A plugin to enhance performance on sites running the Nightingale theme

NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team

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NIGHTINGALE THEME MUST BE INSTALLED AND ACTIVE FOR THIS PLUGIN TO WORK
This plugin is a companion to the Nightingale theme. It is aimed at improving performance and user experience on a site 
that uses the Nightingale theme. The plugin adds additional functionality to the theme, each component of which is 
enabled by default on installation but can be switched off easily via the admin panel > Settings > Nightingale Companion
<ul>
<li>Disable Emojis – this disables the default emoji packages that ship with WordPress, which load on every single page 
of your site and impact performance and speed. This is a tiny tweak that has an incremental benefit.</li>
<li>LoadCSS – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins.</li>
<li>InstantPage – Removed as causing multiple issues on the sites. 
pages preloading when a user hovers their mouse over links. This does not, in fact increase load times but does appear perception of load times as those few partial 
seconds pre click are actually being used to start loading the next page.</li>
<li>DeferJS – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins.</li>
<li>Set Browser Cache – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins. (Recommend using CloudFlare or 
similar for better results)</li>
<li>Cleanup WordPress meta tags – removes lots of WP native tags included in the header region.</li>
<li>Use Excerpts as Meta Description – WordPress automatically takes the first 55 words of a post or page to create an 
excerpt (or you can manually add your own per page/post). This modification uses this excerpt to populate the meta 
description tag. If you have an alternative method of generating this meta tag, you should disable this option.</li>
<li>Modified the login page to use the theme design and layout</li>
<li>Adds the emergency alert header to the theme customiser</li>
</ul>

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