Optimizing WordPress Plugins, Themes, and Host

At Bluehour Digital Marketing, we enhance your WordPress site's performance, security, and reliability by carefully selecting and implementing essential plugins that optimize its functionality. These plugins are chosen to maximize your website's functionality and ensure a seamless user experience.​

All premium plugins are licensed on our end and included in your monthly fee, so you never have any surprise licensing fees. Regularly reviewing and updating your site's plugins is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and security. Our team ensures that all installed plugins are up to date and functioning correctly, providing you with a hassle-free experience.​ 

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Recommended Plugins

Security Plugins

• Akismet: Protects your site from spam comments and form submissions by automatically filtering out unwanted content.​

• Bluehour Secure Access: Allows secure team member login.

• Jetpack: Offers a suite of features including security enhancements, site performance optimization, downtime monitoring, and automated backups.​

• Jetpack Protect: Provides additional security measures such as brute force attack protection and two-factor authentication to safeguard your login process.​

• WP CLI Login Command Server: Allows secure login to your WordPress site via the WP-CLI command-line interface by generating temporary login URLs with unique tokens.​

Reliability Plugins

• ActiveCampaign Postmark (Official): Integrates with ActiveCampaign’s email marketing platform to send transactional emails via Postmark, ensuring reliable delivery of important emails like password resets and order confirmations.​

• Activity Log: Monitors and logs user activity on your site, including login attempts, content modifications, and plugin installations, helping you track changes and maintain site integrity.​

Optional Performance Plugins

Depending on your subscription plan and specific needs, we offer additional performance-enhancing plugins:​

• NitroPack: Optimizes your website’s speed through advanced caching techniques and performance enhancements.​

• WP Rocket: Improves site loading times by implementing caching, minification, and other performance optimization features.​

• Asset CleanUp: Allows you to selectively disable unnecessary CSS and JavaScript files on a per-page basis, reducing page load times.​

• OMGF (Optimize My Google Fonts): Optimizes the loading of Google Fonts by combining and minifying font files, decreasing HTTP requests and improving load times.​

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Disallowed Plugins

To maintain site stability, speed, and security, Bluehour restricts the use of specific plugins that conflict with our optimization stack or introduce risks. 

Some plugins duplicate functionality already built into our hosting platform (like caching or backups). Others have been found to cause performance or security issues. When a disallowed plugin is detected, we’ll automatically deactivate it during onboarding or optimization — and let you know.

This list outlines which plugins are disallowed and why. We constantly review this list and update it based on plugin behavior, compatibility, and redundancy.

Here are the most common reasons a plugin may be disallowed:

• Caching Plugins – Conflict with our built-in caching layer

• Backup Plugins – Overlap with BlogVault and platform-level backups

• Security Plugins – Duplicate protections already provided at the server level

• Performance Boosters – Often break sites or override our optimization stack

• SSL Managers – Handled natively through our platform

• Database Cleanup – Can be too aggressive and risk breaking the site

(Not exhaustive)

• WP Super Cache

• W3 Total Cache

• WP Fastest Cache

• Autoptimize

• Breeze

• WP Rocket (already provided)

• UpdraftPlus

• BackWPup

• Wordfence

• iThemes Security

• Really Simple SSL

• Better Search Replace

• WP Optimize

• NitroPack

• SGO (SiteGround Optimizer)

• Redis Object Cache (unless pre-approved)