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

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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