Lightweight cleanup and front-end performance helpers: remove bloat, add resource hints, and lazy-load iframes.

Alex MacArthur

Better Resource Hints

Better Resource Hints will make your WordPress site or application faster and generally more performant by intelligently leveraging resource hints lik …

DaftPlug

<p>Lightify is a lightweight performance helper for WordPress. It focuses on a small set of safe, well-understood front-end optimizations you can toggle from a single settings page — no caching layer, no file rewriting, and no external services.</p>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bloat Removal</strong> – Optionally disable emojis, dashicons (front end), block editor CSS, jQuery Migrate, oEmbed discovery, XML-RPC, and RSS feeds.</li>
<li><strong>Network Improvements</strong> – Add <code>preconnect</code> and <code>dns-prefetch</code> resource hints for the origins you specify, printed by WordPress in the document head.</li>
<li><strong>Media</strong> – Add native <code>loading="lazy"</code> to iframes in your post content.</li>
</ul>
<p>Every optimization is off or on by a simple checkbox and applies only where noted. If something looks off, just turn the relevant option back off.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin does not connect to, or transmit any data to, any external service. All functionality runs locally on your WordPress installation.</p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>Lightify contains no minified, compiled, or obfuscated code. All PHP, CSS, and other source files shipped in the plugin are the original human-readable source and require no build step. The plugin’s stylesheet (<code>assets/css/admin.css</code>) is enqueued directly in its readable form.</p>


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