Ten Effective Wordpress Tools to Maintain Your Website
As a wordpress website design company, our clients are often interested in knowing that once their website is developed in wordpress would there be any free or reasonably-priced tools that they can rely on to maintain the site, so that it always remains in fine fettle, up and running?
Their main concern is that these tools must run with minimum frills and fuss.
In this blog, we will run you through some of those tools — both free and paid — that we have tried and tested as a wordpress website design company, so can authoritatively recommend to you for your use on your wordpress site.
Free-of-cost WP Tools
Let’s first begin with a list of free-to-download wordpress website maintenance tools, sourced from Web designer Eric Karkovack’s 10 Free Tools for Maintaining Your WordPress Website on IstWebdesigner:
Backing up with WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager is an excellent free-to-download tool to back up, restore, repair and optimize everything within WordPress. Backups are stored on your server and can also be emailed directly to you as frequently as you choose to schedule.
Or Use UpdraftPlus for Backing Your Data
UpdraftPlus backs-up your entire WordPress site (file structure and database) and works brilliantly well on 3rd party services, such as Google Drive, DropBox and Amazon S3, so you can easily backups in the cloud, as well.
Auto Delete Redundant Elements with Delete-Duplicate-Posts
This plugin on its own detects and deletes all redundant elements that take up space in your wordpress website such as duplicate posts and their Meta data. You can schedule optimization at fixed intervals.
Check and Vet Your Theme with Theme Check
Extremely useful and trendy, Theme Check routinely checks and vets your theme template to ensure that it meets with the latest WordPress standards, and makes recommendations, accordingly.
Check Your Page Speed With Google Pagespeed Insights
Download Google Pagespeed Insights to randomly check your site’s speed performance and improve your search rankings inside Google.
Server Check With MyWebToNet — PerformanceStats
If you want to quickly check your server (PHP/My SQL CPU) performance MyWebToNet — PerformanceStats will give you reliable diagnostics after checking your PHP and MySQL server performance. Additionally, it runs network tests to check how well your server is responding to requests.
Get Alerted With WP Updates Notifier
If you are not logging into your site daily, you can easily miss out on critical updates. Downloading WP Updates Notifier will fix that issue. This plugin will send you hourly/daily alerts whenever a new WP core, plugins or theme is available.
Med Your Links with Broken Link Checker
You possibly cannot do without this one. Broken Link Checker routinely checks your content for broken links and images, and issues an alert whenever an iaaue needs fixing via WP dashboard or email.
Seize Control of Your WP Sites with ManageWP
In case you are running and managing multiple WP sites, ManageWP’s free version can come in handy to keep all these sites updated from this single, unified interface. Among other things, it offers monthly backups, on-demand security scans and performance reports. Another, highly recommended free tool for maintenance with one interface, regardless of where your WP site is hosted is InfiniteWP.
Make Your Site Searchable with Yoast SEO
Likewise, Yoast SEO plugin (free) plugin is another must-have free tool for improving the searchability of your WP site. With this plugin you can indicate each page’s title and a summery to show up in Google search results.
Paid WP Tools
Besides the free-of-cost tools, here are a few indispensable paid tools recommended by experts recommend:
WpEngine (starting at $29 pm) and Kinsta (starting at $100 pm for 1 website) come as highly recommended hosting services, depending of course on the specific requirements of your clients.
Kraken.io (starting at $ 5 pm) is a plugin that optimizes GIF, JPG, PNG and SVG files seamlessly. You may want to start with the free version Kraken Image Optimizer that automatically compresses every uploaded image thereby reducing the speed to load.
Akismet (starting at $ 50 pm for multiple sites)is a spamfilter for WordPress websites that checks responses and form submissions.
Uptime Robot (starting at $ 5,50 p/m) is an instant alert for downtimes so you can immediately look into and fix the issue. A free version of a similar tool is Dashing (free) that comes with multiple widgets to give a clean-cut overview of up and downtime monitors, pending updates, and more.
As a wordpress website design company, our clients are often interested in knowing that once their website is developed in wordpress would there be any free or reasonably-priced tools that they can rely on to maintain the site, so that it always remains in fine fettle, up and running?
Their main concern is that these tools must run with minimum frills and fuss.
