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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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Through WordPress plugins, of course! Crunch The term “crunch” refers to optimizing your images so they are as small as possible, while maintaining the best resolution for the Web. After installing the plugin, just choose Media > Bulk Optimize from your WordPress menu and it should kick off the process.

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

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WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. Among the many reasons for the popularity of WordPress : it’s affordable, search engine-friendly, reasonably easy to use, and extensible through an incredible array of plugins. WordPress SEO.

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If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. and also, once you install it, Apture will insert “pop-up&# references on embedded links, if they’re to easily accessible pages such as Wikipedia, Flickr, etc. (It

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This post isn’t about adding visuals or video into your WordPress blog , or using Cincopa , or judging a blog post by its cover. But there’s only so much a non-techie can do within the limitations of the (free) WordPress theme said non-techie uses, so I’ve been trying to live with it until I can do an overhaul.

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In this post, I’m going to share my research into popup opt-in forms: who’s using them, case studies, WordPress plugins, and the alternatives for building your mailing list. Popup Opt-In Forms for WordPress. Pippity is becoming a popular WordPress popup opt-in form plugin. More Popup Opt-In Plugins for WordPress.