staging

Clean slider requires some HTML & CSS knowledge to use. This lets you to have slideshows or nicely looking image banners on your site and customize it exactly the way you’d like. That means you got default slideshow back-end and need to style your front-end.
Here are the key features:
<ol>
<li>Images used via WordPress Media functionality</li>
<li>Multiple slideshows on single page also can be used as banners</li>
<li>Drag to sort slide image positions</li>
<li>Scale image with window</li>
<li>Clean & simple WordPress back-end</li>
<li>Don’t strict much things there</li>
<li>Different layout per slide</li>
<li>and more…</li>
</ol>
After activating plugin you can add unlimited slideshows and images. Each slideshow there have default settings. It’s some basic slideshow functionality like slide & fade duration and more. You have possibility to show/hide your slideshow and define image centering by x/y axis. There is also CSS ID attribute to merge with front-end and name to identify on back-end.
Clean slides have very simple HTML structure with div ID value choosed and caption class. You have option to choose if sample CSS styling will be applied. Default CSS styling is very basic – it gives just font centered and painted to white.
Credits: 
– jQuery ( https://jquery.com/ ) 
– jQuery UI / sortable ( https://jqueryui.com/sortable/ ) 
– Backstretch ( http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/backstretch/ ) 
– Sweet alert ( http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/ )
<h3>How to</h3>
You need to be sure that you have:
<ol>
<li>Read plugin description and understand plugin</li>
<li>Have idea & front-end CSS style defined</li>
<li>Have included in content with shortcode: 
[vava slider=”X”]</li>
</ol>
or directly from theme with PHP code:
<pre><code><?php 
echo do_shortcode('[vava slider="X"]');
?>
</code></pre>
where X is shown on slideshows listing page.
<h3>EOF</h3>

Clean Slider for WordPress

omnisite

A standard WP installation contains many links in the head of your HTML (which slow down your site) and has standard widgets you might never use. You can now install this plugin and check the items you want to have removed. The saved options are cached for better performance.
Header items you can remove: 
* Remove dashicons CSS from frontend 
* Remove RSD / EditURI Link 
* Remove WLW Manifest Link 
* Remove RSS Feed Links 
* Remove Next & Prev Post Links 
* Remove Shortlink URL (also from http headers) 
* Remove WP Generator Meta 
* Remove Version Numbers from Style and Script Links 
* Disable WP Emoji / emoticons 
* Disable JSON API 
* Disable Canonical URL 
* Remove WooCommerce Generator Meta 
* Remove jQuery Migrate script 
* Disable XML-RPC methods that require authentication 
* Remove all scripts and styles added by Gutenberg (in case you still use the classic editor)
You can disable the following widgets: 
* Archives 
* Calendar 
* Categories 
* Links 
* Meta 
* Nav Menu 
* Pages 
* Recent Comments 
* Recent Posts 
* RSS 
* Search 
* Tag Cloud 
* Text

Remove WordPress Overhead

Made by me, because I was always pasting in the same code in my theme functions file. So I made a plugin for it :-)

Great for cleaning up your header

Remove overhead from the  HTML, speed up your website and disable widgets you don't use

Clean Slider for WordPress vs Remove WordPress Overhead