Plugins

5 Caching Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

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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.

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Plugins, Plugins & Theme Tutorials

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

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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.  

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Plugins

Add Bulk Plugin Installation to WordPress

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What’s the first thing most people do after installing WordPress? Why, install plugins and themes, of course! The usual process is to add plugins one by one. Now there’s an excellent new tool available that will speed things up, especially if you plan to install more than just a handful of plugins.

Bulk Plugin Installation is a new plugin that allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing their names or download URLs in a new textarea added to the “Add New” plugin page.

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How To Easily Install All Your Favorite Plugins From WordPress.org

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This is a cool new feature of WordPress 3.5 that you may find to be incredibly useful. A new “Favorites” item has been added to the Plugins >> Add New sub-menu, which makes it possible for you to pull in favorited plugins from WordPress.org.

Add your username or anyone else’s and click “get favorites” to see a list of favorites. From here you can easily install all of them.

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It’s A WordPress Christmas – Time To Decorate For The Holidays

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It’s Christmas and everywhere we turn people are decorating. Homes, stores, street lights, even cars are decorated in the seasonal splendor. Every house in our neighborhood is decorated differently based upon the taste of the homeowner. And just last night, I noticed they were decorating the huge Christmas tree in the town square getting ready for the Christmas parade and tree lighting ceremony tomorrow evening.

Wouldn’t you like to decorate your website for Christmas as well? Or maybe decorate your client’s websites?

Here’s a collection of WordPress plugins that can accomplish this task quite easily.

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WordPress Christmas - Plugins To Decorate Your Websites

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Get More Done in Less Time with WordPress Quick Post Management

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With Quick Post Management, you can stop wasting time trying to manage your WordPress pages and posts.  This plugin has many uses for managing your blog more efficiently.

Note: Users with WordPress 3.4.2 may find that the plugin does not integrate with their themes and templates or that they need a second user with Editor privileges to view the links once the plugin is installed.

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How Long do Your Users Spend Reading Your Content?

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We all know that the longer a user lingers on a page, the higher the chance that they’ll purchase goods or services from you. If they stick around reading, you have them right where you want them.

The question is, how long does it take for your readers to read one of your posts and pages? When dealing with users with less than five minutes of attention span, you need to make certain that your message reaches them before they lose interest!

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Development, Plugins

5 Dropbox Plugins for WordPress that Actually Work

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It isn’t often that I can’t find many good things to say about a plugin, but Dropbox Upload Form left me scratching my head and wondering just how this plugin managed to stay in the extended listing in WordPress’s plugin manager.

 

There are many problems with this plugin, but the most notable ones include lack of updates, lack of functionality in the latest updates of WordPress, and old API integration for Dropbox.

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Create Simple WordPress Terms of Service With This Plugin

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We all want to succeed at our businesses. We want our customers to trust us, and we want them to come back in the future. We want to make a good, lasting impression on them.

At the same time, your business deserves solid legal protection. Without a valid Terms of Service agreement, you may be left liable should a customer have a complaint. Having clearly defined terms of service on your website is also a good move if you’re trying to win the trust of everyone’s favorite search engine (that would be Google BTW).

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Know Your Traffic Simply and Easily with WP Slim Stat

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Knowing your traffic sources at your WordPress site is absolutely vital if you want to succeed at having a business or a blog. WP Slim Stat offers you comprehensive data on your traffic sources in an easy-to-use interface.

Step 1: Install
It’s simple. Click Plugins -> Add New and search for Slimstats. The result will show as WP Slim Stat. Install and activate, and you’re ready to use it.
Step 2: Check your Stats
You’ll find Slim Stat as a part of the Dashboard. You have the following data sets to work with:

Right Now
Overview
Visitors
Content
Traffic Sources
World Map
Custom Reports

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