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Plugin Review: WP Optimize
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On Episode 547 of the Your Website Engineer podcast, host Dustin Hartzler explores the benefits of optimizing WordPress sites using the WP Optimize plugin. The episode is inspired by a Twitter thread detailing a significant reduction in site size achieved through WP Optimize.
Topics Covered:
- Overview of WP Optimize: Dustin introduces WP Optimize as a trusted plugin used on over a million WordPress sites. It focuses on boosting performance, reducing page load times, and improving user experience and Google rankings.
- Caching: Explains the caching feature, emphasizing one-click optimization, cache preload, Gzip compression, and serving cache content to logged-in users.
- Image Compression: Discusses how WP Optimize compresses images, allowing users to choose between maximum space saving and best image quality. Highlights WebP conversions, auto compression, and bulk compression.
- Database Cleanup: Details the plugin’s ability to clean and optimize the WordPress database by removing unnecessary data, with options for scheduled cleanups and retaining specific data.
- Minification: Explores how WP Optimize minifies HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, with options for custom minification, asynchronous loading, and excluding files.
- Premium Features: Provides an overview of premium features, including multisite support, scheduled optimizations, WPCLI support, lazy loading, optimization preview, and premium support.
Links Shared:
- WP Optimize: The featured plugin for optimizing WordPress sites.
- Media Cleaner: A complementary plugin is mentioned for cleaning unwanted images.
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