The best chrome extensions to stimulate the productivity of WordPress users

Optimization of search engines, or SEO, is inseparable from effective marketing content. Unfortunately, this is also one of the least well mastered elements. Novice people in this area often believe that the tools are too complicated or too advanced, which has a negative effect on the content they publish.

18 Google Chrome extensions essential for any marketer

Discover 18 Google Chrome extensions for any digital marketer who will save you time and productivity in the management of your digital activities.

Clémence Alonzo de Revel August 3, 2016

We know what you say to yourself: “Another list of the best Google Chrome extensions. I know them all. “This is also what we thought. However, new extensions make their appearance every day and can considerably modify the daily habits of social media marketing professionals. In addition, some of the most popular extensions have recently been updated.

Discover these 18 Google Chrome extensions for the use of digital marketing professionals, which will allow you to save time while improving your management of these professional activities which cost you more energy than they should.

The best Google Chrome extensions

#1 – Momentum

Arriving at the office, turning on your computer, and finding yourself in front of an overflowing mailbox is certainly not the best way to start your day. This extension will allow you to put yourself in the right state of mind before you submerged you planning publications, responses to subscribers, monitoring of hashtags, creation of new content, and all these many other tasks of which the charge of a manager of the social media.

The momentum extension replaces your “new tab” home page with a sublime photo that changes every day, accompanied by a personalized message. Momentum also allows you to set a daily goal while monitoring your list of things to do. So you stay focused all day. The local weather will appear at the top right of your screen, on which you will also find a list of links frequently visited on its left, and a quote which will aim to motivate you at the bottom of the page.

#2 – Stayfocusd

Social media managers are paid to visit websites on which most Internet users waste their time. However, this does not mean that they do not give in to the sirens of procrastination with the many distractions offered by the web. Fortunately, technology can be a source of discipline as much as distraction.

Stayfocusd is an extension that limits time spent on certain websites (C.has.d. Those you visit when you should work). Once this time has elapsed, it will be impossible for you to visit the site in question again for the rest of the day. The list of websites you want to block can be more or less detailed, whether it is the entire site, a specific page, or even certain types of content such as videos, games , or images.

#3 – Evernote Web Clipper

Social media managers generally alternate between creative and strategic tasks throughout the day, sometimes even endorsing these two roles simultaneously. This constant change between these two dynamics, especially during a busy day, can lead people even the most organized to feel somewhat tense. It is then that Evernote comes in.

The Evernote Web Clipper extension allows you to save any article or web page within one and the same location. In addition to the notes and lists of tasks that you can create within Evernote, this extension also gives you the possibility of extracting a key passage from any website or article encountered during your online research. This is also a great way to collect content to share on social media without having to keep 20 tabs open all day long .

#4 – Grammarly

Writing a post with a spelling error is one of the worst nightmares of social media managers. But what about publications in English? If you regularly write in English this extension is made for you ! Posting a good post in English can be difficult if it is not your mother tongue. Although an occasional error can happen to everyone, the recurrence of these faults may have a negative impact on the credibility of your brand. Grammarly will help you no longer let these small faults pass, even those who manage to escape the property known: a verb combined in bad weather, a missing article, or even a misplaced comma.

The Grammarly extension is capable of identifying more than 250 types of faults, most of which often escapes the vigilance of other spelling correctors. In addition to that, Grammarly will allow you to improve the general style of your texts by offering you synonyms adapted to the context.

#5 – Figure it out

When working with the international, the biggest challenge does not often reside in the surpassing of language barriers or cultural differences, but rather in variations in time zones, because doing this calculation on your fingers in you hiding of your employees is certainly not the most effective method.

The Figure IT OUT extension allows you to add up to 10 time zones to your “new tab” page, which should greatly help you plan your publications or provide meetings with other regions of the world. Figure It Out also tells you on public holidays in the region in question. Thus, you will no longer publish your content one day when no one may pay attention.

