Title: Plugin size
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin size

 *  [Vova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gn_themes/)
 * (@gn_themes)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-size/)
 * Hi WPsites,
 * just tried to install your plugin and got [the following error](http://clip2net.com/s/5CyyLX).
 * I think that you need to make some clean-ups in source code. I suggest you to
   delete unused ACE files. For example, ACE don’t uses folders like demo or kitchen
   sink and many others.
 * [There is a screenshot](http://clip2net.com/s/5CyCLz) with only one required 
   folder in wpide\ace-0.2.0. And other folders (not highlighted on screenshot) 
   have a size 22.6 Mb. This is a giant size for wp-plugin.
 * Also, the current version of ACE is 1.1.01.
 * Thank you for attention and for the great open-source project.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpide/)

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 *  [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-size/#post-4061671)
 * I came here to ask for the same thing: remove unused folders. Our backups are
   unnecessarily large. To combat this we have removed numerous WPide folders without
   any loss of functionality, especially the unused non-minimized source files. 
   This saved dozens of megabytes from each backup.
 * This should be easy to implement to benefit everyone using the plugin.
 *  [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-size/#post-4061685)
 * 1. After searching the source for any occurrence for the string “0.2.0” and not
   finding a single occurrence, I’ve removed the folder _ace-0.2.0_ on our local
   install and haven’t noticed any lack of functionality yet. Saved: 7.56MB.
 * 2. I had previously already removed the _demo_, _kitchen sink_ etc. folders to
   similar effect: no loss of functionality, but major savings in disk space. Saved:
   +10MB if I remember correctly.
 * 3. I would also suspect that _js/jquery-ui-1.8.20.custom.min.js_ might not be
   needed anymore when having _jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.js_. Saved: 178kB.
 * 4. _js/autocomplete.php.js_ and _js/autocomplete.wordpress.js_ are unused duplicates
   of files under _js/autocomplete_ folder. Saved: 1.28MB.
 * Our installation of version 2.3.2 of the plugin now takes 8.55MB. Default install
   takes 34.4MB. So far we’ve been able to reduce the plugin size by 75% without
   any loss of functionality by removing leftover files.
 * 5. Removing the _git_ folder saved another 1.26MB. Based on comments in the code
   the support is experimental, and I wasn’t able to see any way in the user interface
   for making use of this, so removing this hasn’t revealed any loss of functionality
   either. Trimmed plugin size: 7.29MB. Savings: 27.11MB (79%).
 * **Simon: **hopefully this helps you in some way 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-size/#post-4061685)
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