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    How to LazyLoad images to Improve Page Speed [WordPress]

    September 19, 2011
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    Blog pages with lots of images can take a lot of time to load. The loading time can be decreased by using the sexy lazyloading image effect. Lazyloading script loads images when all the other things on a page are loaded and shows them with a stylish fade-in effect. More over, you will see this effect on many high traffic site including mashable. Lazyload effect can be added using 2 plugins which I am going ...

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    How to Organize WordPress Tags

    May 27, 2011
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    If you miantain a WordPress blog which has lots of tags and categories, you might be facing problem like I was facing:  Unorganized tags. Specially if you run a multi-author blog, you might end up with many tags with 0 posts or duplicate tags (Similar tags, mistyped tags). Though it might take some time to clean up your tags but if you maintain a weekly or monthly blog cleanup day like I do, you might ...

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    How to Delete Custom Field value from WordPress Database

    May 7, 2011
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    If your WordPress blog is old, probably you will notice lots of custom field meta_key in your WordPress custom field option. The problem with this is that you will see lots of unused custom field values which is added by some old theme or by plugin which you used long time back. Here is a screenshot of ShoutMeLoud custom field which has lots of custom value and many of them are because of old theme ...

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    Clean Options WordPress plugin: Optimize WordPress Database Table

    November 12, 2010
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    WordPress is no doubt a memory hogging blogging platform but by the end it’s the best blogging platform in terms of SEO andscalability. There are thousands of plugins which will help you to do anything with your WordPress blog. One thing which WordPress need in regular basis is optimization. This could be optimization of your WordPress theme or database. When ever we install a plugin, it adds tables into database and when we disable and ...

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    How to Install & Configure W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin

    September 22, 2010
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    I have heard a lot of good things about W3 total cache plugin which is also a caching plugin like Super cache but with more options. Specially if you are planning to use CDN, W3 total cache plugin offer great support and it has plug and play settings. I’m as it is planning to use MaxCDN on my blog network to speed up loading time and to start with everything, I tested W3 total cache ...

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    Smush.it WordPress Plugin: Compresses Image Size for Faster Loading

    September 7, 2009
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    When ever we talk about a useful post, it’s always incomplete without a beautiful and relevant image. Images also help in better optimization of your post but at the same time they increase the loading time. Specially, when we all know that search engines like faster loading blog, using too many images might not be a great idea. But how about those posts which are incomplete without screenshots? More over, I follow atleast one image/post to add ...

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    How to Enable Super Cache WordPress plugin

    June 24, 2009
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    Few days back We talked about WP-Super cache plugin. Wp-Super cache is must have plugin for any wordpress blog on Shared hosting. WP-Super cache plugin is very useful to face the Digg effect. Digg effect is when any of your blog post hits the Front page of Digg, you will get huge traffic spike. A Normal Shared hosting is not capable of facing such huge traffic, to make them capable of face such situation, you ...

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    Wp-DB-Manager plugin : WordPress database optimization

    June 5, 2009
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    WordPress is one of the widely used blogging platform. We have already talked about how important it is to lower down your wordpress plugin , to keep your wordpress fast. There is one thing very important to understand, when we disable or uninstall any plugin, it is not complete un-installation. The table and data of that plugin is still under your wordpress database. One easy way to get rid of it by manually accessing your ...

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