Thoriq Firdaus

<p>This plugin gives you the ability to manage core WordPress features like Comments, the Block Editor (Gutenberg), Emojis, XML-RPC, Feeds, Updates, Automatic Updates, Cron, Heartbeat, and more. If you don’t need certain features, you can easily toggle them off or customize their behavior.</p>
<p>It also includes additional utility features, like showing your site’s environment type in the admin bar, enabling maintenance or private mode, or using random URLs for media pages, which you can enable or disable as needed.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>This plugin organizes these settings into sections so you can quickly find and manage what you need:</p>
<h4>General</h4>
<p>Tweak key WordPress features to fit your needs:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Block Editor</strong>: Prefer the Classic Editor? Disable the Block Editor for all or specific post types.</li>
<li><strong>Block-based Widgets</strong>: Turn off the “Block Widgets Editor”.</li>
<li><strong>Comments</strong>: Disable comments and remove related elements in the admin area.</li>
<li><strong>Revisions</strong>: Disable or limit the number of post revisions to save to improve performance.</li>
<li><strong>Post Embed</strong>: Stop other sites from embedding your post content.</li>
<li><strong>Self-ping</strong>: Prevent pingbacks to your own site.</li>
<li><strong>Feeds</strong>: Disable RSS feeds if you don’t need them.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Admin</h4>
<p>Customize your admin experience:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Dashboard Widgets</strong>: Remove unwanted or all dashboard widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Footer Text</strong>: Get rid of the Thank you for creating with WordPress footer text.</li>
<li><strong>Update Nags</strong>: Hide update notices for WordPress, plugins, and themes.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Bar</strong>: Remove the admin bar on your site’s front end.</li>
<li><strong>Howdy Text</strong>: Replace the Howdy greeting in the admin bar.</li>
<li><strong>Environment Type</strong>: Display site’s environment type (e.g. Development, Staging, Production) in the admin bar.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Media</h4>
<p>Adjust media-related settings:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Attachment Page</strong>: Disable attachment pages or re-enable them on WordPress 6.4+.</li>
<li><strong>Attachment Slug</strong>: Use random URLs for media pages to avoid slug conflicts.</li>
<li><strong>Infinite Scroll</strong>: Restore infinite scroll in the Media Library.</li>
<li><strong>Big Image Size</strong>: Prevent WordPress to scale down big images.</li>
<li><strong>Image Quality</strong>: Adjust the quality of uploaded images (JPEG only).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Site</h4>
<p>Control access and assets on your site:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Search</strong>: Prevent use from using search on your site to find posts, pages, and other content.</li>
<li><strong>Sitemap</strong>: Disable built-in XML sitemaps in WordPress.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unload some of the assets that are not always necessary for your site:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Emojis</strong>: Improve performance by removing emoji scripts and styles.</li>
<li><strong>Script Version</strong>: Remove version query strings from scripts and styles URLs.</li>
<li><strong>jQuery Migrate</strong>: Disable jQuery Migrate if it’s not needed.</li>
</ul>
<p>Clean-up some unused metadata from your site:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>RSD Link</strong>: Remove the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) tag.</li>
<li><strong>Generator Meta Tag</strong>: Remove the WordPress version meta tag.</li>
<li><strong>Shortlink</strong>: Remove the shortlink meta tag.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security</h4>
<p>Improve your site’s security by disabling or limiting access to certain features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>File Edit</strong>: Disable the built-in file editor for themes and plugins.</li>
<li><strong>XML-RPC</strong>: Disable the XML-RPC endpoint.</li>
<li><strong>API Authentication</strong>: Require authentication for all REST API requests.</li>
</ul>
<p>Manage passwords policy on the site:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reset Password</strong>: Prevent users from resetting their passwords.</li>
<li><strong>Application Passwords</strong>: Disable Application Passwords and remove related UI elements.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced</h4>
<p>For advanced users, you may configure these following features, but do it carefully:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Mailing</strong>: Prevent WordPress to send outgoing mail.</li>
<li><strong>Updates</strong>: Enable or disable updates for WordPress, plugins, and themes.</li>
<li><strong>Cron</strong>: Disable WP-Cron and use a real cron job.</li>
<li><strong>Heartbeat</strong>: Adjust or disable the Heartbeat API to reduce resource usage.</li>
</ul>


Feature Flipper

Disable Comments, Gutenberg, Emojis, and other features you don't need in WordPress

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh

eLightUp

Van Quyen

truongwp

<p><strong>Falcon</strong> is lightweight WordPress plugin that provide a list of optimizations and tweaks that help you improve the performance and user experience for your WordPress sites.</p>
<h3>FEATURES & MODULES</h3>
<p>Falcon offers a comprehensive list of 49 FREE modules (and growing) for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:</p>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io/disable-gutenberg-without-using-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable Gutenberg</a> (the block editor)</li>
<li>Disable heartbeat</li>
<li>Disable embeds, e.g. prevent others from embedding your site and vise-versa</li>
<li>Disable comments</li>
<li>Remove website field from comment form</li>
<li>Disable revisions</li>
<li>Disable self pings</li>
<li>Disable privacy tools</li>
<li>Disable cron</li>
<li>Disable auto updates</li>
<li>Block external requests</li>
<li>Search only posts</li>
<li>Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Header cleanup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove feed links</li>
<li>Remove RSD link</li>
<li>Remove wlwmanifest link</li>
<li>Remove adjacent posts links</li>
<li>Remove WordPress version number</li>
<li>Remove shortlink</li>
<li>Remove REST API link</li>
</ul>
<h3>Media</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Asynchronous load CSS</strong> to avoid blocking load of CSS files</li>
<li>Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files</li>
<li>Remove jQuery Migrate</li>
<li>Set scheme-less URLs for JavaScript and CSS files, e.g. remove <code>http:</code> and <code>https:</code> from URLs</li>
<li>Remove styles for recent comments widget</li>
<li>Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes</li>
<li>Disable emojis</li>
<li>Disable scaling down big images</li>
<li>Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data</li>
<li>Disable thumbnail generation</li>
<li>Enable maintenance mode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Email</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove admin email confirmation</li>
<li>Disable auto update email notification</li>
<li>Disable admin email notification when a new user is registered</li>
<li>Disable admin email notification when users reset passwords</li>
<li><a href="https://deluxeblogtips.com/change-wordpress-default-email/" rel="nofollow ugc">Change default WordPress from name and email</a></li>
<li>SMTP configuration</li>
</ul>
<h3>Admin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Show site icon on login page</li>
<li>Remove update nags</li>
<li>Remove footer text</li>
<li>Remove default dashboard widgets</li>
<li>Remove WordPress logo in the admin bar</li>
<li>Remove application passwords</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security</h3>
<ul>
<li>Disable REST API for unauthenticated requests</li>
<li><a href="https://deluxeblogtips.com/disable-xml-rpc-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable XML-RPC</a></li>
<li>Restrict upload file types</li>
<li>Disable detailed login errors</li>
<li>Block AI bots from crawling/stealing your content, which also affect the performance</li>
<li>Force login to view the website</li>
</ul>
<h3>You might also like</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, you might also like our other WordPress products:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Box</a> – A powerful WordPress plugin for creating custom post types and custom fields.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpslimseo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Slim SEO</a> – A fast, lightweight and full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress with minimal configuration.</li>
<li><a href="https://gretathemes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">GretaThemes</a> – Free and premium WordPress themes that clean, simple and just work.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpautolistings.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto Listings</a> – A car sale and dealership plugin for WordPress.</li>
</ul>


Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

A lightweight WordPress optimization and tweak plugin for a better performance

Feature Flipper vs Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks