Nikodemsky

<p>The basic idea is to give administrators easy access to disable typical bloat, non-utilized functions or whole modules with just a few clicks.</p>
<p>There are no fancy UIs, external libraries, or hidden features — just clean, fast and easy way to disable things you might not want in your project or website.</p>
<h3>Functionalities for current version:</h3>
<h4>Bloat</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg styles removal</li>
<li>WordPress emojis removal</li>
<li>RSS feeds removal</li>
<li>Really Simple Discovery removal</li>
<li>Shortlink removal</li>
<li>REST Discovery link removal</li>
<li>oEmbed discovery link removal</li>
<li>Admin widgets in dashboard removal</li>
<li>Native XML sitemap removal</li>
<li>Admin help tabs removal</li>
<li>About WP sub-menu and thank you message removal</li>
<li>Site Health disabling/removal</li>
<li>Import/Export page removal</li>
</ul>
<h4>Utilities</h4>
<ul>
<li>Comments system removal</li>
<li>Widgets removal (those under “Appearance”)</li>
<li>oEmbed restriction</li>
<li>Self-pingbacks removal</li>
<li>Heartbeat interval option</li>
<li>Image Process Engine – force GD</li>
<li>Limit number of revisions</li>
<li>Tags taxonomy removal</li>
<li>Author archive pages disabling</li>
</ul>
<h4>Docs / Source</h4>
<p>All the required information about usage can be found on the plugin settings page; each function is fully described.</p>
<p>Source code can be found on official <a href="https://github.com/Nikodemsky/bloatoff" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>The plugin does not:</p>
<ul>
<li>track users;</li>
<li>send any personal data to external services;</li>
<li>use cookies.</li>
</ul>


Bloat-off – bloat removal and utilities

Remove bloat and redundant functions, and further optimize your WordPress with just a few clicks.

Alvind

<p>Bloat Buster is a super simple plugin to remove unnecessary bloat from your WordPress site. Just a toggle away and you’re set.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>9 Optimization Features Available:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Remove Emoticon Scripts</strong> – Remove extra code related to emojis from WordPress which was added recently to suport emoticons in an older browser.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Remove Full Site Editing Global Styles</strong> – This will prevent the Full Site Editing global CSS from loading because this script is enabled by default even if you’re not using FSE.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Remove RSD Links</strong> – RSD (Really Simple Discovery) is needed if you intend to use XML-RPC client, pingback, etc. However, if you don’t need pingback or remote client to manage post then you can safely get rid of this unnecessary header.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Remove Shortlink</strong> – Starting from version 3, WordPress added shortlink (shorter link of web page address) in header code. If you’re not using shortlink for any functionality then you can remove them.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Disable Embed</strong> – WordPress introduced oEmbed features in 4.4 which allows any site to embed WordPress post remotely. Activate this feature to prevent other parties from embedding your blog post and disable loading related JS file.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Disable XML-RPC</strong> – Activate this option if you don’t use WordPress API (XML-RPC) to publish/edit/delete a post, edit/list comments, upload file. Having XML-RPC enabled and not hardened properly may lead to DDoS & brute force attacks.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Hide WordPress Version</strong> – This doesn’t help in performance but more to mitigate information leakage vulnerability. By default, WordPress adds meta name generator with the version details which is visible in source code and HTTP header. To remove the WP version, activate this option.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Disable Heartbeat</strong> – WordPress use heartbeat API to communicate with a browser to a server by frequently calling admin-ajax.php. This may slow down the overall page load time and increase CPU utilization if on shared hosting. If you don’t have a requirement to use heartbeat API, then you can activate this option.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Disable Dashicons on The Front-end</strong> – Dashicons are utilized in the admin console, and if not using them to load any icons on front-end then you may want to disable it. By activating this option, <code>dashicons.min.css</code> will stop loading on front-end.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute to Bloat Buster</h4>
<p>Development for this plugin happens in a public GitHub repository. If you have a suggestion, bug report, patch, or pull request, please feel free to <a href="https://github.com/alvindcaesar/bloat-buster" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute here</a>.</p>


Bloat Buster – A Simple Plugin To Kill Off Bloat

A super simple plugin to remove unnecessary bloat from your WordPress site.

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