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Originally Posted by chronig
How many Wordpress plugins do you use? I mean *actually* use, not just sitting in the corner of your wordpress installation collecting dust...
My latest wordpress contraption houses 25 plugins... it's gotten to the point where I can assume pretty accurately whether a plugin will exist or not for a current operation I'd like to implement into the site.
The plugins range from the typical - poll / gd rating / contact form / google analytics dashboard stuff
to aMember integration / exec-PHP / Gravity Forms (Great for creating admin-based content upload forms that are just as good as any adult-content management system) / dynamic widgets etc
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the least I can. Despite load issues, I like to have as much control as possible, so try to keep things within functions in the theme. This being said, I would NEVER try to create "the new Akismet" or "the new Google XML Sitemap" or "WP-Cache". They're perfect the way they are and yes, I use them in most of my sites (exception made of wp-cache, which I use it selectively on high load sites). Plus, I could never create them!
btw, I wouldn't create a "new NextGen" (which I love it), but once we were pushed to build it because our client wanted something impossible to do with NextGen or any other plugin, so, despite my advice, we made it and it turned out pretty good, so never say never