Sep
Routine Blog Maintenance – Plugins
I am challenging you to go into the dashboard of your blog, update your plugins, and deactivate or delete unused plugins.
Why? Because every plugin or widget you have comes with it’s own set of files. When a visitor comes to your site, WordPress has to call each and every file to load your page. Unused files simply slow the process down. And since WordPress is continually coming out with newer versions, plugins have to keep up. So they come out with versions to stay compatible.
To access the log in screen, go to www.your-site.com/wp-admin
Go down the list. If there are any plugins that you do not use, delete them. Sometimes we look at a plugin and it sounds cool so we add it, then find out it didn’t work as we thought it would so we abandon it. Other times we just find we don’t need the features it offered, or we found an easier solution. That leaves us with lots of extra files hanging around. To delete a plugin, first deactivate it. Then you will have the option to delete it. If any of your plugins that you do use suggests that you upgrade, also do that now. You may not have even realized how much a certain plugin was slowing your blog down until you delete it.