#6 – Lastpass

Digital marketing professionals are often faced with the challenge of sharing their access to an account, whether it is an account on a social media, an optimization tool for search engines, Google Analytics, WordPress or everything another software, without communicating their passwords to their employees. Without you having to modify this password (and to have to memorize a new or worse to write this password on paper), Lastpass brings you the solution to this problem.

This free password manager is only in its infancy. Lastpass works with a “master password”: as long as you remember this unique password, the extension will save all of your connection information and automatically fill the necessary fields when you arrive on a connection page. Secure passwords are also generated so that you do not continuously reuse the same passwords or use passwords at the horribly low safety level such as “123Abc”. In addition to all this, in the event that one of your employees would leave the team or would be transferred to another position, you would then be able to delete their access to passwords that you had shared with him. Thus, Lastpass is a real asset for your online safety.

#7 – OneTab

Many digital marketing professionals spend much of their day exploring the web in search of exceptional content, to then devote even more time to reading this content. During a usual working day, between five and ten tabs made up of blog posts, newspaper articles, videos, or any other content, were permanently open in my browser. And all of this was added to seven or eight other permanent tabs. I would equal content in this disorder to end up closing most of the articles without even reading them. This process was slow and not viable. The discovery of the OneTab extension was therefore a real blessing.

When your browser overflows with tabs, click on the OneTab icon. All these tabs will then be closed to be saved in a URL list that you will find on a single tab. You will be able to reopen these tabs individually when you wish, or to open all tabs simultaneously. You will also have the opportunity to export and share this list of links with your colleagues or friends. In addition, even if you completely close Chrome, onetab will save all these links, which you will find at your next browser opening.

In addition to restoring order in chaos, OneTab also saves you up to 95 % of your browser memory, improving, thereby your sail of navigation.

#8 – Pinterest pin it button

I have a little problem with Pinterest. The problem is that I don’t spend enough time on Pinterest. At the same time, I know how important this media is for many people, and I want to be active on this network by publishing content, even if I do not consult it regularly. This is when the Pinterest Pin It button is involved.

This extension incorporates the small “P” -shaped logo to the upper part of the browser window. You will no longer forget to pin content. In addition to this recall, this button facilitates this handling by automatically extracting the images from the page you visit to allow you to pin the image of your choice on the desired table. You can also modify the description of the content and add any context that seems important to you.

And if despite this small icon, you were tried to forget to pin, the small “pin in” button that will appear on the images of the page you visit will remind you. You just have to click on the latter in order to access the same features as those offered by the extension.

#9 – Social media optimizer ritetag

You have already wondered which hashtag to use for a given event ? You are not sure of the value that a hashtag can bring to your messages ? Follow and compare hashtags, or add them to your analysis platform, may require a certain investment in time, especially if you publish between 10 and 20 tweets every day. Save time thanks to Ritetag Social Media Optimizer.

The Ritetag extension provides you with a relevant analysis of the hashtags used at the very moment when you write your messages on social media. The six categories of analysis, accessible in the right part of the composition area, allow you to access relevant data on the use of hashtags in tweets, their number of retweets, their scope, and many others elements. Your hashtags will also be classified according to a color code and according to their value (the hashtags in green will have a real impact, those in red not really). Ritetap can even tell you the pseudos of opinion leaders who use your hashtag. You will thus have the possibility of interacting with the most influential sources in your field.

#10 – Search in a giphy

Like all social media professionals, you are probably more sensitive to a good GIF than most other people. GIFs should not be used excessively, but when the opportunity arises and you manage to find the perfect GIF, the latter will allow you to increase the commitment and the number of clicks of your social media messages.

The Search in a Giphy extension aims to facilitate the search for gifs in your Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and Slack accounts. Identify the right gif, then drag it to your message, or right click and copy the image of the image. No need to leave the window or the open tab.

#11 – Restorious

Although digital marketing professionals are very active on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others, a large part of our interactions are done nevertheless by email. Indeed, even when you try to discuss social media, it is not uncommon not to manage to free yourself from exchanges by e-mail and all the delays that this communication mode has occasioned, in particular with new contacts.

