Comments on: 6 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

By: Giro Guy

Giro Guy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:58:39 +0000

In my opinion tip 2 is the most effective. When I got rid of unnecessary plugins, my site was loading much faster. I also recommend to resize large pictures. Unfortunately I’m having some trouble with the cache plugin.

By: Omar Jallouli

Omar Jallouli — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:16:18 +0000

I would like to add that each plugin may add its own CSS and JS files to each and every page loading and that would mean a slower loading and wasted bandwidth.

I strongly advise you to use HttpFox and Pingdomtools to check which files are loading.

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:42:04 +0000

I would like to use a cache plugin but for some reason whenever I used them I gt white pages everywhere. 🙂

I was intriqued by your comments about All-In-One & YARPP slowing down your blog. I would be interested in a future post with a list of plugins that are notorious for this kin d of thing. 🙂

By: synthetic oil

synthetic oil — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:08:43 +0000

Nice post with useful information. I’ll have to check out some of the alternate optimized plug ins mentioned. Thanks!

By: Grim Cris

Grim Cris — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:32 +0000

But what do you think about the WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast?

By: Young

Young — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:15:51 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I have no luck in 2012 yet. After replacing All In One SEO Pack & YARPP with Greg’s High Performance SEO & Efficient Related Posts, the blog is still down nearly every day, and later I find out that Makeuseof.com also uses the All In One SEO Pack plugin, so I think the problem may be caused by the web hosting, though they said that it was not.

So I am going to move the blog to a new server.

By: Vlatko

Vlatko — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:33:56 +0000

By: @taukehkedai

@taukehkedai — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:34:29 +0000

I immediately install and enable W3TC as per your recommendation in number 1. It works superbly. My site loading improve a lot. Thank you for sharing this.

By: Jon Bradley

Jon Bradley — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:24:18 +0000

It’s not just a performance issue, the more plugins you install the more likely it is that conflicts will occur. I’ve broken WordPress so many times with plugins.

By: Brandon Schultz

Brandon Schultz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:27:04 +0000

Very accurate article. I see a lot of wp sites with arbitrary plugins. Clean it up!

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:01:08 +0000

@kaiyan, you need to put in the header section of your theme (under appearance > editor). You might already have some code for the title tag there, so make sure to remove it first.

I am not familiar with meta-seo pack, so not sure. You can always test and revert back though, if you lose anything.

By: kalyan

kalyan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:30:27 +0000

hi Daniel

Great post once again. Thanks for the suggestions. I got a few queries (maybe stupid ones :P)

Where exactly I need to put that code you gave? I mean in which file?

I use meta-seo pack. Is it bad too? Moreover, if I make a switch, shall I lose all the meta description/keywords that I have already put in each of the post or the switch will be seamless & all the meta data will be in tact?

Thanks

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:18 +0000

@Eshan, I use 8 plugins, and I consider that on the border. Anything over 10 is too much in my opinion.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:38:05 +0000

@The Swaty Glove, keywords in meta data have a very small effect on your SEO, as Google places almost no value on those fields (due to historic abuse from webmasters).

Akismet is a must, JetPack I don’t use.

If you need keyword tagging then yes use All in One, as it still the best plugin for that purpose.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:36:24 +0000

@Young, if this was an isolated incident don’t worry about it. If it happens constantly, though, then yeah disabling those plugins might help.

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:32:50 +0000

Hey Daniell, I just wanna ask that using a lot of plugins makes WP blog slower?, and How many plugins do you use to your blog?

By: The Sweaty Glove

The Sweaty Glove — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:25:34 +0000

Thanks for the article. What about plugins like Akismet and JetPack? LinkWithin?

What are your feelings on “minifying” your code? I’ve seen that suggestion a few times lately. Regarding the AllInOne SEO plugin, my main concern is to place keywords in the metadata, not so much the title, which is keyword-optimized anyway. What would you recommend when keyword-tagging individual blog posts is crucial?

By: Young

Young — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:54 +0000

My blog was down once or twice every day these days, so I wonder to know if it can avoid this by replacing the All In One SEO Pack & the YARPP with the plugins mentioned in this post.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:02:57 +0000

That last one wp-optimize can do the best work because it cleans dataabase. Loved these tips.

By: Meraj Khattak

Meraj Khattak — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:29 +0000

I am strictly following this rule of no plugins unless necessary.

For custom title, I am using a custom field e.g. title. Then in header file, I check for that and if exist then I display it in the html title and continue to use post title in the post.

By: Jon Clayton

Jon Clayton — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:01:09 +0000

Daniel, that is useful information. I am currently having some minor loading issues. I want to avoid major loading issues. I will try the W3TC and see how that works. Thanks!

By: Hilywatson

Hilywatson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:51:32 +0000

Thanks a lot for this useful information as I have used All in one SEO pack and its work for me always.

Anyway thanks again.

By: Daniel Roach

Daniel Roach — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:11:53 +0000

Never thought about YARPP being an issue in loading speed. Interesting thought, though, I’ll have to check into that.

By: Daniel Roach

Daniel Roach — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:11:53 +0000

Never thought about YARPP being an issue in loading speed. Interesting thought, though, I’ll have to check into that.

By: Tushar

Tushar — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:09:17 +0000

well, I am using cache plugin and surely, it has helped me a lot in curbing my blog load speed. Thanks for the share

By: JP

JP — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:27:21 +0000

Nice post! I was just thinking about this topic. I’d love to see something similar on mobile optimization

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:00:23 +0000

@Giannis, I don’t think so, as both are very similar, so you SEO factors won’t change much, if at all.

By: doug_eike

doug_eike — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:19:43 +0000

I really like your suggesion of eliminating the SEO plugins altogether and inserting the code you’ve provided. Thanks for the tip!

By: Wordpress Agentur

Wordpress Agentur — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:17:00 +0000

We can recommend the cache plugin and the changes for the title tag. The all in one seo pack is also great but sometimes (depends on your hoster) takes more resources.

By: Giannis

Giannis — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:49:36 +0000

Do you thing our serps will be affected if we move to Greg’s High Performance SEO from All-in-one?

By: Robert Boland

Robert Boland — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:17:30 +0000

On one of my sites before it got suspended by my host because it used to many resources on their cpu (or so they claimed) and ever since that happened I could have sworn they limited my account. Needless to say I changed host and now my new one is much better… but I did clean up my plugins just to be sure

By: Blog Informer

Blog Informer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:00:58 +0000

Daniel, great work with this post. Your posts are very useful for those new bloggers out there. Keep up the good work.