Too many WordPress plugins – what’s the danger?
Do you use a lot of WordPress plugins? Of course you do, but be careful not to use too many or you may end up with problems.
How many WordPress plugins is too many?
Do you use a lot of WordPress plugins? Of course you do, but be careful not to use too many or you may end up with problems.
How many WordPress plugins is too many?
WordPress is free, with great themes to make your site look the business, and there are plenty of developers who will help put it all together for you, but there are some hidden costs you need to be aware of before going ahead.
I recently came across an issue when upgrading the Events Manager WordPress plugin on one of the sites we manage.
The error was ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_home_path() in …/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 128’.
If you use the BuddyPress WordPress plugin you might have noticed that some random links are automatically generated for text in your profile fields.
These links help visitors search for the same keywords in other profiles, but there doesn’t seem to be a setting to switch this off, or to manage the links so that only useful keywords become links.
Comment spam can be a real headache for new blog owners, and after a period of time this can grow to several hundred comments a day.
This is no benefit to your website, and indeed can be detrimental to it, and it can take a lot of your time to remove it.
So, what do you do… and why do people bother spamming your site anyway?