My Collection of (Free and Pro) WordPress Plugins

Welcome to my growing collection of WordPress plugins. Most of these plugins are freely available at the WP Plugin Directory, and some are premium plugins available at Plugin Planet. My plugins strive for perfection, and feature excellent customer support. If you have any questions or feedback, reach me anytime via my contact form — I’m always glad to help.

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• Pro WordPress Plugins
  1. Banhammer Pro
  2. BBQ Firewall Pro
  3. Blackhole Pro
  4. GA Google Analytics Pro
  5. SES Pro (Simple Email Signup)
  6. SAC Pro (Simple Ajax Chat)
  7. USP Pro (User Submitted Posts)
• Free WordPress Plugins
  1. Banhammer
  2. BBQ Firewall
  3. Blackhole for Bad Bots
  4. Contact Form X
  5. Custom Fields for Gutenberg
  6. Dashboard Widgets Suite
  7. Disable Application Passwords
  8. Disable Gutenberg
  9. Disable Lazy Load
  10. Disable Media Sizes
  11. Disable Responsive Images Complete
  12. Disable REST API
  13. Disable WP Robots
  14. Disable WP Sitemaps
  15. Enable WP Database Tools
  16. GA Google Analytics
  17. Head Meta Data
  18. Host Header Injection Fix
  19. Override Comment Options
  20. Prismatic
  21. Show Support Ribbon
  22. Simple Ajax Chat
  23. Simple Blog Stats
  24. Simple Custom Content
  25. Simple Download Counter
  26. Simple Login Notification
  27. Simple Statistics for Feeds
  28. Theme Switcha
  29. User Submitted Posts
  30. Cron HTTP Auth
• Even more plugins..

Pro WordPress Plugins

My collection of pro WordPress plugins..

Banhammer Pro

Banhammer Pro is a WordPress security plugin that enables you to monitor traffic and ban targets with a click. So you can protect against threats and increase site security. The Pro version gives you more banning power and awesome new features like whitelisting, bot detection, editable targets, and more. Even better, Banhammer Pro is lightweight, fast, and easy on resources. Learn more and get Banhammer Pro at Plugin Planet:

BBQ Firewall Pro

BBQ Pro helps keep your WordPress site safe and secure by blocking bad requests. This helps to conserve precious server resources like memory and bandwidth. BBQ Pro runs silently in the background, checking all incoming traffic and blocking any URI requests that contain nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and other malicious nonsense. Pro version enables you to monitor results and customize the perfect WordPress firewall. Get BBQ Pro at Plugin Planet:

Blackhole Pro

Blackhole Pro is the premium version of Blackhole for Bad Bots. Pro includes all features of the free version, plus advanced settings to control just about every aspect of the plugin. Pro features include custom warning & blocked messages, custom trigger link, custom email alerts, and a Geo/IP-powered Bot Log for viewing and managing bad bots. Get Blackhole Pro at Plugin Planet:

GA Google Analytics Pro

GA Google Analytics Pro does everything the free version can do, plus it features a slick visitor Opt-Out Box (includes fully configurable options), supports multiple trackers and custom code, and displays live previews of your tracking codes right on the plugin settings page. Also provides advanced options and complete inline documentation. Get GA Pro at Plugin Planet:

SES Pro

SES Pro enables you to manage your own email campaigns and newsletters with 100% shortcode-based, Ajax-powered signup forms. SES Pro is designed for smaller scale, DIY admins who want full control over email subscribers without relying on a 3rd-party service. Perfect for building your own lists of subscribers, create awesome emails with the visual editor, and send them for free. Features include SMTP support, HTML formatting, subscriber management, and much more. Get SES Pro at Plugin Planet:

Simple Ajax Chat Pro

Simple Ajax Chat Pro (SAC Pro) can do everything the free version can do, plus a whole lot more. The free version supports only one chat form; the Pro version supports unlimited chat forms, as many as you want. SAC Pro is written from the ground up, using new techniques and all the latest WordPress APIs. Get SAC Pro at Plugin Planet:

USP Pro

USP Pro gives you fine-grained control to build the perfect forms for the front-end of your site. Easily create submission forms, registration forms, contact forms, forums, and everything in between. USP Pro provides robust features and advanced settings for user-submitted posts, user-registration, contact forms, forums, art-directed content, and much more. Learn more and get USP Pro at Plugin Planet:

Free WordPress Plugins

My collection of free WordPress plugins..

