How many plugins do you use on your blog?
Welcome to the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius new “Chit Chat” corner where there will be a lot of nonsense or senseless banter. I needed a part of this blog to be more open to diverse subjects that were not really Web Design oriented. This will also let allow me to get some flow out on other interesting things like WordPress and blogging in general.
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On another level, and maybe a more intellectual one, I’ve just installed the brand new RSSCloud plugin to this blog. The idea of this plug in is to give real time RSS updates while it needed some time for propagation before. While installing it, I also upgraded a few of my usual plug ins. I never really had a close look at the number of plug ins enabled on my sites but I was baffled to find that my whole system ran on a massive 25 plug ins chart.
Well, it does look massive to me as the more plug ins you add, the slower your site might get. I’m sure I’m not a record holder in those terms. So, how many plug ins do YOU use?
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Sachin D. Brojmohun has extensive experience in terms of graphic design, CSS integration, usability and accessibility as well as in SEO. More about him and the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius here: Web Design Mauritius.
Twitter: yashvin
says:
Hmm, let me check…
Among those I installed, here are some :
Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Disable WordPress Core Update, Flickr Photo Album, Ozh’ Better Feed, Shutter Reloaded, Similar Posts, Sociable, Subscribe To Comments, Twitpress, WordPress.com Stats, WordPress Tweaks, WP-PageNavi, WP-PostRatings, WP To Top
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Twitter: sachindb
says:
So you’re running about at least 15 of them. I think that you also use the Arthemia theme which already has some plugins packed, isn’t it?
This somewhat answers my question, you can’t really run a WordPress blog without a whole lot of plugins.
Twitter: technofeliz
says:
Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, BackType Connect, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Google Analyticator, Google XML Sitemaps, gooseGrade, MobilePress, NoFollow Free, Random Posts, RSS Cloud, Seesmic WordPress plugin, Similar Posts, Sociable, Subscribe To Comments, WordPress.com Stats, WordPress Database Backup, WP Ajax Edit Comments, WP Super Cache, WPtouch iPhone Theme… etc…
In my opinion, some of them should become a WordPress standard features, like XML Sitemaps, All in one SEO, Subscribe to comments, etc…
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Twitter: sachindb
says:
@Steph, yes you are right. Some features should be added to the core. It was the same for automatic upgrade and now it is included as a standard feature.
Twitter: kurtavish
says:
42 plugins on my side o_0 And somehow the blog needs ALL of them to provide the different functionalities.
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