Episode three of our Seven Killer Must Have Plugins series for Wordpress is live over at Tubetorial. Today’s plugin is a cool way of making sure that your Wordpress database stays optimized and backed-up with a minimum of effort. If you’re wondering what the hell that means, you probably need this plugin.
To cut a long story short, the database is the behind the scenes stuff that stores and runs your Wordpress blog. Over time it gets cluttered with surplus data and not only slows down your performance, but over time can even end up with you losing content or comments, which is no fun.
Lester Chan’s WP-DBManager makes it easy to not only optimize your database with a simple click a month, right from Wordpress admin, but also lets you backup your database and restore it right from Wordpress too. Compare this with having to manually restore or optimize your database by entering your server backend and twiddling with PHPMyAdmin, and you are well on the way to seeing why this is very useful, even if this sentence is making you scratch your head and reach for the back button.
As always you can check out the video over at Tubetorial, where there are dozens more like it, or simply have a glance right here:
Happy optimizing!