Stop installing dozens of plugins for basic tasks.
Blaminhor Essentials groups essential WordPress features into one single, lightweight plugin. I built this because I was tired of managing 10 different plugins for things that should be simple.
My Approach:
- All-in-One: I gathered the most useful tools: Content Duplicator, SMTP, Maintenance Mode, Broken Links Checker, and more.
- Pragmatic Performance: No bloat. You only load the code for the features you actually turn on.
- Secure & Reliable: I use standard WordPress APIs and best practices. No reinvention of the wheel.
- 100% Free: No premium version, no upsells. I built this for myself, and I'm sharing it with you.
Available Features:
Backup
Complete backup solution with scheduling and external file support.
- Separate Archives: Each component (database, plugins, themes, uploads) is saved as a separate archive for flexibility.
- Scheduled Backups: Set up automatic backups daily, weekly, or monthly with retention settings.
- Pre-Update Backups: Automatically backup before WordPress core, plugin, or theme updates.
- Progress Tracking: Step-by-step progress bar during backup creation.
- Upload External Backups: Import backup files from other sites with automatic domain change detection.
- Pre-Restore Safety: Automatic backup created before any restore operation, with one-click undo.
- Secure Storage: Backups protected from direct access with .htaccess rules.
Broken Links Checker
Keep your site healthy by finding dead links.
- Deep Scan: Scans posts, pages, and custom post types for broken URLs.
- Internal & External: Checks your own internal links and external references.
- Real-Time Results: View scan progress and broken links as they are found.
- Smart Management: Recheck individual links, edit the source post, or dismiss false positives.
- Batched Scanning: One post at a time to prevent server timeouts.
Classic Editor
Restore the clean, distraction-free writing experience.
- Disable Gutenberg: Completely disables the Block Editor for posts and pages.
- Classic Widgets: Restores the traditional Widgets screen instead of block-based widgets.
- Performance Cleanup: Removes block library CSS from frontend and optionally from admin.
Post Types Order
Reorder any post type or taxonomy with drag and drop.
- Drag & Drop: Intuitive sortable list to reorder posts, pages, and custom post types.
- Taxonomy Support: Reorder categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
- Auto Sort: Automatically apply custom order on the frontend.
- Capability Control: Choose which user role can reorder items (Administrator, Editor, or Author).
- No Extra Tables: Uses native WordPress
menu_order for posts and term_meta for taxonomies.
Content Duplicator
Duplicate posts, pages, and custom post types with precision.
- Complete Copy: Duplicates content, excerpt, parent, template, and menu order.
- Deep Cloning: Copies all custom fields (post meta), taxonomies (categories/tags), and child posts.
- Smart Options: Choose new status (draft, publish, private), copy author, date, and comments.
- Admin Integration: 'Duplicate' links in list view, edit screen, and admin bar. Bulk duplication supported.
- Taxonomy Support: Duplicate categories and tags with all their metadata.
Database Optimizer
Optimize and clean your WordPress database for better performance.
- Overview Dashboard: See database size, overhead, and items to clean at a glance.
- Smart Cleanup: Remove post revisions, auto-drafts, trashed posts, spam comments, expired transients.
- Orphan Data: Clean orphaned post meta, comment meta, term meta, and relationships.
- Table Optimization: Reclaim disk space by optimizing database tables.
- Scheduled Cleanup: Set up automatic cleanup on daily, twice daily, or weekly schedule.
- Revision Control: Keep a configurable number of revisions per post.
- Backup Reminder: Prompts to create a backup before cleanup (links to Backup module if active).
Domain Changer
Change your site domain and update all database references in one click.
- One-Click Migration: Update all database references to the new domain automatically.
- Smart Replacement: Handles serialized data in options, post meta, and other tables.
- Preview Changes: See how many rows will be affected before making changes.
- Backup Integration: Prompts to create a database backup before migration.
- Change History: Track previous domain changes with timestamps.
Fatal Error Recovery
Recover from fatal errors without FTP access.
- Error Detection: Automatically detects PHP fatal errors that crash your site.
- Recovery Interface: Access a standalone page to manage plugins when your site is down.
- Smart Detection: Identifies which plugin caused the error from the stack trace.
