Disallowed Plugins

Keeping your Ready Steady Websites® site great

We created Ready Steady Websites® to make websites a whole lot easier to create and maintain, but there are a handful of plugins that are detrimental to the running of your website. These are lists and detailed below. If we detect one of these plugins running on your website, we will contact you and ask that you disable the plugin. If the plugin is presenting a security risk we may in some circumstances disable your website and take it offline whilst we work on a resolution with you.

About Disallowed Plugins

As we manage your web hosting, we curate a great plugin stack for you to use on your website. This should be all that you need to run your website, but WordPress does allow you to install other plugins, which is completely fine... as long as they're not on this list. Most of the plugins on this list are there for performance issues, some may come and go depending on issues they may fix or cause along the way. Other plugins are not necessary because of what we provide at RSW.

You do not need another Page Builder

We provide a great, easy to use Page Builder as part of RSW. You do not need to run Divi, Elementor or any other page builder plugin.

Running another page builder will slow down your website and make it hard to manage.

Further to that, Elementor is currently forbidden on our web hosting as they have a history of security issues, with the most recent issue allowing complete takeover of websites running Elementor.

Caching Plugins

We provide Breeze or StackCache for your caching needs, depending on where we put your site within our network. You do not need another cache or alternative cache plugin.

Backup Plugins

We have server level backups on all our sites which run for 30 days on a rolling basis, meaning we can roll back your website up to 30 days previously. As a secondary measure we also install UpdraftPlus on all your sites and a secondary 30 day backup is stored on Google Drive should the server level backup fail. You therefore do not need any other backup plugin.

Resource Heavy Plugins

The following plugins are disallowed as they flood the database server with too many queries.

  • Broken Link Checker
  • MyReviewPlugin
  • LinkMan
  • Fuzzy SEO Booster
  • WP PostViews
  • Tweet Blender

Email Plugins

WordPress is designed to host websites, not replace your Email Marketing System, the following plugins are therefore disallowed:

  • MailPoet
  • Mailster

File Manager Plugins

To maintain the integrity of our servers and services you should not be using any additional file manager plugins that provide unauthorised access to the file structure system of WordPress. Using these types of plugins can seriously damage your website if you move or delete the wrong file.

  • Filester

Questions & Queries

If you have any questions about the above, please let us know on a support ticket.