{"id":77,"date":"2013-09-30T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.pressable.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2024-09-24T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:47:58","slug":"disallowed-plugins","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/pressable.com\/knowledgebase\/disallowed-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Disallowed Plugins on Pressable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are quite a few plugins in the WordPress ecosystem; WordPress.org has over 59,000 just in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their repository<\/a>. From time to time we run across plugins that don&#8217;t play well on our systems, or duplicate functionality we&#8217;re already providing as part of our managed services. As such, we&#8217;ve added functionality to prevent these plugins from being activated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"backup-plugins\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">Backup Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, Pressable doesn&#8217;t specifically disallow plugin activation for backup-related plugins. However, if our Customer Success team detects that a backup plugin on your site is causing performance and\/or resource contention issues, the backup plugin will be disabled and removed. <a href=\"https:\/\/pressable.com\/knowledgebase\/accessing-backups\/\">Pressable provides backup options<\/a> as part of each hosting plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some backup plugins may fail to work on Pressable sites due to how they locate the site root path. Many assume that the PHP constant <code>ABSPATH<\/code> leads to the site root. While this is common with most WordPress setups, the <code>ABSPATH<\/code> file path is not the location of the site root. <a href=\"https:\/\/my.pressable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact the Customer Success team<\/a> for further assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cssjs-minification-plugins\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">CSS\/JS Minification Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These plugins can cause sites to slow down or not function properly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/bwp-minify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Better WordPress Minify (bwp-minify) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"caching-plugins\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">Caching Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Third-party caching plugins will not work here at Pressable, as they rely on writing to the <code>advanced-cache.php<\/code> file, which is not allowed. However, the non-caching features of these plugins may still work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These specific caching plugins are known interfere with our own caching systems and can often break the caching we&#8217;ve implemented causing your sites to slow down or not function properly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/nginx-helper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nginx Helper (nginx-helper) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/w3-total-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W3 Total Cache (w3-total-cache) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Super Cache (wp-super-cache) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-fastest-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Fastest Cache (wp-fastest-cache) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"email-plugins\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">Email Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/e-mail-broadcasting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E-mail Broadcasting (e-mail-broadcasting) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/send-email-from-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Send Email From Admin (send-email-from-admin) plugin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/e-mailit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress Share Buttons Plugin \u2013 E-MAILiT (e-mailit)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"other-plugins\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">Other Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/broken-link-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broken Link Checker (broken-link-checker) plugin<\/a>  &#8211; Overwhelms our servers with a very high amount of HTTP requests<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/hummingbird-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hummingbird Performance (hummingbird-performance) plugin<\/a> &#8211; While not disallowed, this plugin can lead to eventual memory exhaustion errors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/website-file-changes-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melapress File Monitor (website-file-changes-monitor) plugin<\/a> &#8211; The plugin drastically increases the database size of the wp options table (<code>[db-prefix]_options<\/code>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/gpt3-ai-content-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gpt3-ai-content-generator-premium<\/a> plugin &#8211; The plugin causes replication lag which interferes with our auto-failover functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"other-scripts\" data-offset=\"125\" class=\"content-heading toc-content__target\">Other Scripts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Standalone files and scripts that function outside of WordPress are subject to review and removal if they are deemed to be in violation of our <a href=\"https:\/\/pressable.com\/legal\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is subject to change from time to time and if you ever have questions about these plugins, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact our happiness team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a few plugins in the WordPress ecosystem; WordPress.org has over 59,000 just in their repository. 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