Favorite WordPress Plugins and Utilities

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Free WordPress plugins

• Better Search Replace for performing a search/replace on the database

composer require wpackagist-plugin/better-search-replace

• Breadcrumb NavXT for breadcrumb trails

composer require wpackagist-plugin/breadcrumb-navxt

• Disable Comments for globally disabling comments on any post type

$ composer require wpackagist-plugin/disable-comments

• Duplicate Post for cloning posts from any post type

composer require wpackagist-plugin/duplicate-post

• Easy WP SMTP for configuring WordPress to send emails through any SMTP server

composer require wpackagist-plugin/easy-wp-smtp

• HTML Forms for straightforward and flexible forms in WordPress

composer require wpackagist-plugin/html-forms

• Imsanity for automatically resizing large image uploads

composer require wpackagist-plugin/imsanity

• Intervention for cleaning up and customizing the wp-admin

composer require soberwp/intervention

• Post Type Switcher for reassigning any post to a new post type

composer require wpackagist-plugin/post-type-switcher

• Query Monitor for WordPress dev tools

composer require wpackagist-plugin/query-monitor

• Restricted Site Access for enforcing user logins or whitelisting IPs for access

composer require wpackagist-plugin/restricted-site-access

• Safe Redirect Manager for managing redirects

composer require wpackagist-plugin/safe-redirect-manager

• Safe SVG for allowing SVG uploads

composer require wpackagist-plugin/safe-svg

• Simple Page Ordering for re-ordering any type of page or post with drag and drop

composer require wpackagist-plugin/simple-page-ordering

• Stream for logging activity on your WordPress install

composer require wpackagist-plugin/stream

• Rank Math SEO The Swiss Army Knife of WordPress SEO

composer require wpackagist-plugin/seo-by-rank-math

• WPBruiser for preventing spam comments and brute force attacks

composer require wpackagist-plugin/goodbye-captcha

• WP Stage Switcher for switching between different environments from the admin bar (by Roots)

composer require roots/wp-stage-switcher

• WP Term Order for re-ordering any term with drag and drop

composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-term-order

• WP User Avatars for allowing users to upload & select their own avatars

composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-user-avatars

• WP User Profiles for a different way to edit users

composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-user-profiles

• WP-Optimize for automatically cleaning your WordPress database

composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-optimize

Paid WordPress plugins

• Admin Columns Pro for managing admin columns
• Advanced Custom Fields Pro for managing fields and options
• FacetWP for advanced filtering
• Migrate DB Pro for database migrations
• Soil for cleaner WordPress markup (by Roots)