I have 47 active plugins on my site! It’s so many that I can’t remember which ones are useful and which ones aren’t still. Is there a way to troubleshoot which ones are embedded on certain pages?
I have 47 active plugins on my site! It’s so many that I can’t remember which ones are useful and which ones aren’t still. Is there a way to troubleshoot which ones are embedded on certain pages?
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I have 47 active plugins on my site! It’s so many that I can’t remember which ones are useful and which ones aren’t still. Is there a way to troubleshoot which ones are embedded on certain pages?
Disable them one by one and see which ones affect your site.
Unfortunately there isn’t a reliable way to see what plugins are being used on the frontend. Like silky said, just start disabling them and see what breaks.
Thanks! That’s what I figured đź‘Ť
How large is your site?
That’s a lot of plugins and I wonder about your security.
Read the plug-in description r/thesidehustle
If you’re afraid of crashing your site do this:
Install [LocalWP])
Export your site to your local storage, then import to the LocalWP platform.
Launch on Local, and then start turning off the plugins one by one to measure impact.
Once you’ve documented what you can do without, create a full backup of your site off your hosting server, then dump the unnecessary plugins & voila!
I’m a big fan of (useful, well-reviewed, popular, actively maintained) plugins. As long as you’ve got the processing power and, as I said, they’re important to your site’s functionality, then the more the merrier!
That said, I’m an even bigger fan of not having plugins you’re not 100% sure about. When I take on a new maintenance client my first task is almost always assessing the plugins and first disabling any suspicious, redundant, or bloated ones and then removing them if they have no consequences. If there are consequences I may replace them with good, preferably lighter-weight ones.
I recommend you do the same thing.
If your site is complete then some very likely candidates include
* anything with “import” or “migrate” in the description — so no demo content importers, user importers, hosting site-import helper plugins, etc. (Product import/export to spreadsheets can be useful for online shops but you’d already know that if you use them. If you don’t then out they go.)
* debugging and profiling plugins need to go too.
* if you’re using Broken Link Checker then give it one last check, fix anything that’s broken, and make a note to install, run, and remove it again same time next year.
* redundant SEO and caching plugins
* ~~redundant~~ all social-media feed plugins (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.). They just slow down your site and give “link juice” to the media giants and, worse, give site visitors an excuse to leave your site.
* redundant forms plugins — pick one and recreate the forms you actually use on that one.
* redundant security plugins unless you’ve got a very good reason to use more than one, and only if you configure them all not to overlap functionality.
Again, deactivate first, check your site, and then delete. What’s left will often be what’s actually useful and usable. (Chances are you already know which ones those are because you actually use them.)
Disable them one by one and see which ones affect your site.
Unfortunately there isn’t a reliable way to see what plugins are being used on the frontend. Like silky said, just start disabling them and see what breaks.
Thanks! That’s what I figured đź‘Ť
How large is your site?
That’s a lot of plugins and I wonder about your security.
Read the plug-in description r/thesidehustle
If you’re afraid of crashing your site do this:
Install [LocalWP])
Export your site to your local storage, then import to the LocalWP platform.
Launch on Local, and then start turning off the plugins one by one to measure impact.
Once you’ve documented what you can do without, create a full backup of your site off your hosting server, then dump the unnecessary plugins & voila!
I’m a big fan of (useful, well-reviewed, popular, actively maintained) plugins. As long as you’ve got the processing power and, as I said, they’re important to your site’s functionality, then the more the merrier!
That said, I’m an even bigger fan of not having plugins you’re not 100% sure about. When I take on a new maintenance client my first task is almost always assessing the plugins and first disabling any suspicious, redundant, or bloated ones and then removing them if they have no consequences. If there are consequences I may replace them with good, preferably lighter-weight ones.
I recommend you do the same thing.
If your site is complete then some very likely candidates include
* anything with “import” or “migrate” in the description — so no demo content importers, user importers, hosting site-import helper plugins, etc. (Product import/export to spreadsheets can be useful for online shops but you’d already know that if you use them. If you don’t then out they go.)
* debugging and profiling plugins need to go too.
* if you’re using Broken Link Checker then give it one last check, fix anything that’s broken, and make a note to install, run, and remove it again same time next year.
* redundant SEO and caching plugins
* ~~redundant~~ all social-media feed plugins (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.). They just slow down your site and give “link juice” to the media giants and, worse, give site visitors an excuse to leave your site.
* redundant forms plugins — pick one and recreate the forms you actually use on that one.
* redundant security plugins unless you’ve got a very good reason to use more than one, and only if you configure them all not to overlap functionality.
Again, deactivate first, check your site, and then delete. What’s left will often be what’s actually useful and usable. (Chances are you already know which ones those are because you actually use them.)