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About This Guide

This guide is meant to give a referenceable snapshot of freely accessibly plugins worth using, supporting, and even donating towards. The list is mainly curated from the WordPress directory, specifically those marked as “community” business-model plugins but also includes other non-commercial plugins.

It may also include plugins that promote: social media in the Fediverse; alternatives to Big Tech; accessibility and usability; data ownership and self-authoring.

Custom Post Types & Fields

  • Pods — “Manage all your custom content needs in one location with the Pods Framework.”
  • Secure Custom Fields — Community fork of ACF. “With SCF, managing custom data becomes straightforward and efficient.”
  • WPCasa — A “real estate WordPress solution that provides an intuitive way to manage property listings and create first-class real estate websites.”
  • Osom Author Pro — “…creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.”
  • Tainacan — “Manage and publish your digital collections….”
  • Simple Podcasting — “Set up multiple podcast feeds using built-in WordPress posts. Includes a podcast block and podcast transcript block….”
  • GatherPress — A “flexible, community-powered event management plugin….”
  • Connections Business Directory — “Create a simple address book, maintain a staff or member directory, or run a business directory….”
  • All-in-One Video Gallery — “…helps you add videos as posts and build scalable, searchable, SEO-optimized video galleries in minutes.”
  • Einsatzverwaltung — “…create incident reports to inform the public about your work…. for fire departments, … emergency medical services, mountain rescue services, water rescue services, and others.”

Security

  • Two-Factor — Two-factor authentication developed by the WordPress community.
  • Restricted Site Access — “Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message or page.”
  • WPVulnerability — “..integrates with the WPVulnerability API to provide real-time vulnerability assessments for your WordPress core, plugins, themes, PHP version, Apache HTTPD, nginx, MariaDB, MySQL, ImageMagick, curl, memcached, Redis, and SQLite.”
  • Sessions — A “powerful sessions manager for WordPress with a multi-criteria sessions limiter and full analytics reporting about logins, logouts and account creation.”
  • SVG Support — “…enables secure SVG uploads with powerful features for both basic users and developers.” Features role-based access control.
  • Safe SVG — “…gives you the ability to allow SVG uploads whilst making sure that they’re sanitized to stop SVG/XML vulnerabilities affecting your site. It also gives you the ability to preview your uploaded SVGs in the media library in all views.”
  • Insecure Content Warning — “…helps content creators… avoid insecure-content warnings in the browser by flagging any elements in the content editor (such as images, videos, and embeds) that are being delivered or sourced from an insecure (HTTP) web address.”
  • Pro Mime Types — “…adds a nifty (network) admin interface for allowing or blocking many file extensions for uploading media, documents, and other attachments.”
  • Keys Master — A “powerful application passwords manager for WordPress with role-based usage control and full analytics reporting about passwords usages.”
  • Strict CSP — “This plugin enforces a Strict Content Security Policy (CSP) on the frontend and login screen. This helps mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.”

Theme & Plugin Building

  • Create Block Theme — Create a new theme, or copy over an existing theme. Developed by WordPress.
  • Action Scheduler — A “scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.”
  • DemoPress — “…for generating demo content for newly created websites used during the website development and testing, before real content is created and added.”
  • Listo — “Listo is a simple plugin that supplies other plugins and themes with commonly used lists.”
  • Really Simple CAPTCHA — “…originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.”
  • Fonts Plugin — “The Google Fonts library currently contains 1455 unique fonts. This plugin allows you to easily use any of them on your WordPress website.”
  • Redux Framework — “Redux is a simple, genuinely extensible, and fully responsive options framework for WordPress themes and plugins. Built on the WordPress Settings API; Redux supports many field types, custom error handling, custom fields & validation types, and import/export functionality.”

