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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.

Lamansky

WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes and dropdown selections. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, media, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed.
The WordPress Tweaks plugin adds a “Tweaks” page to your “Settings” menu. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox or dropdown. An instant search bar makes it a snap to find the tweak you’re looking for.
The tweaks are as follows:
<ul>
<li>Admin
<ul>
<li>Disable the admin bar on the front-end</li>
<li>Disable the Dashboard</li>
<li>Disable tag autocomplete</li>
<li>Disable WordPress’s admin footer text/links</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Comments and Pings
<ul>
<li>Disable self-pinging</li>
<li>Dofollow comment author links</li>
<li>Dofollow comment body links</li>
<li>Open external comment links in new windows</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Media
<ul>
<li>Default media inserter tab (options: From Computer, From URL, Gallery, Media Library)</li>
<li>JPEG Quality</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Multisite
<ul>
<li>Let site admins edit the “Update Services” list</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Posts
<ul>
<li>Disable post revisions</li>
<li>Force excerpts on archives</li>
<li>Open external post links in new windows</li>
<li>Add a “Continue reading” link to excerpts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Updates
<ul>
<li>Core update auto-installation (options: disabled, minor only, major and minor)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-tweaks.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">Download it now</a> and begin tweaking!
Supported Languages: English, Spanish, and Polish

WordPress Tweaks

Adds many must-have options for tweaking comments, posts, media, multisite, the administration back-end, and more.

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