Pretty straight-forward tool, that provides easy-to-use controls to remove of bunch of native Wordpress bloatware, also contains few useful utilities for optimization.
Bloat
- Gutenberg styles removal
- Wordpress emojis removal
- RSS feeds removal
- Rreally Simple Discovery removal
- Shortlink removal
- REST Discovery link removal
- oEmbed discovery link removal
- Admin widgets in dashboard removal
- Native XML sitemap removal
- Admin help tabs removal
- About WP sub-menu and thank you message removal
- Site Health disabling/removal (new in 0.9.4)
- Import/Export page removal (new in 0.9.4)
Utilities
- Comments system removal
- Widgets removal (those under "Appearance")
- oEmbed restriction
- Self-pingbacks removal
- Heartbeat interval option
- Image Process Engine - force GD (new in 0.9.5)
- Limit number of revisions (new in 0.9.6)
- Native tags taxonomy removal (new in 0.9.6)
- Option to disable author archive pages (new in 0.9.7)
To do
Possibly tab-closing and moving for both blocks(it would mean more js and possibly css, scrapping the idea for now)Think about the XML-RPC option, whether it should stick or not - it's security thing, rather than anything related to actual optimization(removed as of v0.9.5)Possibly tooltip telling to actually click on [?] next to the name of the function, or maybe information somewhere, that click is actually required to see full description of functionality (it uses native details/summary html elements)(done)Remove saved options on uninstall(done)Add translations files(done)Apply RSS feeds removal from header links(done)Find proper info source for RSD(done)Find proper info source on Shortlink(done)JS handler for Heartbeat input(done)Check whether on-site search disabling is worth adding as utility(after analyzing the case it doesn't seems like disabling it make any difference, if there's no call for search form on the frontend; this function would seem like novelty, rather than anything meaningful)Check whether disabling author archives is worth adding as utility or bloat removal(done, added in 0.9.7)Add polish translation(done @wp)- Full Multisite compability (work required, no ETA)
- Better descriptions and sources to more info (WIP/ partially done)
- Possibly settings import/export
- Look for new optimization opportunities (WIP)
- Find better info source for self-pingbacks
- Find proper info source for gutenberg styles
- Check whether removing some of the default image sizes (for example: medium_large, 1536x1536, 2048x2048) does make sense as an utility option
- Check whether is it possible to remove "post formats" as option/dropdown