Performance

  • Performance Lab — A “collection of features focused on enhancing performance of your site, most of which should eventually be merged into WordPress core.”
    • Embed Optimizer — “…optimize the performance of embeds in WordPress, such as Tweets, YouTube videos, TikToks, and others.”
    • Image Placeholders — “…determines and stores the dominant color for newly uploaded images in the media library within WordPress and then uses it to create a placeholder background of that color in the frontend, visible until the image is loaded.”
    • Image Prioritizer — “…optimizes the loading of images (and videos) with prioritization to improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), lazy loading, and more accurate image size selection.”
    • Modern Image Formats — “adds WebP and AVIF support for media uploads within the WordPress application.”
    • Optimization Detective — Captures “real user metrics about what elements are displayed on the page across a variety of device form factors (e.g. desktop, tablet, and phone) in order to apply loading optimizations which are not possible with WordPress’s current server-side heuristics.”
    • Performant Translations — “Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.”
    • Speculative Loading — “adds support for the Speculation Rules API, which allows defining rules by which certain URLs are dynamically prefetched or prerendered.”
    • Enhanced Responsive Images — “…implements enhancements for the responsive images functionality in WordPress.”
    • View Transitions — “…implements support for cross-document view transitions in WordPress. This effectively replaces the hard transitions when navigating from one URL to the other with a smooth animation, by default using a fade effect.”
  • Heartbeat Control — “…allows you to manage the frequency of the WordPress heartbeat….”
  • Index WP MySQL For Speed — “…works to make your MySQL database work more efficiently by adding high-performance keys to the tables you choose. On request it monitors your site’s use of your MySQL database to detect which database operations are slowest.”
  • Index WP Users For Speed — “…speeds up the handling of your WordPress registered users, especially when your site has many thousands of them.”
  • APCu Manager — “APCu statistics and management right in the WordPress admin dashboard.”
  • OPcache Manager — “OPcache statistics and management right in the WordPress admin dashboard.”
  • Transient Cleaner — “Clean expired transients from your options table.”
  • SQLite Object Cache — “A persistent object cache helps your site perform well…. An object cache does that by reducing the workload on your MariaDB or MySQL database.”
  • LiteSpeed Cache — “developed by the folks behind Litespeed only, but completely free.”
  • Rapid Canonical URLs — “This reduces HTTP requests, speeding up access for visitors and reducing the load on your server.”

Debugging & Monitoring

  • Health Check & Troubleshooting — “This plugin will perform a number of checks on your WordPress installation to detect common configuration errors and known issues, and also allows plugins and themes to add their own checks.”
  • Debug Bar — “Adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information.” Made by WordPress.
  • Debug This — “…provides a ton of information about your WordPress installation, all from the front-end admin bar.”
  • WP Debugging — “This plugin sets the… debug constants in wp-config.php on plugin activation and removes them on plugin deactivation.”
  • DebugPress: Debugger in Popup — “…implementing popup for debugging and profiling currently loaded WordPress powered website page with support for intercepting AJAX requests.”
  • Site Health Tools — “…a selection of additional tools to the Site Health section of your site, to help you diagnose common issues.”
  • Apache Status & Info — “When you want to use server-info and/or server-status with Apache server…. Just activate it and that’s it!”
  • New Relic Reporting for WordPress — “…designed to use with New Relic APM which uses New Relic PHP Agent API to properly augment existing metrics with valuable WordPress details such as templates, users, request type, transaction names etc.”

Workflow

  • WordPress Playground Block — “…embeds WordPress Playground in your posts and pages. You can also include an interactive code editor to demonstrate and teach your readers how WordPress plugins are built.”

Social / Community

  • BuddyPress — A “suite of components that are common to a typical social network.”
  • bbPress — “Forum software from the creators of WordPress. Asyncronous discussion, user profiles, subscriptions, and more!”
  • Asgaros Forum — “…the perfect WordPress plugin if you want to extend your website with a lightweight and feature-rich discussion board.”
  • forumManager for bbPress — “Manage forums and topics with ease….”
  • GatherPress — A “flexible, community-powered event management plugin.”
  • membersDirectory for bbPress — “…for adding a forum members directory page into bbPress powered forums, including members filtering and additional widgets for listing members in the sidebar.”

Email

  • FluentSMTP — “WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, Postmark, Google and Any SMTP Provider.”
  • MailArchiver — “Automatically archive all emails sent from your site. Store them in your WordPress database or send them to external services.”