Banhammer

Banhammer gives you full control over who and what may access your site. Visit the Armory to monitor traffic and review suspicious visitors. If you find some user or bot that is causing problems, you can ban them with a click. Or, if you just want to keep an eye on someone, you can flag them with a warning. Any banned users will be denied access to your site, until you restore access via the Tower. Learn more about the free version of Banhammer, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

BBQ Firewall

BBQ is a simple plugin that protects your website against malicious URL requests. BBQ checks all incoming traffic and quietly blocks bad requests containing nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and excessively long request-strings. This is a simple yet solid solution that works great for sites where .htaccess is not available. BBQ can be customized via whitelist & blacklist addons. Learn more about BBQ, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Blackhole for Bad Bots

Add your own virtual Blackhole trap for bad bots. Blackhole for Bad Bots adds a hidden link to your pages. You then add a line to your robots.txt file that forbids bots from following the hidden link. Bots that ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap. Once trapped, bad bots are denied further access to your site. Learn more about Blackhole for Bad Bots or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Contact Form X

CFX: Contact form reinvented. Fast and friendly. Fresh and clean. Awesome for everyone :) Simply install, activate, and then display the Ajax-powered contact form anywhere, via widget, shortcode, or template tag. The perfect balance of functionality and features, Contact Form X gives you everything you want, nothing you don’t. Learn more about Contact Form X, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Custom Fields for Gutenberg

Restores the Custom Fields meta box on Gutenberg-related screens. Includes options to limit post types, exclude custom fields, exclude empty fields, exclude private/hidden fields, and more. Super useful if your site uses Custom Fields for any features or plugins. Easily add, edit, and delete custom fields attached to any post type. Learn more about Custom Fields for Gutenberg, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Dashboard Widgets Suite

Dashboard Widgets Suite provides an entire set of awesome widgets that you can add to your WordPress Dashboard, including User Notes, Debug Log, System Info, Social Media, RSS Feed, and more. Each widget includes its own set of options for customizing display. Streamline your Admin Area by reducing the number of plugins required for widgets. Learn more about Dashboard Widgets Suite or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable Application Passwords

Disable Application Passwords does one thing: disables the Application Passwords feature introduced in WordPress 5.6. The plugin contains only one line of code, provided by WordPress core. Activate plugin and say goodbye to Application Passwords. Learn more about Disable Application Passwords, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable Gutenberg

Heard of Gutenberg? Well this plugin completely disables the Gutenberg Editor, or disables for any post type or user role. So all users always will get the Classic Editor. Additional features include Disable Nag, and Hide Menu Item. Learn more about Disable Gutenberg, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable Lazy Load

Disable Lazy Load is a simple plugin that does one thing: disables the Lazy Load feature added in WordPress 5.5. Simply activate and done, completely hassle-free and effective. Learn more about Disable Lazy Load, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable Media Sizes

Disable Media Sizes gives you control over which extra images are generated automatically by WordPress. Provides a settings screen where you can enable/disable any/all of the extra image sizes. Simple and effective. Learn more about Disable Media Sizes, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable Responsive Images

Completely disables WP responsive-image feature that was introduced in version 4.4. It is meant for people who know what they are doing and want to use their own responsive-image techniques. Learn more about Disable Responsive Images, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable WP REST API

This plugin does one thing: disables the WP REST API for visitors who are not logged into WordPress. No configuration required. Super lightweight and fast: contains only 22 short lines of code (less than 2KB)! Learn more about Disable WP REST API, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable WP Robots

As with my other “disable feature” type plugins, Disable WP Robots does one thing and one thing only: it disables the meta robots tag that WordPress adds to your web pages. The plugin contains only one line of code, provided by WordPress core. Activate plugin and say goodbye to the WP-added meta robots tag. Learn more about Disable WP Robots, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Disable WP Sitemaps

Disable WP Sitemaps does one thing: disables the auto-generated sitemaps introduced in WordPress 5.5. Simply activate and done, completely hassle-free and effective. Learn more about Disable WP Sitemaps, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Enable Database Tools

Enables you to optimize and repair InnoDB and MyISAM tables using WordPress built-in database tools. Literally could not be easier to optimize your WP database. Learn more about Enable Database Tools, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

GA Google Analytics

There are a million GA plugins, but none that just work, plug-n-play, no-frills, and with clean code. So I wrote my own. The GA Google Analytics plugin adds the required GA tracking code to all of your pages, with options to disable in the Admin Area and/or for logged-in users. Supports Universal Analytics, Global Site Tag, Tracker Objects, IP Anonymization, Display Advertising, Force SSL, Google Optimize, et al. Learn more about GA Google Analytics, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Head Meta Data

