Je me suis branchée

In the recent entry “Thank a Plugin Developer Day“, it is noted that the “average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed”, from a directory of around 4000.

These pages have twenty-one active plugins (including one to import Facebook comments that doesn’t at present work here, but which I keep activated in the hope that it will miraculously self-correct).

The high number is reflective of my obsession with customising more or less everything in my life, and is reflected in offline space by my proliferation of pinboards, fridge magnets, posters and even doilies (which, somehow around the time I turned thirty, passed from the world of irony into the world of ordinary possessions).

On occasion that a new plugin upsets the database, I must run around like the amateur I am, trying to fix things.  This I consider character building.

Since I am an enthusiast rather than possessed of any behind-the-scenes competence, so I would be pleased to know from any of my better-versed readers what, if any, risks I run by pimping my web ride so extensively, other than that which I articulate above.  In truth, I delete plugins as often as I add them, editing and re-editing this space like a teenage girl exquisitely attuned to the possibilities of fashion.  Of all this I am somewhat embarrassed, rather than proud.

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