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Check your Plugins this New Year

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  1. MrCorey (14 comments.) says:

    All good advice, as usual. BTW, love the new theme!

  2. Everton Blair (7 comments.) says:

    I’ve been doing a lot of work pruning my plugins. It’s amazing how much difference it can make. My advice is if the plugin is only there because you think it’s cool, but your users don’t, then remove it. Also , think – will this really increase my usage?

    http://www.connectedinternet.c.....2/24/1237/

  3. Ashish Mohta (19 comments.) says:

    I agree with Everton,We think its cool but how much user respond is what matter at the end.Not every plugin gets 100% output…There could be one reason for that..The readers downt know we got something new for them…any ideas how it can be done?

    Good post ajay

  4. Jane Ullah (5 comments.) says:

    Amen to that, Ajay! I’m guilty of leaving plugins unactivated. I really liked your tip about embedding the code ourselves. I’ll do more research before blindly activating plugins now. Thanks@

  5. jcwinnie (5 comments.) says:

    Your forgot about eating all your vegetables and brushing after meals and zillion other shoulds.

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there were statements, one might even say promises, made about an easier way to maintain plugins.

  6. Ajay (39 comments.) says:

    @Ashish, the best way for them to know, is for you to tell them. Blog about it :)

    @Jane, many plugins can be done away with just by doing a little hardwork ourselves. Can work wonders on load time.

  7. Cheryl Gonzalez (1 comments.) says:

    I haven’t had ANY luck with any plug-in except Askimet. Shortstat hasn’t kept track and I falsely assumed I wasn’t getting traffic. When I checked my stats in my c-panel…I was blown away!
    You’ve got good advice here…maybe I need to check versions…or is there a better alternative?
    I’ll be watching this space! Thanks again and Happy New Year!

  8. Ajay (39 comments.) says:

    @Cheryl, always check for new versions, it could be incompatibility issues with Shortstat. I haven’t used it so I can’t say for sure. I use Statcounter and Google Analytics to track on my blog.

  9. Investorblogger (1 comments.) says:

    Wouldn’t it be nice if WordPress could check for compatibility and updates from within the Admin Interface? Wouldn’t it also be nice if WP could allow you to upload plugins, like SMF does, all from within Admin? Wouldn’t it be nice if…? Not to say I’m ungrateful, I’m very appreciative of the efforts that all the writers of WP have put in! It’s quite a wonderful thing! Just my humble user’s suggestions! Happy 2007



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