- Database Deactivation: Deactivates plugins via database (files remain intact) for safe recovery.
- Secure Access: Secret recovery URL required to prevent unauthorized access.
- Email Notification: Optionally receive an email with the recovery link when an error is detected.
Favicon Generator
One image, perfect branding everywhere.
- Universal Support: Generates PNG icons (16, 32, 48), Apple Touch Icon (180), Android Chrome (192, 512), and Windows Tiles.
- Manifest & Config: Automatically serves
site.webmanifest and browserconfig.xml.
- Customization: Set theme color and background color for mobile and tile interfaces.
- Simple: Upload one high-res square image (512x512+), and we handle the rest.
HTTPS Redirect
Force secure connections for your entire site.
- Automatic Redirect: Redirects all HTTP requests to HTTPS with a 301 permanent redirect.
- Admin & Login: Force HTTPS on wp-admin and wp-login.php for secure authentication.
- Mixed Content Fix: Optionally fix HTTP URLs in page output to prevent browser warnings.
- HSTS Support: Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security header with configurable max-age.
- Safety First: Module is disabled by default with clear warnings about potential lockout.
Image Sizes
Take control of your media library and disk space.
- Disable Sizes: Prevent WordPress, themes, and plugins from generating unused thumbnail sizes.
- Custom Sizes: Register new image sizes with exact crop settings directly from the UI.
- Regenerate Thumbnails: Re-create thumbnails for existing images after changing settings.
- Cleanup: Delete old files for disabled sizes to free up disk space.
- Big Image Control: Disable the default "scaled" big image generation (2560px).
Maintenance Mode
Simple, effective Coming Soon and Maintenance pages.
- Two Modes: Choose between "Maintenance" (503 Service Unavailable) or "Coming Soon" (200 OK).
- Access Control: Whitelist user roles (e.g., Administrators) or specific IP addresses.
- Customization: Set headline, message, background color, and text color.
- Login Link: Optional link to the admin login page for restricted users.
Mute Core Emails
Silence automatic emails from WordPress.
- Auto-Updates: Mute email notifications after automatic core, plugin, or theme updates.
- User Emails: Control emails for new user registration, password changes, and email changes.
- Comment Emails: Mute comment notification and moderation emails.
- System Emails: Optionally mute recovery mode emails (use with caution).
- Granular Control: Enable or disable each email type individually.
Redirections 301
Manage 301 redirections with simple rules or regex patterns.
- Simple Redirects: Create basic URL redirects with source and target paths.
- Regex Support: Use regular expressions for advanced URL matching.
- Slug Change Detection: Get notified when a post or taxonomy slug changes to add a redirect.
- Import Options: Import from CSV or from other plugins (Redirection, Safe Redirect Manager).
- Hit Counter: Track how many times each redirection has been used.
- Toggle Active: Enable or disable individual redirections without deleting them.
SEO/GSO
Complete SEO toolkit: meta tags, indexing control, social sharing, and XML sitemaps.
- Indexing Control: Choose which content types and archives search engines should index.
- Site-wide Noindex: Disable indexing for the entire site with admin reminder notice.
- Meta Tags: Manage SEO titles, descriptions, and focus keywords for every post and page.
- Social Sharing: Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags for rich social previews.
- SERP Preview: See how your pages will appear in search results on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Content Overview: Manage SEO meta for all content from a single table with inline editing.
- AI Crawlers: Block AI training on your content with noai/noimageai meta tags.
- XML Sitemaps: Auto-generated sitemaps with optional Google Images support.
- Import: Migrate SEO data from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO.
SMTP Mailer
Reliable email delivery with multi-relay fallback.
- 12+ Providers: Preset configs for Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, AWS SES, Postmark, SparkPost, Mailjet, SMTP2GO, Elastic Email, Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, and custom SMTP.
- Relay Fallback: Define multiple relays. If the primary fails, it automatically tries the next one.
- Email Log: Keep track of every email sent (status, subject, relay used) with auto-cleanup.
- Developer Friendly: Force 'From Email' and 'From Name', disable SSL verification for local dev.
- Testing: Built-in tools to test individual relays or the full sending stack.
- Import: Migrate settings from WP Mail SMTP, Post SMTP, or Easy WP SMTP.