Disabled plugins effects on forum

Prosper

Can disabled plugins still have effect(s) on Vanilla forum?
By effect I mean, registering footprint of its code on Vanilla forum?
Please advise.

vrijvlinder

NO

River

@Prosper said:
Can disabled plugins still have effect(s) on Vanilla forum?
By effect I mean, registering footprint of its code on Vanilla forum?
Please advise.

not sure what you mean by footprint.

I'm gonna say it could be "YES". and I've seen it happen. it depends on what you mean and the plugin.

if you disable plugin via config.php, it will still be mapped in cache folder, it can still interfere with other plugins. Methods can also still be called on disable plugins, and depending on disabled plugin it can break your forum as well even though it is disabled.

vrijvlinder

NO

Prosper

@vrijvlinder - thanks.

River

@Prosper said:
Can disabled plugins still have effect(s) on Vanilla forum?
By effect I mean, registering footprint of its code on Vanilla forum?
Please advise.

not sure what you mean by footprint.

I'm gonna say it could be "YES". and I've seen it happen. it depends on what you mean and the plugin.

if you disable plugin via config.php, it will still be mapped in cache folder, it can still interfere with other plugins. Methods can also still be called on disable plugins, and depending on disabled plugin it can break your forum as well even though it is disabled.

vrijvlinder

not sure what you mean by footprint.

He means , if after disabling the plugin, does it continue to load files that slow his website.
He is trying to find out what plugins etc are slowing down his site. If a plugin that has been disabled still loads files, then there is something seriously wrong with that particular plugin.

Which is not the case with his plugins, as I have seen what plugins he has.

For some reason Prosper is very worried about google page speed scores and is trying to figure out a way to not load unnecessary files etc.

Prosper

@River, @vrijvlinder - I have several plugins that are disabled on my forum. I want to know if deleting the disabled plugins will clean things up and possibly improve the forum.
I guess the wisest thing to do is to delete all the disabled plugins.
Thank you all for your comments.

vrijvlinder

@Prosper said:
@River, @vrijvlinder - I have several plugins that are disabled on my forum. I want to know if deleting the disabled plugins will clean things up and possibly improve the forum.
I guess the wisest thing to do is to delete all the disabled plugins.
Thank you all for your comments.

After you disable plugins, they should automatically remove the settings saved in the config.php for that plugin, but some do not remove that data.

Even though that data or settings are not functional because the plugin is disabled, if you are not using a plugin and it has saved configurations after disabling it and to get rid of everything , remove those configurations from the config.php that has to do with that plugin.

Removing or deleting plugins or configurations for plugins from the config.php Has NO effect on optimization unless it is a bad plugin , a rogue plugin you should not be using anyway. I don't know any plugin that does this. I do know that some themes do have a negative effect loading a website.

River

@Prosper said:
@River, @vrijvlinder - I have several plugins that are disabled on my forum. I want to know if deleting the disabled plugins will clean things up and possibly improve the forum.
I guess the wisest thing to do is to delete all the disabled plugins.

no use keeping add-ons you downloaded from add-on section and don't plan on using.
But keep the add-ons that come with the core install
always disable plugin from the dashboard. (disabling and enabling by manually changing config.php is only a last resort if you can't disable via dashboard).

as vrijvlinder says you can remove the residuals related to the plugins you deleted, just make sure they relate to the plugin you disabled via the dashboard.