El content management system o CMS is one of the most useful tools to manage your content on the Internet or other platforms, whether it is aimed at a blog, a website or even a business intranet. Within this field, WordPress has emerged as the greatest exponent of those that exist or at least the most famous and perhaps complete of all.
On the other hand, plugins, widgets and templates are additions that improve the usability of the site and allow us to expand the features of the specific system without making them difficult to use, therefore we are going to see what some of them are. the best for WordPress.
Design is a fundamental point when focusing on content specific on the internet to a certain group of users who you know will consume said content on a regular basis, which is why many times too much attention is focused on this point and others that are equally or more important for the final product experience, such as performance, are left aside. .
Special attention must be paid to the loading speed and the answer that the website offers to know if it needs a good optimization and for this a good way to see it could be with Google Insights PageSpeed.
Use a distributed server system It may be a good choice It can be an option to help lighten part of the load on our server if we have a significant volume of traffic in mind, however the use of plugins is also, if not indispensable, if quite important to help with this task.
- Lazy Load for Videos: This plugin will replace the video that we have inserted with an image that acts as a preview and only if the user decides to click on the video, then the video container will be loaded on the page to effectively improve the speed of access to the page. page.
- WordPress Lazy Load: Its objective is none other than to speed up the loading of the pages by carrying out an optimization of the multimedia elements embedded in the page so that the content does not already come pre-loaded but is loaded as we scroll with the mouse.
- Prizm Image: Its task is to optimize the loading of our site by adapting the size of the images to make the loading time shorter using compression techniques on photographs for JPEG, PNG and GIF formats. There is thatregister on their website to use it but it is still free to distribute.
- WP Performance Pack: This plugin includes a simple control panel that is specially designed for websites in which translations are being used, so if there are sections within WordPress such as the back office in English that can be translated automatically, we can apply a cache for the translations , deactivate them or activate them only for specific users.
- Performance Monitoring, Analytics by FuelDeck To use this plugin we need a free account on FuelDeck and once done we can measure loading time, monitor performance in different browsers...
- Google Pagespeed Insights for WordPress: Basically instead of going to the page, with this plugin we will insert complete performance analysis functionality and our website into the dashboard.
- Autoptimize: As its name indicates, it is a plugin aimed at self-optimizing the code of our website without having to resort to other tools, since it will be in charge of keeping everything in order. To do this, it will combine the HTML, CSS and Javascript code in the same package and save bandwidth.
- AIO Cache & Performance: Stores pre-loaded pages instead of building them in real time, which will speed up their loading when faced with more than one request. Improves code optimization as well.
- PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics: Evaluates the performance of our server, that is, this plugin performs a series of tests that evaluate the response of our database to basic operations so that we can assess whether it is worth maintaining our configuration or whether we should consider changing hosting.
- Performance Optimization: Order Styles and Javascript is another plugin aimed at improving the code of our WordPress and reorganizing both the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code to speed up the loading of pages and, therefore, offer a better user experience.