Kishan Jasani

<p>Coreline is a lightweight WordPress security and optimization plugin that provides essential hardening features for your WordPress installation. It follows clean code principles, PSR standards, and is designed to be testable, scalable, and maintainable.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Emoji Script Removal</strong> – Removes WordPress emoji detection scripts to improve performance</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Version Hiding</strong> – Removes WordPress version numbers from HTML and RSS feeds for better security</li>
<li><strong>Custom Login URL</strong> – Changes wp-login.php to a custom URL (e.g., <code>/secure-login/</code>) to prevent automated brute-force attacks</li>
<li><strong>Hotlink Protection</strong> – Prevents other websites from hotlinking your images (works on both Apache and Nginx)</li>
<li><strong>Disable Pingbacks & Trackbacks</strong> – Disables XML-RPC pingbacks and trackbacks for improved security</li>
</ul>
<h4>Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight and fast</li>
<li>No database queries overhead</li>
<li>Clean, PSR-compliant code</li>
<li>Fully tested and maintained</li>
<li>Compatible with all major themes and plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer Friendly</h4>
<p>Coreline is built with developers in mind:</p>
<ul>
<li>PSR-4 autoloading</li>
<li>WordPress Coding Standards compliant</li>
<li>PHPStan Level 8 verified</li>
<li>Fully filterable and extensible</li>
<li>Comprehensive inline documentation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For bug reports and feature requests, please visit <a href="https://github.com/kishanjasani/coreline/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Issues</a></p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv2 or later</a>.</p>


Coreline

Essential hardening and cleanup for every WordPress site.

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh

eLightUp

truongwp

Van Quyen

<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 modules for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:</p>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/disable-components/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable components</a></h4>
<p><strong>General components:</strong></p>
<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 & 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>Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Media components:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Remove jQuery Migrate</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>
</ul>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/header-cleanup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Header cleanup</a></h4>
<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>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/email/" rel="nofollow ugc">Email</a></h4>
<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>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/admin-cleanup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Admin cleanup</a></h4>
<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>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/security/" rel="nofollow ugc">Security</a></h4>
<ul>
<li>Comment spam protection</li>
<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>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/cache/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cache</a></h4>
<p>Falcon’s cache feature creates static HTML files of your pages, serving them instantly to visitors without processing database queries, or loading WordPress, themes and all plugins on every request.</p>
<h4><a href="https://wpfalcon.pro/features/tweaks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tweaks</a></h4>
<ul>
<li>Search only posts</li>
<li>Enable maintenance mode</li>
<li>Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files</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><strong>Asynchronous load CSS</strong> to avoid blocking load of CSS files</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>


Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

A lightweight WordPress optimization and tweak plugin for a better performance

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