WordPress is a smarter, flexible and powerful open source content management system which currently seen on approximately 20 percent of websites across the world. It brings in all the functionality together and even allowing community members to add and expand with their own expertise. To keep the scenario same and better, there are number of plugins available out there which can help you enhance your blog’s performance; this is what I am going to share with you in this article.
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Autoptimize
The plugin speeds up your website and helps you save bandwidth by aggregating and minimizing JS and CSS.
Greg’s Comment Length Limiter
The plugin provides a configurable limit on the length of comments left in the comment form, with a dynamically updated character count displayed for the user.
AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
The plugin counts page/posts hits via AJAX. It is ideal for nginx whole-page-caching or caching plugins. Popular Posts Widget included.
WordPress Varnish
The plugin purges new and edited content.
Special Text Boxes
The plugin highlights any portion of text as text in the colored boxes.
Debug Queries
The plugin lists query-actions only for admins; for debug purposes.
BJ Lazy Load
The plugin makes your site load faster and saves bandwidth. Uses jQuery and degrades gracefully for non-js users. It works with both images and iframes.
jsDelivr – WordPress CDN Plugin
The official plugin of jsDelivr.com – a free public CDN which can be easily integrate the service and speed up your website using our super fast CDN.
Share Center Pro
The plugin adds asynchronous (won’t slow your site down) sharing buttons for Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Buffer, and Reddit.
Really Static
The plugin generates static HTML-files from your Blog which makes your Blog incredible fast! Better than any other cache.
Head Cleaner
The plugin cleans tags from your WordPress header and footer.
Use Google Libraries
The plugin allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from WordPress’s own copies.
GTmetrix for WordPress
The plugin help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. Your users will love you for it.
WP-HTML-Compression
The plugin reduce file size by shortening URLs and safely removing all standard comments and unnecessary whitespace from an HTML document.
JS & CSS Script Optimizer
The plugin make your Website faster by packing and grouping JavaScript and CSS files. Also it provides an opportunity to add CSS & JS via admin panel.
HyperDB
The plugin is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.
Adminer
The plugin is a full-featured MySQL management tool written in PHP.
Batcache
The plugin uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages.
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
The plugin lets you know which plugins are slowing down your site. This plugin creates a performance report for your site.
WP HTTP Compression
The plugin allows your WordPress blog to output pages compressed in gzip format if a browser supports compression.
DB – Optimize
The plugin let you reclaim the unused space and to defragment the database.
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