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WordPress is a wonderful content management system that has been widely used all over the world. Many websites and blogs have been built on WordPress because of the ease in functionality and accessibility. However, just like any other thing WordPress blogs and websites also need some maintenance for keeping it run smoothly without any trouble.

In this round up, we are presenting 13 best WordPress plugins that will help you maintain and clean your WordPress blog and make it run speedily and more effectively. We hope that you will like this assortment and find some useful plugins for you. With these plugins, you can check, scan and backup your WordPress blog data. Let’s have a closer look!

WP Security Scan

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Clean Options

Finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table

ManageWP

ManageWP Worker plugin allows you to remotely manage your WordPress sites from one dashboard.

WP Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance. Full access to the back- & front-end is optional.

Restricted Site Access

Limit access to visitors who are logged in or at specific IP addresses. Many options for handling blocked visitors. Great for Intranets, dev sites.

WP-DBManager

Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.

XCloner – Backup and Restore

XCloner is a full backup and restore plugin for WordPress, it will backup and restore both files and database.

Revision Control

Revision Control allows finer control over the Post Revision system included with WordPress

User Role Editor

User Role Editor WordPress plugin makes the role capabilities changing easy. You can change any standard WordPress user role (except administrator).

Comments Cleaner

This plugin removes all HTML tags, BBCode tags and links from added comments (including link to author’s website)

User Meta Manager

Add, edit, or delete user meta data with this handy plugin. Easily restrict access or insert user meta data into posts or pages.

WP-HTML-Compression

Reduce file size by shortening URLs and safely removing all standard comments and unnecessary whitespace from an HTML document.