Disable Plugins

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.