We have an ongoing poll here on the Imagely site, and every so often we switch it up to a new series of questions, or individual question. For a few months we had the following questions live on the poll, and we’re happy to share the results with you.

How many WordPress plugins are active on your website?

• 1-10: 40%
• 11-20: 27%
• 21-30: 27%
• 31-40: 0%
• 41-50: 6%
• 50+: 0%

How many WordPress plugins are disabled on your website?

• 1-10: 100%
• 11-20: 0%
• 21-30: 0%
• 31-40: 0%
• 41-50: 0%
• 50+: 0%

How many WordPress plugins installed on your site need updating?

• 1-10: 90%
• 11-20: 8%
• 21-30: 2%
• 31-40: 0%
• 41-50: 0%
• 50+: 0%

A summary of these results: Photographers are using just enough plugins to handle the tasks they need. However, they’re leaving plugins on their servers which are disabled. For security purposes, those should be deleted.  Many photographers are also not updating plugins. For site optimization, compatibility with other plugins and WordPress changes as well as security reasons, we recommend all photographers updating plugins as they’re available. But be sure to run backups first.