| Status | Purpose | Plugin | Comments | Num Users | Pct bad | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 - Evaluate | Performance | WP-Omtimize | Some sugges that it is better than W3 Total Cache. It is from the creators of Updraft which I like. | |||
| 1 - Essential | Backup Site Migration | Updraft Plus | Backups schedulable Backup to Dropbox Easy Restore | 3M | 0.5 | |
| 1 - Essential | Manage Logged on Users | Ultimate Member | Combines features of a lot of others | 200K | 15 | |
| 1 - Essential | Security | Wordfence | 4M | 0.3 | ||
| 1 - Excellent | Classic Text Element Editor | Advanced Editor Tools | Allows for indented lists, better formatting. Compatible with Gutenberg. | |||
| 2- Excellent | Calendar | Simple Calendar | Good integration if using Google Calendar. Better choice might be the Modern Event Calendar | 70K | 30 | |
| 2 - Excellent | Calendar | Modern Event Calendar | Easy to use, nice format, lots of options - Seems to be taken off of Wordpress.org - why? | |||
| 2 - Excellent | Colors Pallette for Gutenberg | Block Color Editor | Very easy user interface | |||
| 2 - Excellent | Posts | The Post Grid by Radius Theme | - Good UI - Isotope (category buttons) - good layout - category filters | |||
| 2- Excellent | Registrations Polls | Ninja Forms | Very Easy Needs WPMail SMTP | 1M | 12 | |
| 2- Excellent | SMTP | WP Mail SMTP | Sends Mail | 2M | 0.6 | |
| 2 - Excellent | Tables | TablePress | Great Table manipulation - column edits - row edits - user sorting | |||
| 3 - Good | Sitemap | Yoast | Way more than Sitemap here | |||
| 3 - Good | Sitemap | XML Sitemaps | Seems pretty easy | |||
| 3 - Very Good | Development | Page-List | 40K | 5 | ||
| 3 - Very Good | Full Structure | Elementor | Complicated | 5M | 4% | |
| 3 - Very Good | General Formatting | Generate Press Theme with Generate PlusPremium Plugin | Good control | |||
| 3 - Very Good | Manage Logged on Users | Content Control | Limits access to widgets and thus menus | 10K | 0 | |
| 3 - Very Good | Page Listing | Page-List | Gives simple page showing all pages | |||
| 3 - Very Good | Registrations | Participant DB | Forms for registrations. A little old school. Ninja Forms better | 10K | 0 | |
| 4 - Good | Files | WP-File Manager | 600K | 10 | ||
| 4 - Good | PDF Viewer for Elementor | 10K | 21 | |||
| 4 - Good | SEO | Yoast SEO | Complicated | 5M | 0.1 | |
| 4 - Good | User Logins | User Login History | 10K | |||
| 5 - OK | Editor | Classic Editor | Old Style | 5M | 0.1 | |
| 7 - No longer needed | SSS | Really Simple SSS | ||||
| 8 - Better Option | Backup | Duplicator | Good plugin but Updraft Plus is better | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Cache | Lighthouse | More difficult than W3 My test made things worse | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Cache | WPFastestCache | Most of the configuration pages tell you to buy the pro version | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Forms | Formidable Forms | Nothing better than Ninja Forms - No resubmission of entries - Poor review of entries - No publication of submissions | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | Remove Dashboard Access for Non Admins | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | Restrict User Access | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | Profile Builder | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | Nav Menu Roles | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | Peters Login Redirect | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Logged In User Experience | User Role Editor | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Login | Theme My Login | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | Menus | Admin Menu Editor | Comprehensive, but Remove Dashboard Access is better | |||
| 8 - Better Option | User Profile | Profile Builder | Ultimate Member does this and much more. | |||
| 8 - Better Option | WP Ultimate Post Grid | Posts | Problem was that Paid version needed for what I want (isotope layout) | |||
| 8 - Better Option ? | Download Manager | Ultimate Member does this ?? | ||||
| 9 - Rejected | Calendar | Event Calendar (Total Soft) | Appearance is amateurish, some functions don't work | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Calendar | The Event Calendar (Tribe) | To get much control over display, you have to buy the pro version | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Calendar | My Calendar | Simplistic Formatting | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Calendar | Time.ly | Requires login to a site in domain "ly" - Lybia | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Graphics | WP Retina 2X | No values | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Page Builder | Site Origin | Not WYSIWYG | |||
| 9 - Rejected | Short Codes | Short Codes Ultimate | Not WYSIWYG | |||
| 9 - Rejected | WP-Forms | Forms | Free version won't even store the records you submit |
