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.
🚀 PERFORMANCE Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP. → details in FAQ
🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking). → details in FAQ
🔒 SECURITY Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack. → details in FAQ
✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again. → details in FAQ
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FEATURES
🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME 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.
Admin Area
- Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend
- Hide WordPress update message in dashboard
- Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard
- Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new
- Customize the admin area branding 💥 new
Frontend
- Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new
- Add security HTTP headers 💥 new
- Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)
- Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags
- Remove shortlink meta tag
- Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
- Remove WordPress generator meta tag
- Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)
- Disable author pages
- Remove wptexturize filter
- Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new
- Limit excerpt length
- Add „Read more“ link after excerpt
- Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count
- Protect email addresses from spam bots
- Compress HTML code
- Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)
- Disable emoji image replacement
Editing
- Disable posts auto saving
- Limit post revisions 💥 new
- Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new
- Downsize images on upload to max size
- Set JPEG quality
- Add thumbnail support
- Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)
System
- Hide default WordPress favicon
- Disable comment system
- Disable XML-RPC 💥 new
- Disable public REST API 💥 new
- Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates
- Disable email notifications for core updates
- Disable email notifications for plugin updates
- Disable email notifications for theme updates
Developer
- Display SQL queries and page load time
- Create custom post types 💥 renewed
Configuration
- Show/hide deprecated features
- Show/hide experimental features
- Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics
- Configure visibility of user guide
Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings