How many wordpress plugins can you run?

There's absolutely no way to give a set number honestly. Some WordPress plugins will use 100x more resources than others. For example, ones that have to query every post/page in your database are going to use up a ton more resources than ones that just change your logo or something simple like that.

I personally have about 12, obviously the more you have the more likely your site will slow down slightly.

Best course of action would be to install WordPress › P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) « WordPress Plugins and see which programs are affecting the site.

The optimum number of Wordpress plugins is zero. I think people tend to go overboard nowadays and use certain plugins just for the sake of using them. I once logged into a customers dashboard and they had 40 plugins activated.

There are also a lot of plugins that do simple things to your site that could be easily done by editing the template files directly which is a much better way of doing things.

As someone else noted above it's impossible to just give a number since every plugin is coded differently. Some plugins will not put any drain on your resources at all. Other ones might really slow things down.

It's a balancing act but just be sure to get rid of any plugins that are not critical to your site.

This is one of those things with a VERY specific and yet general answer. Up to a set limit(which I don't believe these products have), the limit is dictated by CPU horsepower, memory, swap space, and disk size, along with compatibility and a few other things!

SO, with some plugins the answer may be ZERO, with others maybe hundreds. YOUR limit may NOT represent what another can or can't do.

Basically, pic what you WANT! MONITOR it, and kill unreasonable things.

***************WARNING*************** If you are on a shared system, and you fail to remove a hog, ISPs CAN and very likely WILL disable your website or WORSE! It HAS happened to MANY! If you are on a DEDICATED system, and a plugin scrapes or emails, you may find they do the same thing THERE ALSO!

Steve

How long is a piece of string?

One plugin might be too many if it's a bad or "heavy" plugin.

100 might be just fine if they all behave themselves.

I say choose carefully and less is more, I tend to run 2-10 plugins on any one site. If it's more perhaps the site is trying to do too much?

There are major and minor wordpress plugins which greatly differ from each other.
You do not want to drastically increase the loading time if your page!

I generally reduce it to around 10 plugins per site.

If you run the key plugins that everyone uses to start their blog, which is around 10 plugins. Your blog will run fine, it's when you get hooked on having every latest and fashionable plugin around, you'll get problems.

I hate to be repetitive, but I'd like to remind everybody to check out the

You can remove it once you are done setting up the site, but it will tell you which plugins are slowing down your site.

I also use WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test which, if you look at the detailed analysis, you can also pick out problems and slowdowns.

The good news: anybody can write a WP plugin, if they can put together two PHP strings.

The bad news: anybody can write a WP plugin, if they can put together two PHP strings.

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Which means there are excellent plugins adding useful additional features to a WP installation... and there is a lot of garbage. Especially, in this "IM blogoshere" there are many people eager to make a buck and they hire obscure novice coders as cheap labour to put together a half-baked plugin - and then with a well written copy they pimp it (as a wso) as the best thing since the sliced bread.

Thanks to those who recommended Plugin Performance Profiler, I have installed that one and run it on a site with 35 plugins. The profiler didn't take long to run.

Funny how Jetpack by Wordpress is by far the plugin that is taking the longest time to load...

Usually I install 10-15 plugins as needed. Too much plugin slow down my sites.

I am using SEO Yoast, Commentluv at this moment. Thinking of making my site's administrator security stronger. I want to keep my tasks easier always. This is why my blog is not loaded with a lot of plugins.

On my personal blog, I run around 20 plugins. This is the most I've ever run on a WordPress set up and so far it seems the load performance hasn't been effected too much.

You can add as many plugins as you like, until your website comes to a complete stop or takes five days to load

It's a question I have never even considered before but it's an excellent one. I suppose it depends on the system resources used by each plugin and also if you are self hosting or not. I self host and I find that I can run a good number.

You can't put a number on the amount of plugins you can run as there are too many variables. One such example is the resources available on the servers hosting your site.

Sometimes the plugins interact not so well with eachother and break certain parts of your website. So no real specific number, just don't break your site lol

though you can use as many plugins as you want,better only use the necessary plugin to your website

The "number" of plugins is entirely meaningless, it depends what the plugin(s) do.

I actually 'brought down' an entire hosting company once by running two plugins on one site only, it was a combination of auto-blog plugin and auto-posting on twitter.

Imagine a single plugin pulling X posts in certain intervals and then at the same time posting them on the site and "feeding them" elsewhere. Each time wordpress posted one of the countless posts it also pinged several RSS etc. sites to attract search engines, in addition to that the plugin embedded videos on the site as well which caused considerable load for some reason.

That being said, "normal" plugins usually don't do such hacks and there is no reason looking at the numbers and becoming concerned - BUT as a general rule, I always think it's better to keep installs clean and free from clutter. "Feeding" other sites might become a bit problematic, due to the above reasons. With wordpress you can quickly max out what your average "hostdaddy" grants you on resources (eg. server load, traffic etc..etc..)...so I long ago stopped hosting with shared hosters and I am exclusively either using good VPS hosting or hybrid hosting to avoid all those problems with shared hosters.