In this presentation, Joost de Valk of yoast.com not only offers some excellent tips on how you can improve the performance of your WordPress blog (ie, make it load faster) but he also shares a list of his favorite WordPress plug-in that you should definitely have on your own blog.

The plug-ins list includes WP-Cache, WP-PageNavi, Redirection, All-in-one SEO, WP-Greet Box, etc.

  • Use a CDN or Google’s Javascript Library API or Amazon S3 to offload images, js, css and other static files, saving your own server.
  • Create proper pagination You can’t expect a search engine nor a user to click on more more than 3 times… Use for instance a plugin like WP-PageNavi.
  • Check your blogs queries Use the Debug Queries plugin to check for plugins or themes gone mad.
  • Give a robot some directions Noindex wp-admin, login and register pages etc. using the Robots meta plugin.

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