Rick Hoekman

<p>Simple but effective performance tweaks for WordPress—now with a polished, tabbed settings UI.</p>
<p>Features are grouped like your workflow: Scripts & Assets, Network, Security, Performance & Admin, and Database.</p>
<h4>Scripts & Assets</h4>
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7 Smart Loader — Only loads CF7 assets on pages with a form.</li>
<li>CF7 reCAPTCHA Smart Loader — Dequeues reCAPTCHA when no CF7 form is present.</li>
<li>Disable Advanced Custom Fields on Frontend — Stops ACF assets from loading on the frontend.</li>
<li>Emoji Unloader — Removes Emoji CSS and JavaScript.</li>
<li>Defer JavaScript — Adds defer attribute to eligible scripts.</li>
<li>Async JavaScript — Adds async attribute to eligible scripts.</li>
<li>Async/Defer Exclude Handles — A textarea to exclude script handles from async/defer.</li>
<li>Remove Query Strings — Strips ?ver= from CSS/JS URLs to improve CDN caching.</li>
<li>Block CSS Smart Loader (classic themes) — Dequeues block CSS on singular pages without blocks.</li>
<li>Separate Core Block CSS (WP 5.8+) — Opt-in to load only the CSS for blocks used on the page.</li>
<li>Disable Dashicons for Visitors — Removes dashicons for non-logged-in users.</li>
<li>Disable jQuery Migrate (frontend) — Drops jquery-migrate from frontend dependencies.</li>
<li>Boost Hero Image (fetchpriority) — Adds fetchpriority=”high” to the first content image on singular pages.</li>
<li>Lazy‑load iframes in Content — Ensures iframes in post content use loading=”lazy”.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Smart Loader — Loads WC CSS/JS only on WooCommerce pages (shop, product, cart, checkout, account).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Network</h4>
<ul>
<li>DNS Single Post Prefetch — Prefetch homepage on singular pages to speed return navigation (HTTP/2).</li>
<li>Resource Hints Hosts — Add domains for dns-prefetch and preconnect (one per line).</li>
<li>Google Fonts Preconnect — Adds preconnect hints for fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable XML-RPC — Blocks the XML-RPC endpoint unless you need it.</li>
<li>Disable WP Embeds / oEmbed — Removes discovery links and wp-embed script.</li>
<li>Head Cleanup — Removes RSD, WLW, generator, shortlink, and extra feed links.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance & Admin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable WordPress Heartbeat (Frontend) — Keep editor autosave, reduce frontend pings.</li>
<li>Heartbeat Interval — Set between 15–120 seconds.</li>
<li>WP‑Cron Guidance — Advisory copy to move cron to a real system cron.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Database</h4>
<ul>
<li>Limit Post Revisions — Define WP_POST_REVISIONS to 5.</li>
<li>Autosave Interval (advisory) — Suggest a wp-config constant.</li>
<li>Empty Trash Days (advisory) — Suggest a wp-config constant.</li>
</ul>
<h4>UI/UX</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tabbed settings with keyboard navigation and ARIA roles.</li>
<li>Card layout, helpful tooltips, and consistent spacing.</li>
<li>Sticky save bar with “unsaved changes” hint.</li>
<li>“Reset all settings” link (with nonce) to clear options without uninstalling.</li>
</ul>


