WP Performance & Security

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

Author:James Robinson (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0.1
WordPress version tested:6.2.2
Plugin version:0.9.2
Added to WordPress repository:20-10-2014
Last updated:05-07-2023
Rating, %:100
Rated by:2
Plugin URI:https://jmr.codes/wordpress/plugin/wp-perform...
Total downloads:5 517
Active installs:70+
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This plugin provides settings to modify WordPress and improve performance and security.

General settings

  • Modify excerpt length, the “More” text, and allow excerpts on Pages
  • Change the “Read more” settings, so that the anchors to articles don’t jump
  • Modify custom post types so that they appear in search results and RSS feeds
  • Allow tags on pages and ensure all tags appear in search queries
  • Remove relational links
  • Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest link (wlwmanifest)
  • Remove the RSD link
  • Remove the shortlink
  • Enable HTML5 support for forms, comment lists, images and captions.
  • Enable or disable the Links Manager
  • Disable auto-formatting of content and/or excerpts

Performance

  • Enable GZIP on Apache
  • Disable WordPress pings from internal links
  • Remove the version query string on styles and scripts
  • Remove the JetPack plugin devicepx script
  • Disable emoji support and remove emoji styles and scripts
  • Disable jQuery Migrate dependency
  • Disable the Block Editor Library CSS
  • Disable oEmbed support

Security

  • Remove the WordPress version string
  • Modify XMLRPC features – disable entirely and/or disable XMLRPC SSL testing
  • Comment modifications:
    • Disable comments
    • Disable comments on media files
    • Disable links in comments
    • Remove the ‘URL’ field from the comments form
    • Hide existing comments

Administration

  • Show statistics in the Admin section
  • Change the WordPress greeting, even for non US English installs
  • Remove dashboard widgets
  • Remove menu items
  • Include the “All Settings” menu item

Login

  • Change the login page logo
  • Change the login page logo URL
  • Change the login page logo URL title
  • Disable detailed login errors

If you have further suggestions, please contact us via the plugin support page.

If this plugin is useful for managing your WordPress settings, please review the plugin.

Developed by James Robinson.

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