How many plugins can you use on a WordPress blog?
Last week, Chris Clarke and I were talking about a site that had 250 WordPress plugins installed. The site was unmanageably slow. Some of the plugins needed to be removed.
We then discussed what a reasonable upper limit was. WordPress offers no mechanism for policing conflicts between plugins – if there is a conflict, you must figure it out yourself. And each plugin can potentially slow the site down. Chris is a fan of clean and minimal overhead, so he said he wanted to limit the site to just 3 plugins.
Just now I stumbled across “Our Favorite WordPress Plugins“, a post by Sarah Lewis. She clearly knows what she is doing when it comes to WordPress. I was surprised to see her list 20 plugins, 14 of which are highlighted as “favorites”. The list is worth checking out.