9 Plugins New WordPress Users Must Install on Their Blogs

By | October 21, 2010 |

wp-pluginsSeasoned WordPress users will have no problem finding and installing the plugins they need, but for newbies, or inspiring bloggers to be, finding the right plugins can be a daunting task. To help new WordPress users to get use to their blogs quickly, here are 9 plugins that I would strongly recommend any new user to install.
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How to Improve Your Site’s Performance By Loading Your Images On Demand [WordPress]

By | September 30, 2010 |

lazyloader-mainThere are many ways to improve the performance of your WordPress blog. We have discussed the use of caching plugin, cleaning up and optimizing your database and and also plenty other tips to speed up the loading time. In this article, we are going to show you how you can further improve your site’s performance by loading your images on demand.

All blog owners will know that images play an important part in a blog post. In Make Tech Easier, we love to use plenty of screenshots to make the tutorial clearer and easier to understand. However, there is one problem with this. The more images you have, the slower the site loads and utilizes more bandwidth. In addition, as we have outsourced our images hosting to Amazon S3, the higher bandwidth also translates to higher cost.

A good solution to this is to load your images on demand, or what is most commonly known as lazy loading.
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Five WYSIWYG Plugins to Enhance the WordPress Built-In Editor

By | September 26, 2009 |

wysiwyg-toolbarThe WordPress built-in editor has the minimum features to create a blog post. It’s one of the reasons that many bloggers use desktop-based blog editors that provide them with additional features that is lacking in the WordPress editor. Here are five WordPress plugins that will give you the functionality as a desktop-based editor without leaving WordPress.
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3 Useful Plugins For Multiple Authors Collaboration

By | August 25, 2009 |

Collaboration in blogs is a growing need with more and more blogging teams, newspapers, and magazines using the Internet. Additionally, there are times that one post may be assigned to more than one author. In WordPress, the only way to co-author a blog post is to share login information or for the users to have a higher role than “Author.” Here are three WordPress plugins that will allow you the ease of collaborating blog posts between more than one author. Each of the three plugins have their pros and cons, so test them out and see which one is the best fit for you.
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