Membership plugins — experiences?

Never let WordPress send mail natively on a VPS — use SMTP or a transactional service.

Rank Math won me over after Yoast nagged me one time too many.

Every build of mine starts with the same six plugins and grows from there.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

Never let WordPress send mail natively on a VPS — use SMTP or a transactional service.

Cloudflare plus a light cache plugin is enough for most small sites.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

SMTP with a transactional service fixed all my contact-form complaints.

Could not agree more.

Page builders still have their place for landing pages, just not whole sites.

Cloudflare plus a light cache plugin is enough for most small sites.