Internationalization & Localization

  • Polylang — “…create a multilingual site…” Offers a free version. Alternative to WPML.
  • IP Locator — A “country and language detection tool for WordPress. It is fast, reliable and plug & play.”
  • GlotPress — “…GlotPress is here to help you collaborate online with your translators to ensure your users see your software in their native language.”
  • Preferred Languages — “…letting users choose multiple languages for displaying WordPress in…. That way you can set some sort of “fallback chain” where WordPress tries to load translations in your preferred order.”
  • Bogo — A “straight-forward multilingual plugin….”

Admin Customization

  • Admin Color Schemes — “12 new color schemes for your admin.”
  • Adminimize — “…hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.”
  • Advanced Editor Tools — “…introduces a “Classic Paragraph” block for the block editor (Gutenberg).”
  • No Self Ping — disabled WordPress’ self ping from cluttering your comments.
  • Pro Mime Types — “…adds a nifty (network) admin interface for allowing or blocking many file extensions for uploading media, documents, and other attachments.”
  • Debrandify — “…remove WordPress’ branding and replace it with your own as well as get rid of some of the bloat that comes built-in.”
  • Draft Links — “…this plugin will add links to the WP Admin menu to both yours and all drafts post and pages.”
  • Draft Concluder — “…this plugin is designed to be a reminder to those who leave draft posts unloved.”
  • Admin Menu Search — “…adds a search box filter to the top of the Admin Menu in the WordPress Dashboard. No more scrolling up and down or using your browser’s Ctrl+F or Find function to locate menu items.”

Admin Utilities

  • Categories to Tags Converter — “Convert existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively.”
  • Simple Page Ordering — “Order your pages, hierarchical custom post types, or custom post types with ‘page-attributes’ with drag and drop right from the built in page list.”
  • User Switching — “…allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button.”
  • Convert to Blocks — “…transforms classic editor content to blocks on-the-fly.”
  • DecaLog — “Capture and log events, metrics and traces on your site.”
  • oEmbed Manager — “…fine-tune and conditionally activate WordPress core oEmbed producer/consumer. oEmbed Manager can help to achieve GDPR compliance.”
  • Block Catalog — “Find which blocks are used across your site.”
  • Eight Day Week — “…provides a set of tools to manage your print workflow directly in your WordPress dashboard….”
  • Rewrite Rules Inspector — “A simple WordPress admin tool for inspecting rewrite rules.”
  • Sticky Preview and Publish Buttons — “…creates a Preview and Publish/Update Button in post editor that scrolls down the screen as you scroll, saving you time and annoyance.”
  • Shortnotes — “Shortnotes adds a custom post type, Notes, used to publish short pieces of content on your website….”
  • Hypernotes — “allows you to write private notes within WordPress.”
  • Insert Special Characters — Adds special characters to the block editor.
  • Allow Numeric Slugs — “This plugin allows you to have pages with numbers as slugs by giving up the ability to have paged content pages….”
  • Micropub — “Micropub is an open API standard that is used to create posts on your site using third-party clients. Web apps and native apps (e.g. iPhone, Android) can use Micropub to post short notes, photos, events or other posts to your own site, similar to a Twitter client posting to Twitter.com. Requires the IndieAuth plugin for authentication.”

Comments & SPAM

SEO

  • Safe Redirect Manager — “Safely manage your site’s redirects the WordPress way.”
  • noindex SEO — “Allows to add a meta-tag for robots noindex in some parts of your WordPress site.”
  • Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP — “…adds Google Rich Snippets markup according to Schema.org guidelines to structure your site for SEO. (AMP Compatible).”

Backend, Database & Search

  • WP Crontrol — “take control of the scheduled cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store.”
  • Query Monitor — “…enables debugging of database queries, PHP errors, hooks and actions, block editor blocks, enqueued scripts and stylesheets, HTTP API calls, and more.”
  • Search & Replace — “Search & replace data in your WordPress database.”
  • WPGraphQL — A “free, open-source WordPress plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for any WordPress site.”
  • Open Search — “…creates an OpenSearch Document for your blog.”
  • AI Services — “…introduces central infrastructure which allows other plugins to make use of AI capabilities.”

