{"id":1609,"date":"2009-02-19T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2014-06-06T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:29:42","slug":"blog-bloat-pull-that-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/blog-bloat-pull-that-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Bloat? Pull that Plugin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was chatting with my friend Michael Lovitch (Hypnosis Network &#8211; their <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/hn-procrastination\">Productivity &#038; Engineering<\/a> procrastination-solving product is amazing BTW, I can't believe how much I've accomplished so far this year!!!) &#8212; and he was mentioning how his company uses WordPress, but has had the backend completely redesigned to minimize the relentless program calls and speed up the software. <\/p>\n<p>That reminded me that the WordPress installation on this site (and <em>only<\/em> this site &#8211; 101Date.com and the others are <em>fine<\/em>) had been running notoriously slow for awhile and I still needed to figure out the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Now I didn't think it had anything to do with the fact that I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>865 Posts<\/li>\n<li>48 Posts in Draft<\/li>\n<li>9\tPages<\/li>\n<li>35 Categories<\/li>\n<li>291 Tags<\/li>\n<li>3,657 Approved Comments<\/li>\n<li>or 3 Zillion Spam comments removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, my thoughts went immediately to the plugins for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>And lo and behold, there she was&#8230; ShareThis, still activated after I'd removed the code from the Loop and replaced her months ago with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AddThis<\/a> bookmarking tool (in the second horizontal navigation bar).<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough, when I deactivated and removed the ShareThis plugin (you <em>should<\/em> delete plugins that you don't use) &#8230; no more waiting years to get an Add New Post page to open.<\/p>\n<p>Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; do you know any more plugins that cause blog bloat? 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