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Asset Cleanup Pro is also excellent for optimisation
Webp Express is great for images
Cloudflare is a free CDN or WP Engine as part of the hosting
don’t a lot of these plugins overlap. For instance, I use Swift Performance for caching and it has many of the autoptimise? I optimize my images in advance…how would WPCompress help?
Hey Michael, thanks for the comment and question.
The main takeaway from the video is that these are my preference and recommendations.
If you’re finding Swift is working well, stick with it. A tool like WP Compress is very useful for not only compressing your images but also generating WebP versions and optimising the additional files that WP generates when an image is uploaded.
Optimising your images before uploading is good practice (as pointed out during the video), but it won’t help with the files WP creates for every image upload.
Do you need a tool like WP Compress? No. But it does have benefits if you need them.
I hope that helps? 😁
Outstanding video. The blueprint for ‘an excellent start’.
Hey Paul, great video! Do you have any solution to cover custom login, register, password recovery forms in elementor?
Video 700!… Congrats mate, and what a superb subject
Thanks Paul, great suggestions!
Very good video!
There is no free Version of Permatters. For those who wonder.
If you’re running WP Compress, won’t it conflict with Bunny CDN?
Thanks Paul. Awesome as usual. You got me going building my own website from scratch using your video tuts. Love it.
Do you not use a cookie policy plugin ?
I use an external service to handle those aspects of the site.
@WPTuts would you mind what that external service is ?
@mark job of course not. I use iubenda to gaffe that side of things.
@WPTuts Thank you so much for the fast reply, really appreciate it. I was looking at Termageddon service and now i will look into this other one 👍
0:00 WPVivid Backup Pro
4:30 iThemes Security
5:50 SEOPress
9:46 Perfmatters
14:33 Autoptimise
17:00 WPCompress
20:28 BunnyCDN
22:35 HappyFiles
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Once you become aware of him saying “go ahead and” & “I’ve gone ahead and”, it becomes really annoying.