Performance Tweaks

ShortPixel

<h3>🚀 The Ultimate Caching and Speed Improvement Plugin for WordPress</h3>
<p>Have you ever wished your website scored 90+ on Google PageSpeed Insights, GTMetrix and other website performance analysis tools?<br />
And achieve that without the need to pay expensive fees to consultants or learn a lot of advanced technical stuff?</p>
<p><strong>⚡ <a href="https://fastpixel.io/?utm_source=wp-repository&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">FastPixel</a> automatically integrates</strong> all the latest technical enhancements, such as Page Caching, HTML/CSS/JS minification, DNS prefetching and preloading, Critical CSS, ShortPixel’s <a href="https://shortpixel.com/blog/introducing-smartcompress/?/?utm_source=wp-repository&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Image Optimization</a>, adaptive images, background image scaling and optimization, HTTP/2 support, fonts loading optimization, caching, a global CDN, and Core Web Vitals, within an <strong>easy-to-use, 1-minute-setup interface</strong>.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="FastPixel Ad" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6UbWASU8RNw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<h3>🎬 Ready for a Quick TEST of our Speed Optimization Tool?</h3>
<p>There is <strong>no need to install our plugin to run a test</strong>.<br />
You can test FastPixel live on a <a href="https://tastewp.com/template/FastPixel" rel="nofollow ugc">sandbox website@TasteWP</a> or you can quickly assess how <a href="https://fastpixel.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">FastPixel</a> can optimize your website by conducting a test. Simply use <a href="https://test.fastpixel.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">this test page</a>, and we will apply all optimizations to a copy of your website.<br />
This way, you can easily evaluate the substantial speed improvements it can achieve using the most widely recognized website performance analysis tools.</p>
<h3>💡 Why choose FastPixel Caching plugin?</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Website Performance Boost</strong>: Just activate the plugin and within seconds the optimized webpages will start to be served.</li>
<li><strong>Lower the CPU/RAM Impact</strong>: Using the plugin will reduce the impact on the resources used by your website. All the CPU intensive processing is done in the cloud and resulting pages will generally be served from a cached version and the optimized images from the CDN.</li>
<li><strong>Automated Core Web Vitals Optimization</strong>: FastPixel takes care of all technical aspects automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Smart Cache Warmup/Update</strong>: The cache warmup and update are taken care of automatically in a smart way. Pages are cached as they are visited and also updated if you update the content.</li>
<li><strong>Critical CSS</strong>: CCSS is automatically generated for each page for lightning-fast page loads.</li>
<li><strong>CSS/JS Processing</strong>: CSS/JS files are combined and also minified and compressed before they are served from our CDN.</li>
<li><strong>HTML Optimization</strong>: A single, highly optimized HTML file is generated, adaptively serving the ideal webpage based on the visitor’s viewport or device (e.g., mobile, tablet, laptop).</li>
<li><strong>DNS Preconnects</strong>: Accelerates resource fetching, reduces the access time to external resources.</li>
<li><strong>Font Processing</strong>: All the techniques to accelerate the processing and delivery of fonts are employed, e.g. font subsetting, font loading control, font compression, font embedding (lower CLS result).</li>
<li><strong>Image Resizing & Optimization</strong>: Images are automatically resized to fit their placeholders, optimized, and delivered through the ShortPixel CDN.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Next-Gen Images Delivery</strong>: Based on the visitor’s browser capabilities, original JPG, PNG, or GIF images are converted to and served as WebP or AVIF when supported. For browsers without support, the original format is provided.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌟 Happy users that use our plugin</h3>
<p>If you’re satisfied with the test, just search for “FastPixel” in your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins, install the plugin and see for yourself how much faster your site becomes.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Testimonials:</strong><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>It’s as fast as it says in the title!</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-as-fast-as-it-says-in-the-title/" rel="ugc">liquidsnake2021</a><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>I was a tester and now I`m a happy user</strong>  <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-have-been-tester-and-now-happy-user/" rel="ugc">jppl</a><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>This plugin’s fast and easy to set up—I barely have to configure anything</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-works-as-described/" rel="ugc">fajrisp</a><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>Works really well!</strong>  <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-really-well-264/" rel="ugc">touto</a><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>One of the best tools!</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-of-the-best-tools-for-that/" rel="ugc">torsten3d</a><br />
  ★★★★★ <strong>Super easy to install and worked out of the box</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/well-this-was-easy-moving-from-wp-rocket/" rel="ugc">diffler</a><br />
  <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fastpixel-website-accelerator/reviews/?filter=5" rel="ugc">more testimonials</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>📩 Additional questions</h3>
<p>If you have more questions, technical or otherwise, please refer to our FAQ section below, our <a href="https://fastpixel.io/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a> or <a href="https://fastpixel.io/#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>.<br />
We typically respond within 15 minutes.</p>


FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN

Optimize Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed with advanced caching, image compression, lazy loading, critical CSS, and CDN – the ultimate performance tool.

Performance Tweaks vs FastPixel Cache – Optimize Page Speed: Compress Images, Minify, Clean Database & CDN