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Karen Woodham

Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of Blazing Minds (The Number One North Wales Blog for Entertainment) an avid blogger of all sorts of interesting and odd things. She is also a Film Reviewer at her local cinema, where she reviews the latest movies, she also covers local and national events and is a bit of a local celebrity.

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Having a self-hosted blog on the WordPress platform is probably one of the best things that I’ve ever done when it comes to blogging, those early days of using Googles “Blogspot” then moving to a hosted blog on WordPress.com, then eventually taking the plunge with my own domain and hosting for my Blazing Minds blog have given me several learning opportunities about blogging and the Internet.

One of the things that a lot of us in the early days of a self-hosted WordPress tend to do is grab those plugins that give you the chance to simply add “bells and whistles” to your blog without you having to know any programming knowledge and simple installing and forgetting about them.

But Be Warned!

These plugins that you add are all very well and probably make your blog look nice and initially make it run like a dream, but, in the long term they can cause no end of problems.

In the early days of your blog, you will be ok, but as your blog gets ever more popular and you get more and more views to your blog, you will find that some plugins will stop working, you may get

that “WordPress white screen of death” or even worse the host will stop your site because it’s using too much CPU usage on their serves!

I’ve had the issue with my blog, Blazing Minds, as the blog has got more popular with around 32,000 to 37,000 views per month my blog was getting quite hungry and like most early bloggers I had plugins aiding my blogging addiction and this in turn caused a memory drain on other needed plugins, such as CommentLuv! (Thanks

Andy for the memory usage tweet, you inspired me to work on the blog that little bit more)

How To Fix The Problem

It’s quite an easy fix really, simply go through your list of plugins and see what you are using, what you can live without and what you can probably do with some coding instead. After all plugins are hungry beasts.

Uninstall the plugins you don’t want and delete them, I have heard that even having them sitting in a disabled state will s

till cause a slight memory loss, so if you don’t them, “Delete Them”

Also grab yourself a cache plugin, such as W3 Total Cache, in turn this will also help speed up your blog and reduce the amount of memory and CPU usage that your blog will be demanding off your server, specially if you have shared hosting!

What If Removing The WordPress Plugins Doesn’t Work!

Well to be honest, it may be time to get in touch with your hosting provider and enquire about VPS hosting or even your own server, but the majority of the time the above tips should work for you and if you are short on funds, then surely removing a few unwanted plugins is better than forking out more hard earned cash 😉

So To Round Up

Don’t over do it with your WordPress plugins, make sure you really want that amazing plugin, keep an eye on your plugins that you already have, if you aren’t getting too much use out of them remove them, if at a later date you do decide you need that plugin, you can always install it again. If you can do it without a plugin then the better.

So do that spring clean on your WordPress installation and dump those hungry plugins!