WordPress is the blog platform of choice for neophyte and advanced bloggers alike. One of the biggest reasons behind WordPress’ popularity is the vast number of plugins that can not only extend its functionality but there are also many plugins that will improve the performance of a site. Today’s article lists most essential WordPress plugins to optimize and make the most of your image content you post on your blog.
If you would like to become a WordPress power user, the plugins below are a fantastic starting place. While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that I missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us. If you found this article interesting, you can check out some other articles on: Web Design Typography Tools, Free WordPress Themes for Doctors, Free WordPress Affiliate Widgets and Free Slider Plugins for WordPress.
1. WP Fastest Cache
This plugin creates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. When a page is rendered, php and mysql are used. Therefor, system needs RAM and CPU.
2. WP Performance Pack
WP Performance Pack is your first choice for speeding up WordPress core the easy way, no core patching required. It features options to improve localization performance and image handling.
3. Warm Cache
Crawls your website-pages based on any XML sitemap. If you have a caching plugin this will keep your cache warm. Speeds up your site. All urls in your sitemap will be visited by the plugin to keep the cache up to date.
4. Atomic Engager
Optimizing content for your target audience has never been easier. Paired with this plugin, you will gain critical insights to help engage your target audience and amplify your content with every post.
5. Add Meta Tags
Add basic meta tags and also Opengraph, Schema.org Microdata, Twitter Cards and Dublin Core metadata to optimize your web site for better SEO.
6. EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud
EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud is a WordPress plugin that will automatically and losslessly optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can also optimize the images that you have already uploaded in the past.
7. EWWW Image Optimizer
Reduce file sizes for images within WordPress including NextGEN, GRAND FlAGallery and more. Uses jpegtran, optipng, pngout, pngquant, and gifsicle.
8. WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is an extensive WordPress database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to clean and optimize your database tables.
9. Better Delete Revision
Better Delete Revision not only deletes redundant revisions of posts from your WordPress Database, it also deletes other database content related to each revision such meta information, tags, relationships, and more.
10. WP-DBManager
Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries.
11. W3 Total Cache
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.
12. BulletProof Security
WordPress Website Security Protection: BulletProof Security protects your WordPress website against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection… hacking attempts.
13. DB – Optimize
You can use DB – Optimize to reclaim the unused space and to defragment the database. It does not require PhpMyAdmin.
14. jsDelivr – WordPress CDN Plugin
jsDelivr is a free public CDN that hosts javascript libraries and jQuery plugins, including all of the files they need to work (css/png). It even hosts javascript files that use popular WordPress plugins, like WP SlimStat.
15. Simple Optimizer
Simple Optimizer Plugin for WordPress is a group of tools to assist you manage your WordPress website. Check, Repair and Optimize the WordPress MySQL Database. Search for and Delete Spam, Revisions, Auto Drafts, Pending Comments and Transient Options.
