40 active plugins and load time below 2 sec

Thank you Jeff for this wonderful plugin!

With Plugin Organizer, I have been able to fully solve two extremely important challenges for WordPress web designers:
a) overcome plugin conflicts (have 40 active plugins running)
b) speed up performance (reduce load times to below 2 sec)

I have a webdesign site (http://www.blueberrydesign.com.br) running on a multisite WP installation, with a main site and around 20 subsites which are actually site models/examples. To show clients a variety of different functionalities, I need to have dozens of plugins on the same network and even in the same site. Having dozens of activated plugins increases the chance of plugin conflicts and can make a site really really REALLY slow. Plugin Organizer is part of the solution to both of these problems.

(A) PLUGIN CONFLICTS: PLUGIN ORGANIZER + PLUGIN MANAGER
The only way I found to overcome the many plugin conflicts I faced on my site was to use selective plugin loading in each site and on each page. To solve this challenge, I used two great free plugins:
(1) Multisite Plugin Manager –> let’s me selectively activate different plugins on different sites in the multisite network
(2) Plugin Organizer –> let’s me selectively activate different plugins on different pages within each subsite.

(B) PERFORMANCE: PLUGIN ORGANIZER + W3 TOTAL CACHE
The solution for speeding up my site also used Plugin Organizer. Since CDNs and caching cannot perform miracles, I overcame performance optimization limitations by also applying selectively plugin loading on my pages. The idea is to only have the absolutely necessary CSS and JS files being loaded on each page. To overcome this second challenge, I also used two free plugins:
(1) Plugin Organizer –> let’s me avoid loading unnecessary CSS and JS on every page;
(2) W3 Total Cache –> let’s me minify, combine and cache the remaining CSS and JS, which absolutely need to be loaded;

Together, these three plugins (Plugin Organizer, Plugin Manager and W3 Total Cache) can certainly help you solve all your plugin conflicts and considerably speed up your site’s page load times.

I thank the authors for these three wonderful plugins!

best regards,
Giovanni Basso
Brazil

P.S If anybody would like to obtain more information about the specific configurations that I used on each of these three plugins to achieve 40 plugins with page load times below 2 seconds, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. It took so much effort to get everything working in parallel that I would be pleased to help anybody that wishes to do anything similar. 🙂