5 Important Free Tools for WordPress Blogs Maintenance
It’s very vital to maintain your blog on a regular basis. It most important to keep your blogs load properly and reduces bounce rate. Google doesn’t love websites with lot of errors and issues, so keep it as little as possible. The below tools definitely supports your blog to run smoothly an also maintains your google page rank.
WP CleanFix
WP CleanFix is a management tool for for check, repair, fix and optimize your WordPress blog.
FEATURES
- Database Tables optimization
- Check/Remove for unused Post Meta
- Check/Remove for Post Revision and Trash
- Check/Remove for unused Tags
- Check/Remove for Attachments without Post/Page
- Check/Remove for unapproved and Trash comments
- Check/Remove for spam comments
- Find & Replace on Posts Content
- WordPress MU compatibility
Broken Link Checker
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.
FEATURES
- Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
- Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
- Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
- Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
- Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
- You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
- Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.
- Highly configurable.
Validation
Lastly you’ll want to frequently check the markup validation of your blog to make sure you don’t have any serious coding errors. Most bloggers and website owners are already familiar with this tool. Just enter the URL of your blog and within a few seconds you’ll get a report with error messages (if applicable). It will also tell you what line the errors are on. Try to fix as many as you can; the less errors you have, the better.
Antivirus
This is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. AntiVirus protection for your blog.
FEATURES
- WordPress 3.x ready: Design as well as technical
- Detect the current WordPress permalink back door
- Quick & Dirty: activate, check, done!
- Manual testing with immediate result of the infected files
- Daily automatic check with email notification
- Whitelist: Mark the suspicion as “No virus”
- Clean up after uninstall the plugin
- English, German, Italian, Persian, Russian
Back up
There are quite a few decent backup plugins for WordPress. The one you choose is up to you, just make sure that you are doing a backup at least 1-2 times a month in case anything drastic happens to your blog.
XCloner – Can fully backup and restore your files and databases automatically or manually.
Backup to Dropbox – This plugin “automatically uploads your blog’s files and a SQL dump of its database to Dropbox.”
Online Backup – Lets you backup your entire database and send it to your email, desktop or free MiB space on their secure servers. Features include: locked backups, compression, encryption, scheduling, on-demand backup.
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