The Restality extension remedies this problem by providing you with relevant information on your mail contacts, for example, their profiles on social media. Whenever a contact sends you an email, Restaurants will gather its contact information in the sidebar of your Gmail account. It will then be easy for you to add them to your LinkedIn network or follow them on Twitter.

#12 – Mozbar

Optimization of search engines, or SEO, is inseparable from effective marketing content. Unfortunately, this is also one of the least well mastered elements. Novice people in this area often believe that the tools are too complicated or too advanced, which has a negative effect on the content they publish.

Mozbar results during research on digital advertising

Mozbar extension offers a simple alternative to people who are starting. Integrated with Google research, this extension allows you to view the authority of the page and the authority of the domain of any link. You can also click on “Analysis page” (page analysis) in order to obtain a full list of incoming links for any content. This information is particularly valuable to marketing professionals who seek to monitor links leading to their blog posts or web pages.

#13 – Check My Links

You have just completed your brand new blog post. You publish it, then share it immediately on Facebook and Twitter. You then receive your first comment: “The link of the second paragraph does not work”. Thin.

One day we had an expired link. These occurrences are both frustrating for you, the creator of content, but also for your subscribers who, rightly hoped. We are human, we all make mistakes. This is why we sometimes need a robot which does not do it.

The Check My Links Extension for Chrome is aptly named since it controls all the links integrated into your web page. Any expired link is then highlighted in red so that you can modify it before sharing your content.

#14 – Analytics by Google page

Any company present on the web will benefit from knowing how its customers interact with its website. However, not everyone has the technical knowledge necessary to discover this information. If you want to know what the visitors on your page click and what they do not know, install Analytics by Google page.

Like Mozbar for SEO, page Analytics by Google will be very useful for people who are just starting to monitor the performance of their blogs or websites. This extension provides you with real -time analysis data that can help you orient the layout of your website as well as your customer experience. In addition to that, you will receive information on the active visitors of your pages, the number of views of these, the rebound rate, as well as other indicators thanks to which you can shape your editorial strategy and your promotion on the media social. This extension therefore offers you some of the best features of Google Analytics without you having to leave your browser.

#15 – Hangouts

Digital marketing professionals are often great talkatives. We are in constant communication with our employees, our customers and our friends, and all this often via Google Hangouts. With this in mind, Google has developed a hangouts extension, thanks to which you can continue to communicate while having the possibility of leaving your Gmail box.

Opinions on this extension are divided. Many users report many bugs, and we therefore advise you not to rest completely on this extension during your professional calls, for example. The Hangouts extension will however represent a real asset since it is integrated into your browser as a tool executed in the background when you work, and will warn you of any message received.

#16 – Chrome Remote Desktop

If digital marketing professionals were warriors from ancient Greece, technology and Internet problems would be their Achilles heel. A computer problem can spoil your webinar, shake up your publication schedule, or annoy customers who await a quick response to their messages on social media. In these cases, being able to quickly solve these technical problems is essential. The Chrome Remote Desktop extension can then save you the.

Chrome Remote Desktop allows you to transmit control of your computer, remotely, via Google Chrome. You will be able to contact a person you trust or a company that you think capable of solving your computer problem, then giving them control of your computer, even if this person is at the other end of the country. Chrome guarantees the safety of this access, and ensures that only the person you have identified has unique access to your computer. No need to run from your office to the computer store. More unnecessary delays. A great asset for digital marketing professionals.

#17 – millennials to snake people

If you work in the social media world, the word “millennials”, or generation Y in French, is a word that you meet on average 26 times a day. This statistic is, of course, invented from scratch, but you understand where we want to come. With as many conversations or social media content including the nickname, far too used, of this generation, a break is more than desired. Well, we have the perfect application for that.

