The articles listed below cover reviews of various WordPress plugins, how to make the best use of them and why you should not use too many. Click the headline to read the full article.
A couple of weeks ago I told you about my content marketing experiment and, although it’s extremely early days yet, I thought a quick update would be good. Remember, the experiment was to see whether I could start earning affiliate commissions off a travel site on which I did no paid promotions of any kind, [...]
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Here was I, working away on my removing-plugins-crusade and I’ve blown it. I just added one. Actually, not really added – replaced. But I removed the one I’ve replaced a while ago, so it feels like adding. This blog is now mobile-friendly again, thanks to the Wapple Architect.
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Back here I wrote about the benefits of using as few plugins as possible on your site. As is typically me, this has turned into a bit of a crusade (removing plugins from my site, that is). Here, again, are the reasons for my crusade: Plugins can slow down site load times, they may fall [...]
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If you read (and remember) any of my articles from a few years back you can take me to task now. Because back then I raved about plugins and added them to my WordPress sites at will. But I’ve changed my mind. Don’t get me wrong. There are some excellent plugins that do great jobs. [...]
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Many thanks to Jake Hyten for asking this question: how to set up the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin. Thanks for your question, Jake – and the steps follow with the greatest of pleasure Firstly, why would you want to install the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin? Because it creates a sitemap for the Google, [...]
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Here’s a question I see over and over again in different forums: ‘Why does WordPress attract so much spam? I didn’t get any on my Blogger blog’. There are a couple of reasons for this: firstly WordPress is targetted because it’s such a popular platform. Secondly, if you don’t activate Akismet, the anti spam plugin [...]
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I saw a question from someone this week asking about plugins and whether they slow down site load times. The answer is yes – they can. And there are other things to remember too: they can clash with other plugins, your theme or even WordPress itself. So what’s the best number of plugins to have [...]
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Well – I have to eat my own words. Back here I wrote a post about how I improved the search functionality on this blog by searching for and adding a new plugin. In that post I was critical of Google Custom Search. Recently that plugin that I eventually installed was updated, a move which [...]
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