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		<title>On Evaluating WordPress Plugins</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Over the past year or so I have accumulated a bunch of WordPress plugins I want to check out to see if I might have use for them.  I also do WordPress programming and some plugins serve as great reference examples and learning experiences.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the past year or so I have accumulated a bunch of WordPress plugins I want to check out to see if I might have use for them.  I also do WordPress programming and some plugins serve as great reference examples and learning experiences.</p>
<p>I have tested out 100+ plugins so far and I would say I have thrown 80% out.   I&#039;ll write a future post on my evaluation experiences but they key take aways are:</p>
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<li>If it doesn&#039;t work pretty much right away -&gt; delete.  Many other options out there</li>
<li>I tested on my development server environment that has <a  href="http://xdebug.org/">Xdebug</a> loaded.  You trigger a Xdebug dump -&gt; delete.</li>
<li>I click on a settings screen and the plugin spews php code at me -&gt; delete.</li>
<li>I&#039;m sure I have missed some really great plugins I would find valuable.  I usually look at the screenshots section on <a  href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">WordPress Plugins</a>.  These are valuable.  Surprising how many authors do not include a screenshot for perspective users.</li>
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<p>So on to work through the R-Z plugins.  Nice to have some time to finally look through these.</p>
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