Clean up your fresh WordPress installation with one click. Remove demo content, set sensible defaults, and toggle performance optimizations.

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Fresh Install Assistant (FIA)

Automates WordPress initial setup by cleaning default content, creating essential pages, and optionally installing popular themes.

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CleanUp WP helps you quickly set up a fresh WordPress installation by removing default content, configuring sensible defaults, and enabling performance optimizations.
Why use CleanUp WP?
Every new WordPress installation comes with demo content you don’t need: “Hello World” post, sample pages, default comments, and bundled plugins like Hello Dolly and Akismet. Manually cleaning this up takes time.
CleanUp WP handles all of this with a single click, plus offers toggleable performance and security optimizations that you can enable or disable at any time.
Cleanup Tab (One-time tasks)
These tasks run once and get marked as done:
<ul>
<li>Delete “Hello World” post</li>
<li>Delete “Sample Page”</li>
<li>Delete “Privacy Policy” page</li>
<li>Delete default comment</li>
<li>Delete Hello Dolly & Akismet plugins</li>
<li>Delete unused themes (keeps active + parent)</li>
<li>Clear widget areas</li>
<li>Create main navigation menu</li>
<li>Set pretty permalinks (/%postname%/)</li>
<li>Disable comments by default</li>
<li>Rename “Uncategorized” to “News”</li>
<li>Disable user registration</li>
<li>Organize uploads by year/month</li>
<li>Set default image link to “None”</li>
<li>Discourage search engine indexing</li>
<li>Set timezone</li>
<li>Create static homepage</li>
</ul>
Optimize Tab (Toggleable)
These can be turned ON or OFF at any time:
<ul>
<li>Disable WordPress emojis (~20KB savings)</li>
<li>Disable oEmbed</li>
<li>Remove jQuery Migrate</li>
<li>Disable Dashicons on frontend</li>
<li>Clean up wp_head</li>
<li>Disable self-pingbacks</li>
<li>Reduce Heartbeat frequency</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC</li>
<li>Hide WordPress version</li>
<li>Disable file editing</li>
<li>Disable user enumeration</li>
<li>Clean dashboard (keep only Site Health and At a Glance)</li>
</ul>

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