Plug-In Review 8

WP Optimize 

What does it do? WP-Optimize makes your site fast and efficient. It cleans the database, compresses images and caches pages. Fast sites attract more traffic and users.

Details: 

It does it in three clever ways:

  • It allows you to clean and optimise your database.
  • It gives you the option to compress your images.
  • It allows you to cache your pages, for super fast load times (read more caching information below).

 

 

 

Positive Reviews: 

“Great cache plugin! (3 benefits in 1)”

Simply great for your website. Even the free version is more than enough!

 

“Great Plug-In”

Plugin made very well and very functional, we are using it for a long time and has never given problems. 

 

Negative Reviews

“Fix this” 

I’m a huge fan of wp-optimize. Used it for years … no problems.

However recently, often after creating a post, in two or three hours, all the styling is removed leaving a blue and white mass of mess.

So I turned off (new and improved?) minify on the plugin and guess what? The problem disappeared. Cost me enormous amount of time and money. Time I would rather spend on content rather than chasing sloppy development.

This after a couple of weeks trying to find the problem. As with most plugins (and their updates), coders are sloppy. I protect my site against hackers but the biggest threat to it is updates.

Here’s an idea. Before damaging people’s websites and costing them money, get the damn update correct.

I hate being used as a beta test.

 

“Crashed” 

First plugin ever to crash my site and database. Had to do a database repair to get my site working again. Couldn’t repair table wp options.