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<p><strong>Falcon</strong> is lightweight WordPress plugin that provide a list of optimizations and tweaks that help you improve the performance and user experience for your WordPress sites.</p>
<h3>FEATURES & MODULES</h3>
<p>Falcon offers a comprehensive list of 49 FREE modules (and growing) for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:</p>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io/disable-gutenberg-without-using-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable Gutenberg</a> (the block editor)</li>
<li>Disable heartbeat</li>
<li>Disable embeds, e.g. prevent others from embedding your site and vise-versa</li>
<li>Disable comments</li>
<li>Remove website field from comment form</li>
<li>Disable revisions</li>
<li>Disable self pings</li>
<li>Disable privacy tools</li>
<li>Disable cron</li>
<li>Disable auto updates</li>
<li>Block external requests</li>
<li>Search only posts</li>
<li>Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Header cleanup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove feed links</li>
<li>Remove RSD link</li>
<li>Remove wlwmanifest link</li>
<li>Remove adjacent posts links</li>
<li>Remove WordPress version number</li>
<li>Remove shortlink</li>
<li>Remove REST API link</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Asynchronous load CSS</strong> to avoid blocking load of CSS files</li>
<li>Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files</li>
<li>Remove jQuery Migrate</li>
<li>Set scheme-less URLs for JavaScript and CSS files, e.g. remove <code>http:</code> and <code>https:</code> from URLs</li>
<li>Remove styles for recent comments widget</li>
<li>Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes</li>
<li>Disable emojis</li>
<li>Disable scaling down big images</li>
<li>Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data</li>
<li>Disable thumbnail generation</li>
<li>Enable maintenance mode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Email</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove admin email confirmation</li>
<li>Disable auto update email notification</li>
<li>Disable admin email notification when a new user is registered</li>
<li>Disable admin email notification when users reset passwords</li>
<li><a href="https://deluxeblogtips.com/change-wordpress-default-email/" rel="nofollow ugc">Change default WordPress from name and email</a></li>
<li>SMTP configuration</li>
</ul>
<h3>Admin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Show site icon on login page</li>
<li>Remove update nags</li>
<li>Remove footer text</li>
<li>Remove default dashboard widgets</li>
<li>Remove WordPress logo in the admin bar</li>
<li>Remove application passwords</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security</h3>
<ul>
<li>Disable REST API for unauthenticated requests</li>
<li><a href="https://deluxeblogtips.com/disable-xml-rpc-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable XML-RPC</a></li>
<li>Restrict upload file types</li>
<li>Disable detailed login errors</li>
<li>Block AI bots from crawling/stealing your content, which also affect the performance</li>
<li>Force login to view the website</li>
</ul>
<h3>You might also like</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, you might also like our other WordPress products:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Box</a> – A powerful WordPress plugin for creating custom post types and custom fields.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpslimseo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Slim SEO</a> – A fast, lightweight and full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress with minimal configuration.</li>
<li><a href="https://gretathemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">GretaThemes</a> – Free and premium WordPress themes that clean, simple and just work.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpautolistings.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto Listings</a> – A car sale and dealership plugin for WordPress.</li>
</ul>


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