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After the Deadline: Proofreading for WordPress

BlogKing — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:19:13 +0000

This is available as a plugin to self hosted WordPress. Works great. A must have.

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Impact of plugins on WordPress loading

BlogKing — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:22:51 +0000

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Plugins can have big impact on WordPress. While you can have as many plugins as you like, there are things to consider:

Compatibility: the more plugins you have, there is more chance to have some of them causing problems. Always test plugins when adding new plugin, it is rare, but it can happen. I always have local copies of all my websites, and when new things are added, I always test locally before moving to live server.
Resources: the more plugins you have, the more server resources will be used. If you are on the shared hosting, I recommend that you review if you really need all plugins you might have already. Test different plugins you can use, because with too many of them active, you can easily hit the limits imposed by your hosting company. My GD Press Tools Pro can do many things, one of them is to measure data like this, and you can see exact impact of a new plugin added on memory, mySQL server or WordPress.
Loading Speed: more plugins == less speed. It is very important to use cache plugins to optimize front end loading, to minify external files and use CDN to load external resources.

Read article at Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading

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Getting Started With Google Analytics

BlogKing — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:44:03 +0000

I recommend Ultimate GA plugin. Easy to set up. Just copy the ID from the code Google Analytics generates for your site, paste in and you are set. Way better that manually editing php files. If you change the theme you had to do again. Not so with the plugin.

Ultimate GA settings page

What is nice about this plugin is the extra features you can enable:

ignore login in user greater than a user level of 8 will ignore visits by Administrator, a good idea not to skew the data by your visits posting and developing site.
enable tracking links for external links
enable tracking links for downloads

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Must see Word Press plug-in tutorial

BlogKing — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:09:16 +0000

I have been using a plugin called All In One SEO Pack for several months now. It is great for optimizing your titles for search engines and letting you tweak them further, generating META tags automatically and letting you define them. Best of all it helps to avoiding indexing of duplicate content.[a no, no for Google bot]

Here is a video tutorial that explains its use in better detail than I can write. Seeing it done makes learning easy. The Tubetorial series on Word Press tips is excellent. Note especially the section on per post customization; here you can make the title seen by the search engines more keyword focused than the one you might want for the title that humans read.

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