So I am building a site where the user's profile is the main feature. (Think a dating site where profile and the profile fields are the most important) I have narrowed it down to 2 plugins for this. #1 - The first plugin offers great features such as a cool looking profile, ability to feature members, but lacks the privacy functions, such as followers, chat, messaging. I have to utilize separate plugins for events, directory, groups, etc. #2 - The second plugin is more of a social networking plugin and while it does not look "as cool", it offers all the other features - privacy, followers, chat, messaging, events, groups, etc., however, it is a heavy load and my concern of performance is the main issue. So my obvious question is...which option should I go with? Thanks so much for any input. I am extremely torn and can't decide. Anna
I'll take speed / fast performance over cool features any day. I assume it's some kind of wordpress plugin. Can you disable the stuff that really slows the performance in your #2 option?
Thank you for your reply. Not really - I can make some minor adjustments, but it is still going to be slower than option #1. Appreciate you input though.
I think, you can search a little more for finding the right plugin for your purpose. Features and performance, both are important. Cool stuff with little features and great features with poor performance, both with be bad for your site. Little more search will find you the right plugins for your site.
The features work to attract your customers. People will love the features and they may definitely pay you a visit there. But, lack of privacy is a negative feature. For this reason, people will not keep continued with you. So, if you focus on performance then your number of user maybe low but within a while you will have a community through those users. So, I suggest you to go with "performance".
This question shouldn't and can't be answered.... Why is the social networking script a heavy load? How is it a heavy load?...
I would say that there are plenty of other plug-ins out there for you to use. I would say that you need the many features that your traffic is going to want but you also need it to run properly and quickly. I know that you asked specially between features and performance but I would say that they are both important. If you can't find a plugin that works for you and you have some money to spend, you can have a plug-in created for you.
Thera are many dating site out there. The key in that bussiness to be different and provide some added VALUE, one of them is the FEATURE you have. So, I suggest you to go with #1. Features are serious bussiness driver in dating "industry". The concerns about privacy should be solved by some custom pluggin modification. I don t think that is too complex for a programmer.
A combination of a good design, good features and good performance is important to most users, it might be worth going with the first option building in the additional features over time?