Images

  • LazyLoad Plugin — “…displays images, videos, and iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user.”
  • Instant Images — “Instantly upload photos from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay, Pexels, and Giphy to your website all without ever leaving WordPress!”
  • Force Regenerate Thumbnails — “…allows you to delete all old images sizes and REALLY regenerate the thumbnails for your uploads.”
  • Imsanity — “Automatically resize huge image uploads….”
  • AI Image Alt Text Generator — “Plugin that uses the OpenAI API (supporting GPT-5, and GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o model families) to automatically generate alt text for images, either during the upload process or on-demand with a button.”
  • Media Metadata Workflow Wizard — Have photo “metadata transferred into the Media Library automatically when you upload your media.”
  • Carousel Slider Block for Gutenberg — “A responsive carousel slider for the Gutenberg editor that supports adding any blocks to slides.”
  • Photonic — “…takes the WordPress gallery and super-charges it with a lot of added functionality. It adds support for several new sources and parameters to enhance the content and look-and-feel of your galleries.”
  • Algori 360 Image — “….add interactive 360° images…. immersive panorama images, spherical images, equirectangular photos, full-sphere 3D images and VR (Virtual Reality) photography….”
  • Image Widget — “a simple plugin that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.”

Content & Blocks

  • Getwid — A “collection of 40+ Gutenberg blocks that greatly extends the library of existing core WordPress blocks and 35+ unique pre-made block templates.”
  • Qubely — A “full-fledged Gutenberg block toolkit with plenty of custom blocks, predefined sections and starter packs to create beautiful web pages.”
  • Block Visibility — “Easily create dynamic content in WordPress that will increase conversions, enhance the user experience, and improve your workflow.”
  • Block Control — “…allows you to control, whether a block should be displayed under certain circumstances or not.”
  • Bootstrap Blocks — “This plugin adds Bootstrap components and layout options as Gutenberg blocks.”
  • Create by Mediavine — create recipes, lists, how-tos.
  • The Icon Block — “…registers a single, easy-to-use block that allows you to add custom SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor….”
  • Inseri Core — “…scientific and interactive Gutenberg blocks to facilitate open access and open science communication.”
  • Mon Laboratoire — “…allows you to simply update the members, teams, themes, publications (from third party HAL or third party database Descartes Publi) of a laboratory’s web pages.”
  • Attachments — “…allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types.”
  • Document Feedback — “…appends a simple feedback form to Pages (or other post types that you specify).”
  • Code Embed — “…allows you to embed code (JavaScript, CSS and HTML – it can’t be used for server-side code, such as PHP) in a post, without the content being changed by the editor.”
  • Press This — A “quick and lightweight way to highlight another page on the web.”
  • Draft List — “…allows you to both manage your draft and scheduled posts more easily but also to promote them by showing them on your site via shortcode or widget.”
  • Dynamic Year Plugin — “…automatically update the copyright year in your website footer.”
  • Plugins List — “…inserts an XHTML list into any post/page through a shortcode.”
  • IP Geolocation — “…show ip information and geo location” from various providers.
  • WP Plugin Info Card — “With four blocks, four shortcodes, and several layouts and 14 schemes, you can display your plugins and themes in a variety of ways.”
  • Publisher Media Kit — “…provides a quick and easy option for small to medium sized publishers to digitize their media kit.”
  • Toolkit for Block Theme (Twentig) — “With starter templates, portfolio features, enhanced Gutenberg blocks, and block patterns….”
  • Years Ago Today — “…provides a simply admin dashboard widget that lists all of the posts published to your site on this day in years past.”
  • X3P0: Breadcrumbs — “…one of the most advanced and robust breadcrumb navigation systems ever built for WordPress.”
  • Beauty Box Block — “…provides the ability to surround your content with a configurable container.”
  • Cover3D — “…display a 3D book cover with an image of your choice, with a stylish animation on mouse hover.”
  • Embed PDF Viewer — “Embed a PDF from the Media Library or elsewhere via oEmbed or as a block into an iframe tag.”
  • SyntaxHighlighter Evolved — “…easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing its formatting or making any manual changes.”
  • Layout Grid Block — “…create a column-based layout with easily customizable column-width and positions…. Or perhaps you want to align your content to a global layout grid across your post.”
  • GiveWP — “Transform the way you accept online donations, starting for free. With GiveWP you can accept gifts for charity or for other purposes, through customizable donation forms.”
  • Snow Monkey Editor — Extends the block editor with formatting tools, extensions, and block presets.
  • Page View Count — “…gives site visitors and site owners the ability to quickly and easily see how many people have visited that page or post.”
  • Reusable Blocks Extended — “Extend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.”
  • Highlighting Code Block — “…allows you to add a syntax-highlighted code block with just a click.”
  • Visual Link Preview — “Easily create a Facebook-like link preview for any link on your website.”
  • Liquid Speech Balloon — “Create a talk style design in the block editor.”
  • Countdown Builder — “A very simple plugin to add countdown timer to your website.”
  • Protected Video — “Gutenberg block and Shortcode for embedding YouTube/Vimeo videos, in a way that prevents users easily accessing the underlying video.”
  • Retro Winamp Block — “…transforms a bland audio block into a llama-riffic Winamp-stlyed audio block!”

