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{
"title": "Rejected Plugins List",
"author": "Presslabs",
"version": "3.1",
"timestamp": "1470302301",
"groups": {
"security": {
"title": "Plugins that interfere with our security policy",
"description": "",
"subgroups": {
"database-access": {
"title": "DataBase access plugins",
"description": "Based on our security policy we don't allow direct DB access in order to avoid possible exploits and hacks through DB queries. Here's a list of banned plugins because of that."
},
"backup": {
"title": "Backup plugins",
"description": "We have a very tight backup policy which enables backups on multiple layers and in different locations. Most backup plugins are not friendly with sites having a large DB or tens of GB of data in their uploads folder. We therefore suggest contacting our support team for any backup needs."
},
"other": {
"title": "Other plugins with security risks",
"description": ""
}
}
},
"built-in": {
"title": "Plugins that interfere with our built-in ones",
"description": "",
"subgroups": {
"missed-schedules": {
"title": "Missed schedules plugins",
"description": "We already have a solution in place for posts missing their scheduled auto post time"
},
"caching": {
"title": "Caching plugins",
"description": ""
},
"other": {
"title": "Other built-in plugins",
"description": ""
}
}
},
"performance": {
"title": "Plugins affecting the site performance",
"description": "",
"subgroups": {
"related-posts": {
"title": "Related posts plugins",
"description": "For all related posts plugins we recommend using a plugin based on an external service such as Contextly."
},
"most-visited": {
"title": "Most visited posts plugins",
"description": "These plugins usually write in the DB every page view for every post. You can imagine that this is not a very good practice for sites with hundreds of thousands of views (either per day, week or month). We have built for this the plugin Toplytics which pulls this data from your Google Analytics account and safely serves it as a configurable widget and we strongly recommend it as an alternative for all the plugins below."
},
"dynamic-requests": {
"title": "Plugins doing dynamic requests at every click",
"description": "This set of plugins is doing dynamic requests to WordPress' backend breaking our caching mechanism and bringing sites down."
},
"sql-heavy": {
"title": "SQL heavy plugins",
"description": "These plugins put a lot of pressure on the SQL, either by doing tons of useless queries, either by running giant queries which are clogging the database, or by writing huge options in the DB."
},
"other": {
"title": "Other plugins affecting the site performance",
"description": ""
}
}
},
"general": {
"title": "General plugins",
"description": "",
"subgroups": {
"other": {
"title": "Other plugins",
"description": ""
}
}
}
},
"plugins": [{
"name": "Missed Scheduled",
"readme": "Missed Scheduled",
"file": "missed-schedule/missed-schedule.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We already have our in-house solution for missed schedules.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "missed-schedules"
}, {
"name": "tagDiv Speed Booster",
"readme": "tagDiv Speed Booster",
"file": "td-speed-booster/td-speed-booster.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "http://tagdiv.com",
"description": "Speed booster for Newspaper 7 and Newsmag 3 themes - It moves the styles and all the scripts of the theme to the bottom when needed. It activates internal theme optimizations for better speed and it adds async js .",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "WP Missed Schedule - RC2013",
"readme": "WP Missed Schedule Fix Failed Future Posts",
"file": "wp-missed-schedule/wp-missed-schedule.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We already have our in-house solution for missed schedules.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "missed-schedules"
}, {
"name": "Watermark My Image",
"readme": "Plugin Name",
"file": "watermark-my-image/watermark-my-image.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin has a bug that alters the charset of the post content resulting in weird characters.",
"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/watermark-my-image/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "Auto Upload Images",
"readme": "Auto Upload Images",
"file": "auto-upload-images/index.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin has serious security vulnerabilities, allowing the upload and then execution of random php scripts.",
"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "WordPress Database Reset",
"readme": "WordPress Database Reset",
"file": "wordpress-database-reset/wp-reset.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For security reasons we do not allow you to install this plugin. It will break your Database.",
"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "database-access"
}, {
"name": "WordPress Gzip Compression",
"readme": "WordPress Gzip Compression",
"file": "wordpress-gzip-compression/ezgz.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: Our servers already serve the content compressed.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-gzip-compression/",
"description": "we already have gzip enabled on all servers.",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "Quick Cache",
"readme": "Quick Cache ( Speed Without Compromise )",
"file": "quick-cache/quick-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "W3 Total Cache",
"readme": "W3 Total Cache",
"file": "w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "Ezoic",
"readme": "Ezoic",
"file": "ezoic-integration/ezoic-integration.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism and CDN.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/ezoic-integration/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "LiteSpeed Cache",
"readme": "LiteSpeed Cache",
"file": "litespeed-cache/litespeed-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "Hummingbird",
"readme": "Hummingbird",
"file": "hummingbird-performance/wp-hummingbird.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This performance plugin is causing Cache Refresh problems.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/",
"description": "Hummingbird zips through your site finding new ways to make it load faster, from file compression and minification to browser caching – because when it comes to pagespeed, every millisecond counts.",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "wp-cache",
"readme": "WP-Cache",
"file": "wp-cache/wp-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "WP File Cache",
"readme": "WP File Cache",
"file": "wp-file-cache/file-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-cache/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "CDN Linker",
"readme": "CDN Linker",
"file": "CDN-Linker-master/wp-cdn-linker.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own CDN and this plugin is interfering with it.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://github.com/wmark/CDN-Linker",
"description": "this is interfering with our built-in <a href='https://www.presslabs.com/help/general/platform-specifications/cdn/cdn-specifications'>CDN</a>).",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "WordPress HTTPS (SSL)",
"readme": "WordPress HTTPS (SSL)",
"file": "wordpress-https/wordpress-https.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is interfering with out platform resulting in multiple errors and making the wp-admin unusable.",
