{"id":72176,"date":"2019-02-07T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=72176"},"modified":"2019-02-07T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:29:29","slug":"torques-plugin-madness-2019-nominate-your-favorite-plugin-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/torques-plugin-madness-2019-nominate-your-favorite-plugin-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Torque&#8217;s Plugin Madness 2019: Nominate Your Favorite Plugin Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plugin Madness is back! For the fourth year in a row, <a href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torque Magazine<\/a> is pitting plugin against plugin in a bracket-style competition to determine who is the king of the WordPress plugins. In order to determine what plugins will make up the brackets, Torque needs your nominations!<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-smushit\/\">WPMU Dev\u2019s Smush Image Compression<\/a>\u00a0has won Plugin Madness beating out\u00a0Autoptimize, ShortPixel Image Optimizer, Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization, previous winner Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Sliders, and Restrict Content.<\/p>\n<p>Think your plugin deserves recognition? <a href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/pluginmadness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nominate your favorite plugin today.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to be considered, plugins must have been updated in the last six months, be compatible with the latest version of WordPress and have over 10,000 active downloads. For a full list of the top plugins for 2018 by category, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/white-paper-top-wordpress-plugins-for-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this whitepaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations close March 1st and the official competition\u00a0begin March 11th. Happy nominating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plugin Madness is back! For the fourth year in a row, Torque Magazine is pitting plugin against plugin in a bracket-style competition to determine who is the king of the WordPress plugins. In order to determine what plugins will make up the brackets, Torque needs your nominations! 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