The very ingenious extension chrome millennials to snake people, replaces the expression “millennials” by “snake people” (snake people). The results are extremely funny and will give you the opportunity to read titles such as “Dear Snake People, We’re Sorry” (dear snake, we are sorry), or even “why snake people do you want you to talk Like them ”(the reasons why the snake people do not want you to express yourself like him). This application, certainly, is not really intended to help you do your job, but it will allow you to grant you this well -necessary humorous break. And I can tell you about experience that this extension is much less invasive than the Cloud to Butt Plus extension.

#18 – Hootlet

A tool for helping social media management that will save you time as there are no other. We may not be completely objective when it comes to Hootlet, but it is because we use this tool every day as part of our activities. Hootlet is an extension of assistance in publication on social media. This tool allows you to share any web page visited on social networks (and whatever its nature).

Hootlet will allow you to save time, not only because you will no longer have to switch between your various tabs or windows before copy and paste information, but also because the title and the URL of the page will be automatically added to your message. From the extension, you will also be able to modify your messages, attach images, and program them or publish them without delay.

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In addition to all that, Hootlet fits perfectly into your web browsing experience. Used with Google search, this extension will allow you to identify, on social media, conversations related to the subject of your research. On Google Maps, Hootlet will give you access to the tweets posted by Internet users being near the selected location. On content networks such as Google, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and many others, a Hootlet button will appear to facilitate the sharing of this content on your own social channels.
Google Maps search for Sochi, Russia, accompanied by the corresponding hootlet results

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Clémence is happy & social marketing strategist at Hootsuite. Passionate about digital marketing and social media, she is always on the lookout for latest trends and good social media practices for her readers.

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The best chrome extensions to stimulate the productivity of WordPress users

WordPress is loved by many, not only for its open-source nature, its ease of use and its abundance of magnificent themes, but also because its extensions allow you to add different features to your site. Thanks to these extensions, you can create a powerful site to perfectly meet your needs without having to code it yourself. These are these extensions that allow you to do more with your site in less time. Whether you blogged for business or for fun, there is no doubt that apart from WordPress, you use a variety of other tools daily. And one of these tools is your browser. Regarding browsers, Chrome remains at the top of the list. Like WordPress, one of the most popular features for browsers are the Chrome extensions that allow additional features to be added. Fortunately for us WordPress users, Chrome has many extensions that allow you to save time and be more productive. If you use Gmail, be sure to check the main additional modules and Gmail extensions.

Top 10 best chrome extensions for WordPress users

• Grammarly
• WordPress Style Editor
• Publish to WordPress
• WordPress Plugin Security Checker
• WordPress Themes & Plugin Detector
• WordPress Site Manager
• How save
• Web Evernote Clipper
• Taco
• WordPress Admin Bar Control

1. Grammarly

Grammarly is by far one of the best extensions of chrome, especially if you write ! It is a spelling and grammatical corrector that works in your browser and can correct your spelling and grammar faults wherever you can enter text to improve your copy, your pages, your products and even your emails. The best part ? It even works inside your WordPress articles editor so that you can be assured that all your shells will be detected before you click publish.

In addition to highlighting errors, Grammarly will display correction suggestions when you fly over the word in question. You can then click on the suggestion to accept it and automatically correct the error.

On rare occasions, Grammarly can be a little weird, especially if you use a word that is not usually used in everyday conversation. However, you can easily add it to your personal dictionary and Grammarly will ignore all the future instances of this word. All well considered, Grammarly is an essential tool for all those who want to improve their editorial.

2. WordPress Style Editor

If you have been using WordPress for some time, you are probably used to using developer tools to inspect certain elements of your site and modify the style of the CSS file of your theme. Although the development tools certainly facilitate the search for the exact element and the styles that you must modify, as soon as you refresh the page, the modifications are deleted.

WordPress Style Editor allows you to record these changes immediately in your style sheet with one click. As long as you are connected to your WordPress dashboard, your changes will be applied instantly. This little gem is ideal for making quick changes that you must correct immediately and that you do not want to click on the entire dashboard to make them.

