PBJ Essentials — free
Seven small, complete site tools in one free plugin. Force-HTTPS + edge caching, a one-country region blocker, basic forms with spam protection, page login locks, content push to a second site, a 3-day cookieless traffic dashboard, and a single-product license server — each switched off by default, each a working feature on its own. No lock icons, no nags, no upsell screens buried in the settings.
Every module has a bigger sibling below: when you outgrow one and install the full PBJ plugin for that area, the module stands down automatically — no double behavior, nothing to configure. Version 1.0.1 adds plain-English intros and numbered how-to steps on every tab, so each module explains exactly what turning it on does.
FREE · GPL · heading to the WordPress.org directory
PBJ Form Builder
Forms, payments, and bot protection — with zero Google. Build unlimited forms with every standard field type in a drag-to-reorder builder and drop them anywhere with a shortcode. Take payment inside the submission itself through Stripe, Square, or PayPal — the pay button is the submit button: no cart, no checkout page, no WooCommerce. Buyer receipt emails, richer admin notifications, and idempotent charges that can never double-bill are built in.
Spam dies at four layers — a server-signed math CAPTCHA that works on fully cached pages, a honeypot, a time-trap, and a per-IP rate limit — with no reCAPTCHA, no external scripts, and no monthly fee. Version 1.4.0 makes every admin screen self-explanatory: a getting-started checklist on the Forms list, a builder walkthrough, and settings help that tells you exactly where in each payment dashboard your credentials live. Pairs with PBJ License Manager to mint license keys automatically on paid submissions.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
PBJ SEO
Complete on-page SEO with a dashboard that audits your site for you. Titles, meta descriptions, canonicals, robots directives, Open Graph / Twitter Cards, and one clean JSON-LD schema graph (Organization, WebSite, Article, Product, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, breadcrumbs) — plus a block-editor sidebar with per-post SEO fields and a live best-practices checklist. A single lightweight replacement for Yoast, Rank Math, and AIOSEO, with an on/off switch for every feature.
The top-level SEO dashboard gives you a page-by-page audit and site-wide checklist, a Business tab for your local-business schema data, robots.txt and sitemap controls, and an automatic 404 log with one-click redirects. New in 3.4.0: the cache purges itself — after every Studio Sync push and every settings save, the built-in LiteSpeed edge cache is flushed automatically, so visitors see your latest content the moment it ships.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
PBJ Geo Viewer
Make your site view-only outside the countries you choose. Visitors from allowed countries get the full interactive experience; everyone else can still read every page but cannot buy, submit forms, comment, register, or sign in — enforced across page loads, AJAX and the REST API. Pages render fully for search engines and AI crawlers, so geo-blocking never costs you rankings, and administrators can always sign in from anywhere (no traveling-admin lockout).
Detection uses Cloudflare’s country header when present, common proxy headers, or a cached ip-api.com fallback — and an IP blacklist accepts exact addresses, CIDR ranges, and wildcards for pinpoint blocks. Version 1.5.0 turns Settings into a guided five-step walkthrough — mode & countries, what view-only visitors can’t do, what they see, exemptions, and a diagnostics panel to test your setup before you trust it.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
PBJ Access Control
Members-only pages, WooCommerce gating, and human-reviewed signups. Lock any Page to logged-in users with a checkbox, gate the whole WooCommerce area behind login, and customise the message logged-out visitors see. Restricted content is sealed everywhere — front end, search results, feeds, REST API and embeds — so nothing leaks around the login wall.
The admin approval queue puts a human in the signup loop: new registrations can’t log in until you approve them, and every applicant’s IP address and detected city/region/country appear right in the queue (and in the notification email), so bot and out-of-region signups are obvious at a glance. Version 2.4.0 adds a live setup checklist — how many pages are restricted, how many users await approval — with a button linking straight to wherever needs attention.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
PBJ Analytics
Every number you’d open Google Analytics for — inside your own WordPress. Pageviews, sessions, navigation paths, entry/exit pages, time on page, scroll depth, referrers with UTM and channel classification, site search, outbound clicks, 404s, regions and cities, languages, screen sizes, new vs returning, funnels and goals — recorded into your own database and charted on a real dashboard. Cookieless visitor counting, nothing sent to any external service, and the first-party beacon keeps working on fully cached pages.
Bots and AI crawlers are tracked separately, server-side — see exactly what GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot fetch without them inflating human totals. Plus a live last-5-minutes panel, period-vs-period KPI deltas, per-page drill-down, CSV export, a weekly email digest, and an optional read-only public dashboard at a tokenized URL. Version 1.6.0 adds report processing and a Custom Report builder: scheduled email reports on your own window and cadence (one or many recipients), any-range custom reports up to 500 rows per list, click-through dashboard titles, and pie charts that always total exactly 100%.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
New in 1.6: scheduled email reports, a build-your-own Custom Report tab, and a shareable read-only dashboard link — now with the same charts as wp-admin.
PBJ Studio Sync
A developer deployment tool — not a general backup plugin. One-way push of a local WordPress Studio (SQLite) site to a live WordPress (MySQL) site over the REST API: posts, media, menus, themes, plugins and settings, with localhost URLs and file paths rewritten to the live site automatically, atomic file promotion, incremental pushes that only send what changed, and a live-site backup tool. Install it on both sites. If you don’t build locally in WordPress Studio, this plugin isn’t for you.
Version 3.0 rebuilds the admin as a guided UI. A Sync-by-Type tab gives every sync type its own explained page with its own “push just this” button; a Full Copy tab does whole-site copies in one click, both directions, behind typed confirmations; and the dashboard walks you through Connect → Choose → Push with live status at each step. The push engine and all 2.x safety rails are unchanged.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
PBJ License Manager
Turn your own WordPress site into a license server for the plugins and themes you sell: register products, issue keys (manually, by hook, by REST, or automatically from paid PBJ Form Builder submissions), track per-site activations, serve key-gated WordPress-native updates, and sign expiring download links that can’t be shared. Keys are emailed to buyers with a signed download link, and a bundled GPL client SDK makes licensing a sold plugin a two-line integration.
The model is deliberately customer-friendly: a key gates updates, never functionality — a lapsed key, a dead server, or a revoked license can never break a customer’s site. This store runs on it. Version 1.2.0 adds a getting-started checklist and a numbered “how selling works” walkthrough on every tab.
$15 one-time · no subscription · license key included
