This is a guest post by Russ Henneberry.
The power of WordPress lies in its ability to rally an enormous community of selfless developers that add functionality to the core of the blogging platform by building plugins.
There is an infinite number of plugins available, providing nearly every function you would ever want your blog to perform.
The downside to plugins (of course) is that they can slow down the load time of your site. With the recent declaration by Google that load speed has an effect on your search engine rankings, this post topic seemed appropriate.
WP-DB Back-Up – If disaster strikes, this could be the most important plugin you have ever installed. The plugin will back up your WordPress MySQL database and email it to you automatically based on a schedule. If your database becomes corrupt, you will have a back-up.
WP Super Cache – Not only does this plugin not slow down your site load speed – it will speed it up by generating static HTML files and serving them up to your visitors instead of those clunky PHP scripted pages.
WP-Memory – This plugin places a statistics box in your admin panel that displays the amount of memory that your WordPress install is consuming. This statistics box should be consulted when you are considering adding fun plugins, like a Facebook Fan Box, that may eat up a lot of memory and slow down your load speed.
Russ Henneberry writes and speaks about content marketing and how tiny businesses can make mighty profits by using a personal computer, a little imagination, and a few well-placed dollars. You can receive the RSS feed for his daily blog here.
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