5 Signs You are Addicted to Wordpress Plugins and Reasons Why The Addiction is Dangerous

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. 

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