Custom code on WordPress should be fast, safe, and yours to keep.
FluentSnippets is a file-based code snippet manager for WordPress. The aim is simple: make running custom code on any site native, secure and free, without trapping your work inside a database or behind a paywall.
Custom code should load the way WordPress does.
Every snippet plugin we reached for stored code in database tables and ran SQL on every single request. That meant extra queries on pages that should have been instant, and it put executable code in a table that a SQL injection elsewhere on the site could reach.
We kept asking the same question: why doesn't custom code just load like the rest of
WordPress? So we built it that way. FluentSnippets saves every snippet as a real PHP file
and include()s it natively. No tables, no lookups, no database queries on the
request path.
Everything else follows from that decision. It is why the plugin is fast, why your custom code is not sitting in a database table, and why your snippets keep running even after the plugin is gone.
// every other plugin SELECT code FROM wp_snippets; // ×N // FluentSnippets include '1-analytics.php';
Four principles, baked into the architecture.
Speed by default
Zero database queries, loaded natively. Performance is not a setting you switch on later. It is the design the rest of the plugin sits on.
Security as a foundation
With no database table holding your snippets, there is no SQL-injection surface for them. Fewer moving parts, fewer ways to be exploited.
No lock-in, ever
Standalone mode keeps your snippets running from a mu-plugin even if you delete FluentSnippets. Your code stays yours.
Free & open source
Every feature, GPL licensed, with the full source on GitHub. No Pro tier, no paywall, no premium nag screens.
A brand of WPManageNinja.
FluentSnippets is built by WPManageNinja, the team behind a family of performance-focused WordPress plugins used across millions of sites. We build the tools we wanted to use ourselves.
“The only way a code snippet plugin should be done.”
Its file-based design is the ideal approach for snippet plugins, and standalone mode meaningfully improves security.
Build high-performance sites with code you own.
Free, open source, and file-based from day one. Join 50,000+ WordPress sites running custom code the fast, safe way.