Comments on: WordPress – only load plugins on pages that need them

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:09:21 +0000

Try these:

http://www.fldtrace.com/wordpress/load-javascript-on-specific-pages-in-wordpress
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-load-specific-java-script-on-specific-page (The Davillan post)

By: disway

disway — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:52:20 +0000

This shows how to disable the plugins on all but some selected pages. What I would like to know, is how to disable the plugins just on some pages. This could really help for a site with a lot of pages but a few that don’t need the plugins…

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:17:10 +0000

I hope this still works okay, it’s been awhile since I wrote it…

By: Matth

Matth — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:33:15 +0000

This is so very awesome. Now that I have 24 plug-ins running at the same time, my header is clogged with css and js.

As to XGP’s problem, wanting to only load a single JS file on a single page, that seems better handled with a conditional in the header.php file.

Thanks for posting this Debbie. I’ll give it a try!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:05:53 +0000

Yes – you’d use the second code snippet in this post, changing ‘Contact’ to the name of your about us page, and changing ‘contact-form-7′ to the name of your JS file.

By: xgp

xgp — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:30:17 +0000

is there a way to load js file to about us page only?

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:56:08 +0000

Shouldn’t it be something like:

add_action( ‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘my_deregister_javascript’, 100 );
function my_deregister_javascript() {
if ( !is_category(‘mycategory’) ) {
wp_deregister_script( ‘myplugin’ );
}
}

By: Edu

Edu — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:37:16 +0000

That’s a great idea! Just what I need, but I’m trying to do the same thing in a category page (E.g.: load the plugin X only whitin the category-y page) with not sucess. :/ Maybe somebody can give me an idea of how to do it.

By: Sarah R. Lewis

Sarah R. Lewis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:00:24 +0000

Debbie, thanks so much for posting this! I’m writing a plugin of my own and want it to be as efficient as possible, so I’m using what you’ve written here (and in the follow-up post) to keep it from cluttering up unrelated pages.

P.S. Good luck on Idea X!

By: debbie campbell

debbie campbell — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:30:29 +0000

There is – check out the next post http://www.position-relative.com/2010/01/wordpress-only-load-css-stylesheets-on-pages-that-need-them/