"group": "general",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/",
"description": "interferes with our setup and it's also not updated in over 2 years.",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "WP Super Cache",
"readme": "WP Super Cache",
"file": "wp-super-cache/wp-cache.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "caching"
}, {
"name": "Contextual Related Posts",
"readme": "Contextual Related Posts",
"file": "contextual-related-posts/contextual-related-posts.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For related posts we recommend using a 3rd party services like Outbrain and AddThis.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "related-posts"
}, {
"name": "Dynamic Related Posts Plugin",
"readme": "Dynamic Related Posts Plugin",
"file": "dynamic-related-posts/drpp.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For related posts we recommend using a 3rd party services like Outbrain and AddThis.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "",
"description": "this plugin was removed from the WP repository",
"subgroup": "related-posts"
}, {
"name": "Similar Posts",
"readme": "Similar Posts",
"file": "similar-posts/similar-posts.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For related posts we recommend using a 3rd party services like Outbrain and AddThis",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/similar-posts/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "related-posts"
}, {
"name": "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin",
"readme": "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin",
"file": "yet-another-related-posts-plugin/yarpp.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For related posts we recommend using a 3rd party services like Outbrain and AddThis",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/",
"description": "Adds related posts to your site and in RSS feeds, based on a powerful, customizable algorithm.",
"subgroup": "related-posts"
}, {
"name": "WP-PostViews",
"readme": "WP-PostViews",
"file": "wp-postviews/wp-postviews.php",
"reason": "<a href='/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&s=Toplytics&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins'>Presslabs notice: We recommend using Toplytics for counting post views.</a>",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postviews/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "most-visited"
}, {
"name": "WP Most Popular",
"readme": "WP Most Popular",
"file": "wp-most-popular/wp-most-popular.php",
"reason": "<a href='/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&s=Toplytics&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins'>Presslabs notice: We recommend using Toplytics for counting post views.</a>",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-most-popular/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "most-visited"
}, {
"name": "Popularity Posts Widget",
"readme": "Popularity Posts Widget",
"file": "popularity-posts-widget/popularity-posts-widget.php",
"reason": "<a href='/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&s=Toplytics&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins'>Presslabs notice: We recommend using Toplytics for counting post views.</a>",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/popularity-posts-widget/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "most-visited"
}, {
"name": "Special Recent Posts",
"readme": "Special Recent Posts",
"file": "special-recent-posts/special-recent-posts.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism and putting a high traffic site down.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Floating Social Bar",
"readme": "Floating Social Bar",
"file": "floating-social-bar/floating-social-bar.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism and putting a high traffic site down.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/floating-social-bar/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Flare",
"readme": "Flare",
"file": "flare/flare.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using AddThis plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/flare/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Shareaholic | share buttons, analytics, related content",
"readme": "Shareaholic | share buttons, related posts, social analytics & more",
"file": "shareaholic/shareaholic.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using AddThis plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/",
"description": "and the old Sexy Bookmarks plugin:",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Shareaholic | share buttons, analytics, related content",
"readme": "Shareaholic | share buttons, related posts, social analytics & more",
"file": "sexybookmarks/shareaholic.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using AddThis plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/sexybookmarks/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Currencyr",
"readme": "Currencyr",
"file": "currencyr/currencyr.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using AddThis plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/currencyr/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Facebook Comments by Fat Panda",
"readme": "Facebook Comments by Fat Panda",
"file": "fatpanda-facebook-comments/plugin.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using Facebook Comments plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/fatpanda-facebook-comments/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "WP Tab Widget",
"readme": "WP Tab Widget",
"file": "wp-tab-widget/wp-tab-widget.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism and putting a high traffic site down.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-tab-widget/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "Ninja Popups",
"readme": "Ninja Popups",
"file": "arscode-ninja-popups/arscode-ninja-popups.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing multiple dynamic requests at every click breaking our caching mechanism and putting a high traffic site down.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "dynamic-requests"
}, {
"name": "WP Media folder",
"readme": "Media test",
"file": "wp-media-folder/wp-media-folder.php",
"reason": "This plugin is altering the uploads folder structure which is not recommended and is not working on our platform.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-media-folder/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "other"
}, {
"name": "Backup Guard",
"readme": "Backup Guard",
"file": "backup/backup.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For security reasons direct backup plugins are not allowed with us. We can provide any backup on demand.",
"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "backup"
}, {
"name": "Backup WP",
"readme": "Backup WP",
"file": "backup-wp/backup-wordpress.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For security reasons direct backup plugins are not allowed with us. We can provide any backup on demand.",
"group": "security",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "backup"
}, {
"name": "Simple Backup",
"readme": "Simple Backup",
"file": "simple-backup/simple-backup-loader.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For security reasons direct backup plugins are not allowed with us. We can provide any backup on demand.",
"group": "security",
"url": "",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "backup"
}, {
"name": "blogVault Real-time Backup",
"readme": "BackWPup Free - WordPress Backup Plugin",
"file": "blogvault-real-time-backup/blogvault.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: For security reasons direct backup plugins are not allowed with us. We can provide any backup on demand.",
"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/blogvault-real-time-backup/",
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"description": "",
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"description": "",
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"description": "",
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"group": "security",
"url": "",
"description": "removed from the WP repository because of security issues",
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"group": "security",
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"description": "",
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"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-move/",
"description": "",
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"description": "",
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"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/fuzzy-seo-booster/",
"description": "",
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"group": "performance",
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"description": "",
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"group": "performance",
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"group": "built-in",
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"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/",
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"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-and-post-statistic-widgets/",
"description": "",
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"readme": "Popular Posts by BestWebSoft",
"file": "bws-popular-posts/bws-popular-posts.php",
"reason": "<a href='/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&s=Toplytics&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins'>PressLabs notice: We recommend using Toplytics for counting post views.</a>",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/bws-popular-posts/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "most-visited"
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"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/",
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"description": "",
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"description": "",
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"group": "security",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/exec-php/",
"description": "",
"subgroup": "other"
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"name": "WP Memcached Manager",
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"reason": "This plugin will stop working in PHP 7 and we provide our own built-in memcache management functionality.",
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"description": "",
"subgroup": "other"
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin is doing a dynamic request at every click breaking our caching mechanism. We recommend using AddThis plugin instead.",
"group": "performance",
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"description": "",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: Too many admin-ajax.php requests for each pageview.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-social-share-buttons/",
"description": "",
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"name": "Tevolution",
"readme": "Tevolution",
"file": "Tevolution/templatic.php",
"reason": "PressLabs Notice: Plugin represents a high security risk on our platform.",
"group": "security",
"url": "http://templatic.com/docs/tevolution-guide/",
"description": "Tevolution is a collection of Templatic features to enhance your website.",
"subgroup": "other"
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"file": "Tevolution-Directory/directory.php",
"reason": "PressLabs Notice: Plugin represents a high security risk on our platform.",
"group": "security",
"url": "http://templatic.com/docs/directory-plugin-guide/",
"description": "Tevolution - Directory plugin is specially built to turn your site into a powerful listings directory for any niche. To be used with Tevolution, this plugin is loaded with a bundle of features like listing submissions, power search, unlimited categories, custom fields and subscription or per listing payment packages.",
"subgroup": "other"
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"name": "Tevolution - LocationManager",
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"reason": "PressLabs Notice: Plugin represents a high security risk on our platform.",
"group": "security",
"url": "http://templatic.com/docs/tevolution-location-manager/",
"description": "Tevolution - Location Manager plugin is specially built to enhance your site's functionality by allowing location search and sort, setup the maps on your custom post pages with pin point effects. You can also add and manage locations for your site and even have city logs that will show you the number of visits to each of your cities.",
"subgroup": "other"
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"readme": "Database Browser",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: Interferes with our caching mechanism.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk/wordpress/database-browser/",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: We provide our own solutions for backups and migration.",
"group": "security",
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"name": "Related Posts",
"readme": "Plugin Name",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository for security reasons.",
"group": "security",
"url": "",
"description": "removed from the WP repository",
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"group": "performance",
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"file": "wp-super-cache-clear-cache-menu/wp-super-cache-clear-cache-menu.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own cache system.",
"group": "built-in",
"url": "http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/",
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"file": "ad-blocking-detector/ad-blocking-detector.php",
"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin writes huge options in the DB and can knock down the MySQL servers.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-blocking-detector/",
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"name": "AccessPress Social Pro",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: This plugin creates unnecessary wp_transients table causing great WP slowness.",
"group": "performance",
"url": "https://accesspressthemes.com/wordpress-plugins/accesspress-social-pro/",
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"group": "performance",
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"group": "performance",
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"subgroup": "sql-heavy"
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"readme": "AMP Cache",
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"reason": "Presslabs notice: We have our own custom caching mechanism and create a heavy load on the data server.",
"group": "built-in",
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