you don’t know much about Cache plugins then let me give you a short introduction:

Cache plugins help you in speeding up your blog’s load time. What these plugins will do is that they will crawl and capture your blog’s interface and when a user will visit your blog these cache plugins will show the images to your users which they captured from your blog instead of the real situation of your blog.

For Example You are using a Cache plugin and you just changed your blog’s header and just after changing the header a user visited your blog then these cache plugins will show him your previous header for a particular time period because in the Cache plugin database your blog header is different from the current one.

Once your Cache plugin will capture the new image of your blog it will start showing your users the current header of your blog.

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