DamirCalusic

WP Basic Elements gives you full control over the features WordPress loads by default. Disable what you don’t need, clean up the front-end markup, and streamline the admin interface — all from a single, modern settings page.
Every option is off by default. You choose exactly what to disable, nothing more.
<h4>What you can do</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin Bar — Remove individual items like the WP logo, New Content, Customize, Updates, Comments, Search, and more</li>
<li>Dashboard Widgets — Hide Welcome Panel, At a Glance, Activity, Site Health, Quick Draft, WP Events & News, WooCommerce and Yoast widgets</li>
<li>Admin Footer — Replace or hide the left and right footer text</li>
<li>User Profile — Hide profile fields (Rich Editing, Color Scheme, Application Passwords, etc.) and remove individual contact methods (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and more)</li>
<li>Comments — Disable the entire comment system with a single toggle</li>
<li>Gutenberg Editor — Turn off Welcome Guide, Fullscreen Mode, Focus Mode, Distraction Free Mode, and Top Toolbar</li>
<li>Meta Tags & Head Cleanup — Remove the generator tag, oEmbed links, shortlinks, WLW manifest, adjacent post links, REST API links, RSS feeds, emojis, and pingbacks/trackbacks</li>
<li>REST API — Restrict access for non-logged-in users with a configurable whitelist</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why WP Basic Elements?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight — no bloat, no frameworks, no external dependencies</li>
<li>Opt-in only — safe to activate on any site without side effects</li>
<li>Modern UI — clean settings page with sidebar navigation and toggle switches</li>
<li>Translatable — ships with 10 languages out of the box</li>
<li>Secure — all output escaped, all input sanitized</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
WP Basic Elements plugin can be translated to any language. Currently available translations are listed below.
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE)</li>
<li>Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO)</li>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS)</li>
<li>Danish (da_DK)</li>
<li>Croatian (hr)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL)</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT)</li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR)</li>
</ul>

WP Basic Elements

Disable unnecessary WordPress features, clean up your markup, and simplify the admin. Everything is opt-in — nothing changes until you say so.

Daryll Doyle

This plugin enables Parallelized Downloads / Domain Sharding for your WordPress images.
This is a good alternative if you don’t want to pay for a CDN but have an image heavy site.
Domain sharding is a technique used to increase the amount of simultaneously downloaded resources for a particular website by using multiple domains. 
This allows websites to be delivered faster to users as they do not have to wait for the previous set of resources to be downloaded before beginning the next set.
This plugin is only useful if you have an image heavy site. For sites with very few images you may see an increase in load times with this plugin due to increased numbers of DNS lookups.
See <a href="https://www.keycdn.com/support/domain-sharding/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> for more information on Domain Sharding

Parallelize Downloads

Enable Parallelized Downloads / Domain Sharding for your WordPress images.

WP Basic Elements vs Parallelize Downloads