I love my Wordpress and have a number of blogs setup using Fantasitco from my cPanel. I use HostGator for most of my accounts as it has Fantastico. When I create a blog it takes seconds instead of getting the script elsewhere, then uploading and then installing. HostGator just makes my life easier.

Wordpress Plugins

I am also one that tends to love plugins. Sometimes my ‘the more the merrier’ attitude causes my blogs to bog down and run slowly, which will turn off a lot of speed surfers.

So if your goal is to make money online but you have so many plugins that your site won’t load fast enough you most likely losing money.

I went through this blogs plugin list, which I haven’t checked in months and found that I had a few plugins that really weren’t necessary so I started removing them.

I was careful to keep two windows open. One with the Admin area open to the Plugin section and the second window open with my blog loaded so I could check to see how my site loads after deactivating each plugin.

Next, once I saw my pages load correctly was to delete that plugin from the plugin folder.

I did this for every single plugin. I also kept a copy of each plugin so that if for any reason I needed it again I still have it and don’t need to search the web for them again.

After about an hour of removing plugins and testing my pages I realized I had removed 18 plugins that weren’t really necessary for my blog’s optimization.

(Right hand raised) I swear to do better in the future.

I do have to pay more attention to the plugins I install. Do they do the task well or are should I just remove them instead of forgetting about them.

How are you doing with the plugins you use?

Do you have about twice as many as you should, like I did?

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