Are you not happy with the loading time of your WordPress Blog? Do you think it’s time to reduce the bandwidth usage of your blog without affecting its performance? Do you want to provide a much better experience to your visitors? Then, please keep on reading because this article would cover the 12 WordPress Plugins that will help you to enhance the performance of your blog.
1. WP-DBManager: – This is one of the Plugins that will save you whenever the database of your blog is destroyed or becomes corrupt. WP-DBManager allows you to optimize, repair and backup your database with one click. You can also automatically schedule backup of your databases and can configure it to email. To download this Plugin click here.
2. WP Security Scan: – This Plugin will scan your WordPress blog for all kinds of security vulnerabilities on your blog and will save your site from all kind of hackers. To download this Plugin click here.
3. WP Super Cache: – This Plugin will improve the performance of your blog by generating static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After creation of static html files, your web server will show light static files instead of heavy PHP files. This Plugin will speed up the performance of your blog and saves a lot of your bandwidth. To download this Plugin click here.
4. WP Minify: – This is another blog performance optimization Plugin which will compress CSS files and the JavaScript code of your blog by removing the redundant code which will improve your page load time and save bandwidth. To download this Plugin click here.
5. Redirection: – This Plugin will help you to manage 301 redirections and to keep track of 404 errors on your blog. You can use this Plugin to add 301 redirects to any post when its URL changes or on pages with identical content but different URL extensions like index.php and without it. You can also use to Plugin when you are migrating posts from one blog to another. To download this Plugin click here.
6. Broken Link Checker: – This Plugin once activated will monitor your blog for broken links and will notify you by showing a message on your blog dashboard if found. The time this Plugin will take to parse all your posts depends on the size of your site. To download this Plugin click here.
7. WP-Ban: – This Plugin will help you to ban an IP address, IP range, Specific Host name, referral URL with one click. You can also show a custom message to people whenever somebody from your banned list tries to access your blog. To download this Plugin click here.
8. One Click Plugin Updater: – As the name says, this Plugin will allow you to install or update any new Plugin and theme with one click and save you lots of time. To download this Plugin click here.
9. Google XML Sitemaps: – This Plugin will create XML sitemaps for search engines so that the spiders can easily find the posts on your blog. In addition to that, this Plugin will also notify search engines every time you create a new post on your blog so that your post can indexed by search engines quickly. To download this Plugin click here.
10. Theme Test Drive: – This Plugin will allow you to test any new theme on your blog at the backend and your visitors in time will see the old theme of your blog only without noticing any difference on your blog. To download this Plugin click here.
11. SEO Friendly Images: – This Plugin will automatically add the Alt and Title attributes to images, if they don’t have those attributes already. In addition to that, this Plugin will make the post W3C/xHTML valid as well. To download this Plugin click here.
12. Platinum SEO Pack: – If you are already using All-in-One SEO Plugin then you should try this Plugin for sure. This Plugin provides much more features than All-in-One SEO. This Plugin will automatically generate Meta data for your posts, manage redirects, and insert canonical tags on pages with duplicate content and a lot more. To download this Plugin click here.
This article is written by Raz Barr. He is a Web Designer at Go-gulf, a web design company in Beirut that provides high quality website development and logo designing services in various areas of Middle-East.
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I love the Broken Link Checker and I use it on all my blogs, but I am not sure if I am going to use the one Click plugin updater!
nice list!
Try this plugins also bcoz its very much usefull from iframe attack from server side
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great and usefull list buddy….
I have tried a number of these but there are several on your list that I haven’t tried. Thanks for the recommendations.
Great list.. I use about half these.. need to look into a couple more.
I always like these lists and end up finding some plugin I had never used before, headed to get the broken link checker now!
Thanks so much Pradeep for putting this list up. Each and every one is worth.
Thanks for ” SEO Friendly Images “, good.
Id also like to add Commentluv plugin. It’s a fantastic feature and one I think everyone should use.
Wp – minify with CSS optimizer works really great, They are must use plugins, if you consider to reduce the load time of the website.
easy adsenser plugin is best suitable for adsense purpose, it displaying ads inside the post bottom and top, also widget support,, i installed on my blog, much satisfied with that plugin
“WP Security Scan” is what i was looking for. Few weeks back, my blog was attacked by some malware…going to try it..thanks
Thanks for the information…. I use a few of them let me try the remaining too…..
tell me : platinum seo pack or all in one seo pack which is good. i have all in one seo pack
Please note – there is a number of plugins which integrates all functionality of performance optimization for your WordPress website – i.e. WEBO Site SpeedUp, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/web-optimizer/
I think these plugins once used all.. will make our blog load like a dead engine
Those who aren’t afraid of tricky plug-in configurations should take a look @ W3 Total Cache. With it’s CDN functionality, it’s a piece of wonder cache plug-in. Loves it!
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