If you have been on the Wordpress
turf from quite a while, you need no introduction to the Wordpress
plugins. They are a rage among webmasters, and for all the right
reasons. Wordpress plugins have indeed empowered the website owners
without any sort of coding knowledge bulk their website up with
features that seemed inconceivable a few years back – unless you
are a topnotch developer yourself.
But all said and done, we have come
to a stage where the WP plugins are being overused to a point
where from they are doing the websites more bad than good. There no
dearth of webmasters who would simply download and install plugins
because they are there to be downloaded and installed. These
webmasters often find themselves tempted with the flurry of plugins –
the popular ones as well as the latest entries – and the next thing
they know, their website is bogged down by dozens of them.
And if you are wondering whether or
not you fit the description for such webmasters, here are 5 signs to
look out for:
You Have a Faint Idea of Their Features
So, you saw 5 stars below a plugins
name and 4 lines of description filled with gibberish jargons that
you didn't bother to understand, simply because all of it sounded
rather too impressive. If the above three lines resonate with you,
you have your first sign.
You Started Your Website Barely a Month Ago, And You Already Have
a Dozen of Plugins
Now, this may not be the case with
every website owner, but does happen with a whole lot of them. On
their discovery of everything new in Wordpress, they want to try
everything out.
Most of the Time You Spend on Your Website is Dedicated to
Updating the Plugins
That's the saddest part. The
website was meant to be a product of your labor, but that labor is
being dedicated to something which should only constitute a small
part of your effort.
You Have Multi-Faceted Plugins that You Hardly Use for a Feature
or Two
Now, there are plugins out there
that would provide you a bit of everything – SEO functionality,
website speed optimizer, email subscription form and newsletter
building, social media integration and a lot more. Apparently, for
each of the features, there are individual plugins are out there
which happen to be much more reliable. And yet, you have this bulky
plugin increasing the load on your server.
You Have Installed Plugins that Will be of Some Use One Fine Day
Oh we all are guilty of this one.
At some corner of our “installed plugins” list, there are plugins
that we installed either just for the heck of it, or because we heard
someone reciting homilies about them. So even when don't need them
right now, they have found a place in the list because they will be
required at some point inn future.
Why Having an Unnecessary Abundance of Plugins is Not Recommended
The age old adage goes like “too
many cooks spoil the broth”, and same holds a great relevance as
far as the case of WP plugins is concerned. Having too many plugins
on the back-end of your website only crowds it and hampers your
website's speed and loading time by a great extent. Some plugins are
unarguably important for your website's functionality, but not an
abundance of them. And then, there are plugins that are remarkably
incompetent, despite the heavy files they download to your server.
Letting them occupy that space is pointless and you are doing nothing
more than hurting your own chances of getting a decent following for
your site.
Your website may boast some
incredibly valuable content and eye-catchy design, but if it is not
fast enough, you are only going as far as spoiling the user
experience. And once the user experience takes a hit, no amount of
firefighting will come to your rescue. Thus, list down all the
plugins you don't need at present and flush them away from your
system. A clear, clutter-free website is what will hold you in good
stead for the future.
If some doubts are still there in your mind then please contact Designs2HTML Ltd for your inquiries.
