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If you are looking at ways to improve the site performance of a site that is using Google Analytics for site analytics, then one option is to host Google Analytics locally on your child site. There is a new plugin called Flying Analytics, which makes it very easy to be able to host Google Analytics locally on your child site. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new admin menu too; Settings > Flying Analytics Continue reading the post...

Tracking file changes made to your child site can be a messy prospect, depending on which plugin solution is being used. WP White Security, the company behind plugin WP Security Audit Log and Password Policy Manager for WordPress, has created a new plugin called Website File Changes Monitor. First, you will need to install and activate the Website File Changes Monitor plugin on your child site. After the plugin is active on the child site, you will notice a new Continue reading the post...

Simple but performance-based contact forms on your child sites are worth knowing of clean plugin options. On certain sites, you do not always need a number of extra fields in your contact site forms. There is a recent plugin option that works well and it is called SimpleForm. After you have activated and installed the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called Contacts. The plugin adds basic contact fields and you can set the provided fields you Continue reading the post...

If you are using default search on a child site knowing what terms are being searched for on the site is hard to find unless you are using something like Google Analytics. There is a new plugin that will track search terms on a site and it is called WP Search Insights. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new menu item in wp-admin; Tools > WP Search Insights The first part you will be Continue reading the post...

Knowing which fast and performance-based themes for your child sites is something that can take time to research and test. A more recent theme that is clean lightweight and performance-based but has a number of modules built in even in the free version is the Suki theme. After you have installed and activated the Suki theme on your child site it will add a new admin menu under; Appearance > Suki You will be able to find all of the Continue reading the post...

WordPress will try to load a number of additional requests, which in most cases are needed, such as emojis and dashicons. There is an easy to use a plugin called Speed Booster Pack, which can be installed on all connected child sites. The settings can be enabled using the MainWP Bulk Settings Manager extension. You can use this key to save the settings in Speed Booster Pack to all child sites where it has been installed and activated. If you Continue reading the post...

On a number of your managed child sites, it is worth knowing how to disable plugins from being deactivated or delete the plugin. There is an easy to use a plugin called Disable Plugin Deactivation which can be installed on all of your connect child sites and then you can easily set those options. After the plugin has been installed and activated on those sites it will add a new admin menu under the plugins admin menu in wp-admin; Plugins Continue reading the post...

Options are important when it comes to having plugin options to easily improve the front-end load times of your child sites. It’s also worth knowing which ones work well. One such option is a plugin called WP Performance. After the plugin has been installed and activated, it will add a new admin menu called; WP Performance Plugin tab for settings are broken down as; CACHE CSS JAVASCRIPT IMAGES DATABASE CDN SETTINGS ADD-ONS In the cache settings, you can set cache Continue reading the post...

An easy way to clean up wp-admin and remove certain parts from not showing on child sites when clients need to login can be a pain to take care of. But there is an easy to use plugin which will allow you to customize a number of things from not showing in wp-admin. First, you will need to install and active the plugin My WP Customize Admin/Frontend. The plugin when activated will add a new admin menu called; My WP Continue reading the post...

There are a number of email marketing options that you can use for sending out a newsletter to your customers who have opted in on the site. One of the most recent self-hosted options for email marketing for your site is weMail plugin from weDevs. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your site it will add a new admin menu called weMail. The first time you use weMail plugin it will guide you through a setup wizard which Continue reading the post...