Comments on: Stop! Do You REALLY Need That Plugin?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:13:05 +0000

Yep – removing plugins has become a bit of a crusade for me..!

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:36:10 +0000

Hi Martin
Easy to get carried away with plugins and just keep adding them. If you read the plugin author’s blurb, you need them all!
Thanks for applying the handbrake to the plugin juggernaut… could stop a serious smash in the future LOL.
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By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:49:48 +0000

I’m running 13 on this site at the moment, down from a high of 27!

Martin

By: Rob McGuire

Rob McGuire — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:12:19 +0000

You’re right, when more plugins are used the slower a Wordpress site can run. That’s why I’ve begun to modify theme files to automatically do what a particular plugin does (when possible) in order to increase the speed performance.
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By: Brad Harmon

Brad Harmon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:52:54 +0000

Okay, I eliminated 3 and also did away with 2 blog directory links that weren’t really doing much for me. Still looking for more cuts.

How many plugins do you run?
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By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:42:11 +0000

You’re welcome – and happy unwanted plugin hunting!

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:48:49 +0000

Thanks for the post. Will be reviweing my several Wotrdpress blogs to see what I can really live without, which is probably quite a few of the plug ins.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:18:32 +0000

Hi Marvin,

If you want to improve the performance of your site you should start reviewing plugins that go to other sites for information. Review them first, against the benefits they’re bringing you, to see if you can drop any of them.

Then look at plugins where you could achieve what they’re achieving by other means.

Again, measure the benefit they’re bringing you and see if you could get the result more efficiently by doing it another way – e.g. using RSS in the example I gave above.

Cheers,

Martin.