Practical guides to finding, archiving and cleaning up WordPress plugins without losing anything, from the team that makes Archivum.
October 18, 2026
Unused WordPress plugins are the ones under Plugins → Inactive, plus active plugins nothing calls anymore. Judge them by dates rather than memory, archive what you can't justify, and delete…
October 17, 2026
Inactive plugins do not slow WordPress down: a deactivated plugin is never loaded on a page request. Their files and database settings do stay on the server, which is a…
October 16, 2026
Removing unused WordPress plugins is safe once you know which ones nobody needs. Archiving moves an inactive plugin's folder out of wp-content/plugins into a web-blocked archive, files and database settings…
