While the vast majority of plugins are supported here at WordPress.com, a few plugins cannot be installed because of the risks they present to your website. This page contains an updated list of these unsupported plugins and the reasons why.
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Sites with a plugin-enabled plan can access tens of thousands of plugins in the WordPress ecosystem to add any feature imaginable to your website. We do not curate or restrict the plugins available to WordPress.com sites — almost all WordPress plugins can be installed. The small number of incompatible plugins listed on this page are not installable because installing them would negatively impact your site.
In the case of many of these plugins, we already provide identical or superior functionality as part of the WordPress.com platform. Therefore, installing additional plugins for these features is not necessary.
We are not implying that all plugins on this page are bad. By disallowing these plugins, we wish to ensure a scalable and efficient hosting environment for all our customers. If you want to install a plugin on this page, feel free to contact us and we’ll help you find an alternative option.
WordPress.com is already equipped with its own robust caching solution, which can scale globally without any additional intervention. Thus, installing another caching plugin will not work and may have unintended consequences like crashing your site.
The following plugins can interfere with the existing caching system on your site:
- Breeze — WordPress Cache Plugin
- Comet Cache
- Cache Enabler
- Fast Velocity Minify
- Hyper Cache
- JCH Optimize
- Performance Lab
- Powered Cache
- Quick Cache
- Redis Object Cache
- SiteGround Optimizer (known by the slug
sg-cachepress) - W3 Total Cache
- WP Cache
- WP Fastest Cache
- WP Speed Of Light
- WP Super Cache
If you are worried about losing data, rest assured that we make daily site backups. Go to Jetpack → Backups to restore or download a backup of your site from a specific time.
These plugins are not supported because they may negatively impact your site’s performance with excessive resource usage:
- Backup Guard
- Backup WD
- BackUpWordPress
- BackWPup
- Clone
- Database Backup for WordPress
- Duplicator
- SiteGround Migrator
- WP BackItUp Community Edition
- WP DB Backup
If you want to migrate a WordPress.com site to another site hosted at WordPress.com, see our Import options.
These plugins put a high strain on our servers due to the exorbitant number of SQL queries they create:
- Adnow Plugin
- Broken Link Checker
- ImageInject
- Leads
- Page Visit Counter
- Post Views Counter
- Slimstat Analytics
- TokenAd
- Top 10
- UserPro
- WordPress Classifieds Plugin
- WordPress Popular Posts
- WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan
- WP-PostViews
- WP RSS Aggregator
- WP Session Manager
- WP Statistics
- WP ULike
These plugins allow users to delete essential files or SQL data that often result in a broken website. If you wish to reset your site, see our guide to resetting your site here.
- Advanced Database Cleaner
- Advanced File Manager
- Advanced Reset WP
- Advanced WP Reset
- ARI Adminer
- CiviCRM
- Database Backup for WordPress
- Database Browser
- Database Reset
- Extended WP Reset
- File Manager
- Hide My WP
- Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)
- Reset
- Reset WP
- Secure File Manager
- Ultimate Reset
- Ultimate WordPress Reset
- WordPress File Upload
- WordPress Reset
- WP CleanFix
- WP Config File Editor
- WP-DBManager
- WP Downgrade
- WP File Manager
- WP phpMyAdmin
- WP Prefix Changer
- WP Reset
- WP Uninstaller by Azed
- WPMU Database Reset
- Z Inventory Manager
If you need to delete a file or run a query that would require one of these plugins, please don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.
Emails are an essential part of any website. However, some plugins send spam emails that we cannot allow:
- E-mail Broadcasting
- Mailit
- Send Email from Admin
As an alternative, you can check out MailPoet for sending emails.
We know it can be tempting to automatically import content from around the web using content scrapers. We’ve found that these sorts of plugins are not a good fit for sites hosted at WordPress.com. Not only do they place unnecessary loads on the infrastructure, but automated posting is also often seen as spam and is generally unwanted.
- Blogmatic
- Octolooks Scrapes
- RSS Feed to Post
- Woozone/WZone
- WordAi Aggregator
- WP Automatic
- WP Inject
- WP RSS Aggregator
- WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher
- WPRobot5
We use robust security measures to ensure the safety of your site, its contents, and personal data. The following plugins interfere with your site’s built-in security systems:
- Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection (stopbadbots)
- Disable Json API, Login Lockdown, XMLRPC, Pingback, Stop User Enumeration Anti Hacker Scan (antihacker)
- iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
- Really Simple SSL
- Shield Security
- SiteGround Security
- SolidWP (formerly iThemes Security)
- WordFence Security
- WP Hide & Security Enhancer
Other incompatible plugins that don’t fall into a particular category are listed below:
- 10Web Player for Youtube (YouTube player and gallery)
- Adult Mass Photos Downloader
- Adult Mass Videos Downloader
- Automatic Video Posts
- Better WordPress Minify
- BWP Minify
- CDN Enabler
- CF7 Pipedrive Integration
- Clearfy
- Cornerstone
- Cryptocurrency Pricing list and Ticker
- Deactivate XML-RPC Service
- Disable XML-RPC
- Disable XML-RPC-API
- Disable XML RPC Fully
- Disable XML-RPC & Unset X-Pingback
- Easy Username Updater
- Event Espresso
- FacetWP Manipulator
- Flo Launch
- Image Gallery by Robo
- Leads
- Manage XML-RPC
- Monero Miner Pro
- Nginx Helper
- Noo Indeed Integration PluginPorn Embed
- Patron Button and Widgets by Codebard
- PHP Settings
- Pigdig P3
- Plugin Detective – Troubleshooting
- Post Type Switcher
- PropellerAds Official Plugin
- Remove XML-RPC Methods
- Simple XML-RPC Disabler
- Speed Contact Bar
- Trafficzion
- Tubeace
- Unplug Jetpack
- Username Changer
- VamTam Offline Jetpack
- Video Importer
- WP Hardening
- WP-Inject (now known as ImageInject)
- WP Monero Miner
- WP Optimize By xTraffic
- WP Optimizer
- WP Staging (see Create a Staging Site)
- WPS Hide Login
- Yuzo Related Post
- Zapp Proxy Server Plugin
Some themes and plugins break due to incorrect usage of the ABSPATH variable in requiring files or writing into folders.
You may not use ABSPATH on our platform, as this points to the core WordPress folder, unless you are requiring a core file. Instead, you must use WP_CONTENT_DIR, which is defined on our system as /htdocs/wp-content. When requiring a file, it would look like:
require_once( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins/plugin-stuff/stuffs.php' );
Otherwise, if on other hosting platforms WP_CONTENT_DIR wasn’t defined, it would default to:
ABSPATH . 'wp-content'
The ionCube Loader is a PHP module that hides and obfuscates PHP code. Some plugins, such as AliDropShip, require installing this on your site’s server to function. At the present time, we do not run ionCube on our servers. As a result, any plugins that rely on it will not function on WordPress.com-hosted sites.
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Looking for an alternative to the AliDropShip plugin? The WooCommerce Dropshipping extension supports importing products from AliExpress and is compatible with WordPress.com.
Some plugins, notably Convertkit, require a particular database character set, such as UTF-8. Sites on WordPress.com use Latin1 as a character set. If a plugin requires a different character set, please contact the developers for an alternative solution.
