Comments on: Cutting Down On Plugins – Which Ones Should I Remove Or Keep?

By: Everton

Everton — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:43:35 +0000

Apparently I’ve had too many translated page requests so I have to wait for Google’s next reset :-(

By: tatman

tatman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:21:38 +0000

When I click on your Arabic translator, I get this message from Google:

“We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google”

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:39:16 +0000

[Comment ID #47676 Will Be Quoted Here]May I suggest my Clean Archives Reloaded? It's based on the SRG one, but uses waaaay fewer queries and has some fancy Javascript collapses. :)

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:38:26 +0000

Thanks for the ‘indirect’ tip Viper007Bond – I’ll check quoter out.

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:33:15 +0000

For the record and as stated on the plugin's homepage, I know my Quote Comment plugin has many shortcomings. ;)A complete recode was planned and had actually sorta been started when I discovered a plugin that was nearly identical to my planned result (just a JS function in the source, AJAX content pull, editable quote content, etc.) which made me abandon my plugin in favor of the other one. :)

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:18:41 +0000

@Sujan, Related posts does add a few mysql queries, but as EB said, it comes highly recommended as of now.@Ashish, SRG Clean Archives looks decent, but I still think it better to have your archives handcoded.

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:53:38 +0000

Extended live archive i dont know but you can use this
SRG Clean Archives.

Its cool with me,.

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:39:56 +0000

[Comment ID #47647 Will Be Quoted Here]
Related Posts is in my untouchable plugins. I’d only remove it if a more efficient plugin becomes available

By: Sujan Patel

Sujan Patel — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:37:00 +0000

Great list. What about Related Post plugin I am a fan of that one. This is an often overlooked thing. I even forget to deactivate some plugins after I am done testing them.

By: franky

franky — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:03:39 +0000

Frank Bueltge has a post about improving the loading times for Live Comment Preview : Optimize WP loading Times [German]

By: Are You Using Safe Wordpress Plugins ?

Are You Using Safe Wordpress Plugins ? — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:25:00 +0000

[...] Most bloggers prefer using Wordpress because its plugins makes it easily customizable. Non technical users end up installing tons and tons of plugins out of curiosity for trying them and eventually they forget to deactivate them. Some these plugins are resource hungry and they will effect your pageload speed, so Ajay and Everton teamed up together to build a list of safe and non-safe wordpress plugins. Here’s an excerpt: [...]

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:10:02 +0000

And it has been fixed :P

By: Thilak

Thilak — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:54:29 +0000

Yeah, this does make some sense to me.

Ajay: Yeah, I was experiencing the same problem with MyBlogLog code with my earlier theme, but now its working fine. It must be a CSS issue with your theme.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:38:42 +0000

Btw, noticed that the mybloglog code is giving problems in IE, we gotta fix that, I got something in mind, will tell you about it.

Also, got to fix your templates for XHTML. It’s in a mess!

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:23:52 +0000

Anything that simply formats your HTML for you like “Fold Category List” or “Blank Target Comments” probably do can be done quicker by simply taking the time to put the HTML directly into the template/skin system. For example “Fold Category List” probably adds some Javascript and some extra HTML more likely as DIVs or other block level eliments. View Source on the page and replicate this HTML directly into the template/skin to reduce the ammount of server side action.

I should point out that I don’t use WP but NucleusCMS so am working only from basic principles of good design.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:23:50 +0000

Firstly, thanks for the title :)

Regarding your plugins:

I think you can dump Blank Target Comments, No Ping Wait for sure.

The others can be used depending on your requirement.