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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

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SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog Before getting started, I know this is a really looooong post, and I apologize in advance. I hope this is an especially valuable post for anyone running a WordPress blog. Do good plugins really slow down my site?

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[ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images

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SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images This was a great question that came from the Mediavine group on Facebook. We want our WordPress sites to be blazing fast…like a Porsche on the track! Download And Install The Plugin – This is easy.

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[SOLVED] WordPress Gives A HTTP Error When Uploading Images To The Media Gallery

SocMed Sean

If you’ve been around my blog for long, you know I am a bit of a WordPress fanboy. It’s my favorite CMS and blogging platform, primarily because of the fact that the community of developers who make themes and plugins for WordPress are amazing. That doesn’t mean that WordPress is perfect, though.

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Top 8 SEO Plugins For WordPress Website

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WordPress is always the first choice when it comes to creating blog or website- one of the easy to use platforms. So, if you own a WordPress blog and looking for the best WordPress SEO plugin. Here is the list of best 8 SEO plugins for WordPress website. Yoast WordPress SEO: Rating (4.8/5)

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Three Words That Will Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

Additionally, Google penalizes slow-loading websites and blogs by not ranking them as high as those that load quickly. Through WordPress plugins, of course! After installing the plugin, just choose Media > Bulk Optimize from your WordPress menu and it should kick off the process. So how well does it work?

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Blogger to WordPress – Why Make The Change?

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Recently a lot of websites and blogs have made the transition from Google’s Blogger service to an independently-hosted WordPress installation. So, what’s so great about WordPress? WordPress can run an entire website. With WordPress, you’re not so limited. WordPress can run multiple websites.

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Creating A Friendly URL For Your Google Plus Page

SocMed Sean

I finally got around to creating my Google+ page for SocMedSean. While I’m not really confident of the future of Google+, it doesn’t appear to be fading as fast as Google Wave did, so maybe Google is invested in the long-term search/social integration of the platform and is going to continue to shovel money into it.

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