The main reason i selected wordpress to power the new T3 was the pretty big plugin directory of wordpress. The plugin directory as i write this post serves more than 2018 plugins with 4.000.000 downloads. That’s pretty impressive but expected from the #1 blogtool in the world. Developers and authors deserve many credits but i can’t deny most of them are crap in my opinion always. After hours of searching, browsing, inspecting the plugins over the wp directory for weeks, i am left with a negative impression.

My bad impression comes from the fact that most of the plugin authors never heard the word “performance”. Let’s get serious wordpress plugin system is cool but for Pit’s shake the memory usage, is super hight. 9-11MB average with only 10 plugins ? Yeap that’s right these are the numbers in my case. People will say it’s not much but when you see some of the most successful php products out there like vbulletin or IPB to use only the half of that of wordpress makes you wonder. Maybe it’s me, i have adopted a way of thinking that says performance must be balanced with features. Read the full post