Finding plugins that are not needed anymore

  • newuseruk

    (@newuseruk)


    1 year ago

    My website has a lot of plugins installed and I want to find out how to identify the ones that are used vs. the ones that are not needed anymore.

    For example, I have Shoplentor installed. I want to find out if any of its modules or elements are used in my website or not. I have a feeling I am not using any of it’s features. But I want to make sure this is right before I remove the plugin.

    Is there a piece of code or a way to check if I am using the plugin’s features or not?

    Thank you

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins

    Here you will find all the installed plugins, and you can easily find out the active and inactive ones.

    I have Shoplentor installed. I want to find out if any of its modules or elements are used in my website or not.

    You can read mor about this plugin at: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/woolentor-addons/

    BACKUP: If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong. You can never have enough backups! See https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/wordpress-backups/

    Thread Starter newuseruk

    (@newuseruk)

    I know ShopLentor is an active plugin. The question is which features of ShopLentor am I using if any. I don’t want to deactivate the plugin without knowing what it will impact.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I know ShopLentor is an active plugin. The question is which features of ShopLentor am I using if any.

    Read the description on this plugin’s page. It describes exactly what this plugin does.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    Unless you actually know what each one is doing, or not doing, on your site there’s no way to know if a plugin is actively doing something on/for your site.

    The only real way to determine this is to deactivate plugins one-by-one and check all across your site to see if anything breaks or changes. You will need to be pretty thorough with this as some things may not be quite so obvious.

    Also remember that some plugins don’t show anything on the front-end, and are really all back-end or even are connectors to different systems so these will be more difficult to diagnose.

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