Forms

  • Contact Form 7 — Classic Contact Form available as a block.
  • Flamingo — “Flamingo is a message storage plugin originally created for Contact Form 7, which doesn’t store submitted messages.”
  • WP Libre Form — “Use standard HTML5 markup to create fully functional forms for WordPress.”

Users & Login

  • Sessions — A “powerful sessions manager for WordPress with a multi-criteria sessions limiter and full analytics reporting about logins, logouts and account creation.”
  • Members — A “roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.”
  • Simple Local Avatars — “Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles if the current user has media permissions. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar! Simple and lightweight.”
  • Basic User Avatars — “Add an avatar upload field on frontend pages and Edit Profile screen so users can add a custom profile picture.”
  • Restricted Site Access — “Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message or page.”
  • WebFinger — “WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods over a secure transport.”
  • Enable Mastodon Apps — “…enables you to access your WordPress with Mastodon clients.”
  • Osom Modal Login — “…lets you easily create a modal box (pop-up) displaying the WordPress login form.”
  • IndieAuth — “…turns WordPress into an IndieAuth endpoint. This can be used to act as an authentication mechanism for WordPress and its REST API, as well as an identity mechanism for other sites.”
  • Osom Login Page Customizer — “…lets you to easily customize the layout of the WordPress login page.”
  • Keys Master — A “powerful application passwords manager for WordPress with role-based usage control and full analytics reporting about passwords usages.”
  • Device Detector — A “full featured analytics reporting and management tool that detects all devices accessing your WordPress site.”

User Privacy

  • Complianz — A “GDPR/CCPA Cookie Banner plugin that supports GDPR, ePrivacy, DSGVO, TTDSG, LGPD, POPIA, APA, RGPD, CCPA/CPRA and PIPEDA with a conditional Cookie Consent Banner and customized Cookie Policy based on the results of the built-in Cookie Scan.”
  • WP Consent API — “…standardizes the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. It requires a cookie banner plugin and, at least, one other plugin that supports the WP Consent API.”
  • Embed Privacy — “Content embedded from external sites such as YouTube or Twitter is loaded immediately when visitors access your site. Embed Privacy addresses this issue and prevents the loading of these contents until the visitor decides to allow loading of external content.”

Marketing & Networking

  • Friends — “…allows you to follow content from other WordPress sites, and interact with them on your own site. You can follow friends and others via RSS. If you also have the ActivityPub plugin installed, you can follow people on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible social networks.”
  • Webmention — “A Webmention is a notification that one URL links to another. Sending a Webmention is not limited to blog posts, and can be used for additional kinds of content and responses as well.”
  • IndieWeb — “….helps you establish your IndieWeb identity by extending the user profile to provide rel-me and h-card fields and optionally adding widgets to display this.”
  • ShareOpenly — Social sharing links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Known, IndieWeb and other alternative social media.
  • Social Sharing Block — “…allows you to add social share icons to your website. Choose from 15+ of the most popular social channels.”
  • Hum — A “personal URL shortener for WordPress, designed to provide short URLs to your personal content, both hosted on WordPress and elsewhere.”
  • Blaze Ads — “Blaze is by far the simplest way to start promoting your site, and it can reach over 100 million users across Tumblr and WordPress blogs.”

