Joey Kudish

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With over 49,000 plugins in the repo it can be hard for new users to know where to start. Yeah there is search but what if you don’t know what you are looking for. What Better Plugin Recommendations does is remove the default featured and recommendations tab and instead adds a new recommendations tab which only included plugins that I’ve hand selected. These are plugins that I feel are appropriate for every new user and are ones that are great examples of why WordPress is awesome.
The only purpose of this plugin is to help WordPress users find the plugins they need. There is no branding or ads. It’s integrated perfectly into the Plugin -> New screen.
Saying that these are the “best” WordPress plugins isn’t really helpful. Best is so subjective. I thought it would help if you knew the criteria I used in selecting these plugins, so I’ve included it below. I’m also trying to only include plugins that I think the majority of people will use. There are definitely some great niche plugins that I think are wonderful but not useful enough for everyone to include.
Here is the criteria I used:
Price (Free) 
Numbers of users 
Average Rating 
Last Updated 
Support Given
This plugin uses a web service to serve up the plugin results. The service is located at https://better-plugin-recommendations.now.sh

Better Plugin Recommendations

A lot of designers & developers produce websites for paying clients, and for the main part each of these sites need the same core tools. 

At Code Clinic we've even gone to the extent of creating a suite of modular plugins that take care of all the things that are missing from a clean WP install. We also have a number of go to plugins that we use regularly.

Like others in the industry, we'd love to ensure our clients use the best tools for the job, rather than a random collection of plugins of varying quality and performance. So, being able to firmly guide our clients in the direction of plugins that we know work well not only means that we help our clients keep their WP site in top condition, we can also help support our clients because they are using plugins that we have a lot of experience with, rather than some previously unheard off alternative.

Thanks for making this.

Really Useful

There are so many plugins out there. Knowing which ones to choose can be really hard. Let us help.

Pedro Mendonça

Roy Tanck

Torsten Landsiedel

A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.
<h3>Plugin Report will allow you to:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Spot plugins that are no longer maintained.</li>
<li>Get a quick overview of the “plugin health” of your site.</li>
<li>Provide clients with a detailed report, right from their own dashboard, or as CSV spreadsheet.</li>
<li>Find plugins that are no longer active on multisite installs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Thanks to Roy Tanck for trusting me to adopt this great plugin. Hartelijk bedankt!
Special thanks go to <a href="http://tristen.ca/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tristen Forsythe Brown</a> for the <a href="https://github.com/tristen/tablesort" rel="nofollow ugc">tablesort JavaScript library</a> licensed under the MIT License.

Plugin Report

If a plugin hasn't been updated for a long time and isn't tested with the current WordPress version, it doesn't necessarily mean it's broken. But it's worth checking if there are better alternatives available that are being actively developed. 

If you easily want to check and improve your website, this plugin comes in really handy: It tells you, what WordPress version you are using and if the plugin developers have tested their plugin with that version. You can also easily check, when the plugin had it's last update. Plugins which haven't been updated lately get highlighted, which makes it even easier to take action. This all happens without much hassle: install the plugin, go to menu plugins > plugin report and give it a minute to sample all necessary informations and you immediately know, where you should try plugins which are more up to date.

Maintaining your WordPress site can be so easy, if you use such a great tool.

Great way to keep your site up to date

This plugin especially useful when you have dozens of them (in my case 50+).
Plugin Report works nicely with paid plugins as well.

I love how it loads all the plugins one by one (great UX) and "Last update" column.

Instead of "No data available" it could display juts "-". less clutter, but not critical.
The plugin lacks sorting by columns, and/or filtering, but still very useful.

Small and useful to have plugins under control


This is going straight into my toolkit.



It fills a critical need that probably should be part of WordPress core, and it does so in a simple and straight-forward way.



Thank you!


A Toolkit Must-Have

A WordPress plugin that provides detailed information about currently installed plugins.

Better Plugin Recommendations vs Plugin Report