Tagged: wordpress

CloudFlare - Website Performance 1

WordPress and CloudFlare

If you have decided to use W3 Total Cache as your caching mechanism, the next logical step is to use CloudFlare as an accelerator. Think of CloudFlare as your website accelerator (in simple terms it’s a distributed hosted nginx server). Enabling...

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WordPress plugin – W3 Total Cache

Once your WordPress installation is up and running and you are satisfied with the plugins and themes you have installed, it’s time to optimize your installation for performance. I would leave this task as the last step in any blog-installation,...

Socially engage your visitors with Shareaholic 1

WordPress plugin – Shareaholic

Social engagement is a crucial and vital aspect for any website and should be considered by every webmaster. Among my favorite WordPress plugins is Shareaholic which makes the integration of social sharing into a WordPress blog easy. Once the plugin...

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WordPress plugin – Google Analytics

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, is one of my must-have-plugins in my collection of plugins and is an essential tool for every serious blogger and webmaster. The configuration itself is quite comprehensive and includes basic as well as advanced options:

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WordPress plugin – GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is one of my favorite WordPress plugins – not just because it has a plethora of options and settings (uber-geek-factor), but also despite it’s overwhelming amount of options it is really simple to install and configure. At first,...

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WordPress plugin – Feedburner

In today’s post of popular WordPress plugins, I am featuring a simple, yet efficient plugin – Feedburner. Instead of adding rewrite-rules to your .htaccess file, the Feedburner plugin redirects feed requests directly to Feedburner. Configuration is really simple and you...

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WordPress plugin – Easy AdSense Lite

Easy AdSense is one of those WordPress plugins you need to have to generate Google AdSense traffic on your site. The AdSense plugin stores all your configuration centrally without having to change the ad-code in themes or widgets – configuration is...

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WordPress plugin – Disqus commenting

I previously used b2evolution as my blogging software and one very painful aspect was the managing of comments. Granted, WordPress’s native commenting system is lacks many features Disqus has. The installation and configuration of the Disqus plugin is really simple, since...