Syndication

  • Syndication Links — “It supports adding links to your WordPress posts, pages, and comments, indicating where a syndicated copy is, in the form of a text or icon link.”
  • Open Graph — “…enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. Most notably, this allows for these pages to be used with Facebook’s Like Button and Graph API as well as within Twitter posts.”
  • JSON Feed — “Adds a JSON Feed to your WordPress site by adding /feed/json to any URL.”
  • WebSub — “This plugin is a simple way to let people know in real-time when your blog is updated. PubSubHubbub/WebSub is widely adopted and is used by Google Alerts and many other services.”

Monetization

  • Ads.txt Manager — “Create, manage, and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt from within WordPress, like any other content asset.”

Social Media

  • Include Mastodon Feed — Supports adding links to your WordPress posts, pages, and comments, indicating where a syndicated copy is, in the form of a text or icon link. Integrates with Micropub, Indieweb.
  • Share on Mastodon — “Automatically share WordPress posts on Mastodon.”
  • AddToAny Share Buttons — “…increases traffic & engagement by helping people share your posts and pages to any service. Services include Facebook, Mastodon, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Tumblr, Reddit, X, WeChat, and many more sharing and social media sites & apps.”
  • Simple Mastodon Verification — “Provides a General Settings menu option to define a rel=\”me\” in metatags for the whole site and also individual contributors.”
  • Link Verification for Mastodon — “…adds something like this <link rel="me" href="https://your.mastodon.instance/@yourusername" /> to your website’s <head>.”
  • Replies Importer for Mastodon — “…allows you to automatically import replies to your Mastodon posts that link to your site as comments on the mentioned posts.”
  • TootPress — “copies your toots from Mastodon to WordPress continuously.”
  • XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon — A “time-saving tool for keeping your social media accounts up to date with news and posts from your site.”
  • Shariff Wrapper — GDPR-compliant share buttons.
  • Social Engine: Schedule Social Media Posts — “…the ultimate scheduling tool for your content and photos!” Supports Mastodon.
  • ActivityPub — “Attract followers, deliver updates, and receive comments from a diverse user base of ActivityPub-compliant platforms.”
  • Event Bridge for ActivityPub — “…your events can be automatically followed, aggregated and displayed across decentralized platforms like Mastodon or Gancio, without any extra work.”
  • Super Web Share — A “WordPress-based native share plugin that prompts the native share action and helps users easily share a page or post with others.”
  • Fediverse Embeds — “…lets you optimize and customize embedded posts from fediverse platform that support this feature.”
  • Simple fediverse:creator — “Provides a General Settings menu option to define a fediverse:creator in metatags for the whole site and also individual contributors.”
  • WP to Diaspora — “…automatically share your WordPress posts on your diaspora* profile.”
  • Simple Social Icons — “…an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles” including Diaspora and Mastodon.
  • Social Sharing Block — “A simple little WordPress block that allows you to add social share icons to your website. Choose from 15+ of the most popular social channels.”
  • Social Post Embed — “A temporary plugin solution to add embedding of various social media platform posts, until such time that they become of WordPress Core.”
  • NodeInfo(2) — “NodeInfo is an effort to create a standardized way of exposing metadata about a server running one of the distributed social networks.” Works with ActivityPub.

E-commerce

  • WC Price History — “…allows you to track WooCommerce© Products prior prices history and display the lowest price in the last 30 days. This plugin allows your WC shop to be compliant with European law which specifies price reduction announcement policy.”
  • Fast Woo Order Lookup — “…this plugin uses ActionScheduler to run a background process to create a special-purpose index table, a table of trigrams, to speed up that search. Then it uses those trigrams to search for orders.”
  • Accept Stripe Payments — “Easily add Stripe ‘Buy Now’ buttons anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode or block. The plugin also supports accepting donations via Stripe.”
  • Bot Libre Live Chat — “Bot Libre is a free open source platform for artificial intelligence, chat bots, virtual agents, live chat, and more.” Also see Bot Libre Chatbot.

