Too many plugins

1. I have a question , my buddypress site is very slow (my opinion)
   , most people say that it is also due to a too many plugins , I had 60 , after now I have about 40 , most of them are simple one , how can I use all of them and to have my site quick ? Can I improve it by creating one central .css file ? Is it slow because of 60 .css files or because of all those plugin functions ? I thought that site is slowed by requests on the current page (I mean not all plugins are in work on that current page in the moment).

   Posted 9 months ago #

   

   Daniel
   

2. I run with a lot of plugins. Each adds database queries. Some add additional CSS, JS and graphics. Some add more latency/overhead than others.

   There are plugins and tools that will combine and minify CSS and JS files to help speed up Wordpress.

   Posted 9 months ago #

   

   T. J. Brumfield
   

3. Could you tell me the links or where can I find those tools? In perfect world do you think that it should help if I create ONE central all plugins css file? or instead of using many small simple plugins to use codes? Recently I have been using 4images (PHP picture gallery) which used only codes - never plugins , programmers use PHP editors to search for codes to change it or to add it directly in files. Those scripts seemed to me much more quicker.

   Posted 9 months ago #

   

   Daniel
   

4. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/head-cleaner/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/
   or
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/ (haven't tried this one yet)
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

   You can also cut down on DB queries slightly by hard coding a few things into your theme. For example, you can edit your header and take things like this:

   <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>" />

   and replace it with:

   <link rel="pingback" href="http://nighthawksnation.org/xmlrpc.php" />

   This is also a great tool that can help you determine what is slowing your website down. If you see one particular JS or CSS file that is taking a long time to download, you can potentially remove that plugin.

   http://www.webpagetest.org/

   If you Google up, you'll find guides online on various ways to try and speed-up Wordpress.

   Posted 9 months ago #

   

   T. J. Brumfield
   

5. Thanks a lot Andrew !! Really appreciate that , will start to examine everything tonight :-)

   Posted 9 months ago #

   

   Daniel
   

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