Wordpress What Wordpress Plugins Do You Install In 2022?

ACF Pro is the first plugin I install right now. Though I'm planning on going full FSE this year to go almost plugin free! We use few custom MU plugins to disable some WP stuff like remove emoji, jquery from frontend, etc. Our theme build step also optimizes all the theme assets so don't need plugin for that.

Some others I use as per necessity is

• Plugin Load Filter (could be mistaken with other one)
• Custom Post Type Permalinks
• The SEO Framework coupled with a structured data plugin.
• Disable lazy load. (I enable lazy loading on all images and this plugin disables lazy loading above fold)

Other plugins for our marketing/content folks are

• Rankmath -> Trying to push to TSF or SEOPress
• Sendgrid -> In some installations
• CSV Importer

LS Cache -> Current managed hosting uses this so might as well install this plugin but soon moving to CMM hopefully I can persuade others.


I found a sweet plugin few days ago called Torque by Hexydec. Very early but it could be a fully free alternative to Autooptimize.
Also, I found a cool little JS lib called Partytown for deferring 3rd party assets like gtag, truconversion.

 

Sucuri Security is free?

 

They do have some cool features but personally i'm trying to move due to their shady behavior in the past

Yeah option 22 is <3. One question though, if I have brotli enabled on custom_config.inc do we need the Autoptimize Gzip companion?

I think they had lazy loading enabled by default since 5.6, 5.8. Although they fixed a few things on 6.0, I tried a couple of things like removing all manual lazy tags and wp handle the rest but didn't work. Could be something wrong with my config though.

 

That's awesome!

Yeah it could be.

 

I am running 35 active plugins (a lot, I know) but several of those are ones I have custom-built for my site. In terms of the "big ones" and general-purpose/performance plugins:

• Cache Enabler
• Cloudflare
• Contact Form 7
• EWWW Image Optimizer
• Disable Emojis (GDPR Friendly)
• Disable Gutenberg Blocks - Block Manager
• Flamingo (Contact Form 7 database/log)
• Google Authenticator
• hCaptcha for Forms and More
• Imsanity
• Insert HTML Snippet
• Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block
• Login Logo
• oEmbed Plus
• Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags
• Schema & Structured Data for WP (looking to replace this due to performance issues)
• WooCommerce

 

People seem to recommend the Wordfence plugin as the free security plugin. Does the sucuri plugin included in n.22 wordpress install contain special centminmod sauce?

 

So creating installs with Redis is the most efficient?

 

Not a Wordpress user anymore.
But i don't like plugins.

With every Wordpress update (this is even turned on automatically these days).
You are again dependent on updates from the plugin creator.

No update from plugin maker but with the forced from wordpress, you run the risk hanging your site.

Yoast SEO is an ironclad plugin. But otherwise, most small changes can also be made via functions.php, hard coded.

 

Disagree.
If a forced update is needed you are often dealing with an administrator who either does not manage or is not capable.

If you keep everything up to date there is nothing to worry about.
Otherwise, you'll be stuck in the same loop.

 

One solution might be an LTS version. But developers are not so keen on that. Afraid they can't push certain new features.

 

I'm wondering at the web server level is Redit better of fastcgi in your opinion? For WordPress; There's so many benchmarks I'm getting confused.

 

How often is a server really cracked? Many users who don't maintain their sites (for example, the local music association), are often private and are often on shared hosts. Almost all of them on CloudLinux where it's all pretty well sealed.