Comments on: Poll Results: How Many Plugins do You Use?

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:52:16 +0000

I remember voting for this poll a while back, and I think at the time I might have voted 50+, or maybe 20+, because there are just so many that I feel are essential, and then there are many I have just installed that are used for one post, kinda pointless I know.

On my most recently created site however, I use less than 20 now, as I have been using and writing my own custom codes, and developing the theme from scratch. So many of the plugins I used on one site are less needed since I am basically building them into my theme from the getgo.

Less than 20 is reasonable I think.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:44:05 +0000

Thanks Lee. Wish I had seen this before leaving my earlier comment for Jeff Oh well. I’d like to see Jeff”s top ten anyway.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:40:47 +0000

Wow. 10 seems like a lot to me, but I am really just digging in to WP over the last year or so. I find I use about 4-5. It would be great to know your 10 “must have plugins”. Just after every install of WP I upload the same 4-5 plugins. It’s like my default set-up for every site now. As always, great content guys.

By: Lee Peterson

Lee Peterson — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:37 +0000

I always install the same base set of 7 for every site I develop for my clients.

WP DB Backup, WP Super Cache, Google Sitemap Generator, Contact Form 7, Really Simple Captcha, All in One SEO, and one from Jeff at Perishable Press, Block Malicious Attacks.

Any custom functionality I feel would work better as a plugin rather than something in the functions file I turn into a plugin.

I can’t imagine why anyone would need more than ~25 plugins for one site. Crazy.

By: tzPress

tzPress — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:15:27 +0000

I guess the poll didn’t ask which plugin’s.
I’ld love to see a big recent list with as many results showing… “What’s plugged in … To Your Press?”

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:46:48 +0000

Who wants to find out? :D

You could certainly have memory issues from having too many plugins, but I don’t know if there’s a hard limit in WP itself or not. I would guess not…

By: Erik Dasque

Erik Dasque — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:33:29 +0000

I rarely use more than 10 as described on my wordpress checklist: http://www.frenchguys.com/wordpress/wordpress-checklist/

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:27:04 +0000

I use 6. I don’t really see the point of filling it up with a whole lot of plugins.

By: Casey Hald

Casey Hald — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:23:27 +0000

The most I’ve ever used for a client is around 3 – 5. I try not to use too many, and replace common plugins with either hard-code, or place them in the admin settings for the theme itself. Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it gets me by :)

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:57:13 +0000

10 plugins is just about right, I think. Most of my sites are using around 10 or so plugins, but the numbers are dwindling as WordPress continues to integrate more and more functionality – it’s a trade-off: more core bloat vs fewer necessary plugins. Hmm..