{"id":1784,"date":"2014-04-16T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:08:04","slug":"how-many-plugins-are-too-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/how-many-plugins-are-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Plugins Are Too Many?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wordpress<\/a>If you’re using any blogging platform or cms you will be amazed and dare I say overwhelmed with the range and number of add-ons available by way of plugins, modules and so on.<\/p>\n

When I was working on an issue on one of my sites today I was flabbergasted to realise that I had installed over 40 plugins on that WordPress site. Sometimes I will install a plugin because it sounds interesting and is a neat new feature to add. Or it may be add some useful functionality in the back-end.<\/p>\n

But it’s a bit like adding extra options to your car: at what point does it negatively impact performance and when does it start to look garish?<\/p>\n

I’m trying an experiment. On that site I have switched off all plugins for 24 hours.<\/p>\n

It has had no impact on the front-end.<\/p>\n

Why 24 hours? Simply to give my brain a break and come back to it fresh.<\/p>\n

Then I will switch on 1 plugin at a time to determine if I really need it. I don’t want to keep adding plugins without a good business reason. Loading and activating more plugins invariably affects performance, increases the chance of conflicts and opens up security risks. Even JetPack had a security risk recently.<\/p>\n

My view on reflection is that less is more.<\/p>\n

WordPress for example was built to be pretty robust out of the box.<\/p>\n

I’ll let you know how my experiment goes and maybe what plugins I settled on for a regular site.<\/p>\n

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If you’re using any blogging platform or cms you will be amazed and dare I say overwhelmed with the range and number of add-ons available by way of plugins, modules and so on. When I was working on an issue on one of my sites today I was flabbergasted to realise that I had installed… Read More »How Many Plugins Are Too Many?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-sM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}