Category Archives: Wordpress Plugins

Tried and tested wordpress plugins that have proven themselves to be effective and in certain cases, essential for wordpress deployment, development and maintenance.

WordPress Smushit Plugin for load time

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Smushit is another plugin that allows you to address you blog load time by directly addressing image size.

Once it is installed it works automatically in the background and basically its aim is to remove unnecessary data from images and reduce them to the smallest file size possible while still retaining the quality. Recommend by Yahoo itself in the Yahoo exceptional performance series this plugin is a must have.

It works by stripping out small, if not minute, pieces of code in the images that have no real need to be there or which are unused and also may suggest converting the images to gifs, if required, although caution should be taken here incase quality is unintentionally affected.

Author: Dialect

Download the Smushit Plugin for WordPress.

WordPress SEO pager Plugin

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SEO pager offers an alternative to WP Page Numbers and its the one I am currently using myself. It works in the same way as Wp-Page Numbers with the exception being that it (should) automatically add in the code to the theme, making it a little more user friendly and simple to setup and activate.

Author: Jaimie Sirovich

Download the WordPress SEO Pager plugin

WordPress Page Numbers Plugin

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This plugin sounds a little insignificant but its far from it. If you set up your blog with, for example a free theme, its quite typical to have the pages on your blog use a “next post” or “previous post”.

This isn’t good for two reasons.

Firstly, it won’t help search engines find the pages on your site because they are set in series by this method, therefore to get to the earliest posts the search engine spiders will have to follow and scan, follow and scan follow and scan in this method.  Cumbersome and not very friendly. Secondly, visitors will work in the same way.  They have no desire o cycle though 12 pages one at a time to reach a desired post.

What WP Page Numbers does is add a line of numbers (surprise surprise!) in one of 5 styles you can choose from, to the bottom of the page allowing spiders to reach all the following pages from one place, effectively opening up the site in a friendly manner and allowing them to search and scan in parallel rather than in series.

This is the same for visitors.

They can simply click the page numbers and skip to that page immediately rather than being forced to cycle through all the irrelevant content they have no interest in.

Not all themes will need this plugin, but if you realise that you do, it will require a little editing in the theme code in order to work so you may need som help to sort this out. Definately worht it on a search engine level and a usability level.

Author: Jens Törnell

Download the WordPress Page Numbers Plugin.