Analytics

  • Simple Analytics — “…gives you the analytics you need without invading the privacy of your users, with a clean interface and simple integration.”
  • WP Statistics — “Discover GDPR-compliant analytics with WP Statistics, the top choice for WordPress users seeking an alternative to Google Analytics.” Offers paid but open-source features.
  • Traffic — “Full featured analytics for WordPress APIs.”
  • Vibes — “…truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.”
  • Matomo Analytics — The “#1 used Google Analytics alternative that offers a powerful range of features, security and protects the privacy of your users.”
  • Connect Matomo — “uses the Matomo API to show your Matomo statistics in your WordPress dashboard. It’s also able to add the Matomo tracking code to your blog and to do some modifications to the tracking code.”
  • Tracktastic — “…designed to easily integrate Matomo’s eCommerce tracking with your WooCommerce store. Optimize your sales performance and make informed decisions through in-depth, real-time analytics.”
  • Plausible Analytics — An “easy-to-use, open source, lightweight and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.”
  • Statify — “…provides a straightforward and compact access to the number of site views. It is privacy-friendly as it uses neither cookies nor a third party.”
  • Analytics Spam Blocker — “…helps prevent [referral/referrer] spam from ever reaching your website by blocking them at the server level leaving your analytics untouched.”
  • Device Detector — A “full featured analytics reporting and management tool that detects all devices accessing your WordPress site.”

IndieWeb

  • IndieWeb — “….helps you establish your IndieWeb identity by extending the user profile to provide rel-me and h-card fields and optionally adding widgets to display this.”
  • IndieAuth — “…turns WordPress into an IndieAuth endpoint. This can be used to act as an authentication mechanism for WordPress and its REST API, as well as an identity mechanism for other sites.”
  • MF2 Feeds — Provides a Microformats2 JSON “Feed” for every WordPress URL, and helps to allow other sites to get pre-parsed Microformats-JSON even if the theme
    does not support Microformats2.
  • Micropub — “Micropub is an open API standard that is used to create posts on your site using third-party clients. Web apps and native apps (e.g. iPhone, Android) can use Micropub to post short notes, photos, events or other posts to your own site, similar to a Twitter client posting to Twitter.com. Requires the IndieAuth plugin for authentication.”
  • Webmention — “A Webmention is a notification that one URL links to another. Sending a Webmention is not limited to blog posts, and can be used for additional kinds of content and responses as well.”
  • ShareOpenly — Social sharing links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Known, IndieWeb and other alternative social media.
  • WebSub — “This plugin is a simple way to let people know in real-time when your blog is updated. PubSubHubbub/WebSub is widely adopted and is used by Google Alerts and many other services.”
  • Simple Location — “Supports adding geo coordinates, a location taxonomy, and a textual location description to a post, comment, user, or attachment.” Supports micropub.
  • Post Kinds — “…adds support to the Classic Editor for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the IndieWeb by implementing kinds of posts.”
  • IndieBlocks — “…registers several blocks (Bookmark, Like, Reply, and Repost, as well as the older Context block) that take a URL and output corresponding microformatted HTML.”
  • IndieWeb Press This — WordPress’s Press This bookmarklets can already start a new post with a link to the page you’re currently viewing. This code adds IndieWeb microformats2 markup to that link.
  • Aperture — “…adds a Microsub endpoint to your WordPress site by using the hosted Aperture service. This lets you log in to social readers like Monocle and Indigenous. This plugin requires the WordPress IndieAuth plugin.”
  • Microformats 2 — “It is only a very basic implementation, because not every element is accessible through actions or filters.”
  • Yarns Microsub Server — “Yarns Microsub Server helps you follow feeds from across the Web. Enter a website and Yarns will help you find and subscribe to its feed(s) in several different formats (Microformats, RSS, Atom, JSONFeed).”

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