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

Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

<p><strong>Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Vibes</strong> is a robust user experience and browsing performances monitoring solution that analyzes perceived performances from users’ viewpoint.</p>
<p>It is fully autonomous – does not rely on external services and does not require any API keys, works on any type of hosting and in any type of environment – including staging, intranets or password protected sites.</p>
<p>By continuously monitoring user experience, <strong>Vibes</strong> can report:</p>
<ul>
<li>navigation performance KPIs per pages – like latency, redirections, browser caching hit rates, etc.;</li>
<li>network timelines as if you were in the dev tools of your users’ browsers;</li>
<li>resources details – like initiators, protocols, mime types, average sizes, etc.;</li>
<li>Web Vitals: LCP, FID, CLS, FCP and TTFB.</li>
</ul>
<p>It can segment all this data per:</p>
<ul>
<li>user type (anonymous vs. authenticated);</li>
<li>channel (frontend vs. backend);</li>
<li>country (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip-locator/" rel="ugc">IP Locator</a> plugin);</li>
<li>device classes and types (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/device-detector/" rel="ugc">Device Detector</a> plugin).</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Vibes</strong> supports multisite report delegation (see FAQ).</p>
<p><strong>Vibes</strong> supports WP-CLI commands to:</p>
<ul>
<li>display (past or current) performances signals in console – see <code>wp help vibes tail</code> for details;</li>
<li>toggle on/off main settings – see <code>wp help vibes settings</code> for details.</li>
</ul>
<p>For a full help on WP-CLI commands in Vibes, please <a href="https://perfops.one/vibes-wpcli" rel="nofollow ugc">read this guide</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Vibes</strong> is part of <a href="https://perfops.one/" rel="nofollow ugc">PerfOps One</a>, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Vibes</strong> is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support.</p>
<h4>Donation</h4>
<p>If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en" rel="nofollow ugc">La Quadrature Du Net</a> or the <a href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!</p>


Vibes

Great plugin

Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.

Performance Tweaks vs Vibes