WHAT PLUGINS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED WITH MY SERVICE?

OVERVIEW

Kenotronix Managed WordPress Plans are NOT just WordPress - they are heavily modified wrappers designed for optimal WordPress hosting and comprehensive security. As such, some WordPress features and plugins are not available, just as there are other features specific to managed WordPress that are not available on a normal WordPress installation. To achieve this, we blacklist and remove a number of plugins known to cause security or performance issues.

This list uses the name of the folder that the extension creates when you install it. You can view this directory by logging into your WordPress account administered via sFTP.

NOTE:
This is not an exhaustive list of unauthorized plugins. Any plugins that fall into these categories or are known to cause problems may be added to the list or disabled at any time without notice.

UNAUTHORIZED PLUGINS

Duplicate functionality - Backups

These plugins duplicate our existing backup and restore functionality. We have seen these extensions cause problems for customers because they use too many resources to create archive files (tar / gzip / zip) and we have also seen misconfigured extensions creating recursive backups and thereby sites exceeding the amount of storage allocated.

6scan-backup
backupwordpress
backwpup
ezpz-one-click-backup
the-codetree-backup
Updraft
wponlinebackup

Recommended alternatives
We back up your files and database daily and keep it for 30 days. You can use our control panel to easily restore your site to a previous version.

To back up your site on demand, you can use SFTP access and a database backup extensions like WP-DB-Backup or WP-DBManager.

Useless / non-functional

These plugins add no value and may not work properly on our system. Some of these are competing integration plugins, and some are unnecessary but known to slow site performance.

hello dolly
sgcachepress
synthesis
wp-engine-snapshot
wpengine-common
wordpress-beta-tester

Statistics plugins

These extensions frequently poll the database for statistical purposes. They are useful, but they negatively impact the performance of your sites. In some cases, they prevent us from properly caching your site.

google-analytics-for-wordpress
jr-referrer
leads
ptengine-real-time-web-analytics-and-heatmap
referrer-wp
statpress
wp-business-intelligence-lite
wp-postviews
wp-power-stats
wp-slimstat

Recommended alternatives
You can use any service that records and stores your statistics offsite, including Chartbeat (paid), Google Analytics (free), Jetpack (free), MixPanel (free), and Segment.io (free).

Duplicate functionality - Miscellaneous

These plugins duplicate functionality in various parts of our infrastructure.

6scan-protection
- Solution: We take care of basic file security and remediation.
administer
portable-phpmyadmin
- wordpress-gzip-compression
  Solution: The output compression is handled automatically.
wp-phpmyadmin

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