5 Caching Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

by Sufyan bin Uzayr April 11^th, 2013 19 Responses

Let’s face it: when it comes to browsing the internet, people have little patience. If your website is slow, you will not leave a good impression on your visitors, no matter how great your content is! A website that loads without unnecessary delays gets good marks both in terms of user experience as well as search engine rankings.

And, it is common knowledge that caching can help you speed up your website’s load times. So, which is the best caching plugin for WordPress? Yes, we shall attempt to answer this question in this article by taking a look at five of the top caching plugins.

Plugins, Themes

Tumblogging With WordPress: Themes, Post Formats, and More!

by Sufyan bin Uzayr April 5^th, 2013 Leave a comment

Tumblogging is gaining popularity nowadays and services such as Tumblr have provided users with an easy to use platform for sharing content in a simple and speedy manner. However, when it comes to tumblogs, even WordPress can be a great choice. In this article, we will take a look at the effectiveness of WP as a tumblogging platform.

Plugins, Plugins & Theme Tutorials

Five Free WordPress Plugins to Manage a Multi-Author Site with Ease

by Sufyan bin Uzayr April 4^th, 2013 4 Responses

If you are running a magazine or a website with multiple authors/contributors, you must already be aware of the difficulties that come along with it. Not only do you have to synchronize with multiple authors, you must also take care of the publishing schedule, editorial workflow, and many other things.

In order to make your life easier, we shall be taking a look at some of the best free plugins that can help you manage your multi-author blog or magazine.

News, Plugins

How To Put Jetpack Into Development Mode for Local WordPress Installs

by Sarah Gooding April 2^nd, 2013 Leave a comment

Jetpack doesn’t work unless it’s connected to WordPress.com. You may have run into this a time or two when attempting to work with Jetpack in a development environment. The latest 2.2.1 spring cleaning release of the plugin includes a massive number of bug fixes. It also introduces a very useful new feature: Development Mode.

Jetpack’s Development Mode allows you to use features that don’t require a connection to WordPress.com so that you can use them in testing. Activate it by adding this define to your wp-config.php file:

1	define( 'JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG', true);

Opinion, Plugins

9 Of The Best Free Backup Plug-ins For WordPress

by Josh Pagin March 28^th, 2013 34 Responses

Ensuring that your WordPress blog stays safe is no easy task as webmasters are always susceptible to a host of different issues. You could get hacked, face server errors or even accidentally cause an irreversible problem. What’s more, the backup facilities built into the WordPress platform are almost non-existent.

Choosing a backup option is tough. Let us help you out.

Plugins, Plugins & Theme Tutorials

Make WordPress Emails Pretty and Responsive With WPMUDEV’s New Plugin!

by Harley Alexander March 22^nd, 2013 17 Responses

By default, WordPress’s emails are pretty ugly. No logo, header, or footer or any styling at all really.

Wouldn’t it be nice to add your own branding to it? Make it look like an email someone actually wants to read — instead of looking like a dog’s breakfast of text. Not only that, but you want to make it easy for everyone that reads email on their mobiles, not to have to zoom in and scroll both horizontal and vertical to read!

Plugins

How To Deactivate Jetpack Modules in WordPress

by Sarah Gooding March 15^th, 2013 2 Responses

Thousands of WordPress websites use Jetpack, but the plugin is not very intuitive when it comes to turning off its modules. The dashboard settings page makes it super easy to activate items with their shiny blue buttons.

However, the button to deactivate a module is actually hidden as a sub-menu item of the “Learn More” button and will pop into view once clicked.

Plugins

Optimize and Host WordPress Images With The Free Cloudinary CDN

by Sarah Gooding March 13^th, 2013 24 Responses

Announcing a free CDN on the web is very similar to shouting “Free Beer!” and that’s exactly what the folks at Cloudinary are up to. The Cloudinary image management service has just released a WordPress plugin that lets you tap into their free cloud storage for your images and take advantage of caching, optimization, image effects and much more.