favorite wordpress plugins and utilities

I asked Brandon Nifong, Mike Spainhower, Craig, Evan Mattson, Nathan Knowler, and Matt Mirus for their recommendations on WordPress plugins and any Composer packages they use on their sites.   Duplicate Post for cloning posts from any post type $ composer require wpackagist-plugin duplicate-post..   Easy WP SMTP for configuring WordPress to send emails through any SMTP $ composer require wpackagist-plugin easy-wp-smtp..   Restricted Site Access for enforcing user logins or whitelisting IPs for access $ composer require wpackagist-plugin restricted-site-access..   Simple Page Ordering for re-ordering any type of page or post with drag and drop $ composer require wpackagist-plugin simple-page-ordering..   SEO Framework for SEO with automated titles and descriptions $ composer require wpackagist-plugin autodescription..   WPBruiser for preventing spam comments and brute force attacks $ composer require wpackagist-plugin goodbye-captcha..   Cortex for implementing routing system WordPress $ composer require brain cortex..   Extended CPTs for quickly creating WordPress custom post types and taxonomies $ composer require johnbillion extended-cpts..   WP Cache Remember for working with WordPress object cache and transients $ composer require stevegrunwell wp-cache-remember..   Read more