Hi WordPress peoples 🙂 My WordPress.org site uses about 50 plugins. Only a few effect the user. The rest are used during editing. Do these editing tools slow down the front end of the site? Should they all be turned off at the end of the working day? Thank you in advance for your thoughts 🙂
That should be fine for end users. But if most of the plugins are relevant to editing, it would be nightmares for the admin once the content grows and then some plugins stop being development, some get exploited because of bad coding, some conflicts with others when new updates come…
Most of 50 plugins are for editing!? Would you be kind to list some of them, please.
I use only a few: Forminator, GeneratePress (Premium), GenerateBlocks and Pods. Plus QueryMonitor and ClassicEditor, these two do not go on live site.
Yes, plugins add additional instructions for your site to perform. Larger plugins can sometimes be optimised to run this code only when required however not all the time. WooCommerce is a big offender, it will load its style sheets, javascript etc on any front end page. It can add additional seconds to the page load which is enough to upset Googles metrics for your site.
Best way to resolve this is to audit what is been added to your site and to add hooks which remove it when not needed. Part of my default process when building a WooCommerce website is to strip everything that is not needed unless you’re on a cart, product, product category or checkout page. You will need to do this for each plugin if you want everything to be optimised but the difference can be night and day.
I can repeat what many have already written about this topic in the past, and what I have been experiencing, too, since 2011: quality and interoperability of plugins matters, not their number, plus this conclusion:
*”Overall, while it’s true that some plugins affect WordPress performance, you should be more than fine if your site is well optimized and you select quality plugins. Your choice of web host and plan will also be a determining factor.”*
…for more details see here:
[https://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/how-many-wordpress-plugins-should-you-install-on-your-site/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/how-many-wordpress-plugins-should-you-install-on-your-site/)
[https://themeisle.com/blog/plugins-affect-wordpress-performance/](https://themeisle.com/blog/plugins-affect-wordpress-performance/)