Peter Lawrenson

<p>By default, WordPress will load every plugin on every page. The Simple Plugin Selector (SPS) plugin allows the administrator to select which plugins are used on a page-by-page basis. This prevents unneeded plugins and plugin support files from loading. HTTP requests and download size will be reduced, so improving website performance for the visitor.</p>
<p>For example, you probably use your contact form plugin only on your Contact Us page. SPS allows you to deactivate it when the page request is for one of your other pages, so your users don’t download your contact form style sheets and scripts unnecessarily.</p>
<p>The plugin has a user-friendly interface, so the administrator can see easily which plugins are running on each page.</p>
<p>Plugin filtering is disabled in admin context.</p>
<p>Not for newbies! The administrator must have a clear grasp of which plugins are required for each page, otherwise some pages will have errors because a required plugin is not loaded.</p>
<h3>Deactivating</h3>
<p>Deactivating SPS in the normal plugins list will deactivate plugin filtering and remove the SPS file from the mu-plugins directory.</p>
<p>Removing the SPS plugin using FTP will leave an unwanted SPS file in mu-plugins, but plugin filtering will be disabled.</p>
<p>SPS settings are not deleted by plugin deactivation or deletion. Reactivating should pickup filtering where it left off.</p>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<p>Go to Dashboard > Settings > Simple Plugin Selector to set which plugins are required on a page by page basis. If the site has cache or optimize plugins, they should be cleared after changing any SPS settings.</p>
<p>If a new page, post or product is created, all plugins will be activated for that by default until set otherwise in SPS settings.</p>
<p>If a new plugin is activated, it will be loaded for all pages by default until set otherwise in SPS settings.</p>


Simple Plugin Selector

Select which plugins are activated on a page-by-page basis.

Pedro Mendonça

Roy Tanck

Christoph Daum

Torsten Landsiedel

<p>A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.</p>
<h3>Plugin Report will allow you to:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Spot plugins that are no longer maintained.</li>
<li>Get a quick overview of the “plugin health” of your site.</li>
<li>Provide clients with a detailed report, right from their own dashboard, or as CSV spreadsheet.</li>
<li>Find plugins that are no longer active on multisite installs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Thanks to Roy Tanck for trusting me to adopt this great plugin. Hartelijk bedankt!</p>
<p>Special thanks go to <a href="http://tristen.ca/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tristen Forsythe Brown</a> for the <a href="https://github.com/tristen/tablesort" rel="nofollow ugc">tablesort JavaScript library</a> licensed under the MIT License.</p>


Plugin Report

If a plugin hasn't been updated for a long time and isn't tested with the current WordPress version, it doesn't necessarily mean it's broken. But it's worth checking if there are better alternatives available that are being actively developed. 

If you easily want to check and improve your website, this plugin comes in really handy: It tells you, what WordPress version you are using and if the plugin developers have tested their plugin with that version. You can also easily check, when the plugin had it's last update. Plugins which haven't been updated lately get highlighted, which makes it even easier to take action. This all happens without much hassle: install the plugin, go to menu plugins > plugin report and give it a minute to sample all necessary informations and you immediately know, where you should try plugins which are more up to date.

Maintaining your WordPress site can be so easy, if you use such a great tool.

Great way to keep your site up to date

This plugin especially useful when you have dozens of them (in my case 50+).
Plugin Report works nicely with paid plugins as well.

I love how it loads all the plugins one by one (great UX) and "Last update" column.

Instead of "No data available" it could display juts "-". less clutter, but not critical.
The plugin lacks sorting by columns, and/or filtering, but still very useful.

Small and useful to have plugins under control


This is going straight into my toolkit.



It fills a critical need that probably should be part of WordPress core, and it does so in a simple and straight-forward way.



Thank you!


A Toolkit Must-Have

A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.

Simple Plugin Selector vs Plugin Report