New Premium Plugins; How to test, monitor, and save time

[tiger6667]

yes, this may have been aimed at the neophyte, but it catches all of us, when we have our guard down. There may be a few sites that explain the tools to guard against these malicious plugins and themes, but this post should cover what I have learned, "the hard way". These newly posted "premium plugins", may be free initially, but could cost plenty, especially if your time is valuable. Not always touted as the most exciting, , the free preventative plugins on wordpress.org. are the best investment you can make, and they are free.


1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-wordpr...y-checker/
2. https://wordpress.org/plugins/quttera-we...e-scanner/
3. https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/
5. http://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, nor does it address, the familiar problem of these plugins hogging valuable memory, to make your site virtually unusable.

To identify which plugin is hogging resources, and how to monitor these plugin, I recommend these 2 highly:

1. "Query Manager" http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/
2. GoDaddy P3 plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/ are invaluable as they will graphically depict loading and performance information.

Please add max reps if helpful.