Using plugins for simple coding tasks is not ideal in blogosphere. Apart from professionalism, each plugin has its own separate function.php coding which increases the loading time of a blog. That is why the use of plugin is greatly recommended with caution.

To mantain average blog loading time for your blog, you need not to be using plugin to carry out almost every task on your blog. For instance, You can code contact us form without using any plugin, display RSS subscription form with simple coding, also related & popular posts below each post without plugin and many more.

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