James Robinson

This plugin provides settings to modify WordPress and improve performance and security.
General settings
<ul>
<li>Modify excerpt length, the “More” text, and allow excerpts on Pages</li>
<li>Change the “Read more” settings, so that the anchors to articles don’t jump</li>
<li>Modify custom post types so that they appear in search results and RSS feeds</li>
<li>Allow tags on pages and ensure all tags appear in search queries</li>
<li>Remove relational links</li>
<li>Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest link (<code>wlwmanifest</code>)</li>
<li>Remove the RSD link</li>
<li>Remove the shortlink</li>
<li>Enable HTML5 support for forms, comment lists, images and captions.</li>
<li>Enable or disable the Links Manager</li>
<li>Disable auto-formatting of content and/or excerpts</li>
</ul>
Performance
<ul>
<li>Enable GZIP on Apache</li>
<li>Disable WordPress pings from internal links</li>
<li>Remove the version query string on styles and scripts</li>
<li>Remove the JetPack plugin <code>devicepx</code> script</li>
<li>Disable emoji support and remove emoji styles and scripts</li>
<li>Disable jQuery Migrate dependency</li>
<li>Disable the Block Editor Library CSS</li>
<li>Disable oEmbed support</li>
</ul>
Security
<ul>
<li>Remove the WordPress version string</li>
<li>Modify XMLRPC features – disable entirely and/or disable XMLRPC SSL testing</li>
<li>Comment modifications:
<ul>
<li>Disable comments</li>
<li>Disable comments on media files</li>
<li>Disable links in comments</li>
<li>Remove the ‘URL’ field from the comments form</li>
<li>Hide existing comments</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Administration
<ul>
<li>Show statistics in the Admin section</li>
<li>Change the WordPress greeting, even for non US English installs</li>
<li>Remove dashboard widgets</li>
<li>Remove menu items</li>
<li>Include the “All Settings” menu item</li>
</ul>
Login
<ul>
<li>Change the login page logo</li>
<li>Change the login page logo URL</li>
<li>Change the login page logo URL title</li>
<li>Disable detailed login errors</li>
</ul>
If you have further suggestions, please contact us via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security" rel="ugc">plugin support page</a>.
If this plugin is useful for managing your WordPress settings, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/wp-performance-security" rel="ugc">review the plugin</a>.
Developed by <a href="https://jmr.codes" rel="nofollow ugc">James Robinson</a>.

Performance & Security

This plugin provides settings to modify WordPress and improve performance and security.

Arthur Ronconi

Helmut Wandl

Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface.
🚀 PERFORMANCE 
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP. 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#will%20the%20plugin%20become%20slower%20with%20more%20features%3F" rel="ugc">→ details in FAQ</a>
🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT 
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking). 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20can%20the%20plugin%20be%20lightweight%20despite%20so%20many%20features%3F" rel="ugc">→ details in FAQ</a>
🔒 SECURITY 
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack. 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20is%20the%20security%20of%20the%20plugin%20ensured%3F" rel="ugc">→ details in FAQ</a>
✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS 
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again. 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#what%20caused%20the%20two%20bad%20ratings%3F" rel="ugc">→ details in FAQ</a>
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<h3>FEATURES</h3>
🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME 
Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this.
<h4>Admin Area</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend</li>
<li>Hide WordPress update message in dashboard</li>
<li>Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard</li>
<li>Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new</li>
<li>Customize the admin area branding 💥 new</li>
</ul>
<h4>Frontend</h4>
<ul>
<li>Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new</li>
<li>Add security HTTP headers 💥 new</li>
<li>Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)</li>
<li>Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags</li>
<li>Remove shortlink meta tag</li>
<li>Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag</li>
<li>Remove WordPress generator meta tag</li>
<li>Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)</li>
<li>Disable author pages</li>
<li>Remove wptexturize filter</li>
<li>Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new</li>
<li>Limit excerpt length</li>
<li>Add “Read more” link after excerpt</li>
<li>Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count</li>
<li>Protect email addresses from spam bots</li>
<li>Compress HTML code</li>
<li>Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)</li>
<li>Disable emoji image replacement</li>
</ul>
<h4>Editing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disable posts auto saving</li>
<li>Limit post revisions 💥 new</li>
<li>Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new</li>
<li>Downsize images on upload to max size</li>
<li>Set JPEG quality</li>
<li>Add thumbnail support</li>
<li>Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)</li>
</ul>
<h4>System</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide default WordPress favicon</li>
<li>Disable comment system</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC 💥 new</li>
<li>Disable public REST API 💥 new</li>
<li>Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for core updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for plugin updates</li>
<li>Disable email notifications for theme updates</li>
<li>Create custom post types 💥 renewed</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display SQL queries and page load time</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show/hide deprecated features</li>
<li>Show/hide experimental features</li>
<li>Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics</li>
<li>Configure visibility of user guide</li>
</ul>
Contribute on github: <a href="https://github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings</a>

Advanced Settings 3

Adds settings that you might expect to find in the WordPress core.

Performance & Security vs Advanced Settings 3