Featherweight

Featherweight makes your site faster by switching off the features you don’t use. Every disabled item is one less HTTP request, one less script, or one less query — adding up to lighter pages and better Core Web Vitals. Pick only what you need; nothing is forced on.

Formerly WP Disable. Same plugin, new name. Featherweight is part of the Folium Studio suite — your existing settings carry over untouched on update.

Reduce requests & strip front-end bloat

• Disable emojis (removes the emoji detection script and styles)
• Remove query strings from static assets (?ver=...) for cleaner caching
• Disable oEmbeds (the auto-embed script that loads site-wide)
• Disable Gravatars
• Remove jQuery Migrate on the front end
• Combine and asynchronously load Google Fonts and Font Awesome
• Add DNS-prefetch hints for external hosts
• Remove the password-strength-meter script where it isn’t needed
• Drop Dashicons on the front end when the admin toolbar is hidden

Clean up the page header

• Remove the generator tag, shortlink, RSD, Windows Live Writer, and REST API link tags

Comments & discussion

• Disable comments everywhere, or selectively per post type
• Close comments on older posts and paginate long threads
• Strip links from comments
• Disable pingbacks and trackbacks
• Schedule automatic spam-comment cleanup

Admin & performance controls

• Limit or disable post revisions and autosave
• Control the WordPress Heartbeat (frequency and where it runs)
• Disable the REST/XML feeds (RSS), XML-RPC, author archive pages, and admin notices

SEO helpers

• Remove the Yoast SEO HTML comment from the head
• Remove duplicate names in Yoast breadcrumbs

Optional WooCommerce optimisations

When WooCommerce is active, you can stop its scripts and styles from loading on non-store pages, defer cart fragments, disable product reviews, and skip the password-strength meter on unrelated pages.

Good to know

• Disabling emojis does not affect normal emoticons — it only removes the extra emoji-detection script.
• Removing query strings can interfere with some CDNs that key cache on them; leave it off if unsure.
• Everything is optional and reversible — toggle a setting off and the behaviour returns.

Have an idea or found a bug? The plugin is developed in the open — see the public GitHub repo to contribute or open an issue.