Incompatible Plugins Wordpress.com
While the vast majority of plugins are supported here at WordPress.com, there are some that are not. This page contains a running list of these unsupported plugins and the reasons why.
Introduction
Sites with a plugin-enabled plan have access to tens of thousands of plugins in the WordPress ecosystem. Plugins give your site superpowers, helping you turn your dreams into reality.
In the case of many of these plugins, we already provide identical or superior functionality on WordPress.com. Therefore, installing additional plugins wouldn’t improve your site’s performance or features, and could negatively affect it instead.
We are not implying that all plugins on this page are bad. By disallowing these plugins, we wish to ensure a scalable and efficient hosting environment for all our customers.
If you want to install a plugin on this page, feel free to get in touch, and we’ll help you find an alternative option.
Caching Plugins
WordPress.com is already equipped with its own robust caching solution, which is able to scale at a global level without any additional intervention on your side. Thus, installing another caching plugin will not work and may have unintended consequences like crashing your site.
The following plugins can interfere with the existing caching system on your site:
Breeze — WordPress Cache Plugin
Comet Cache
Cache Enabler
Fast Velocity Minify
Hyper Cache
JCH Optimize
Powered Cache
Quick Cache
Redis Object Cache
SiteGround Optimizer (known by the slug
sg-cachepress
)W3 Total Cache
WP Cache
WP Fastest Cache
WP Speed Of Light
WP Super Cache
Backup Plugins
If you are worried about losing data, rest assured that we make daily backups of your site. Go to Jetpack → Backups to restore or download a backup of your site from a specific point in time.
These plugins are not supported because they may negatively impact your site’s performance with excessive resource usage:
Backup Guard
Backup WD
BackUpWordPress
BackWPup
Clone
Database Backup for WordPress
Duplicator
SiteGround Migrator
WP BackItUp Community Edition
WP DB Backup
Please note: If you want to migrate a WordPress.com site to another site hosted at WordPress.com, see our Import options.
SQL-Heavy Plugins
These plugins put a high strain on our servers due to the exorbitant number of SQL queries they create:
Adnow Plugin
Broken Link Checker
ImageInject
Leads
Page Visit Counter
Post Views Counter
Slimstat Analytics
TokenAd
Top 10
UserPro
WordPress Classifieds Plugin
WordPress Popular Posts
WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan
WP-PostViews
WP RSS Aggregator
WP Session Manager
WP Statistics
WP ULike
Database / File System Altering Plugins
These plugins allow users to delete essential files or SQL data that often result in a broken website. If you wish to reset your site, delete a file, or run a query, please don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.
Advanced Database Cleaner
Advanced File Manager
Advanced Reset WP
Advanced WP Reset
ARI Adminer
CiviCRM
Database Backup for WordPress
Database Browser
Database Reset
Extended WP Reset
File Manager
Hide My WP
Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)
Reset WP
Secure File Manager
Ultimate Reset
Ultimate WordPress Reset
WordPress File Upload
WordPress Reset
WP CleanFix
WP Config File Editor
WP-DBManager
WP Downgrade
WP File Manager
WP phpMyAdmin
WP Prefix Changer
WP Reset
WP Uninstaller by Azed
WPMU Database Reset
Z Inventory Manager
Email Plugins
Emails are an essential part of any website. However, there are some plugins that send spam emails that we cannot allow:
E-mail Broadcasting
Mailit
Send Email from Admin
As an alternative, you may want to check out a third-party email solution such as Mailchimp or MailPoet. You can integrate MailChimp forms easily into your site.
Automated Content Plugins
We know it can be tempting to automatically import content from around the web using content scrapers. We’ve found that these sorts of plugins are not a good fit for sites hosted at WordPress.com. Not only do they place unnecessary loads on the infrastructure, but automated posting is also often seen as spam and is generally unwanted.
Blogmatic
Octolooks Scrapes
RSS Feed to Post
Woozone/WZone
WordAi Aggregator
WP Automatic
WP Inject
WP RSS Aggregator
WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher
WPRobot5
Miscellaneous
Other incompatible plugins that don’t fall into a particular category are listed below:
10Web Player for Youtube (YouTube player and gallery)
Adult Mass Photos Downloader
Adult Mass Videos Downloader
Automatic Video Posts
Better WordPress Minify
Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection (stopbadbots)
BWP Minify
CDN Enabler
CF7 Pipedrive Integration
Clearfy
Cornerstone
Cryptocurrency Pricing list and Ticker
Deactivate XML-RPC Service
Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan (antihacker)
Disable XML-RPC
Disable XML-RPC-API
Disable XML RPC Fully
Disable XML-RPC & Unset X-Pingback
Easy Username Updater
Event Espresso
FacetWP Manipulator
Flo Launch
Image Gallery by Robo
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
Leads
Manage XML-RPC
Monero Miner Pro
Nginx Helper
Noo Indeed Integration PluginPorn Embed
Patron Button and Widgets by Codebard
PHP Settings
Pigdig P3
Plugin Detective – Troubleshooting
Post Type Switcher
PropellerAds Official Plugin
Really Simple SSL
Remove XML-RPC Methods
Shield Security
Simple XML-RPC Disabler
SiteGround Security
Speed Contact Bar
Trafficzion
Tubeace
Unplug Jetpack
Username Changer
VamTam Offline Jetpack
Video Importer
WordFence Security
WP Hardening
WP Hide & Security Enhancer
WP-Inject (now known as ImageInject)
WP Monero Miner
WP Optimize By xTraffic
WP Optimizer
WP Staging
WPS Hide Login
Yuzo Related Post
Zapp Proxy Server Plugin
ABSPATH
Some themes and plugins break due to incorrect usage of the ABSPATH
variable in requiring files or writing into folders.
You may not use ABSPATH
on our platform, as this points to the core WordPress folder, unless you are requiring a core file. Instead, you must use WP_CONTENT_DIR
, which is defined on our system as /htdocs/wp-content
. When requiring a file, it would look like:
require_once( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins/plugin-stuff/stuffs.php' );
Otherwise, if on other hosting platforms WP_CONTENT_DIR
wasn’t defined, it would default to:
ABSPATH . 'wp-content'
FAQ
My plugin says I need ionCube Loader. What’s that, and do I have it?
The ionCube Loader is a PHP module used to hide and obfuscate PHP code. Some plugins such as AliDropShip require this to be installed on your site’s server to function. At the present time, we do not run ionCube on our servers. As a result, any plugins that rely on it will not function on WordPress.com-hosted sites.
Looking for an alternative to the AliDropShip plugin? The WooCommerce Dropshipping extension supports importing products from AliExpress and is compatible with WordPress.com.
My plugin says the database doesn’t support a character set. What do I do?
Some plugins, notably Convertkit, require a particular database character set, such as UTF-8. Sites on WordPress.com use Latin1 as a character set. If a plugin requires a different character set, please contact the developers for an alternative solution.
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