No problem.

Definitely, we could have made some nice side-income, seeing so many people use WP Rocket, plus it is one of those essential plugins that you can find in almost every best plugins list :).

On a side note, you purchased the plugin on right time. They recently updated their policy to make it easy for users to get refunds (source).

Everything does indeed rely on personal preference, and then there are some things that are just better from every angle :-p and free. But thanks for the feedback. And did actually purchase WP Rocket base on your recommendation (and the half a dozen of other reviews I seen about it the past few months); too bad they don’t offer an affiliate program 🙂 We would all become RICH! 😉

Hey Earnle,

Pretty Link — I have been using the lite version for last 1 year and it works smoothly. I didn’t needed the Geo targeting and keyword tagging, so Pretty Link it perfect. Though, it did take a look at Wizard Cloak, it looks nice (plus it is created by Soflyy, who also created WP All Import).

OptinMonster — yes, an affiliate link (which we disclose at the bottom of each post). Never tried wBounce, so thanks for the suggestion — I’ll take a look.

But I think I’d still prefer OM, because it does much more than popups / exit-intent, and gets regular updates.

BackupBuddy — nice to know about the free backup feature in iThemes security.

Crayon highlight looks nice but I think it really depends on the personal preference.

W3TC — not using it anymore, we are currently using WP Rocket + MaxCDN. Also, we ran a test comparing top caching plugins, you should check it out.

Glad you found some positive / useful info out of this post :).

Cheers!

And OptinMonster (affiliate link hmm?) although awesome, has become extincts due to wBounce. Has the same functionality, supports all autoresponders, super easy css design, on-exit / exit-intent technology, animation effects, etc. Saves another $49-199/year.

BackupBuddy … seeing this recommend everywhere as well. Prefer using FREE email SQL backup service provided from within iTheme Security.

Syntax Highlighter is pretty awesome but prefer “Crayon Syntax Highlighter” myself.

MaxCDN is superawesome. However W3TC self-hosted CDN + CloudFlare gives me better results and again free (although does require some tech knowledge to set it all up).

On a positive note? 😉 Canva is indeed awesome. And didn’t know about Unsplash yet; been using “WP inject” (flicker searcher) + “Image Teleporter” myself.