plugins

Your plugins — quick review

📨 Contact Form 7

• Still boring
• Still reliable
• Works well with CFDB7

🐝 CF7 Apps Honeypot

• Lightweight spam protection
• No CAPTCHA annoyance
• Good choice

🗄 Contact Form CFDB7 (post backup)

• Saves submissions in DB
• Great safety net if mail fails
• Just remember: GDPR = data retention policy

🍪 CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent

• Proper consent banner
• Blocks scripts correctly
• Fine for EU (you did the right thing)

🔐 NinjaFirewall (WP Edition)

• Very strong security layer
• Especially good if this site gets attention
• Don’t enable every rule blindly (some break REST / AJAX)

🕵️ NinjaScanner

• Good for integrity checks
• Run manually, not constantly

👤 Ultimate Member

• Heavy, but powerful
• Fine since you know what you’re doing
• Avoid overlapping features with Woo later

🛒 WooCommerce +germanized

• Big, but unavoidable if you need commerce
• Leave it idle until you need it

✉️ WP Mail SMTP

• Mandatory in 2026
• Prevents 90% of “contact form doesn’t send” headaches

NinjaFirewall + REST / AJAX

When your chat / API stuff starts:

• whitelist:
  • /wp-json/
  • admin-ajax.php
• otherwise things will randomly fail