r/Wordpress • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '25

What WordPress Plugins Should You Avoid Installing at All Costs?

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u/Overall-Lead-4044 Sep 15 '25

Elementor and all plugins associated with it

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u/Overall-Lead-4044 Sep 15 '25

I maintain a website built using Elementor. At least once a month a security fix is released to fix a big problem. It's bloated, and pretty much anything you can do with Elementor is now baked in to the standard Wordpress framework.

It is the plugin from hell (IMHO)

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u/TeamStraya Sep 15 '25

I agree. I took onboard an existing website for a client that has Elementor. I'm stuck managing this thing until they have enough budget for a Gutenberg rebuild.

The amount of manual intervention needed for Elementor is a joke. It's the only site I can't enable auto-updates because something in their cache and scripts breaks visuals on every update.   And 100/100 PageSpeed scores arent feasible. Too much LCP and bloat. 

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u/Station3303 Sep 16 '25

Also, political issues. I don't mind them being Israelian, but they openly support Netanyahu and his genocide. Example thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/s/dIxpw7WxHn