WP Performance & Security

This plugin provides access to settings that 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.
• 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
• Remove emoji support

Security

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

Administration

• Hide the admin bar from front facing pages
• Show statistics in the Admin section
• Change the WordPress greeting, even for non US English installs
• Remove the ‘Open Sans’ Google webfont from Admin
• Remove dashboard widgets
• Remove WP 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

Google Analytics

• Add Google Analytics tracking code to your site

Version 0.8

• Tested against WordPress 5.0.1
• Open Sans was dropped from WordPress 4.6 in favour of system fonts – so the Remove Open Sans font option will only show for older versions of WordPress
• Updated Google Analytics to support Google Tag Manager (gtag.js)
• Added the ability to hide existing comments
• Jetpack devicepx option only shown if Jetpack is active
• Improved handling of custom post type options
• Added support for enabling (and disabling) the Links Manager
• Minor code improvements

Version 0.7

• Added the ability to remove the styles and scripts that make up emoji support, which was added in WP 4.2

Version 0.6

• Fixed a range of alerts that appear in debug mode

Version 0.5

• Fixed issue where plugin might conflict with WP Super Cache

Version 0.4.1

• Minor changes to plugin settings in WP

Version 0.4

• Minor code changes
• JS only loaded on plugin page
• Changed default settings, all plugin options set to the WordPress defaults

Version 0.3

• Updated plugin to allow for internationalization
• Added icon

Version 0.2

• Added support for adding Google Analytics tracking code
• Added a toggle to remove the admin bar from front-facing pages
• Added a setting to enforce and set the minimum number of characters required in a comment

Version 0.1

• Initial launch

If you require support for the plugin, please use the WordPress support forum.