Give Your WordPress Website a Fresh Update with These Tools

Monday Memos is a short list of the best finds across the internet to start your week off right.
Today I have some WordPress maintenance resources to help you improve your website. Here’s three links with tips and tricks to kick start your Monday.
Performing regular house cleaning on your WordPress website will keep it running smoothly, and as a business owner you will be able to focus on more important things. With so many updates and different security changes it’s a good time of year to get started on this process. Does your website need a tune-up? Use these great WordPress tools, and provide your feedback in the comments section below!

1) Broken Link Checker

Broken website links can affect SEO – Your website might have a number of broken links and missing images that you might not be aware of. This can directly affect your search engine rankings and subscribers. Not good! But with the Broken Link Checker plugin you can check all of your data in about 15 minutes. The fixes are automatic, and results are displayed at the end. The entire process is well worth the time as your website will be running faster, and your engagement will start to pick up again.

2) BackupBuddy – WordPress Backup Plugin to Restore & Move

Protect your content from hackers – There is nothing worse than a malware or some other security attack on a WordPress website. That is why it is so important to perform a periodic backup of your entire site. BackupBuddy is one of the most reliable tools out there that will help you save your hard work. This is also a great resource to use when planning on transferring your website to another host provider.

3) WP-Sweep

Give your WordPress website a clean sweep. Are your pages loading slowly? You might need to remove extra data, deleted comments, and any other old or unnecessary documents and images. The WP-Sweep plugin does the job very nicely in just five minutes. This great tool will even optimize your database tables – all for for free!

Hopefully you will find these WordPress tools useful to the efficiency of your website. Are there any that you would like to add as well?
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Wishing you a FAN-tastic week!
Susan