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Will Inactive Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress? Should You Delete Inactive Plugins?

In this presentation, we will answer the question do deactivated plugins slow down WordPress and explain why should delete inactive plugins in WordPress.

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Will Inactive Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress? Should You Delete Inactive Plugins?

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  1. Will Inactive Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress? Should You Delete Inactive Plugins? A guide by Subhom Kumar WordPress Technical Support

  2. If you are confused that plugins slow down WordPress and should you delete inactive plugins then your every question is answered here. Almost every users install plugins for testing and then deactivate them. Here we will share that do deactivate plugins slow down WordPress and whether it’s safe to delete inactive plugins?

  3. What are Deactivated or Inactive Plugins in WordPress? The best feature of WordPress is that you can extend it by using WordPress plugins. When you install a plugin, WordPress automatically downloads the plugin file to your web hosting server. To start using a plugin, you will need to activate it.

  4. You can activate your WordPress plugin later but before that, you have to install plugins. You can also deactivate them if you don’t find useful. You can find all your plugins installed on the plugins page in your WordPress admin area.

  5. You can find that whichever plugins are currently activated will be highlighted in blue and inactive plugins will show a delete link below them. Do Inactive Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress? No, WordPress will not slow down by inactive or deactivate plugins. To understand that briefly, let’s see how WordPress works in the background. Whenever user will request a page from your WordPress site, WordPress starts a loading process. During this period, all active plugins will be loading on your website and all inactive plugins will be ignored.

  6. If you have dozens of inactive plugins installed on your WordPress site, that will affect your site performance neither it will make it slow. If you are thinking your WordPress site is slow, then inactive plugins are not the reason. Then you have to check out for speed up WordPress and Boost Performance. Should You Delete Inactive Plugins in WordPress? WordPress provides a feature to deactivate your plugin instead of directly deleting them, the reason behind this is sometimes user just want to switch off their plugin temporarily.

  7. If you are using the plugins frequently and having a fear that deleting your plugin will delete it’s setting, then you should keep it. Else, there is no requirement of keeping inactive plugins on your website. In fact, they will be issue technical error at times. Like for example, you have dozens of plugins and from that few plugins are only activated and other are activated frequently or when you want them to be activated. But WordPress will show you updates for these plugins. This will be a bit annoying when you are having regular updates installed on your site.

  8. These inactive plugins can harm your WordPress but they are executable files. In case of a hacking attempt, these inactive plugins are being used by hackers to infect and install malware on your website. According to WordPress Security precaution, you have to delete these inactive plugins which are not being used. We hope this article will make you understand about your inactive plugins and deleting inactive plugins. For more information, visit official WordPress Support Toll-Free: +1 844 897 0441 Please like & share and comment below.

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