Jeniffer Thompson is back with us sharing her follow-up on top three cool and useful WordPress Plus-ins. There is no way I keep up with all of this, so I’m always appreciate of someone else sorting through what is offered and sharing.

 

Jeniffer Thompson of MonkeyCMedia

  1. WP-DB-Backup:  This plug-in is a must have for all WordPress users! It gives you the ability to backup your database content (meaning your blog posts and page content).  You can automate this backup to occur as frequently as you think is necessary. We typically recommend setting it to backup weekly. You can also choose to download this file to your computer. FYI: This does not backup your images or your theme, for this reason, it’s a good idea to have a full site backup, which does include your theme, images and all other content that gets stored on your server (we recommend that you backup your physical site at least monthly, unless you have not made any changes in that time period), this is done from your C-Panel or through an FTP client.
  2. Revision Control: This little plug-in allows you to control how many revisions get stored to your database. I for one tend to noodle with a post over and over until I finally feel it’s ready to go live and then I still end up making edits—this means that I can often have up to 20 different versions of one post.  This is cool because you can revert to an older version at any time.  But what is not cool is that all these versions take up valuable space and can slow down your site’s load time.  Revision Control allows you to set the number of stored revisions for both posts and pages, so for example: you could set it to save only the last 5 post versions, and 10 page versions.
  3. WP Super Cache: Speaking of load time.  This plug-in can help speed up your site’s load time. It basically caches your site’s content and then pulls up each page as html so your server doesn’t have to work so hard to load php code and images every time someone views a page in your site. FYI: If you are making changes to your site and yet you keep seeing the old version. Don’t panic—it could be that your page has been cached and is pulling up the old data. To make sure those changes were really made, you might need to clear the cache. You can access Super Cache from your Dashboard, under Settings, from there, click “Delete Cache,” about half way down the page.

Thank you again Jennifer. You can visit her website at MonkeyCMedia.

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