Anyone who is familiar with my writing for WPMU will know that I am a bit of a plugin junkie. I can’t get enough of them. And since I spend rather a lot of time testing and reviewing plugins, I find it rather difficult to curb my addiction at times.
You may not know that as well as writing for the likes of WPMU and other sites, I have my own blog. Often, when I write up a review for a plugin, I first found it when looking for ways to achieve something with Leaving Work Behind.
Keeping the number of plugins I have running on my site to a manageable number is an ongoing battle. I regularly go through the list of what I have installed and try to make an objective decision as to whether or not I really need them all. Having just done this, I thought it would be a nice opportunity to share the plugins I have running on my blog with you.
Enjoy!
The List
| Plugin | Rating | Last Updated | # of Downloads | Support Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AddQuickTag | 4.7 | 06/12/12 | 73,761 | 0 / 0 |
| Akismet | 4.0 | 04/26/12 | 1,098,2324 | 2 / 3 |
| Align RSS Images | 4.6 | 08/20/09 | 7,333 | 0 / 0 |
| Clicky by Yoast | 4.8 | 06/10/12 | 96,498 | 2 / 2 |
| Comment Reply Notification | 4.8 | 10/13/10 | 34,194 | 0 / 0 |
| Digg Digg | 3.4 | 05/24/12 | 430,765 | 2 / 15 |
| Edit Flow | 4.9 | 01/09/12 | 28,822 | 10 / 11 |
| Exclude Pages from Navigation | 3.9 | 12/04/11 | 659,197 | 0 / 0 |
| PHP Code Widget | 4.4 | 04/30/12 | 210,817 | 0 / 0 |
| FD Feedburner Plugin | 4.2 | 12/12/11 | 366,349 | 0 / 0 |
| Google Analytics for WordPress | 4.2 | 10/12/11 | 3,163,786 | 0 / 11 |
| Hide Trackbacks | 5.0 | 05/10/11 | 1,880 | 0 / 0 |
| ManageWP – Worker | 4.5 | 06/12/12 | 179,122 | 0 / 0 |
| Newsletter Sign-Up | 4.5 | 11/23/11 | 54,710 | 1 / 1 |
| P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) | 4.7 | 06/02/12 | 36,303 | 7 / 7 |
| Quick Page/Post Redirect DEV | 4.7 | 02/06/12 | 205,645 | 4 / 5 |
| Redirection | 3.8 | 05/07/12 | 1,035,775 | 1 / 18 |
| Social Media Widget | 4.0 | 05/06/12 | 490,496 | 2 / 2 |
| Widget Logic | 4.1 | 05/01/12 | 351,453 | 2 / 3 |
| WordPress SEO by Yoast | 4.7 | 06/12/12 | 1,418,194 | 186 / 189 |
| WP-Table Reloaded | 4.3 | 06/11/12 | 434,687 | 54/75 |
| WP Smush.it | 4.4 | 05/26/12 | 231,829 | 7 / 12 |
| Yet Another Related Posts Plugin | 3.6 | 03/03/12 | 1,626,104 | 1 / 14 |
| W3 Total Cache | 4.5 | 08/26/11 | 1,139,949 | 9 / 42 |
Wow, 24! That’s a lot! I’m running at 13 right now for my blog. I could trim a few if I really wanted to.
I’ll have to check some of these out. Thanks for the suggestions.
You have a few ads on the site (or at least the one in the sidebar). What’s the best plugin for Google ad management (placement, qty of ads, etc)?
Graham, I’m currently writing an article on WordPress Ad Management for WPMU. I’d recommend Simple Ads Manager and AdRotate.
Hi Graham,
There are no ads anywhere on the site – not sure what you’re referring to!
Cheers,
Tom
OMG 23 plugins, Did it affect page load time? Whats the load time of your blog?
I usually use pingdom tools to test load times of my websites. Not really sure how accurate they are but good enough for me as a rule of thumb and they do give very useful tips to improve load time. Here’s the link :
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/wbAMiVUir/http://leavingworkbehind.com
I use Pingdom too – the load time was never that bad before! Time for some optimization…Plugin Performance Profiler is great for assessing how resource-intensive plugins are.
Wow, thanks for the tip. The P3 plugin is great and I’ve checked one of my websites http://surauas-salam.my which has 40 active plugins! Out of necessity as I’m managing the site for a religious grouping in my neighbourhood. Now I’ll be able to do something about trimming the load time.
Not one WPMUDEV STRANGE :(
I am really curious to know about the Author plugin used on this blog. Any idea? I want to add this to my blog to link to my Google+ profile