Plugins
My favourite WordPress plugins
Last Modified: 6 October 2026
A WordPress site is only as maintainable as its plugin list. I buy a few from trusted developers. Sometimes I code my own. Jammy Blocks is one of my own plugins because I found other blocks didn’t work the way I wanted them to, not were they set up the way I liked.
Own the licence, or own the code.
The tools
Every form on every site. The contact form asks which country you are in, and Narnia is already selected, so the bots that never touch it are stored and never emailed.
Switches off what WordPress loads by default and nobody asked for: dashicons on the front end, comments, the password strength meter. Revisions stop at two.
The whole site, files and database, copied to Google Drive before anything risky happens to it.
The share buttons. Made by the same people as Perfmatters.
Titles, descriptions, the sitemap and the structured data. It replaced Schema Pro, which signed this site up for usage tracking without asking.
Every code snippet on every site, one job each, filed in folders and synced to the cloud. None of it goes in functions.php.
Visitor numbers with no cookies and no consent banner, kept in the site's own database. Google gets nothing.
For all images and galleries
Notes
Anything that phones home with my data, or parks a banner in wp-admin, comes off the list.