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Wordpress Plugins NOT To Install

There are many posts about favorites plugins but only one (that i know) about plugins that we shouldn’t install. Why author writes something like that, read this:

Over, the last couple of weeks Iâ€™ve had a few big traffic spikes that have caused my Wordpress installation problems. Upgrading to the next highest tier with PowerVPS didnâ€™t solve the problem, and even despite having 2 caches running, my site was slowing down and even shutting down at times.

I discovered that the cause of my problems were certain plugins, and after removing them my CPU load returned to manageable levels. Unfortunately, not before Iâ€™d missed out on a significant number of new readers.

Those plugins are:

Gravatars

Readers Posts Plugin

Fancy Archives

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1 Ray Dotson (1 comments) Dec 4th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

This is a great idea! There are so many plugins out there that offer cool functionality, but not too many people stop to think before installing them. There are probably a lot of plugins that have an overall negative affect on the web page or blog. Thanks for the post.
2 Peter (233 comments) Dec 4th, 2006 at 7:16 pm

Yes, i think so too. There are small info about this but some plugins can’t do negative for your blog.

Thanks Ray for comment here
3 Andy Beard (1 comments) Dec 9th, 2006 at 9:55 pm

Talking of which…

Your archives page is currently broken on FF2

All the articles are piled on top of each other

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