Core Diet lets you disable WordPress features you don’t need, organized by risk level so you always know what’s safe to turn off.
Unlike other optimization plugins that bundle dozens of unrelated features, Core Diet focuses exclusively on one thing: trimming the fat from WordPress core. No page builders, no custom post types, no SEO tools — just a clean, focused interface to disable what you don’t use.
Scale — Your starting point
The first thing you see when you open Core Diet. Get an overview of your current savings, apply a quick profile, or run the site analyzer for personalized recommendations.
- Savings indicator: HTTP requests removed, CSS/JS saved, database queries avoided, and active optimizations at a glance
- Quick profiles: Personal Blog, WooCommerce Store, Landing Page, and Maximum Cleanup — one click to apply a preconfigured set of settings
- Recommendations: analyze your site and get suggestions based on your active plugins and content, with quick-select filters by risk level and real-time savings preview
- All changes require explicit save — nothing is applied until you confirm
Light — Safe for any site
- Disable emoji scripts and styles
- Remove RSD, WLW manifest, and generator meta tags
- Remove shortlinks and self-pingbacks
- Hide login error details and remove X-Pingback header
- Disable pingbacks, post by email, and comment pagination
- Disable admin email verification prompt
- Remove WordPress logo from admin bar
- And more
Moderate — Evaluate before disabling
- Disable XML-RPC completely
- Remove oEmbed discovery and wp-embed.js
- Remove jQuery Migrate from frontend
- Disable Application Passwords
- Remove Dashicons from frontend for non-logged-in users
- Remove Global Styles inline CSS and Duotone SVG filters
- Disable remote block directory and block patterns
- Disable avatars and comment threading
- And more
Strict — Site-specific settings
- Granular RSS feed controls: disable all feeds or pick specific types (comments, taxonomies, authors, search)
- Control the Heartbeat API (disable, reduce, or admin-only)
- Limit or disable post revisions
- Adjust autosave interval (works with both classic and block editor)
- Restrict or disable REST API (administrators always retain access)
- Disable comments completely (removes menus, admin bar, Discussion settings, and Activity widget)
- Disable native lazy loading and fetchpriority attribute
- Remove version parameters from assets
- Disable Posts or Pages content type entirely
- And more
Widgets
- Disable unused dashboard widgets (Welcome panel, At a Glance, Activity, Quick Draft, Events and News, Site Health)
- Detect and disable third-party dashboard widgets (Yoast, WooCommerce, Elementor, Jetpack, Wordfence, Rank Math, Gravity Forms)
- Unregister classic sidebar widgets you never use
- Remove widget-related blocks from the block editor
- Disable the Customizer or just its Widgets panel
Tools
- Export your configuration to a JSON file and import it on another site
Every option includes a clear description of what it does and what might break, so you can make informed decisions. Toggle-all buttons on every section let you activate or deactivate entire groups with one click.
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