There’s hundreds of plugins out there to increase the functionality of WordPress. Some of them are must-haves for any WordPress site, others are site-specific and cover functions that I need on that site but wouldn’t incorporate into all my website designs. There are a few plugins which just make life easier for anyone using WordPress though. They do the little things that remove some of the annoyances and frustrations of running a WordPress site.

Interlinking your own blog posts is really useful, not just for SEO purposes but because you’ll probably blog about the same kind of thing a lot. It’s a pain to link those posts though, because you have to find the relevant post, copy the URL and then go back to your editing window to add it to your text. It used to drive me crazy. Insights fixed it though, because it let me search my own blog directly from the post editor, so I can quickly find my other posts and insert links.

Insights does a bunch more as well. It’s like adding a great dedicated search bar to your WordPress admin section. While you’re writin