Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

Falcon is lightweight WordPress plugin that provide a list of optimizations and tweaks that help you improve the performance and user experience for your WordPress sites.

FEATURES & MODULES

Falcon offers a comprehensive list modules for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:

Disable components

General components:

• Disable Gutenberg (the block editor)
• Disable heartbeat
• Disable embeds, e.g. prevent others from embedding your site and vise-versa
• Disable comments & remove website field from comment form
• Disable revisions
• Disable self pings
• Disable privacy tools
• Disable cron
• Disable auto updates
• Block external requests
• Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.

Media components:

• Remove jQuery Migrate
• Disable emojis
• Disable scaling down big images
• Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data
• Disable thumbnail generation

Header cleanup

• Remove feed links
• Remove RSD link
• Remove wlwmanifest link
• Remove adjacent posts links
• Remove WordPress version number
• Remove shortlink
• Remove REST API link

Email

• Remove admin email confirmation
• Disable auto update email notification
• Disable admin email notification when a new user is registered
• Disable admin email notification when users reset passwords
• Change default WordPress from name and email
• SMTP configuration

Admin cleanup

• Show site icon on login page
• Remove update nags
• Remove footer text
• Remove default dashboard widgets
• Remove WordPress logo in the admin bar
• Remove application passwords

Security

• Disable REST API for unauthenticated requests
• Disable XML-RPC
• Restrict upload file types
• Disable detailed login errors
• Block AI bots from crawling/stealing your content, which also affect the performance
• Force login to view the website

Cache

Falcon’s cache feature creates static HTML files of your pages, serving them instantly to visitors without processing database queries, or loading WordPress, themes and all plugins on every request.

Tweaks

• Search only posts
• Enable maintenance mode
• Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files
• Set scheme-less URLs for JavaScript and CSS files, e.g. remove http: and https: from URLs
• Remove styles for recent comments widget
• Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes
• Asynchronous load CSS to avoid blocking load of CSS files

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