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