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As an end-user, you might find WordPress ridiculously slow sometimes, not because WordPress itself is slow, but rather the way you're using WordPress is not optimized. That's why speeding up WordPress is a topic that can never get old. Mashable talked about it more than a year ago, Noupe has recently published an article about it, and even a design magazine blog has done the same thing.

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A WordPress plugin can choose to be great instead of big, and it seems obvious to me that people always want to use an efficient plugin that is somewhat feature-limited, rather than a plugin that does a lot of things, but also uses a lot of resources along the way.

In the previous article in this Small Giants series, I have introduced five plugins that are very useful, but lack awareness. This time,... more

Hi guys! It's been more than three months since the last major version of BWP Recent Comments, and there have been so many feature requests that only some of which I could actually work on... but now I give you, BWP RC 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1!... more

People are celebrating the International Workers' Day, and I would like to join them with the second major release of BWP Recent Comments! In this version, you will enjoy two prime new features, including paginated comments and post-based comments.... more

It's been a while since I've ever updated my external links plugin, not because it is not an interesting plugin, but rather because of other important plugins that I need to take care of. Anyway, with this formal release of BWP External Links (1.1.0) you will enjoy two new features, a Danish translation, as well as other bug fixes and improvements!... more

I'm glad to announce the availability of my 6th plugin: BWP External Links! This plugin gives you total control over external links on your website and it also comes with a comprehensive domain filtering feature.... more

Hi guys! My 5th plugin, BWP Polldaddy, is now available for download. This plugin helps you add Polldaddy Polls to your WordPress website easily. This plugin focuses on the front end, i.e. you edit your polls on polldaddy.com and you choose how to show them on your website.... more

Hello my beloved visitors! BWP Minify, my 4th plugin, is now available for everyone. This plugin relies on WordPress’s enqueueing system rather than the output buffer to minify your JS and CSS files. Your website/blog will now load much faster!... more

After reading Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big written by Bo Burlingham I have come up with the idea of writing about small plugins that can greatly improve functionality for your blog. If you think a great plugin needs to be huge, you are definitely wrong and you should go see the book I have mentioned right away.

Small Giants will be a series of posts on BetterWP.net... more