The Head Meta Data plugin is designed to complete a site’s head construct by including some of the more obscure meta tags, such as "author" and "copyright". This was one of the original plugins for customizing meta tags. Learn more about Head Meta Data, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

HHIF: Host Header Injection Fix

Since version 2.3, WordPress has been vulnerable to a Host Header Injection attack in certain server environments. Over the years, there has been some discussion about fixing the vulnerability, but as of WP 4.9 (beta) nothing has been implemented. So to help those in the WP community who may be concerned (including myself), I developed a new security plugin that fixes the issue: Host Header Injection Fix (HHIF). Learn more about HHIF, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Override Comment Options

Override WordPress “automatically close comments” option and leave comments open on any individual posts. For example, here at Perishable Press, I have some older posts that I want to leave open for comments. This plugin enables me to do that easily, with a click on the “Edit Post” screen. Learn more about Override Comment Options, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Prismatic

Prismatic is the only 3-in-1 syntax highlighter! Display beautiful code snippets with Prism.js, Highlight.js, or plain code escaping. Prismatic gives you granular control over syntax highlighting and escapes only the essentials to keep your site fast and code clean. Learn more about Prismatic or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Show Support Ribbon

Show support for your favorite cause, event, charity, political event, or anything else that’s awesome. Show Support Ribbon includes four built-in ribbon styles and makes it easy to customize with your own CSS. Many features and simple to use! Learn more about Show Support Ribbon, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Ajax Chat

Simple Ajax Chat displays a fully customizable Ajax-powered chat box anywhere on your site. SAC makes it easy for your visitors to chat with each other on your website. There already are a number of decent chat plugins, but I wanted one that is simple yet fully customizable with all the features AND outputs clean HTML markup for easy styling. Learn more about Simple Ajax Chat, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Blog Stats

Simple Blog Stats provides a wealth of shortcodes and tags to display a variety of statistics about your site. SBS makes it easy to display your site’s statistics in posts, pages, and anywhere in your theme. Displays everything from total number of posts, comments, and categories to recent posts, comments, and much more. Learn more about Simple Blog Stats, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Custom Content

Simple Custom Content (SCS) is a free WordPress plugin that makes it easy to add custom content to your posts and feeds. SCS gives you fine-grain control over content and excerpts in posts, pages, and feeds. Easy to customize everything via the plugin settings. Learn more about Simple Custom Content, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Download Counter

Simple Download Counter (SDC) is a free WordPress plugin that keeps track of the number of times your files are downloaded. A smart, sophisticated alternative to the heavy-handed, bloated “download manager” and “download monitor” type plugins. SDC gives you a simple yet powerful way to manage and count downloads. Learn more about Simple Download Counter, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Login Notification

Simple Login Notification (SLN) is a free WordPress plugin that sends an email alert whenever an admin-level user logs in to your site. Useful for keeping an eye on any unauthorized administrator logins. Each email alert includes the user name, IP address, user agent, and other details. Learn more about Simple Login Notification, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Simple Statistics for Feeds

Simple Statistics for Feeds (SFS) is a free alternative to Google’s Feedburner service. It tracks all of your WordPress feeds in all formats (RDF, RSS, Atom, et al), and displays complete feed statistics on the plugin settings page. Other features include multiple tracking methods, custom feed content, and several shortcodes to display your feed stats anywhere. Learn more about Simple Statistics for Feeds, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Theme Switcha

Theme Switcha makes it easy to switch to an alternate theme for preview or development while visitors use the default theme. Only essential theme-switching features have been added, along with a simple yet informative UI. This gives you a consistent, quality theme-switching experience that you can optionally share with your visitors. Learn more about Theme Switcha or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

USP: User Submitted Posts

User Submitted Posts (USP) is a free WordPress plugin that enables your visitors to post content from the public side of your website. This is ideal for sharing sites, community sites, link sharing and such. The upload form uses clean markup and is easy to style, makes customizing easy via plugin settings page. Learn more about User Submitted Posts, check out the USP Demo, or download USP from the WP Plugin Directory:

WP Cron HTTP Auth

This simple plugin enables WordPress Cron functionality on sites using HTTP Authorization. How to use: Visit the plugin settings, enter your HTTP Auth credentials, save changes, and done. Learn more about WP Cron HTTP Auth, or download from the WP Plugin Directory:

Even more plugins..

In addition to the plugins listed above, I develop a growing collection of extensions for my Pro plugins over at Plugin Planet. Check ’em out! :)

About the Author

Jeff Starr = Web Developer. Security Specialist. WordPress Buff.