Advice and Ideas on wordpress plugins

Help for trimming my plug-in list

[Jakob]

Hi,

for my site I now have too many WP plug-ins. I think their functionalities overlap each other. I want it to be more efficient.

Can anybody comment/ suggest/ adwise me how to trim it? And possibly come up with suggestions for just that one plug-in I'm not aware of that I'm missing? Recommending WordFence?

Thank you - all help is appreciated.

All the best,

Jakob

Here a list of my plug-ins:

Cost Calculator Builder
Duplicate Page
Elementor
Elementor Pro
FancyBox for WordPress
GDPR Cookie Consent
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
Google XML Sitemaps
Jetpack by WordPress.com
MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
Really Simple SSL
Redirection
reSmush.it Image Optimizer
Schema - All In One Schema Rich Snippets
Shipmondo til WooCommerce
Simple CSS
Simple Custom Post Order
Simple Scroll to Top Button
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
Super Socializer
Swap Google Fonts Display
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore
WooCommerce
WooCommerce Admin
WooCommerce Menu Cart
WooCommerce Shipping & Tax
WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
WP Fastest Cache
WP File Manager
Yoast SEO

[lammert]

I can't comment on specific plugins, but for security reasons I would remove the plugins which have no active development/maintenance. WordPress 5.7 is out now for a week and I would remove all plugins which haven't declared 5.7 compatibility with this version of WP within another week or so. If a developer doesn't put the effort in their plugin to check compatibility with a new WP version, they also probably won't react fast on fixing any security issues.

[TorontoBoy]

It is clear you need to trim down, but like a diet to lose weight, solutions are individual, and not all diets work for all people.

My general recommendation is to first look up the risk of each plugin for vulnerabilities. Do you really need their functionality? Can you learn to code a bit so you don't need some plugins? Can you simplify your design and therefore not need a plugin? Restraint is best, less is more. The more plugins you have the more code can be attacked, but I guess you knew that.

Further, did you implement 2FA two factor authentication for login?

[not2easy]

Researching your plugins is not a task to outsource to the general public imho. That is one reason we do not offer plugin reviews here because actual user reviews are found at the WP plugins listings.

Visit the WP plugins [wordpress.org] repository, do the searches and decide whether all those plugins are needed. Plugins are not magic and as Iammert suggests, if they are not maintained they can lead to sorrow.

WP current version helps a bit by allowing you to permit automatic updates but it is not always a good idea to do that. Research your plugins and only allow auto-update for plugins that you would trust with the keys to your back door. Plugins have been known to be sold to people with their own plans.