I just deactivated and removed most of my plugins. After a lot of thought I narrowed all my plugins down to just 6.
- Akismet: Because I’m sick of spam comments.
- Audio Player: For my audio posts
- Genesis Featured Widget Amplified: To build my featured posts (I wrote this one)
- Google Analytics for WordPress: I might just add the code manual and drop it but it is so nice.
- Gravity Forms: To handle my contact form, but it does so much more
- WP DBManager: To handle backups and other DataBase needs
Everything else is coded into the theme, which is built on the Genesis Framework. That’s how I can avoid so many plugins.
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I’d be really interested to know what all plugins you coded into the theme and where can I go to learn how to do this myself
I didn’t code any plugins into the theme, but I did code features in. For example, I coded in the rewteet button instead of using a plugin. I wrote a post about how I did that in my design blog. http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tutorials/add-hashtags-to-your-tweet-button
I am also looking into contact forms but can’t afford Gravity Forms right now. What free contact form plugin would you recommend?
I believe Gravity Forms is much more than a contact form, it can be used for pretty much any form you ever need, but I understand that $$ matters. Before I went with Gravity Forms I used cForms II. It has a lot of great options, but isn’t quite as easy to work with or extend.