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> So, most WP sites end up looking like an accreting disk of plugins. I've seen sites with nearly a hundred plugins installed. I took over a site - woocommerce

> So, most WP sites end up looking like an accreting disk of plugins. I've seen sites with nearly a hundred plugins installed. I took over a site - woocommerce install - with ... 68 plugins. When I've mentioned that over the years it's almost always met with "no, that's not right - no one does that - you don't know what you're talking about - they did it wrong"... etc. Thanks for reiterating this. When 'redir ssl' and 'log visitor' and 'Fedex' and 'ups' and 'usps' and 'shrink image' functionality are all externalized to different vendors, the 'modularity' of a system requires trusting dozens of disparate development processes, greatly increasing the potential for security problems.

thaumaturgy 4y ago
Yep. Here's a recipe that'll get you a buttload of plugins every time: a WooCommerce site with coupons and physically shipped goods, mixed with article content, built and managed by an M&A agency, on budget hosting. Akismet, WordFence or iThemes "Security", Contact Form 7 (and its extensions), WooCommerce (and its pile of extensions), one (or more!) page builders, WP Super Cache, Yoast (and related), a sidebar widget, a chat widget, a Google Tag Manager widget, social media plugins... The M&A approach to WP development is often, "it's broken, let's see if we can fix it by installing a plugin..."