Wordpress Plugins
 

How many Wordpress plugins do you use? I mean *actually* use, not just sitting in the corner of your wordpress installation collecting dust...

My latest wordpress contraption houses 25 plugins... it's gotten to the point where I can assume pretty accurately whether a plugin will exist or not for a current operation I'd like to implement into the site.

The plugins range from the typical - poll / gd rating / contact form / google analytics dashboard stuff

to aMember integration / exec-PHP / Gravity Forms (Great for creating admin-based content upload forms that are just as good as any adult-content management system) / dynamic widgets etc

I "TRY" to stick below 10.

Always an seo plugin, either all in one seo pro or platinum seo.
Akismet
Wp-cumulus (depends on the site and what kind of tags I want)
Post ratings (depends on the site and if it needs ratings)
Wp-ads (depends on the site and if I need roatating banners)

Sometime sites need more for special things, like sliders or whatever.

That is about all on my list. Apart from some plugins that speed things up. I'm writing a blog post about it soon with my findings on page load speeds, what helps and what doesn't. Hopefully I can post it on here soon.

wordpress is a plumbers nightmare when you start adding more and more plugins. watching your page speed (as per google) is incredibly important. if you have 25 plugins running, your page speed likely sucks donkey balls.

This is a dug-in, member's area wordpress site, not some faggot blog where you send loads traffic to other people to try and cookie yourself a sale or two :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup :2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:

'overall Page Speed Score of 74 (out of 100)' - haven't added w3 cache to the site yet

I try to keep it to a bare minimum, most of my sites have around 5 or less.

Europeans Billing Europe!
 

Which membership area plug-in paired with which payment processor option have you seen work the best?

less than 10.,

few must have are

google xml sitemap
akismet
wp reactpcha
all in one seo plugin
wp pagenavi
wp auto tagger
seo search terms
related posts


and some extra depends on the theme., like
featured content gallery and so on.

depends on the site, they vary, ive seen some sites use 60 plugins, without an issue.

the least I can. Despite load issues, I like to have as much control as possible, so try to keep things within functions in the theme. This being said, I would NEVER try to create "the new Akismet" or "the new Google XML Sitemap" or "WP-Cache". They're perfect the way they are and yes, I use them in most of my sites (exception made of wp-cache, which I use it selectively on high load sites). Plus, I could never create them! :1orglaugh

btw, I wouldn't create a "new NextGen" (which I love it), but once we were pushed to build it because our client wanted something impossible to do with NextGen or any other plugin, so, despite my advice, we made it and it turned out pretty good, so never say never