http://wptutorial.com/blog Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © miketestsite.info 2011 info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) 1440 http://wptutorial.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://wptutorial.com/blog 144 144 WordPress Made Easy WordPress Made Easy info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/should-you-give-up-a-plugin-for-lent http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/should-you-give-up-a-plugin-for-lent#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:43:03 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=2156 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/should-you-give-up-a-plugin-for-lent/feed 0 0:02:37 Yesterday was Ash Wednesday for the Christian community and marked the start of lent. Mardi Gras is over and it is time to switch from excess to sacrifice. Lent usually includes giving up something. It may be your favorite beverage, chocolate or a[...] Yesterday was Ash Wednesday for the Christian community and marked the start of lent. Mardi Gras is over and it is time to switch from excess to sacrifice. Lent usually includes giving up something. It may be your favorite beverage, chocolate or any thing else that would be a sacrifice. Maybe it is time to think about using this time frame to give up a plugin from your blog too. It is not unusual to find that the 5 or 6 plugins you started with are now 25-30. Maybe more for you or maybe less. I know I am guilty of this quite often. You know how it works. You see something new and neat and just have to add it and see how it works. We all love new shiny objects. Then the bad part happens. You forget about it. Next thing you know the number of plugins keeps climbing. You think you have 10 or 15 plugins and when you check and actually look, it is double that number. So as we start lent, now may be a good time to check how many plugins you are using. If your number has climbed, just take a minute or two and see what you have actually added. Are they helping you or hurting you? A slow load speed can hurt you with Big G, so do you really need all of them. If you find you have a few that you don’t even remember why you added them then maybe you should give them up for lent. Check and see if it helps or hurts your results. (You are tracking your blog aren’t you?) If it helps or is neutral then maybe you did not need it to start with. Obviously if it hurts your results then start it back up. Take advantage of this time of sacrifice to do this and find out if your blog is bloated. Like changing the batteries in your smoke alarms when the time changes it can be a good maintenance item. Just going through and checking how many plugins you have installed may be an eye opener for you. That is what I think. What do you think? Leave your comments below. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. 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