{"id":538992,"date":"2023-08-31T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=538992"},"modified":"2023-08-31T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:55:04","slug":"dont-trust-plug-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/31\/dont-trust-plug-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust plug-ins."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think this is true; any sort of plug-in besides the ones which disable stuff, are bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the most useful plug-ins, for WordPress or beyond? The ones that get rid of things or disable things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, disable comments plug-in, or spam protection plug-ins. All of these other plug-ins which strive to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153optimize\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 things, often break your website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, this one thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been using for a while called <a href=\"https:\/\/wpastra.com\">Astra<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I paid for it, the premium theme, perhaps $250 outright for a lifetime pro theme, but it has broken my website at least twice. Straight in the trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the reason why I am also now very very suspicious of that Astra team is that in order to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unlock\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pro features\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, you must install this WordPress Astra pro plug-in thing; but aesthetically, I hate the addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is true; any sort of plug-in besides the ones which disable stuff, are bad. What are the most useful plug-ins, for WordPress or beyond? The ones that get rid of things or disable things. For example, disable comments plug-in, or spam protection plug-ins. All of these other plug-ins which strive to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153optimize\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538999,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538992\/revisions\/538999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}