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

FirmCatalyst

<p>This is a professional tool to manipulate enqueued Styles and Scripts on your website; add custom CSS to the first screen and not first screen optionally, choose where to apply. Use it to improve your Core Web Vitals score or just add custom styling.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control your website’s CSS</li>
<li>Apply changes to individual posts/pages/custom post types</li>
<li>Apply changes to all posts of a specific type</li>
<li>Apply changes to the blog or any post-type archive</li>
<li>Inline, defer, or de-register / disable Styles and Scripts</li>
<li>Edit CSS easily with the CodeMirror visual editor</li>
<li>Automatic CSS minification</li>
<li>Instructions to get CSS</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo</h4>
<p><a href="https://firmcatalyst.com/first-screen-css/" rel="nofollow ugc">firmcatalyst.com/first-screen-css</a></p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Navigate to “CSS Settings” in the left sidebar of your wp-admin.</li>
<li>Click “Add New” Settincs Set</li>
<li>Input your CSS or adjust the settings.</li>
<li>Choose where to apply the changes and Publish.</li>
<li>Repeat to apply a different set of settings to other posts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>You can customize the code to suit your requirements or suggest improvements on <a href="https://github.com/VVolkov833/first-screen-css" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. The code is transparent and easy to understand.</p>


First Screen CSS & Settings

Manipulate enqueued Styles and Scripts on the website; add custom CSS optionally

Performance Tweaks vs First Screen CSS & Settings