What’s the difference between cache plugins and CDN? Do I need both?
Cache plugins save the HTML version of your site to reduce database requests and speed up your website. A CDN stores and delivers your website assets (images, CSS, Javascript) to improve website speed and reduce bandwidth usage. Neither is mandatory, but for the fastest website, you should use both.
What is CDN?
CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. CDN stores copies of your website content (especially images, Javascript, and CSS files) and distributes them to your readers using a global network of servers. In this way, when readers visit your website, data will be loaded from the server closest to them. CDN often has very fast response and loading times, with the shortest downtime.
If you want to test CDN to see if it helps improve your network speed, please check out our best free CDN service summary for WordPress. This is a great starting point, without the need to invest a large amount of funds in advance.
Do I need to use a cache plugin?
You don't need to use a caching plugin, but it can help speed up your website. In fact, if your host already has built-in caching functionality, we recommend skipping caching plugins. Otherwise, it's okay to try WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache (two of the most popular WordPress free caching plugins).
What is WordPress cache?
WordPress caching dynamically saves and provides visitors with the HTML version of the website. This can reduce the pressure on server resources, limit database lookup, and greatly accelerate page rendering time.
How can I speed up my WordPress site?
There are many ways to optimize and accelerate WordPress on your website. Here are some methods that can immediately improve website speed:
Enable WordPress caching
Upgrade your PHP
Investing in better custody
Choose high-quality themes
Clean up your plugins
Optimize Images
Clean up the database
Using CDN
How can I improve my SEO?
One of the simplest ways to improve SEO is to use WordPress plugins. We recommend using Yoast SEO, which adds the following options:
Title and metadata
Social Links
XML website map
crumbs
More content
We also prepared exciting SEO tips provided on well-known blogs, such as Moz, Yoast, ahrefs, Backlinko, or even WordPress SEO tips on WPExplorer blogs.
Is WordPress SEO-friendly?
WordPress is beneficial for SEO, but it won't do all the work for you. The setup of WordPress is intended to make it easy for you to manage and improve SEO, but simply migrating your blog to WordPress may not change your search engine ranking.
What is SEO?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. This will affect your search result ranking on search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. SEO will consider many factors, including content quality, backlinks, structured data, site maps, etc.
How can I customize my page layout?
If you want to change the layout of a page or post, the simplest option is to use the WordPress page builder. These plugins include easy-to-use drag and drop builders, so you can create custom pages, posts, and even custom post types (such as employee or store pages). You can preview this feature in our WPBakery Visual Composer page builder guide.
The second option is to create sub themes and manually change the theme. In this case, it is important to remember to use subtopics, otherwise all edits will be lost when updating the theme (always updating the theme is also important for security and theme functionality - so don't ignore updates!).
Can I customize my theme colors?
yes! There are three ways to customize colors and styles.
Firstly, log in to your WordPress website and go toAppearance>Custom, Check if there are any built-in options for your theme.
Secondly, if there is no option to customize the theme elements you want, you can choose to install a real-time CSS editor plugin (such as Yellow Pencil) so that you can point, click, and edit styles.
Thirdly, you can create a sub theme and edit your own style sheet (we recommend this only if you are familiar with coding and creating WordPress sub themes).