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4:49 am
October 15, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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I think, alright, I know I have too many plugins installed. The problem is deciding which ones to get rid of since they all serve a useful purpose.
How many plugins is too much?
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8:07 am
October 15, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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I have 32. Wish it were less but they all serve very specific purposes. Most run behind the scenes.
One thing I did, that i'm happy I did, was eliminate 2 plugins I felt took too much time to load. I replaced them with pretty simply custom HTML code in text widgets. My subscribe buttons are no longer a plugin and my popular posts is now manual HTML that I can update when I feel like doing so.
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8:13 am
October 15, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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Thanks for that SPF.
How did you determine how much server resource each plugin takes? Is there a tool in the cpanel that shows you this?
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9:22 am
October 15, 2011
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PK @ DQYDJ
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One of the things you can do (other than cacheing or compressing pages, W3 Total Cache is what I'm using to cache) is turn off a few at a time and check page loading speed with a utility. Google has a utility for checking page speed with Chrome: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ … You could experiment with that. Tedious, but I crept over 5 seconds to load my home page so I've been messing around lately (just installed the cacheing plug-in).
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10:11 am
October 15, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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thefrugaltoad said:
Thanks for that SPF.
How did you determine how much server resource each plugin takes? Is there a tool in the cpanel that shows you this?
No clue. But I do know that anything that requires code to run will be slower than clean html.
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6:53 pm
October 15, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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Thanks again PK and SPF!
I'm off do do some unplugging!
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6:24 am
October 16, 2011
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Glen Craig
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Pingdom's page speed tool can also give you clues as to what plugins are slowing down your site.
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7:41 am
October 16, 2011
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The Frugal Toad
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Thanks Glen I'll check that out.
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8:36 am
October 16, 2011
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MissThrifty
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Sustainable PF said:
I have 32. Wish it were less but they all serve very specific purposes. Most run behind the scenes.
32? Yikes! I have 20, but would like to get that number down. Mainly because they slow the site down, and also for security reasons – the more plugins, the bigger the risk.
At the same time I use certain plugins in preference to the built-in theme functions, e.g. SEO-related plugins, so that I can keep them up-to-date and move them over to new themes etc. if and when the need arises.
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10:57 am
October 16, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I am similar to SPF. I have a fair number but the majority run in the back ground. I would like to see if I can get the number lower though. Good thing is, I haven't seen it affect my site speed which is great.
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11:51 am
October 16, 2011
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The College Investor
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I have 32 as well on TCI. I've been looking to lower that number as well. On a new site, I'm using Thesis and creating a lot of code myself. Time consuming, but it is having good results.
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8:22 am
October 17, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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On Fat Guy Skinny Wallet, I have 40! I'm up to 59 active on KNS Financial! 
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8:28 am
October 17, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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One big fix I did was to get rid of about 5 plugins and replace with some of the functions in Jetpack, which seems to run faster.
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9:52 am
October 17, 2011
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12:26 pm
October 17, 2011
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JP
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I've whittled mine to 19 with a recent site makeover. I switched to a new SEO plugin, which replaced 4 and also added Jetpack replacing 2. Still hoping to dumb it down further.
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5:40 pm
October 17, 2011
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Briana @ How's Married Life?
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I have 17 but some of them can be eliminated. I'm actually going to try to see which ones I can get rid of now.
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6:07 am
October 18, 2011
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Kay Lynn Akers
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I have 21, but just don't see how i can cut down (unless I magically became a coding genius ).
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9:31 am
October 18, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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I have 20. ~8 of them is for background stuff. I did eliminate ~10 when I moved to thesis. I used to keep them at 10-15, but recently I have been adding more. I have to cut it down.
What do you think are the most essential ones?
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9:38 am
October 18, 2011
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Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz
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That makes me feel pretty lean with only 11 then.
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1:37 pm
October 18, 2011
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog
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I have quite a few plugins (around 25) but like spf said they all do something specific. Dont get rid of anything too important!
I've been adding more lately after I removed a bunch that I didnt like or didnt really work.
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