Page builders: still worth it? — follow-up

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.

Caching is the single biggest performance win on cheap shared hosting.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

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

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

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

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

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

Interesting — I will have to try that.

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

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

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

That has been my experience as well.