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10 Best Free WordPress Plugins to Help You Make a Better Site

8. Force Regenerate Thumbnails/Regenerate Thumbnails

Regenerate Thumbnails WordPress Plugin

It is quite common to change theme of your WordPress site during initial stage. You might like a theme, and set it up for your site. After sometime, you might no longer like it and you setup another theme. But not all themes have same size of featured images, thumbnail images or any other image used. It might be possible your old theme used featured image size 730×390 and your new theme uses image of higher or lower dimension than the previous one. In such scenario, changing theme makes your site look messy and not up-to-the-mark because images aren’t of proper dimension.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails and Regenerate Thumbnails will help you when dimensions of your images need to be changed. Both these plugins do the same work. They will regenerate images according to the new dimensions.  Both plugins come handy if you change any of your thumbnail dimensions under Settings -> Media or have changed to a theme with different image dimensions.

Do I need to say more? Nope. Period.

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9. DNUI (Delete not used images)

DNUI WordPress Plugin

You have uploaded some images which are not in use. Or, you just changed the theme and regenerated thumbnails. What about those older images which are of no use now? DNUI (Delete not used images) at your rescue. DNUI is a super simple plugin which will help you browse a list of all the images ever uploaded to your WordPress site. And by ‘all’ we actually mean ‘all’. Typically, under Media, you will see the image you uploaded. DNUI displays those images’ dimensions as well. For example, you uploaded image.jpg and your theme has created 5 other images from it which are in different dimensions. Like image-150×150.jpg, image-300×110.jpg and so on. If the new theme does not use images of 150×150 dimension, you can delete those images with 150×150 dimensions keeping all other images just as they are.

By allowing you to delete unused images, DNUI will help you reduce the space unused images occupy on your host.

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10. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

Plugin Performance Profiler WordPress Plugin

Okay, you are so overwhelmed by our list, you have installed a lot of plugins by now. But, do you know plugins could put unnecessary weight on your WordPress site? I think you do, but how to learn which plugin is eating up most resources and making your site slow? So let’s bring end of 10 best free WordPress plugins by mentioning a plugin that will help you analyse resources used by plugins you have installed. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) will measure the impact of each plugin and display results using nicely detailed graphs. The results include total number of installed plugins, total page-load time and impact of plugins to that time.

P3 will also keep history of results as well as allow you to send a copy of results to anyone, say your hosting provider or anyone else. By running this tool, you will come to know the impact of each plugin and you can then decide whether to keep using them. P3 is surely a great, free plugin for every WordPress site.

And, on a side note, P3 is developed by GoDaddy.

I wish I could just keep writing this article. Because there are so many free plugins for WordPress. I have tried to give space to every worth plugin. I have tested and have been using these plugins.

If you have one or more plugins you would like to see in our list of best free WordPress plugins, do let me know. I will test them and add into our next compilation.

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