3. Publish to WordPress

If you use Google Docs to write your articles before removing them on WordPress, then Publish to WordPress is an essential extension. It is available as a module for Google Docs and it allows you to publish your article with its images and its formatting directly on your blog or your WordPress site without having to connect to WordPress.

The module works even if you have several blogs to which you contribute. All you have to do is add your blog, write your article in Google Docs, then click on publishing. You can choose to publish it immediately or save it in the form of a draft, which is useful if you have to wait for a publisher to approve your article or if you want to plan your message for a special date.

Recommended readings: Google Docs to WordPress – 5 tips to know

4. WordPress Plugin Security Checker

As wonderful as extensions are, they are sometimes prey to malicious pirates. WordPress Plugin Security Checker is an excellent extension because it allows you to instantly check the safety vulnerabilities of any WordPress extension before installing it on your site.

The results will show whether the extension currently presents a vulnerability of security as well as the history of the vulnerabilities and the response time of the developer to solve the problems.

5. WordPress Themes & Plugin Detector

Have you ever met a site that has instantly attracted your interest visually and because everything was working perfectly ? Have you ever wondered how they did that ? Well, thanks to this extension, you can easily know which theme a particular site uses. In addition to that, you can also see what extensions are activated on the site.

Recommended readings: free wordpress themes vs paid themes: what is the right choice for your next project ?

6. WordPress Site Manager

Many WordPress users, especially developers, manage several WordPress sites day by day. If you are one of them, you know how long it can be to constantly go from one dashboard to another and make the necessary changes. WordPress site manager offers a faster and easier way to go from one dashboard to another. It provides quick access to the different sections of your site, and you can add as many sites as you wish.

7. How save

As a contributor to various WordPress sites, you know the importance of participating in the comments and maintaining the living discussion. How Save is the perfect extension that can save you a ton of time because it keeps track of the comments and articles that you write anywhere on the web. You can easily consult the date of your latest comment on a particular site, browse the history of your comments, and even deactivate the sites that you do not want to follow or no longer need to follow.

8. Web Evernote Clipper

Evernote is presented as your virtual brain allowing you to keep notes on everything that is important in your life. One of their many extensions, Evernote Web Clipper is particularly useful when you do research for your next blog article. You can cut the items in their entirety or you can cut a simplified version that deletes all distractions and only keeps the message itself.

You can also save parts of a page in the form of a screenshot or annotate your selection. Just install the extension, clip the item in your designated laptop, add tags, and it’s finished ! Evernote Web Clipper is really a useful search tool.

9. Taco

Although this extension will not deliver a taco directly from your browser, it will save you a lot of time if you collaborate regularly with other people. It seems that everyone has their own preferences when it comes to task managers and find one to satisfy everyone, it is mission impossible. This is where the taco is useful.

Taco allows you to access all your tasks from different services such as Asana, Trello, Todoist, Basecamp, and others; And displays them in a central place – the new chrome tab page. You will no longer need to go from one application to another or to use IFTTT Recipes to stay informed of everything you have to do. Instead, Taco does it for you and you can easily mark the tasks like just as if you were connected in the task management application itself. Spend less time monitoring what to be done and focus on what should really be.

10. WordPress Admin Bar Control

The WordPress administration bar is ideal for quickly accessing the dashboard of your site or going from one section to another when you consult your site from the public interface. But, when you want to see what an extension of a notification bar looks like on your site or what important elements of your site look like after making changes, the administration bar is often on the road.

Although there is a way to deactivate it in your profile editor, you will need to reactivate it once you have finished visualizing the changes if you want to keep your dashboard for your dashboard. Not to mention the waste of time that it entails. Once you have installed WordPress Admin Bar Control, you can mask the administration bar at any time by clicking on the icon in the address bar of your browser.

Summary

There are many other extensions which are particularly useful for WordPress users and which can help you accomplish more and less time. The extensions of this article are only the summit of the iceberg which can help you create and manage your WordPress site with speed and efficiency.

What do you think are the best chrome extensions ? What should be on the list ? Let us know in the comments below !

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