Zac Scott

<p>Disable WordPress features for a faster, cleaner, more secure experience.</p>
<p>Currently these features can be disabled:</p>
<ul>
<li>XMLRPC</li>
<li>REST API (when logged out)</li>
<li>Sitemaps (WordPress core generated)</li>
<li>RSS feeds (WordPress core generated)</li>
<li>Comments</li>
<li>Search (frontend only)</li>
<li>Author archives</li>
<li>Attachment pages</li>
<li>404 guessing </li>
<li>Emoji scripts cruft</li>
<li>srcset’s (WordPress core generated)</li>
<li>WordPress branding logos (admin bar, login page)</li>
<li>Disable select admin sidebar menus</li>
</ul>


Just Disable It


Any plugin that can disable unnecessary WordPress bloat has my approval. May I also suggest:



Remove Gutenberg block library CSS



function remove_wp_block_library_css(){
    wp_dequeue_style( 'wp-block-library' );
    wp_dequeue_style( 'wp-block-library-theme' );
    wp_dequeue_style( 'wc-blocks-style' );
} 
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'remove_wp_block_library_css', 100 );



Remove front-end admin bar



show_admin_bar(false);


Good work

Disable WordPress features for a faster, cleaner, more secure experience.

Wowholic

<h3>CORE: WordPress utilities</h3>
<p>CORE is a utility-based, unintrusive WordPress plugin. It offers a simple UI to tweak many sensible default settings to quickstart your new fresh WordPress project. It’s recommended for developers building custom themes with ACF.</p>
<p>CORE builds on top of Wowholic’s +5 years of experience developing fully custom WordPress sites, for all sorts of customers and industries. We made this plugin to be more efficient and productive in our own work, and we hope it helps you too!</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clean up unnecessary WordPress’ defaults:
<ul>
<li>Remove comments widget styles</li>
<li>Remove WP version from RSS feed</li>
<li>Remove Gutenberg block library CSS (only if Classic Editor plugin is active)</li>
<li>Remove RSD link</li>
<li>Remove post, category and comment feed links</li>
<li>Remove Windows Live Writer link</li>
<li>Remove canonical link</li>
<li>Remove shortlink</li>
<li>Remove relational adjacent links</li>
<li>Remove emoji detection script and styles</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Disable Theme & Plugin Editors, Widgets Admin Page, Default Post Type and Comments</li>
<li>Set up some default redirections (archives, attachment pages…)</li>
<li>Set up a visual grid on different breakpoints for debugging layout styles</li>
<li>Enable layout spacing utility for debugging distances between elements (using <a href="https://github.com/stevenlei/spacingjs" rel="nofollow ugc">spacingjs</a>)</li>
<li>Add custom format options to TinyMCE <em>(only if Classic Editor is active)</em></li>
<li>Allow removing unnecessary buttons from TinyMCE <em>(only if Classic Editor is active)</em></li>
<li>Enable Theme Options <em>(only if ACF is active)</em></li>
<li>Add label next to Flexible Content Layout name <em>(only if ACF is active)</em></li>
<li>Allow shortcodes in excerpts, textareas and text fields <em>(only if ACF is active)</em></li>
<li>Enable pretty Search URL</li>
<li>Enable <code>[email]</code> shortcode for antispam</li>
<li>Change WordPress’ upload size limit</li>
</ul>
<p>Some of these features are contextual, which means that they won’t show or work unless some condition is met (usually, if a given plugin is active or not).</p>
<h3>Community Feedback</h3>
<p>Although already providing many features, this plugin is still in its early stages of development. Please reach out to us for any constructive feedback you might have!</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>If you want to read contributing guidelines, you can find them at the <a href="https://github.com/Wowholic/CORE" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></p>


Wowholic CORE

CORE makes you faster and more efficient when developing custom WordPress sites.

Just Disable It vs Wowholic CORE