Kinsta’s List of Best WP Plugins
Ultimate Hand-Picked List of the Best WordPress Plugins for [Year]
Kinsta’s Guide to Speed Up WordPress
Kinsta’s List of Bad WordPress Plugins
Caching Plugins (kinsta specific)
- Cache Enabler
- LiteSpeed Cache
- WP Fastest Cache
Backup Plugins (kinsta specific)
- All-in-One WP Migration
- BackupBuddy
- BackWPup
- Snapshot
- UpdraftPlus
- WP DB Backup
- WP DB Backup Made
Image Optimization Plugins
- EWWW Image Optimizer
Video Conversion Plugins
- FFmpeg
Performance Plugins
- Better WordPress Minify
- P3 Profiler
- Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
- WordPress GZIP Compression.
- WP-Optimize
- JCH Optimize (reasons: constant PHP stress, high bandwidth usage, can’t cache, can’t optimize for CDN)
Misc Plugins
- Allow PHP Execute
- Dynamic Widgets
- Exec-PHP
- Inactive User Deleter
- Pipdig Power Pack (P3)
- WP RSS Multi Importer
- WordPress Popular Posts
Security Plugins (better to rely on Cloudflare)
- Login Wall
Social Media Plugins
- Facebook Instant Articles & Google AMP Pages by PageFrog
- Facebook Open Graph, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags
Form Plugins
Good Ones:
Formidable Forms
Bad Ones:
Caldera Forms – Good but getting closed in 2021 end.
Contact Form 7 – Loads its files on every page and lots of addon plugins also needed to be installed for simple functionalities such as Redirection and Captcha
Referred Reviews:
- https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-contact-form-plugins/
- https://neilpatel.com/blog/best-form-plugin-wordpress/
WP Performance Plugins
Good Ones:
Query Monitor
Asset Cleanup
Bad Ones:
Best WordPress Plugins To Speed Up Your Site
https://www.wpglossy.com/wordpress-speed-plugins/
1. WordPress Cache Plugin
WPRocket
W3 Total Cache
2. WordPress Database Optimization Plugin
Autoptimize
3. WordPress Image Optimization Plugin
Imagify
Smush.it
4. WordPress Performance Plugins
Perfmatters
Assets Clean up
- https://onlinemediamasters.com/perfmatters-vs-asset-cleanup/#pricing
5. WordPress CDN Plugin
RocketCDN
Caching Plugin Conflicts
The caching plugin & other performance monitoring plugins like Query Monitor can cause a major conflict between themselves and bring the whole website down, hence it is important that just one of this high priority plugin type is installed. We faced a similar problem on artlivo.com in May 2021. The following article helped us in the resolution for the same:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-homepage-not-updating-with-new-posts/