Now it starts to warn my clients for all kinds of vulnerabilities, which makes them nervous. While they don’t have to be nervous, since I’m using a top notch security plugin (Malcare).
I don’t like this way of pushing new options that I don’t need (as well as suggesting I need their Pro version), and have nothing to do with the original task of the plugin: forcing SSL. It’s getting bloated. These extra options should be incorporated in a separate plugin.
]]>For those of us who already have security solutions, the security features now built into Really Simple SSL are forcing us to abandon this plugin. This simply isn’t an SSL plugin anymore, it is a security plugin. Best to use WordFence, AIOWPS or any of the countless others out there that have been around for a long time without losing their way. Our new solution involves using wp-cli to fix mixed content by conducting search and replace, and htaccess rules to force https and hsts when necessary.
]]>Also, it will add 700+ lines of CSS to the frontend of your site, whether or not you have enabled any features that require them. so here’s the snippet to correct that insult.
add_filter( ‘jetpack_implode_frontend_css’, ‘__return_false’, 99 );
Here’s the thing, I know I’m being harsh, and for all I know, all of these features might be absolutely great, but I will seek them out when the time comes. I don’t want to be repeatedly poked and prodded in the course of running my daily business into enabling some paid feature of your multi-tool of a plugin I never asked for anyway, and all it really does is make me want to go find a different service when I do need that functionality, because it leaves me with nothing but a bad taste in my mouth. I honestly would rather just carry a laptop, or do all my admin from the browser, and just uninstall the WooCommerce app. The only reason I deal with it at all is that the store manager really likes the app, but know that every other WooCommerce shop I work on doesn’t touch JetPack with a 99 and a half foot pole.
To be fair, JetPack is really not unusual in the WordPress world as far as upsells, but it is certainly persistent when it comes to admin bar notifications, and its high up on the “I never asked for any of this” scale.
]]>The Pro version includes the ability to see hints about which plugins the data in the database is coming from, which is pretty accurate (accurate enough to be helpful), and will doubtlessly become more accurate over time. I highly suggest purchasing the Pro version if you’re website is more than two years old and you have enough experience to work with WordPress database data.
Thanks Jordy for a great plugin! You deserve to be much more well-known! I hope this review helps a little in that regard.
P.S. As mentioned in several places, including in the plugin itself, always make a backup of your website before making changes to your database with this, or any plugin like it.
]]>Just installing this plugin increases Initial Server Response Time by 3 seconds.
]]>While perusing the “uploads” directory via FTP, I found ~7.5GB of BackupBuddy back-ups (most of which I’ll purge) and ~75 Media Library files (all are images) with a total file size of ~100M (as expected). Although many “permanently deleted” media files are no longer visible in the WP Media Library, via FTP I can see ~50M of media files that were apparently abandoned in the “uploads” directory on the server. I’ve scoured the “uploads” sub-directories, and I still can not locate ~53GB of files. I’m speculating that the WP-Optimize plugin may have something to do with this, but–at the risk of inadvertently deleting necessary media–I’m reluctant to deactivate the plugin to test. Also, BackupBuddy often stalls on the “Zipping files” phase of a complete back-up, and I’m speculating that this may be the result of attempting to back up 60.49GB of data with each “complete” back-up. There are a few deactivated plugins that I can delete, but all plugins that are in use are up-to-date.
My objective is to purge whatever is unnecessarily bloating the “uploads” directory, and I appreciate any insight / assistance.
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