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Five published on the official WordPress.org repository and 32 more I built to ship faster, save subscription money, and avoid the bloat tax. All free, all open source, all maintained on a real production site.
Published on WordPress.org
Every plugin below passed the WordPress.org plugin team’s manual code review and lives in the official repository. That means free updates from your dashboard, real ratings from real users, and source code anyone can audit. No upgrade walls, no email gates.
Drop-in shortcodes for dates, years, months, ages, and seasons. Your evergreen pages stop reading “updated in 2021” and start refreshing themselves on January 1st. Read the guide →
Branded affiliate links with custom database tables, early redirects, and CSV import/export. The Pretty Links replacement I built after Pretty Links pushed me to a $99 Pro plan. Read the guide →
Sixteen modules for performance, security, SEO, redirects, and content management in one plugin. Toggle what you need, ignore what you don’t, delete five plugins from your active list. Read the guide →
Adds badge, highlight, and other inline format buttons to the Gutenberg toolbar. The features the core editor forgot, in 12KB of code.
A clean recent-posts widget for sidebars that shouldn’t look like 2009. No jQuery, no settings overload, no nine layout choices nobody uses.
All Plugins
A standalone section builder for WordPress. Write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a dedicated editor with live preview. Saves directly to Gutenberg with zero frontend overhead.
Download FreeTrack, cloak, and manage all your affiliate links from one dashboard. Auto-inserts nofollow and sponsored attributes. Built for publishers who run hundreds of affiliate partnerships.
Get on WordPress.orgCustom extensions for FluentCart that I built for my own digital store. Adds missing features around checkout, product display, and license management.
View PluginPaste any HTML and get clean GenerateBlocks V2 markup with inline styles and attributes preserved. Handles nested layouts, responsive classes, and custom CSS.
View ToolA lightweight form plugin that gives you full HTML control. Built for developers who don’t want drag-and-drop dictating their markup.
Buy PluginAll-in-one WordPress optimization toolkit. 15+ modules for performance, security, SEO, and content management. Zero frontend bloat.
Get on WordPress.orgAdds block-level controls like visibility toggles, custom locking options, and sidebar improvements that WordPress should’ve shipped by default.
GitHubThe registration engine behind product boxes, comparison tables, FAQ accordions, and 25+ custom blocks on this site. Handles field groups, render templates, and block styles.
Ready-to-use block templates for reviews, CTAs, callouts, and content upgrades. Pairs with the ACF Blocks Plugin for a full content publishing toolkit.
GitHubDisplays related content as interactive cards with thumbnails and reading time instead of boring text lists. Reduces bounce rate by keeping readers engaged.
GitHubMoves FAQ blocks cleanly so you can switch SEO plugins without losing structured content.
GitHubMigrates Rank Math SEO metadata, breadcrumbs, and content analysis data into Kadence-compatible formats without manual re-entry.
GitHubBatch-edits block attributes across posts, copies blocks between pages, and adds keyboard shortcuts for common Gutenberg formatting tasks.
GitHubAdds heading anchors, inline code formatting, mark/highlight, and superscript/subscript controls to the block toolbar.
GitHubMakes the Marketers Delight icon font available as an inline block, toolbar option, and CSS class inside the block editor.
GitHubA template-based related posts display built specifically for Marketers Delight layouts. Inherits theme typography and spacing automatically.
GitHubA nicer recent-posts widget so your sidebar doesn’t look like 2009.
Get on WordPress.orgLightweight 1-5 star ratings with Schema.org aggregate rating markup. No user accounts, no AJAX overhead, just clicks and rich snippets.
GitHubAdds a “Shipped” order status with automatic email notifications so customers know exactly when their order is on the way.
GitHubBulk-manage featured images from the post list screen. Set, remove, or replace thumbnails without opening each post individually.
GitHubA 2KB cookie consent bar. No settings page, no bloat, no tracking. Just a dismissible notice that respects GDPR basics.
GitHubAMP compatibility layer for Marketers Delight. Google deprecated AMP as a ranking signal, so this plugin is archived. Use Core Web Vitals optimization instead.
GitHubFixes mojibake and character encoding issues after database migrations, imports, or hosting changes. Run once, delete after.
GitHubReduces comment spam without turning your site into a CAPTCHA circus. Uses honeypot fields and timestamp validation instead.
GitHubA compatibility shim that keeps front-end editing working across WordPress core updates. Hooks into the right filters so visual editors don’t break.
GitHubExtends the Block Editor formatting toolbar with inline controls: badge, highlight, and other formatting options the core editor forgot to ship.
