Category: Wordpress

Some important plugins for wordpress

You might be aware of the WordPress plugins. Yet, I’ll paste it for our convenience.

WordPress plugins are bits of software that can be uploaded to to extend and expand the functionality of your 
WordPress site.

We will have to admit, plugins are really useful and come to our rescue most of the times. Loaded with great features, it makes our life easy; else it would be hard to code for the each dedicated feature. Now, there are many plugins which you can use. Here, I am listing very few names which one can install while configuring a new WordPress website. Gradually, I’ll try to list few more names for the dedicated feature in next posts. Let me know in the comment section, if you have any suggestion. So, here we go.

1. Yoast SEO

It is one of the best and most complete plugin for SEO in WordPress. Packed with great features, it allows you to insert meta description, choose a keyword and put an SEO description. Download this plugin from here.

yoast seo

2. W3 Total Cache 

A powerful plugin for to increase the website speed. Click on the link to get complete details on how to configure W3 Total Cache for optimum use. Link to download the plugin.

3. Jetpack by WordPress.com

One of the most powerful plugin in WordPress – Jetpack. User interface is very friendly, and it allows you to do almost everything ranging from managing social media, blog posts, comments and much more. At the top of it, it makes your website fast.  Download the plugin here.

sharing settings

 

4. TinyMCE Advanced

Helps you arrange, add, remove the buttons shown in the Visual Editor toolbar in your WordPress Editor. Download the plugin from here. 

editor setting

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Why use W3 Total Cache Plugin – It’s importance and ways to configure it

W3 Total Cache

I was just browsing the internet when the title of one article caught my fancy.  I clicked on the link but to my disappointment, I failed in reading that article even after refreshing the page some 15-20 times. It wasn’t that my internet speed was low. I am sure, you all might have experienced it sometime. There are some websites which open at the click of the mouse while some make us wait till eternity.

 

Everyone wants a fast loading website. Don’t you? Apart from decent web hosting, beautifully coded plugins, you need to ensure that you have a content delivery network (CDN) and you are using a proper caching. We are lucky we W3 Total Cache to serve this purpose for WordPress website. In this article, we are going to show you the step by step guidance on how to install W3 Total Cache and configure it properly to get the maximum benefit.

So here we go…

 

How to install and configure W3 Total Cache

 

1. First thing first-  Download the W3 Total Cache plugin

2. Now time to configure it. Click on “Performance” in your WordPress admin.

3. Then, in “Page Cache” section, Enable the Page Cache and select Page Cache Mode Disk: Enhanced.

page cache

4.  In “Minify section” Enable the Minify section, chose Minify mode auto, Select Minify cache method Disk, Select  Js minifier JSMin (default) and select CSS minifier Default.

minify

5. Now come to “Database Cache” section. Enable the Database Cache option and select Database Cache Method Disk.

database cache

6.  In “Object Cache” option enable the option of Object Cache and Select the Object Cache Method Disk.

object cache

7. In “Browser cache” section, enable the Browser cache option.

browser cache

8.  In CDN section, don’t enable the CDN option. –

cdn

9. Then, leave the Reverse Proxy section.

peverse proxy

10. Again, leave the Monitoring section

Monitoring

11.  Leave the Licensing section also.

Licensing

12. Now come to Miscellaneous section. Enable the  Enable Google Page Speed dashboard widget and  Verify rewrite rules and leave the left option.

Miscellaneous

13. Leave the Debug section

debug

Save all settings and you are done. Feel free to comment if you have any questions/suggestions.

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