Great Feature Toggle
Toggle common site features from one screen—contact form, SEO meta, login tweaks, disable comments, and more—fast and lightweight.
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Actively maintained • Last updated 66 days ago
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Likely maintained (last update 66 days ago).
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Description
Great Feature Toggle (GFT) is a modular admin utility that lets you
enable or disable a curated set of features from one screen. Ideal for
fresh installs, prototyping, or client sites where you need sane
defaults fast — but still want complete control.
Visit the plugin homepage for more information.
Highlights
* Simple Contact Form shortcode: built-in CAPTCHA and sane validation.
* SEO Meta: set site title/description (lightweight, theme-agnostic).
* Custom Login Logo: for branded admin/login views.
* Custom Mail-From: set name/address (including evelope) for outgoing emails.
* Disable Comments: site-wide for posts/media (fully reversible).
* Force Login: limit pages with allowlist of public paths (e.g., /privacy-policy, /contact).
* Hide Login/Account Nav Links
* Hide Admin Screen Options & Help Tabs
* Hide Menu Items: a limit menu for logged out users.
* Shortcodes: [grftg_message] to output a message; [grftg_reading_time] to show estimated reading time.
* Built to WordPress coding standards and security best-practices (nonces, capabilities, escaping/sanitization).
Key Features:
* Performance-optimized compilation system
* Categorized feature organization
* Real-time admin interface
* Robust error handling
* Translation ready
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/great-feature-toggle/or install via Plugins Add New. - Activate via Plugins.
- Go to Settings Great Feature Toggle and enable the features you need.
- For the contact form, add the shortcode to a page:
[grftg_contact_form]. - For reading time, use:
[grftg_reading_time].
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely not. You can turn on or off any feature independently.
No more activating and deactivating various plugins.
No — GFT provides lightweight title/description fields. If you need advanced sitemaps, schema, redirects, etc., use a dedicated SEO plugin alongside GFT.
Enter paths (one per line) under Force Login Allowlist, e.g. /, /privacy-policy, /contact.
GFT is theme-agnostic and works with Gutenberg and other popular builders like Elementor. The features are intentionally minimal and additive.
Yes. Set the minimum capability for each feature in settings.
Unlike having numerous plugins, having these in one single place will speed up a site. In fact the Great Feature Toggle plugin goes to great length to help improve performance such as minimizing DB interactions and ensuring the code only run on the specific pages.
Yes – I have an addition 20+ features in development such as:
* Admin Menu ordering
* Disable password resets
* Auto downcase email addresses in registration
* Send an email to the sites registered users
* Turn of login nav links
* Change the login error message for improved security
* Redirect the login page to a different page
* Rename media slugs
* Obfuscate email address via shortcode
* AND MORE
Yes! All strings are wrapped in translation functions.
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Changelog
6.5.3
- ** New Feature **
- Block admin panel: lets admin restrict the admin panel
- Login Error message: lets admin set the error message to improve security
- ** Fix **
- Clean up media-copy feature
6.5.2
- ** New Feature **
- Media-Copy: Adds link in media to create new copy of file
6.5.1
- Initial public release.

