The great plugin purge and other tweakery
If you’ve visited The Spicy Cauldron before, you’ll notice there have been some changes made in addition to the site going members-only. Everything should be a heck of a lot faster to load into your browser than it was before the weekend, whatever your connection speed.
The front page from now on will carry one, maybe two, posts and no more than that. There are fewer plugins offering bells-and-whistles, less widgets taking up sidebar space. The focus now is on the core content—which is, after all, everyone’s primary interest—and on having a clean, uncluttered and unintimidating design.
tags: badges, blogging, code, load times, minimalism, plugins, resource hog, web design, WordPress
