5 Extremely Useful WordPress Tips

For the majority of bloggers out there, they will either be using Blogger or WordPress. For those that use WordPress, it is because of many reasons with the main being that WordPress offers far more ccustomization than Google’s Blogger does. However, what is the point of using WordPress if you do not know about all the customizations and tricks you can do? For this reason, here are 5 extremely useful plugins for WordPress users to take advantage of to maximise the use of WordPress as a platform for your website and blogging.

 

Paginate Comments

For articles that go viral or are very popular, you may find that the loading time of that article will increase as the number of comments on that article increases. Therefore, it is extremely useful to paginate comments so that 1) your article’s loading time decreases (decreasing the bounce rate) and 2) to enable more pageviews for those that are interested enough to browse through all of the comments.

 

 

Set up a WordPress Redirect Page

You have the ability to customize how your redirect page looks and feels. This is extremely handy as redirect pages, especially for Blogger, are not the nicest things to land onto. Therefore, you can spice things up, include a more interesting message and even include links to other articles to make your redirect page that bit more useful to the web user.

 

 

SEO Optimisation

Manual SEO seems to be a thing of the past thanks to the plugins that are available to WordPress users. As well as checking articles are well optimised for search engines, there are plugins that will help search engines view your website better, your meta tags and more. SEO plugins, for this reason, are a must have for any WordPress website owner that wants to automate the process of gaining better visibility on search engines such as Google.

 

 

Statistics

There are many plugins that enable you to view very specific statistics of your website. Although you can use Google Analytics to view the statistics of your website, WordPress has many plugins you can use that offer the same level of analysis of your website, from the views per day to pages per visit to the bounce rate – all integrated right into WordPress.

 

Spam Controllers

Unfortunately, websites, when they become popular, will get an increasing amount of spam that website owners will have to tackle. An example of this might be a spam email from their contact page. However, for the majority of it, this involves comment spam. For this reason, there are some great plugins that will filter out any spam in the comments so that you do not have to saving you hours upon hours of your precious time to put into something a bit more productive.