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WordPress Plugin Binge

In an episode of extreme writing avoidance yesterday, I installed several new plugins for the site. I probably have too many plugins. (First we admitted we were powerless over our plugin habit, and appealed to… oh, never mind.)

I like my plugins, and love how WordPress has so many plugin writers and plugins to choose from. You can tune things endlessly to your liking. But they create additional maintenance overhead. Especially when upgrading the WordPress core. Your plugins may be supported more or less and quickly or slowly over time and new versions of WP.

In addition to things breaking in an obvious way when you upgrade, small things may not work and you might not catch them right away, giving a bad impression of your site to users who find the …