W3 Total Cache

Although almost every other website talks about what are the best WordPress plugins which one requires while building a website. Well, there are one-to-many categories of plugins one have to consider on selecting the plugin. To ease your job, I have prepared this five article series collection where I will showcased the best WordPress plugins under different categories. In this article, I am sharing the best Backup and Optimize.

W3 Total Cache

The only WordPress Performance Optimization (WPO) framework; designed to improve user experience and page speed. W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

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WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by the legacy caching engine.

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BackupBuddy

The best way to back up (and move) a WordPress site. Although the plugin is an expensive one but it is worth to have it as it handles both file and database backups easily and with total security.

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VaultPress

Another best premium backup service from the folks who had created WordPress. Offers three tier options, making it perfect for all kind of end users.

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WordPress Duplicator

The plugin duplicate, clone, backup, move and transfer an entire site from one location to another.

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CloudFlare

A free offering which lets you supercharge your WordPress website. The service lets you increase your speed although all you require is to adjest the nameservers for your domain which possbily result in little tricky at one place.

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WP-Optimize

The plugin is the Simple but effective plugin allows you to extensively clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without doing manual queries.

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Google Analyticator

The plugin adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics data display.

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Broken Link Checker

The plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

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BackWPup Free – WordPress Backup Plugin

The plugin schedule complete automatic backups of your WordPress installation. Decide which content will be stored (Dropbox, S3…). This is the free version.

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Wordfence Security

The plugin is a free enterprise class security and performance plugin that makes your site up to 50 times faster and more secure.

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WordPress Backup to Dropbox

The plugin keep your valuable WordPress website, its media and database backed up to Dropbox in minutes with this sleek, easy to use plugin.

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