Blacklisted
WPEngine has a list of disallowed plugins. The reason for banning these are among others, caused by:
- Caching plugins do not cooperate with the environment
- Backup plugins are unecessary since it is already implemented
- Some plugins cause high load on server and db intensive
- Duplicate Behavior Plugins
- Security reasons
Banned plugins
- adminer
- async-google-analytics
- backup
- backup-scheduler
- backupwordpress
- backwpup
- broken-link-checker
- contextual-related-posts
- duplicator
- dynamic-related-posts
- ewww-image-optimizer
- ezpz-one-click-backup
- file-commander
- fuzzy-seo-booster
- google-xml-sitemaps-with-multisite-support
- hc custom wp admin url
- hcs.php
- hello.php
- jr-referrer
- no-revisions
- ozh-who-sees-ads
- portable-phpmyadmin
- quick-cache
- quick-cache-pro
- recommend-a-friend
- seo-alrp
- si-captcha-for-wordpress
- similar-posts
- spyderspanker
- spyderspanker_pro
- super-post
- superslider
- text-passwords
- the-codetree-backup
- toolspack
- ToolsPack
- tweet-blender
- w3-total-cache
- wordfence
- wordpress-gzip-compression
- wp-cache
- wp-database-optimizer
- wp-db-backup
- wp-dbmanager
- wp-engine-snapshot
- wp-file-cache
- wp-mailinglist
- wp-phpmyadmin
- wp-postviews
- wp-rocket
- wp-slimstat
- wp-super-cache
- wp-symposium-alerts
- wpengine-migrate
- wpengine-snapshot
- wponlinebackup
- yet-another-featured-posts-plugin
- yet-another-related-posts-plugin