cogit

I enjoy your point of view. Seriously. Thank you for the response, I do appreciate it.

With regard to security, you mention as long as it’s up to date. But no matter how up to date WordPress is, the back end can still get bruteforced, a plugin’s file can be loaded directly, etc. How do you get around that concern? Or is it something that not your concern but is your client or their host?

I used “best” as a tongue-in-cheek as whatever plugin someone uses, they would consider it the “best” plugin to use. I’m fully aware there is no “best” plugin. The point of it is to find out what kind of plugin would one use on their website for which functionality and why that choice of all others.

You’ve clearly express you do everything yourself and prefer no help from free themes and plugins. That’s a good tactic as hackers wouldn’t know your code and can’t really tap in on known vulnerabilities. However, it still doesn’t avoid the question of how do you prevent hackers from trying to bruteforce their way in through the backend?

Thanks for the reply Keith. As I said, I already host WordPress sites for clients. I currently have a cloud hosting package with a reputable host in my country so that I at least don’t have to deal with the hardware ??

I’ve read the requirements before but still doesn’t hurt seeing them again thanks. What I’m looking for is what is recommended and suggested on a web server. Tips and advice I’d say. I’m not quite a top notch system admin but wouldn’t say fresh either.

An example would be to add some magical lines to modsec then one doesn’t need wordfence or making use of memcached module or PHP FPM will greatly speed up WordPress, etc.

Thank you though for the link and mention of CDN though, I didn’t think of that. Don’t really know how to either so now I have homework ??

Well, considering just about all wordpress sites need security, performance and SEO to make it a reliable website for a client, the silly question isn’t so silly. Have you coded such things yourself / in-house?

What plugins have you had preference over which you couldn’t code yourself?

I agree, of course ShortPixel would recommend their own plugin :-P.

What I like about WP Smush is that it optimizes 500kb on each image. Most images are already optimized from Fotosizer which I use before using imaging in the designs I upload. It does a great job.

I do have my own preferences yes, but the goal of this post is to see what are the preferences of others and what is the reason for such choices. Maybe someone suggests a plugin with a functionality I hadn’t even thought of. Here is to hoping ??

Please delete the spammy posts but please also give this post a chance for some good answers? Thanks for always keeping an eye out Jan ??

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