{"id":6233,"date":"2022-02-03T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:13:22","slug":"wordpress-plugin-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/wordpress-plugin-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugin Blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #212121;color:#212121\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #212121;color:#212121\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/wordpress-plugin-blacklist\/#categories\" >Categories<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/wordpress-plugin-blacklist\/#plugins\" >Plugins<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/wordpress-plugin-blacklist\/#conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>WordPress is a very open and active ecosystem. Unfortunately, with many thousands of plugins available, some conflict with our system or negatively impact your website. In an effort to help your site run as well as possible, we&#8217;ve compiled a list of plugins that we do not allow on our network. We do our best to keep this list as small as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your site is found to be running one of these plugins, we will send a notice that it will be removed in 24 hours, and then it will be removed after that time period has expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"categories\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"categories\"><\/span>Categories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Category<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Description<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Performance<\/strong><\/td><td>Plugins in this category have been deemed to negatively impact the performance of a site, generally because they are written in an inefficient manner.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Broken<\/strong><\/td><td>Plugins which are broken, unmaintained, or not compatible with current WP versions are blacklisted here.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Related Posts<\/strong><\/td><td>While technically a sub-category of &#8220;Performance&#8221;, related posts plugins have a long history of poor performance. They generate very inefficient database queries causing sites to slow to a crawl especially under heavy traffic or with a lot of posts. Plugins which perform their matching logic remotely are acceptable.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Security<\/strong><\/td><td>No one wants to have security vulnerabilities! Unfortunately some plugins go unmaintained or have developers who do not patch security issues in a timely manner.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Unmaintained<\/strong><\/td><td>Plugins which have unfortunately been abandoned by their developers.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Caching<\/strong><\/td><td>Most caching plugins conflict with the existing layers of caching we implement. In addition, more often than not file-based caching does more harm than good especially when they don&#8217;t clean up their cache files properly. We highly recommend taking advantage of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/litespeed-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Litespeed Cache<\/a>&nbsp;WordPress plugin which we install by default and maintain the server-side component for customers.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"plugins\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"plugins\"><\/span>Plugins<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-shortcode kb-shortcode_info\">\n                    <div class=\"kb-shortcode-icon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-info-circle fa-2x\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"kb-shortcode-content_info\">Are you a developer? Do you see one of your plugins in our list? <a href=\"mailto:mailto:support@knownhost.com\">Contact us<\/a> and lets talk about getting your plugin off of this list! We don&#8217;t bite, but we do have high standards for security and performance.<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Plugin Name<\/th><th>Category<\/th><th>More Info<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>6scan-backup<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6scan-protection<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>contextual-related-posts<\/td><td>Related Posts<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>fuzzy-seo-booster<\/td><td>Related Posts<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>p3-profiler<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>searchterms-tagging-2<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td>Resource intensive keyword spammer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>seo-alrp<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>similar-posts<\/td><td>Related Posts<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>StupidPie<\/td><td>Performance<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>the-codetree-backup<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>updraft<\/td><td>Unmaintained<\/td><td>There are other available versions of the plugin which are maintained.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>w3-total-cache<\/td><td>Caching<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>wordpress-beta-tester<\/td><td>Other<\/td><td>We only support the latest, stable version of WordPress.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>wp-cachecom<\/td><td>Caching<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>wp-fast-cache<\/td><td>Caching<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>wp-fastest-cache<\/td><td>Related Posts<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>wp-file-cache<\/td><td>Related Posts<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"conclusion\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve gone over the list of WordPress&#8217;s Plugin Blacklist. 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