Yan Metelitsa

<p>Creating and managing options and settings is an essential feature for any modern website. While WordPress provides a built-in Settings API, it can be cumbersome, leading to unnecessary code bloat and file clutter. With YM Fast Options, this process becomes significantly simpler!</p>
<p>Easily create and manage site settings, store contacts, and handle dynamic data with streamlined efficiency.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>You can find more detailed documentation on the <a href="https://yanmet.com/blog/ym-fast-options-wordpress-plugin-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">official website</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create settings pages, including top-level and sub-pages</li>
<li>Add and manage options for your settings pages</li>
<li>Enjoy full access to all WordPress Settings API features within a lightweight interface</li>
<li>Seamlessly integrate settings into your multisite as needed</li>
</ul>
<h4>Field Types</h4>
<ul>
<li>text</li>
<li>textarea</li>
<li>number</li>
<li>select</li>
<li>checkbox</li>
<li>radio</li>
<li>tel</li>
<li>email</li>
<li>url</li>
<li>image</li>
<li>date</li>
<li>datetime-local</li>
<li>month</li>
<li>week</li>
<li>time</li>
<li>color</li>
</ul>


YM Fast Options

Create custom options, settings, global data fields, and more for your WordPress site with just a few lines of code.

Arthur Ronconi

Helmut Wandl

<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>🚀 PERFORMANCE</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#will%20the%20plugin%20become%20slower%20with%20more%20features%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20can%20the%20plugin%20be%20lightweight%20despite%20so%20many%20features%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>🔒 SECURITY</strong><br />
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#how%20is%20the%20security%20of%20the%20plugin%20ensured%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
<p><strong>✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS</strong><br />
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-settings#what%20caused%20the%20two%20bad%20ratings%3F" rel="ugc"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> details in FAQ</a></p>
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<h3>FEATURES</h3>
<p><strong>🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME</strong><br />
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.</p>
<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>
</ul>
<h4>Developer</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display SQL queries and page load time</li>
<li>Create custom post types 💥 renewed</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>
<p>Contribute on github: <a href="https://github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings</a></p>


Advanced Settings 3

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

YM Fast Options vs Advanced Settings 3