In the standard setup WordPress is capable of displaying a list with the last 5-10 published posts. However it might also be interesting to show the most popular posts to your users, since these posts might increase the stickiness of your site, and also increases the SEO value of these pages. So the aim of this post is to give you a quick guide to how you can implement a list with the most popular posts to your WordPress blog.
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Tips for speeding up WordPress
One of the big benefits of WordPress is the many plugins that can expand the basic functionality quite dramatically. However the more plugins you’re using in your WordPress blog, the higher is the risk of the blog beginning to be slow and consume a lot of server resources.
A slow and resource demanding blog has several serious downsides. Users are normally not that patient, so if your blog is slow, there is a big risk, that the users will proceed to another blog instead. High consumption of server resources might get you into trouble with your hosting company, and last but not least, there is strong indication that several search engines like Google might include page speed as part of their page rank in the near future.
WordPress is now installed – what’s next?
WordPress is a fantastic tool for blogging and publishing content on the web. Especially the many plugins and themes provides a tremendous amount of functionality out of the box. However as a newbie to WordPress, all these possibilities can also be a bit overwhelming.
In this post, we’ll suggest a few things that hopefully can help giving your new site a fantastic start.
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