One of WordPress' biggest bottlenecks is that it loads every single plugin that
is active on your WordPress installation on every single post/page no matter
whether they are needed for that post/page or not. This plugin will allow you
to create simple rewrite rules to exclude a plugin or plugins from any URI
pattern match. This is a great way to reduce the memory footprint, SQL queries
run at page load, load times, and improve site response speed.
This is NOT a normal WordPress plugin, but an
mu (must use) plugin and requires
special installation instructions. Please see the
installation section for more
information.
Requirements: PHP5+, WordPress 2.9.x+
Create a
/wp-content/mu-plugins/disable-plugins-rules directory if the plugin
has not created one for you already. Create a rules file for each site your
WordPress installation is running, naming the file after the host name for
the site followed by a
.rules extension. For example
mywordpresssite.com.rules
would be a rules set for
mywordpresssite.com.
Populate your rules using regular expression pattern matches and plugin base
names on each line of your rules file. For example, to exclude the
Hello Dolly
and
Akisment plugins from being loaded on your home page, you would write
a rules file that looks like:
# Prevent the Hello Dolly plugin from loading on the home page
^\/$ hello
Prevent the Akisment plugin from loading on the home page
^\/$ akismet
You will need to write a rule for each plugin that will be excluded for each
pattern that you wish to exclude that plugin from. C style comments are
allowed in your rules file to document your rules.