Get on WordPress.orgmu-plugin that offloads WordPress static assets and uploads to Cloudflare R2 with a URL rewriter and on-demand image resizing.
GitHubTypeScript MCP server that exposes any WordPress site’s REST API as MCP tools. Hand-crafted endpoints, not a thin REST wrapper.
GitHubFree WordPress CRM with contacts, deals, pipelines, and notes. For solo agencies and freelancers who don’t want a $99/mo Hubspot bill.
GitHubLightweight downloads manager to showcase and track downloadable resources. Click counts, categories, no bloat.
GitHubServes clean markdown versions of WordPress posts and pages so AI agents and LLM scrapers get structured content instead of HTML soup.
GitHubRenders ACF repeater data as sortable, searchable HTML tables. The fastest way to publish structured data without a custom block.
GitHubAuto-generated table of contents for posts. Heading-based, anchor-linked, zero JavaScript framework, plays nice with the Block Editor.
GitHubFilter controls for the WordPress Query Loop block, built on the Interactivity API. Real client-side filtering without a separate plugin.
GitHubA lightweight HubSpot form embed block. Drops the form ID in the editor, renders the form, no extra JS bundle from HubSpot’s full embed.
GitHubAdds icon support to the core button block based on Nick Diego’s pattern. Pick from a curated icon set without registering a custom block.
GitHubAdds a click-to-copy button to the WordPress core code block. 1KB of JS, zero settings, works with syntax highlighting plugins.
GitHubWhat I Actually Run
This site serves 50,000+ monthly visitors with these 8 plugins active. Every one earns its spot.
Lessons Learned
Knowing what to remove is just as important as knowing what to add. These are plugins I used for years but eventually replaced.
The best WordPress setup in 2026 uses the block editor, not a page builder. It uses Rank Math, not Yoast. It uses FlyingPress + Perfmatters, not WP Rocket alone. And it runs 8-12 well-chosen plugins, not 30+. Every plugin you add is technical debt.
Plugin Guides by Category
You need exactly one SEO plugin. My recommendation is Rank Math. It handles everything Yoast does, plus built-in schema, redirects, and analytics integration. The free version is good enough for most sites.
Performance deserves its own cluster. The short version: FlyingPress for caching + Perfmatters for code optimization.
I’ve used Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, and the native block editor extensively. For most sites in 2026, the block editor with GenerateBlocks or Kadence Blocks is the right choice.
Most WordPress security issues aren’t plugin problems. They’re hosting problems, password problems, and update problems. A security plugin isn’t a substitute for good practices.
Email is still the highest-converting marketing channel. For WordPress-native email, I recently reviewed MailerPress. For most users, Kit or Mailchimp is still the better choice.
I’ve built and maintain several WordPress plugins for content blocks, link management, section building, and digital downloads.
Common Questions
There’s no magic number, but I aim for under 15 active plugins. Quality matters more than quantity. Five poorly coded plugins cause more problems than fifteen well-built ones. The issue is usually plugin overlap, not plugin count.
Rank Math. It includes features that Yoast charges extra for (redirects, schema, content analysis). The free version of Rank Math is better than Yoast Premium. I switched all my sites to Rank Math in 2022 and haven’t looked back.
In most cases, no. The WordPress block editor with GenerateBlocks or Kadence Blocks handles everything most sites need. Page builders like Elementor are fine for client sites where you need visual drag-and-drop editing, but they add significant performance overhead.
Some, yes. Rank Math Pro, FlyingPress, and Perfmatters all pay for themselves through better performance and SEO. A $99/year plugin that saves you 5 hours of work or improves conversions by 2% is an easy ROI. But many premium plugins are just premium-priced, not premium-quality.
Poorly built ones do. Every plugin adds PHP execution time, and many load CSS/JS on every page whether needed or not. The fix isn’t fewer plugins, it’s better plugins. Tools like Perfmatters let you disable plugin assets on pages that don’t need them. I run 8 plugins on this site and still hit sub-second load times.
Deactivate one at a time to isolate the conflict. Check if both plugins hook into the same WordPress filter or action. Most conflicts happen because two plugins try to modify the same output (meta tags, schema, scripts). Pick the one that does it better and remove the other. Plugin overlap is the number one cause of conflicts I’ve seen across 800+ client projects.
I build high-performance WordPress sites, custom plugins, and provide technical consulting for businesses and agencies.
I build high-performance WordPress sites, custom plugins, and provide technical consulting for businesses and agencies.
