At LRP, we recommend a vetted list of plugins to ensure performance, security, and maintainability of our clients’ WordPress sites.

🔒 Wordfence Security

  • Plugin Repository: Wordfence Security
  • Documentation: Wordfence Docs
  • Free or Paid: Free with premium upgrade available
  • What It Does: Wordfence is a comprehensive security plugin that includes endpoint firewall protection, malware scanning, login security, and real-time threat defense feeds. It provides detailed insights into traffic and blocked attacks, helping secure your WordPress installation from common threats.

📋 Gravity Forms

  • Plugin Repository: Gravity Forms (official site)
  • Documentation: Gravity Forms Docs
  • Free or Paid: Paid (license required)
  • What It Does: Gravity Forms is a robust form-building plugin for WordPress. It supports conditional logic, multi-page forms, file uploads, and integrations with many third-party services. It’s the go-to solution when a project needs flexible, secure, and developer-friendly form handling.

🔁 Redirection

  • Plugin Repository: Safe Redirect Manager
  • Documentation: GitHub
  • Free or Paid: Free

  • What It Does: Safe Redirect Manager is a powerful plugin for managing redirections. It’s essential for maintaining SEO during site migrations or URL changes and provides a user-friendly interface for setting up redirects without needing to touch .htaccess.

    There is a companion LRP plugin that allows us to quickly add 404 management.

🧪 Query Monitor

  • Plugin Repository: Query Monitor
  • Documentation: Query Monitor Docs
  • Free or Paid: Free
  • What It Does: Query Monitor is a developer tool for debugging WordPress. It provides detailed performance insights such as database queries, PHP errors, enqueued scripts and styles, hooks, and REST API calls. It’s invaluable during development and performance troubleshooting.

🗂️ Media Library Categories

  • Plugin Repository: Media Library Categories
  • Documentation: Media Library Categories Docs
  • Free or Paid: Free with a premium upgrade available
  • What It Does: Media Library Categories enhances the WordPress Media Library by introducing category management for media items. It allows users to add, edit, and remove categories directly within the Media Library, facilitating better organization of media files. Features include bulk category assignment, filtering media by categories, and integrating category filters into the [gallery] shortcode. The premium version extends functionality by enabling category filtering when inserting media into posts or pages.

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