As you know installing more plugins to your wordpress blog will increase your page’s load time. So it’s not good to have plugins which can be replaced by manual coding and plugins which are useless.
In this post, I have listed 4 wordpress plugins that is not required for your blog and worth removal. I have also added some codes which you can manually add to your files instead of installing these plugins
1. Comment Reply Notification
As I have included this plugin in 6 Must-Have WordPress Plugins list I must not include it in this post. Then why is this plugin listed here? Actually, this plugin does very good job only for developing blogs and not for developed blogs. This plugin can send e-mail to your comment subscribers to keep them coming back to your blog and keep engaged them in conversation.
In a popular blog, think about the volume of e-mail that are sent everyday and the volume of e-mail a subscribers receives everyday. It becomes more worse if one of your post becomes viral. It starts to get lot of comments and your subscribers inbox will be flooded with email sent from your blogs. This will make your subscribers feel annoyed and this will create a bad image on your blog.
So it’s no doubt, it’s good to remove this plugin if your blog is quite popular that is already receiving lot of comments.
2. Social Share Buttons
Social share buttons! I can bet that all bloggers use this social share buttons. Ofcourse it brings lot of advantages to the bloggers. But it’s not that complicated to add plugin to insert share buttons in your blog. You can easily add these buttons by adding few lines of codes to your files manually. Here are the codes of some popular social media share buttons.
Adding Facebook Share Button
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/facebook.png” alt=”Share it on Facebook” /></a>
Adding Tweet Button
<script type=’text/javascript’>
tweetmeme_style = “compact”;
tweetmeme_source = ‘HellBlog’;
</script>
tweetmeme_style = “compact”;
tweetmeme_source = ‘HellBlog’;
</script>
Adding Digg Button
<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”nofollow”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/digg.png” alt=”Add this Article to Digg” /></a>
Adding StumbleUpon Button
<a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” rel=”nofollow”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/stumble.png” alt=”Add this Article to Stumbleupon” /></a>
3. Ads Injectors
Ads Injectors helps you to add advertisement codes to your pages to display ads in certain area on your blogs. Now a days most themes have an in-built feature to add ads code to the headers so the people must be using ads injector only to add ad codes into their posts, which can also be done manually using the following codes.
Adding Adsense After Your Post’s Title
Open single.php file on your template and search for this line
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
and insert your adsense code just after this line and then save your file.
Adding Adsense at the end of your post
Open single.php file and search for this line,
<?php the_content(); ?>
and insert your adsense code below that line and save your single.php file.
Adding Adsense code in middle of your post
Open function.php file and put this code at the end of the file and save it.
function ads() {
return ‘/*Insert your ads code here!*/’;
}
add_shortcode(‘ads-area’, ‘ads’);
return ‘/*Insert your ads code here!*/’;
}
add_shortcode(‘ads-area’, ‘ads’);
Now whenever you are writing an article you have to put this code where you want the ads to appear.
[ads-area]
4. Related Post
If you are a newbie blogger then it’s good practice to add related post’s links to your posts while you are writing it. So you don’t have to use these related posts plugin.
Actually I wasn’t aware of this so wasn’t adding related post’s links inside my posts which has made this related post plugin a must have plugin for my blog. So if you are newbie bloggers or if your blog has less no.of posts (like less than 100 posts) then you can edit all your posts to add related posts links manually into each of them and uninstall your related posts plugin.
Your accuracy in finding the most related posts will be than that of a related post plugin. So it’s good to depend on you instead of depending on plugins.