In this blog, we will run you through some of those tools — both free and paid — that we have tried and tested as a wordpress website design company, so can authoritatively recommend to you for your use on your wordpress site.
Free-of-cost WP Tools
Let’s first begin with a list of free-to-download wordpress website maintenance tools, sourced from Web designer Eric Karkovack’s 10 Free Tools for Maintaining Your WordPress Website on IstWebdesigner:
Backing up with WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager is an excellent free-to-download tool to back up, restore, repair and optimize everything within WordPress. Backups are stored on your server and can also be emailed directly to you as frequently as you choose to schedule.
Or Use UpdraftPlus for Backing Your Data
UpdraftPlus backs-up your entire WordPress site (file structure and database) and works brilliantly well on 3rd party services, such as Google Drive, DropBox and Amazon S3, so you can easily backups in the cloud, as well.
Auto Delete Redundant Elements with Delete-Duplicate-Posts
This plugin on its own detects and deletes all redundant elements that take up space in your wordpress website such as duplicate posts and their Meta data. You can schedule optimization at fixed intervals.
Check and Vet Your Theme with Theme Check
Extremely useful and trendy, Theme Check routinely checks and vets your theme template to ensure that it meets with the latest WordPress standards, and makes recommendations, accordingly.
Check Your Page Speed With Google Pagespeed Insights
Download Google Pagespeed Insights to randomly check your site’s speed performance and improve your search rankings inside Google.
Server Check With MyWebToNet — PerformanceStats
If you want to quickly check your server (PHP/My SQL CPU) performance MyWebToNet — PerformanceStats will give you reliable diagnostics after checking your PHP and MySQL server performance. Additionally, it runs network tests to check how well your server is responding to requests.
Get Alerted With WP Updates Notifier
If you are not logging into your site daily, you can easily miss out on critical updates. Downloading WP Updates Notifier will fix that issue. This plugin will send you hourly/daily alerts whenever a new WP core, plugins or theme is available.
Med Your Links with Broken Link Checker
You possibly cannot do without this one. Broken Link Checker routinely checks your content for broken links and images, and issues an alert whenever an iaaue needs fixing via WP dashboard or email.
Seize Control of Your WP Sites with ManageWP
In case you are running and managing multiple WP sites, ManageWP’s free version can come in handy to keep all these sites updated from this single, unified interface. Among other things, it offers monthly backups, on-demand security scans and performance reports. Another, highly recommended free tool for maintenance with one interface, regardless of where your WP site is hosted is InfiniteWP.
Make Your Site Searchable with Yoast SEO
Likewise, Yoast SEO plugin (free) plugin is another must-have free tool for improving the searchability of your WP site. With this plugin you can indicate each page’s title and a summery to show up in Google search results.
Paid WP Tools
Besides the free-of-cost tools, here are a few indispensable paid tools recommended by experts recommend:
WpEngine (starting at $29 pm) and Kinsta (starting at $100 pm for 1 website) come as highly recommended hosting services, depending of course on the specific requirements of your clients.
Kraken.io (starting at $ 5 pm) is a plugin that optimizes GIF, JPG, PNG and SVG files seamlessly. You may want to start with the free version Kraken Image Optimizer that automatically compresses every uploaded image thereby reducing the speed to load.
Akismet (starting at $ 50 pm for multiple sites)is a spamfilter for WordPress websites that checks responses and form submissions.
Uptime Robot (starting at $ 5,50 p/m) is an instant alert for downtimes so you can immediately look into and fix the issue. A free version of a similar tool is Dashing (free) that comes with multiple widgets to give a clean-cut overview of up and downtime monitors, pending updates, and more.
MaxCDN (starting at $9 p/m) and CloudFlare (free with paid add-ons) are content delivery server networks that store and deliver static content (images, scripts), so visitors are able to load your website much faster simply because different segments of your site get delivered simultaneously from multiple servers. Being simpler in configuration, MaxCDN is recommended over CloudFlare.
WP Rocket (starting at $99 p/y for multiple websites) is an optimisation plugin that combines and compresses HTML, JavaScript and CSS, causing a webpage to load faster.
As a wordpress website design company, we could go on, but that would be beyond the scope of this blog. Plus we would like you to do some trials and errors and learn for yourself.
