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This lightweight plugin helps improve WordPress performance and security by disabling features you may not need:
<ul>
<li>📴 XML-RPC</li>
<li>😐 Emojis</li>
<li>📰 RSS Feeds</li>
<li>🧱 Gutenberg (Block Editor)</li>
<li>🔌 REST API</li>
<li>❤️ Heartbeat API</li>
</ul>
Features:
<ul>
<li>Toggle individual modules</li>
<li>Easy admin UI</li>
<li>No settings saved unless toggled</li>
<li>No impact on frontend styling or functionality unless explicitly disabled</li>
</ul>
Ideal for performance-focused builds, headless WordPress, or advanced users.

Disable Unused WP Features

Clean up WordPress by disabling rarely used features like XML-RPC, Emojis, RSS, Gutenberg, REST API, Heartbeat, and Dashicon all in one place.

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WP Basic Elements gives you full control over the features WordPress loads by default. Disable what you don’t need, clean up the front-end markup, and streamline the admin interface — all from a single, modern settings page.
Every option is off by default. You choose exactly what to disable, nothing more.
<h4>What you can do</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin Bar — Remove individual items like the WP logo, New Content, Customize, Updates, Comments, Search, and more</li>
<li>Dashboard Widgets — Hide Welcome Panel, At a Glance, Activity, Site Health, Quick Draft, WP Events & News, WooCommerce and Yoast widgets</li>
<li>Admin Footer — Replace or hide the left and right footer text</li>
<li>User Profile — Hide profile fields (Rich Editing, Color Scheme, Application Passwords, etc.) and remove individual contact methods (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and more)</li>
<li>Comments — Disable the entire comment system with a single toggle</li>
<li>Gutenberg Editor — Turn off Welcome Guide, Fullscreen Mode, Focus Mode, Distraction Free Mode, and Top Toolbar</li>
<li>Meta Tags & Head Cleanup — Remove the generator tag, oEmbed links, shortlinks, WLW manifest, adjacent post links, REST API links, RSS feeds, emojis, and pingbacks/trackbacks</li>
<li>REST API — Restrict access for non-logged-in users with a configurable whitelist</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why WP Basic Elements?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight — no bloat, no frameworks, no external dependencies</li>
<li>Opt-in only — safe to activate on any site without side effects</li>
<li>Modern UI — clean settings page with sidebar navigation and toggle switches</li>
<li>Translatable — ships with 10 languages out of the box</li>
<li>Secure — all output escaped, all input sanitized</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
WP Basic Elements plugin can be translated to any language. Currently available translations are listed below.
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE)</li>
<li>Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO)</li>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS)</li>
<li>Danish (da_DK)</li>
<li>Croatian (hr)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL)</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT)</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR)</li>
</ul>

WP Basic Elements

Disable unnecessary WordPress features, clean up your markup, and simplify the admin. Everything is opt-in — nothing changes until you say so.

Disable Unused WP Features vs WP Basic Elements