Boost Your Site's Performance: Understanding Plugin Restrictions at Wealthy Affiliate
At Wealthy Affiliate, our Managed WordPress Hosting platform ensures that your website runs smoothly, quickly, and securely. While we understand the importance of plugins for WordPress sites, we have taken the initiative to block certain plugins to maintain the optimal performance and security of our hosting environment.
Below are general reasons why we have blocked certain plugins on our platform. Note that these reasons align with our commitment to providing the best hosting experience possible, and are consistent with all Managed Wordpress Hosts in the industry.
- Performance Impact: Certain backup plugins, such as UpdraftPlus, Duplicator, All-in-One WP Migration, Jetpack, BackWPup, Backup, Backup Backup, BackupWordPress, WP Migration Duplicator, and WPvivid BackupRestore, are known to require significant resources to operate, potentially slowing down your website and our servers. Our hosting solution already includes robust backup services, eliminating the need for these plugins.
- Security Risks: Some plugins can introduce security vulnerabilities to your website. Plugins like WP File Manager, File Manager Advanced, WPide, Folders, Filester, FileBird, and UBH fall under the file manager category and have, in the past, shown vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit. In the interest of ensuring the security of your website, these plugins are blocked on our platform.
- Excessive Server Load: Plugins that scrape data, such as WP Automatic, or that make a multitude of remote requests like Add-to-Any, can heavily load the server, impacting its performance. To prevent this, we've chosen to block these plugins to maintain the consistent high-speed performance of our hosting.
- Potential for Malicious Code Execution: EvalPHP allows the execution of PHP code, which can pose a security risk if your site is compromised. To maintain a safe environment, we've restricted the use of such plugins on our platform.
- Redundant Functionality: We have integrated advanced caching systems within our hosting setup. Hence, caching plugins like WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, and WP Super Cache are blocked to avoid duplicating functionality and to ensure a streamlined user experience.
- Incompatibility and Outdated Software: Some plugins may not be compatible with our hosting configuration or the latest version of WordPress, which can lead to performance issues or even crashes. Therefore, to protect the stability of your site, we monitor and block plugins that fall into this category.
At Wealthy Affiliate, we take proactive measures to ensure that your hosting experience is secure, fast, and efficient. While this means restricting certain plugins, we believe it's worth it to maintain the highest standards of service for our users.
Your website's security and performance are our top priority, and will continue to be. I hope this offers everyone clarity, and this will be updated as we block/unblock particular plugins in the future, so I recommend that you bookmark this for reference.
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Thank you so much for this detailed explanation, Kyle! I really appreciate how Wealthy Affiliate prioritizes both performance and security. It’s reassuring to know that there’s a solid team behind the scenes keeping everything running smoothly while helping us avoid potential pitfalls with certain plugins. This kind of transparency and support makes the learning curve so much easier for those of us still finding our footing. Much gratitude
Thanks, Kyle, I just learned about this post through a friend here from a comment I posted on another post (tongue twister?) because I realized I can't use Jetpack with the WA hosting.
Even though I mostly use it (Jetpack) to connect to my 400+ WordPress (dot) com subscribers, (even when using a dot[org] site, I understand it also has backup and security features that might be duplicates of what we already have at the WA.
I hate malware, especially on a server side, or on my shared hosting account. This is one reason I left Bluehost for WA. They can't remove the infection on their own, assuming the user (me) allowed their website(s) to be compromised.
SHIT!
Yes, I can assure you most of my malware came through plug-ins in WordPress when I was using BH. I went to the level of removing malware files (good experience though) and malicious codes manually. But the malware comes back soon or later regardless.
That's why I never wanted to attempt to bring my folders and PHP files over here (to restore my years of lost articles) because the malware will come over with them. Rather, I'll check my other storages including my old PCs to see if I can find the original versions of my articles instead.
In short, please keep us safe, keep us informed.
John
Thank you Kyle. I only had one of these on two of my websites. I'll delete them. I love that you guys cover absolutely everything when it comes to our WordPress websites. Having worked on my websites for 8 years now, I can't tell you how much comfort it gives me knowing I can count on my sites functioning properly. Thanks again. Debra
Thanks for the heads up, Kyle. I wondered about some of this. It makes sense. Plus, I have been having some rather strange issues lately when trying to install a plug-in (story for another day). When I visit my theme's (Divi) support page (since 2018) I pass by the following message:
PHP: max_execution_time
30 - We recommend 120 for the best experience. Learn More.
Do you think there is anyway to resolve the Divi score? I did buy "WP Rocket", though I did not install it. Apparently Divi and WP Rocket are going through some major changes. I would sure not want to lose Divi. It's the only platform I know how to use.
In case you didn't know, there are some optimization settings in Divi (General then "Performance" Don't know if it conflicts with WA's optimization, but it can conflict with WP Rocket. I have it too, and there's instructions so it doesn't conflict with WP Rocket. BTW, does anyone know if WP Rocket conflicts with WA's managed hosting? I mostly leave the Divi's performance off, since WP Rocket handles that, and so far haven't gotten any issues, if that helps any.
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Thank you Kyle and all of the staff that is diligently working so hard to keep us safe and speedy. I appreciate you more than you know! Please keep up the fantastic job you are doing and if there is anything I can do to assist in this endeavor please let me know.