407 – Clean and Optimize Your WordPress Site

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Lots of Gutenberg posts

Is there a plugin for that?

With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.

For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook.

WP Health will check your WordPress installation to ensure that it is healthy, up to date, and secure. Use the WP Health page to quickly see the results of these checks using the simple color-coded sections.

Clean and Optimize Your WordPress Site

We need to occasionally (maybe 2-4 times per year) clean out some of the crud that’s stored in our WordPress sites.

Here are some suggestions on things to do for fall cleaning.

Remove unused plugins and themes
Make sure everything is updated
Remove extra post revisions with Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
Use Media Cleaner to clean up your media library
Optimize images with Jetpack, EWWW Image Optimizer, Compress JPEG & PNG images, or Smush Image Compression and Optimization.
Update your users. Make sure to remove any unnecessary ones.
Install Broken Link Checker and remove any broken links.
WP-Optimize can help to optimize your WordPress database.
The WP Asset CleanUp will make sure only necessary files are loading on each page load.
Remove spam comments with Spam Comments Cleaner
Remove any unused categories or tags.
Do a content audit to remove any posts or page that are outdated.
Use Hide Unwanted Shortcodes to hide broken shortcodes, but remove them with the site audit.
HTML Cleanup can be used to strip out unnecessary HTML from posts or pages.

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