Andi Dittrich

Aenon Dynamics

This plugin is a collection of common used tweaks and features – each of them can be controlled independently 
It is designed as compact all-in-one solution espacially for Web-Agencies and Advanced Users with security in mind: just audit and trust a single plugin.
<h4>Visual Editor</h4>
<ul>
<li>VisualComponent Extension visualizes the HTML Element Structure (headings,section,p)</li>
<li>Remove the fixed-width restriction of the Editor-Area (set to 80% max)</li>
</ul>
<h4>E-Mail</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use External SMTP Mailserver to deliver mails transmitted by <code>wp_mail</code></li>
<li>No Third Party libraries required! WordPress Internal PHPMailer class is used</li>
<li>Support for TLS/SSL Connections</li>
<li>Set the Mail-From-Name and Mail-From-Address manually</li>
<li>Fix phpmailerExceptions by setting the mail-from parameter to a valid address</li>
<li>Control New User Registration E-Mails (send to admin and/or user)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Automatic Updates</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control Automatic-Update policy</li>
<li>Enable automatic Theme Updates</li>
<li>Enable automatic Plugin Updates</li>
<li>Disable Automatic Updates</li>
<li>Disable Update Notification (E-Mail)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Permalinks/Rewrite Rules</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add <code>.html</code> extension to pages – e.g. <code>privacy-protecton.html</code></li>
<li>Add <code>.html</code> extension to categories – e.g. <code>category/uncategorized.html</code></li>
<li>Optional or enforced html extensions (backward compatibility)</li>
<li>Remove embed Rewrite Rules</li>
<li>Remove feed Rewrite Rules</li>
</ul>
<h4>Virtual Permalink URLs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Placeholders like <code>link://post.local/1234</code> can be used within the Link-Insert-Dialogs and got replaced by the real link during rendering – this avoids problems with different domains names.</li>
</ul>
<h4>XML Sitemap</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatical XML Sitemap generation <code>sitemap.xml</code> (SEO)</li>
<li>Modern Search-Engines like Google, Bing can easier index your posts/pages</li>
<li>Only Posts and Pages are displayed</li>
<li>Password protected posts/pages or unpublished content is ignored!</li>
<li>XML Format regarding the <a href="https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html" rel="nofollow ugc">sitemaps.org specification</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable XMLRPC API (Really!)</li>
<li>Restrict REST (JSON) API Access to Admin and Editor User</li>
</ul>
<h4>System Tweaks</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable Emojis</li>
<li>Disable Smileys</li>
<li>Disable oEmbeds</li>
<li>Hide Admin Toolbar</li>
<li>Hide WordPress Generator Tag</li>
<li>Hide Windows Live Writer manifest file link</li>
<li>Hide Meta Pagination Links</li>
<li>Hide Feed Links</li>
<li>Hide Resource Hints</li>
<li>Disable RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Disable Atom Feeds</li>
<li>Disable RDF Feeds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Google Analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Analytics Support – just add your Tracking-ID</li>
<li>AnonymizeIP Option</li>
<li>OPT-OUT Shortcode/Button (required by GDPR/DSGVO) – also works with Caching Plugins or CDN Servers</li>
<li>IE8 Compatible</li>
</ul>
<h4>Matomo/Piwik Analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matomo v3 Support – add your Host URL + Site ID – thats it!</li>
<li>OPT-OUT Shortcode/Button (required by GDPR/DSGVO) – also works with Caching Plugins or CDN Servers</li>
<li>Simple Page Name Option (Records the Document Title without Blog Name)</li>
<li>DoNoTrack Option</li>
<li>Option to add the Hostname to your Document Title (useful for multidomain sites)</li>
</ul>

Tweakr – Utility Toolkit

Supercharges your Blog with production grade Tweaks, Features and Utilities

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.

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