Computer stuff. Free ebooks. The Best Wordpress Plugins. Advertisement WordPress is the most widely used and adaptable content management system out there, but you’re probably going to want some plugins to make it just right for your needs. Here, I’ve collated what I think are the best plugins – both from experience, and community recommendations. Remember though, the more plugins you install, the slower your site will be, so there’s a delicate balancing act between features and performance.
Performance and Backup WordPress is great – but can be quite slow when faced with lots of traffic. Note: Many of these plugins should only be configured by advanced users – they could potentially break your site, so take care. W3 Total Cache The Swiss Army knife of caching and performance plugins, W3 handles everything from page caching to Content Delivery Networks and file minification. Better WordPress Minify Make no mistake, W3 Total Cache is a behemoth that can seem like it needs an engineering degree to set up correctly. WP SuperCache CloudFlare Duplicator. Sign up | Tumblr. SitePoint – Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby & Responsive Design. WordPress v Joomla: Introduction and Content Structures. The WordPress v Joomla debate has been an argument — no, an all-out war – for years now.
The issue with this war of the CMS titans is that it’s largely being fought by biased individuals, rather than debated from an objective standpoint. I’m not the first person to discuss this topic and I certainly won’t be the last. I feel, however, that there has been no really good comparison between Joomla and WordPress in recent times. For this reason, SitePoint is going to bring you a series of articles discussing every major area of comparison between WordPress and Joomla as they stand in 2012. This is what you can expect to see throughout the six blogposts: An Introduction to WordPress and JoomlaJoomla Templates v WordPress Themes/TemplatesCustomization Potential of WordPress and Joomla — plugins, extensions, etcWordPress SEO v Joomla SEOIs Joomla or WordPress Better in the Support Department? An Introduction to WordPress Technical Stuff Standalone v Hosted From Then to Now An Introduction to Joomla.