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  • Mashable Like Social Media Sharing Button for WordPress with Share Graph

    Mashable Like Social Media Sharing Button for WordPress with Share Graph

    When Mashable changed their site design couple of years back everyone went crazy. Bloggers wanted similar themes and many WordPress theme seller forums were filled with requests. Some requests, even included requests to build a share button plugin which had social share graph along with it. Mashable calls their graph “Mashable Velocity Graph”. The graph shows how quickly people are sharing the article on the social Web.

    Finally, Epic Plugins has done it for you. They have made a social share button which looks very much similar to Mashables social share button. They have also included the Velocity graph from Mashable. Epic Plugins calls this feature “Social Buzz Graph” and they claim that the graph serves the same function of Mashables Velocity Graph. You can get the plugin on Codecanyon for $19, it is named “Social Buzz WordPress Plugin – Social Share Graphs“.Social Media Sharing Button for WordPress like Mashable with Share Graph - Social Share Plugin

    The plugin currently only supports Facebook, Twitter, Google+ & Linkedin. While Mashable has StumbleUpon and Pinterest extra. That’s the only negative part I find in this plugin at the moment. I am sure the developers are working on adding more social media sites. Also, I am not sure how the Social Buzz graph works or does it work as they say. I will be trying out the plugin soon and will post a review.

    I totally recommend Epic Plugins as I have tried their Social Gallery WordPress Video Viewer Plugin. They provide amazing support and frequent updates. You can read more about Social Gallery Plugin here. You should try it if you have YouTube/Vimeo videos on your WordPress site. I guarantee you increased shares resulting increased traffic.Social Media Sharing Button for WordPress like Mashable with Share Graph - Mashable

    Add this plugin to a theme which looks similar to the Mashables website design, you will have a Mashable clone. A couple of months back, I wrote an article about Mashable Look alike WordPress Themes. Check out those themes and you will be all set to release an amazing blog.

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  • WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache – Which WordPress Cache plugin is Better?

    WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache – Which WordPress Cache plugin is Better?

    If you are WordPress site owner and wants to increase the site speed you would have definitely tried some caching plugin. Also, you might have come across some WordPress cache plugins too. Top players in caching plugins are WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. WP Super Cache has more than 5,535,472+ downloads and W3 Total Cache has more than 3,095,642+ downloads. So let me repeat the question again WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache – Which is Better?

    Some of you might think WP Super Cache has more downloads so it is better. There is a reason why WP Super Cache has more downloads than W3 Total Cache. The reason is simple, it is very easy to use it. Even W3 Total Cache is easy to use, but needs some little more work. May be 1-2 minutes extra then WP Super Cache.

    I was a lazy ass and used WP Super Cache and was happy with the boost in speed I got. Used WP Super Cache for all my sites. But last week when I was updating my personal blog jijojose.com just fun, I disabled WP Super Cache and installed w3 Total Cache. Then I tested the page speed on GTmetrix, I was amazed to see the results. That was the first time I saw green color on my page speed results. After seeing the results I wanted to install W3 Total Cache on all my sites powered by WordPress.

    As a result, I installed it here on Tech Kunji but before installing I did a test on GTmetrix. Check out the result. After installing W3 Total Cache the result was improved almost 10%. Not a big difference for us, but Google bots considers this. Check out the new result.

    You can compare the results here. Note that the right one is WP Super Cache and Left one is W3 Total Cache.

    I recommend W3 Total Cache for both new and experienced WordPress users. New users just enable the basic features and if you are experienced go crazy and optimize your server as much you want. So which is the best WordPress cache plugin according to you?

    Got something to say? Let me know through the comments.