3 Must Have Plug-ins to Speed Up WordPress

Carol | 5 May 2012 | Comments (0)

Running a slick install of WordPress helps your readers and your hosting. So what can you do to improve load times and ease the strain on your server? Here are the plug-ins we have found useful.

WP Cleanfix
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cleanfix/
WP CleanFix is an all in one tool for check, repair, fix and optimize your WordPress blog. Amongst other things it will enable you to Check/Remove:

for unused UserMeta
for Post Revision and Trash
Auto Draft Posts
Edit Post Lock
for unused Post Meta
for unused Tags
for Posts without Authors
Pages without Authors
for Attachments without Post/Page
for unused Categories
for unlink Categories (terms)
for unlink Categories Taxonomy
for unapproved and Trash comments
for spam comments

WP Smush.it
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/
Reduce image file sizes and improve performance. Every image you add to a page or post will be automatically run through Smush.it behind the scenes. You don’t have to do anything different.
WP Super Cache
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/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.