Plugins I install on every single WP site (part 2)

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

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

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

I stopped using page builders once the block editor matured.

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

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

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

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

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

Rank Math here too — the schema options alone are worth it.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

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

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

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

Rank Math here too — the schema options alone are worth it.