Do You Think I’m Using To Many Wordpress Plugins?
Written by Saman Sadeghi on March 8, 2007 Add comments
While on Stephen’s Upgrade Immediately to Wordpress 2.1.2! article, I made a comment about how easy Wordpress is to upgrade, but the most time consuming part of it is deactivating/reactivating all of the plugins - it takes me a while because I have 41 installed.
Yeah, you read that correctly: 41 Wordpress Plugins - and I use each and everyone of them! I would run more, but there are some that wont work for whatever reason….
I think that is a lot but what about the rest of you, how many are you running? Lets get some comparison!
I notice this site loads slowly in IE7, but I attribute it to IE7 being a piece of crap - I’d be interested in hearing your experiences on page load times as well!
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wow!! that is quite a few…and I thought I had a lot with 17 plugins running…
Loading times have never bothered me on your site…that being said…the smilies just appeared now as I was writing…it took a while to fully load, but it allows you to start doing stuff while it continues to load…like read, or start a comment…
I’ve noticed that the Smilies load slowly to - it’s weird because they are my smilies (their not hot-linked)…
From time to time I feel the site is a bit slow.
I am shocked by 41 plugins!!
That is the most I have ever heard.
I wonder what the record is for most used? So far, I have the most of all the commentators!
I use about five in addtion to the ones that ship with wordpress.
I think 41 is too many.
Your load times are poor, but I am quite far away, if your on shared hosting its not likely to make much difference running plug ins, but it wont help…
Jez
I’ll see if running a WP-Cache plugin will help!
hahaha!! that’s rad!
i think i have about 10 - 12. 41 seems like a lot. there should be a plugin to disable all your plugins when you’re doing an upgrade! lol
Just rename the plugin folder, will do the trick too
For some reason, the sidebars load an average of 2-3 seconds before the content for me. I don’t know if it’s related to the plugins though.
I used 8 and will keep adding it when time permit since I’d like to get some of the fancy stuffs into my blog too.
Funny you said the C-word for IE-7. I don’t remember where did I read it but they were talking about how to remove IE-7, and I said if that is the case I won’t upgrade mine so I’m still sticking to IE-6. But then, if I forget and open your site using IE, the post will be shown up at the bottom. It doesn’t happen when I open it with FF.
I never mentioned uninstalling IE7, I think was talking about installing FF and using that instead…
Good news! Your technorati is sitting at just over 26500!
With that rate, next month he would reach 10000 marks or higher!
Y’know what it probably is. It’s the links that are kicking in from the ‘Is you name a domain’ list. Damn that that’s a nice little backlink earner.
No doubt - that is helping so much!!
That is seriously a BIG jump effort. Keep on leapfrogging, Saman!
41 is a big number - just because I was curious I counted the plugins I’m currently using and came up with 36. EEKS! Can’t say I’m unhappy with my loading times though.
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If you haven’t known yet, to disable all plugins at once, just rename the wp-content/plugins directory before you upgrade. After the upgrade, just rename the directory back to its original name and all plugins should work again (well, except they are not compatible with the new WP version
You know what? Your site has turned into a little ‘playground’ with all the toys that you have put in. But what’s better than including tons of fun in it?
I’m glad you enjoy hanging around the site!
I’m currently sitting with 22 plugins activated on my main site but am trying to limit that back on a new site that I am starting.
Your site does seem to load a little on the slow side for me using FF both at home and work. Haven’t tried it with IE.
I just wonder if the speed has anything to do with 1&1 hosting? There are times I feel that the speed was too slow when I edited my post. I’m using 1&1 too. I called them one time and they blamed my ISP. I told them I could load other page from different sites faster. Don’t know if you guys have had any trouble loading my pages?
I don’t know if it’s 1&1, I really haven’t had a trouble on my end - my page loads are supper fast, on both my site and your’s, but that might be my connection: its 8mps!
If they all have a use, keep them.
Yeah, I’m not planning on getting rid of any of them. I might have to optimize a few things though!
WOW…I have only 14 active plugins. Maybe you should list them all and tell us why you use each of them?
What is the big deal with IE7? I use it because sites look rubbish in FF.
And yeah, your site can be slow at times.
I haven’t seen a site look bad in FF in about a year. At this point, I only have to fire up IE once and a while for sites that don’t work in FF!
And the big deal about IE is that, as a web designer, we have to jump through so many hoops for IE, hoops that aren’t needed for every single other browser. You can read more here.
Hmmm…I kinda mean the fonts and things don’t look as smooth. Is that to do with some sort of setting in the options or something?
Oh, that is ClearType. You can get some more info on my ClearType post.
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I’m on 1and1 too and worried about having a dozen plugins. Glad to hear 41 is not a big deal. Is this a shared hosting account?
I’m using 1&1’s Home Package, and I’m nowhere near my limits!
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