Nico

WP Tweak is a lightweight and minimalistic WordPress plugin designed to enhance your website with a curated set of tweaks. It focuses on improving performance, bolstering privacy, strengthening security, and adding other useful optimizations—all without unnecessary bloat. Perfect for users who want a simple yet effective solution to fine-tune their WordPress experience.
This plugins handles tweaks in a minimalistic way. Only files that contains tweaks that you activate are loaded!
<h4>Tweaks</h4>
<ul>
<li>Remove version query strings 
Removes <code>?ver=1.2.3</code> from all styles and scripts.</li>
<li>Disable feeds</li>
<li>Disable emojis</li>
<li>Search single result redirect</li>
<li>Disallow File Edits 
Disables the ability to edit files in the file manager. Sets <code>DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT</code> constant to true. Does only work if the constant is already defined, usually in wp-config.php</li>
<li>Admin bar greeting 
Replace “Howdy, {name}” with a custom message. Use <code>{name}</code> for the user’s display name. For example <code>Hi, {name}!</code>. Leave empty for no greeting. Use <code>default</code> for the default greeting, preventing the tweak from running.</li>
<li>Enable fonts to uploads 
Move (Google) Fonts enabled in the Block Editor from wp-content/fonts to wp-content/uploads</li>
<li>Disable auto trash emptying</li>
<li>Set trash keep days 
Set the number of days to keep posts in the trash. Default is 30 days.</li>
<li>Scroll progress bar</li>
<li>Scroll progress color 
And valid css will work. You can use <a href="https://oklch.com" rel="nofollow ugc">this color picker!</a>.</li>
<li>Scroll progress bar background color</li>
<li>Scroll progress height</li>
<li>Disable self SSL verify</li>
<li>Disable Comments</li>
<li>Disable Email Login</li>
<li>Disable REST API</li>
<li>Disable Success Update Emails</li>
<li>Remove Admin Bar WordPress Logo 
Requires a hard refresh of the page to take effect.</li>
<li>Remove Asset Attributes</li>
<li>Disable Non Production Emails 
If WP_ENV (Trellis) or wp_get_environment_type is not production, emails sending is mocked.</li>
<li>Remove REST API links</li>
<li>Admin email check interval 
Time in seconds to display email verification message on login. Set to 0 to disable. Default is 15552000 (6 months).</li>
<li>Admin footer text 
a href links are allowed. Use “default” for default text.</li>
<li>Set user agent 
WP really hates privacy and sends this <code>WordPress/1.0; https://example.org</code> to every site it makes calls to. You can empty the field, pretend to be Chrome <code>Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36</code> or something else. <code>default</code> will change nothing.</li>
<li>Remove EXIF 
Remove EXIF data from uploaded images.</li>
<li>Convert jpeg to avif 
Convert uploaded jpeg to avif</li>
<li>Clean upload filenames 
Sanitize media filenames to remove non-latin special characters and accents</li>
<li>Avif compression 
Default is 82</li>
<li>Jpeg compression 
Default is 82</li>
<li>Webp compression 
Default is 86</li>
<li>Limit ALL revisions 
Limit revisions for all post types. This will override the limit for each post type from above!</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC – allow Jetpack IPs 
Allow XML-RPC only from Jetpack IPs</li>
<li>Remove WP version 
Remove <code>WordPress/6.7.1; https://example.org</code> from html head</li>
<li>Dequeue jQuery Migrate 
Dequeue jQuery Migrate from the jQuery script dependencies on the frontend. This is used to help devs debug from old versions of jQuery. You really do not need this on a production site.</li>
<li>Script Optimizer 
Optimize script loading by moving them into the <code>head</code> and adding <code>defer</code> attribute. This may break your site. Use at your own risk!</li>
<li>Enable relative URLs 
Enable relative URLs on the frontend. This may break your site. Use at your own risk!</li>
<li>Disable Contact Form 7 CSS 
Sets <code>wpcf7_load_css</code> filter to <code>false</code></li>
<li>Disable Contact Form 7 Autop 
Sets <code>wpcf7_autop_or_not</code> filter to <code>false</code></li>
<li>Enable Jetpack offline mode</li>
<li>Enable maintenance mode</li>
<li>Enable duplicate post</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute to add quality tweaks to the plugin reviewed by me</h4>
Unlike WP Code’s snippet database that is filled with low code quality tweaks where some do not even work at all and spam this plugin only contains high quality tweaks. If something is missing please add it.
It is very easy to contribute to the plugin. Check out the <a href="https://github.com/nextgenthemes/tweakmaster/blob/master/readme.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Readme</a>.
If you have questions on adding a more complex tweak please feel free to ask.

TweakMaster

A collection of performance, privacy, security, and other tweaks. Minimalistic lightweight plugin.

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh

eLightUp

Van Quyen

truongwp

Falcon 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.
<h3>FEATURES & MODULES</h3>
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:
<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>Asynchronous load CSS 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>
If you like this plugin, you might also like our other WordPress products:
<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

TweakMaster vs Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks