Self-hosted, privacy-first WordPress plugins built by PBJ.Tech. Paid plugins are each, one time — instant download, license key for updates, free user guide, no subscriptions, no third-party trackers, no Google. And PBJ Essentials is free.
PBJ Essentials — free
Seven small, complete site tools in one free plugin. Force-HTTPS + edge caching, a one-country region blocker, basic forms, page login locks, content push to a live site, a 3-day traffic dashboard, and a single-product license server — each switched off by default, each a working feature on its own. When you outgrow a module, its full PBJ plugin below picks up right where it leaves off (the module stands down automatically).
PBJ Essentials is being submitted to the WordPress.org plugin directory — get it here first, and updates will flow from WordPress.org once it’s approved.
FREE· GPL · heading to the WordPress.org directory
Build unlimited forms with custom fields and drop them anywhere with a shortcode. Take payments through Stripe, Square, or PayPal right inside a submission — with buyer receipt emails, idempotent charges that can never double-bill, and a built-in math CAPTCHA + honeypot that stop bots with no Google reCAPTCHA, no external scripts, and no monthly fees.
Complete on-page SEO in one plugin — now with a full admin dashboard (new in 3.0.0): a page-by-page SEO checklist and site audit, on/off switches for every feature, a robots.txt & sitemap manager, and an automatic 404 log with one-click redirects. Still emits titles, meta, canonicals, Open Graph, JSON-LD schema and a block-editor SEO sidebar. A clean replacement for Yoast, Rank Math, and AIOSEO.
Make your site view-only for visitors outside the countries you choose. Purchases, forms, comments and registrations are blocked for everyone else — across page loads, AJAX and the REST API — while pages render fully for search and AI crawlers so your SEO is never affected. Administrators can always sign in from anywhere, and a built-in User Guide tab walks you through every setting.
Members-only pages, WooCommerce login gating, and an admin approval queue for new registrations — every signup’s IP address and location captured so you can spot fakes at a glance. Restricted content is sealed everywhere: front end, search, feeds, REST API and embeds.
Privacy-friendly analytics that live entirely inside WordPress — no Google, no cookies, no external scripts. Sessions and navigation paths, funnels and goals, UTM/channel breakdowns, scroll depth and time on page, a live visitors panel, weekly email digests, CSV export, and separate tracking that shows exactly what GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot are crawling.
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, 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.
Turn your own WordPress site into a license server for plugins and themes you sell: 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. This store runs on it.