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WordPress Plugins

Most of the time, WordPress performance issues are caused by the use of bad plugins.

In order to help site owners, we made a list of the plugins we recommend and also a list of plugins we don’t.

Recommended plugins

  • Antispam Bee
  • Better Internal Link Search
  • Email Address Encoder
  • Hyper Cache
  • Litespeed Cache
  • WP Super Cache
  • Cache Enabler
  • CDN Enabler
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com
  • Login Lockdown
  • Shutter Reloaded Plus
  • Simple Basic Contact Form
  • Simple Social Icons
  • Widget Logic
  • Yoast SEO
  • Disable Embeds
  • Disable Emoji
  • Display Posts Shortcode
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
  • CAOS
  • Redirection
  • Autoptimize
  • BackupWordPress
  • UpdraftPlus
  • Heartbeat Control
  • WP Defender
  • WP Sweep
  • WP Smush
  • Simple URLs
  • Genesis Columns Advanced
  • Genesis Simple Edits
  • Genesis Simple Share
  • Genesis eNews Extended
  • Genesis Translations
  • WP Featherweight
  • Grid Columns
  • Sendgrid
  • WeGlot

Plugins we don’t recommend

Using these plugins might cause high load on your server:

  • Contextual Related Posts
  • Broken Link Checker
  • Wordfence Security (or use it with Live Traffic OFF)
  • Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin
  • Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
  • Fuzzy SEO Booster
  • Similar Posts
  • Spyder Spanker Bot Blocker
  • WP-PostViews
  • WP Missed Schedule
  • WP Slimstat
  • WP Symposium
  • jr-referrer
  • SEO Auto Links & Related Posts
  • Booster for WooCommerce
  • The SEO Framework
  • Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress
  • WP-DB-Backup
  • WP Database Optimizer
  • WP-phpMyAdmin
  • WP-DBManager
  • Adminer
  • Portable phpMyAdmin
  • Linkman
  • MyReviewPlugin
  • Tweet Blender
  • Dynamic Related Posts
  • TimThumb
  • Uploadify

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