F4 Improvements Plugin

There are a few features that really should be in the WordPress core. F4 Improvements adds a few more features and a lot of improvements and enhancements to your WordPress installation. They improve the performance for your WordPress, make it more secure, add a few useful new features, removes unimportant stuff and ensure better usability. It also adds some improvements for the awesome caching plugin WP Rocket and WooCommerce.

Features

WP Rocket

• Add action to toggle caching on/off to the WP Rocket admin menu
• Enable same cache for all users
• Disable mobile-specific cache (WP Rocket >= 3.16)
• Remove WP Rocket footprint comment
• Leave empty lines in .htaccess
• Ignore additional query strings
• WooCommerce: Clear product cache on stock change
• WooCommerce: Disable cart fragments cache

WooCommerce

• Save Save ship_to_different_address
• Remove Adjacent Links
• Hide flatrates if free shipping
• Hide jumping embed loader in backend
• Set reply to email

Yoast SEO

• Choose image size for social og images

Front end

• Remove RSD Link
• Remove REST Output
• Remove oEmbed Discovery
• Remove wlwmanifest Link
• Remove Shortlinks
• Remove Adjacent Links
• Remove Feed Links
• Remove Generator Tag
• Remove Emojis
• Remove oEmbed Assets
• Remove Gutenberg Assets
• Remove Global Styles Assets
• Hide Author Pages
• Hide Admin Toolbar

Back end

• Set default color theme for new users
• Disable WYSIWYG editor for specific post types
• Disable WYSIWYG media button for specific post types
• Disable Gutenberg editor for specific post types
• Keep taxonomy hierarchy in checklist
• Remove “Welcome to WP!” box from dashbord
• Remove “Quick Draft” box from dashboard
• Remove “News and Events” box from dashboard
• Remove “At a Glance” box from dashboard
• Remove “Activity” box from dashboard

Media

• Change JPEG Quality
• Enable SVG Support
• Allow image upscaling (to ensure better image sizes handling)
• Normalize Upload Filename (lowercase, whitespaces, umlauts etc.)
• Use title as alt attribute on upload
• Disable scaling for big image sizes
• Remove specific default image sizes

Core

• Disable Core Update Email
• Skip default plugins and themes on update
• Disable XML-RPC
• Disable Theme Editor
• Set phpmailer return path
• Disable admin email check

Features overview

• Improvements and enhancements for frontend, backend, media and wordpress core
• Easy to use
• Lightweight and optimized
• 100% free!

Planned features

• Add more useful WordPress improvements
• Polylang improvements
• WooCommerce improvements

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/f4-improvements directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Use the Settings -> Improvements screen to configure the plugin

1. 

   Front end improvements

2. 

   Back end improvements

3. 

   Media improvements

4. 

   System improvements

5. 

   WP Rocket improvements

6. 

   WooCommerce improvements

1.9.0

• Add option to disable mobile-specific cache for WP Rocket
• Support WooCommerce 8.9

1.8.2

• Support WooCommerce 8.7
• Support WordPress 6.5

1.8.1

• Fix possible XSS vulnerability
• Support WooCommerce 8.6
• Support WordPress 6.4

1.8.0

• Add option to disable admin email check
• Declare custom_order_tables compatibility
• Support WooCommerce 8.1
• Support WordPress 6.3

1.7.3

• Optimize for PHP 8.1
• Support WooCommerce 7.4

1.7.2

• Support WooCommerce 7.1
• Support WordPress 6.1

1.7.1

• Update www.f4dev.ch links
• Support WooCommerce 6.8

1.7.0

• Add option to remove global styles from the front end
• Support WooCommerce 6.6

1.6.3

• Support WordPress 6.0

1.6.2

• Fix bug with Yoast SEO
• Remove trailing php tags

1.6.1

• Support WordPress 5.9

1.6.0

• Add Yoast SEO module and og image size option
• Support WooCommerce 6.1

1.5.0

• Add option to disable scaling for big image sizes
• Support WordPress 5.8

1.4.0

• Add option to skip default plugins and themes on update
• Add option to hide jumping embed loader in backend
• Support WooCommerce 5.1

1.3.3

• Support WordPress 5.7

1.3.2

• Support WordPress 5.6

1.3.1

• WP Rocket: Don’t generate and flush critical css if cache is disabled

1.3.0

• Add WooCommerce improvements
• Add new “Modern” color theme to theme selection
• Remove all default values for new installations
• System: Add option to set phpmailer return path

1.2.1

• Update hook priority for rocket_remove_empty_lines
• Support WordPress 5.5

1.2.0

• Add WP Rocket improvements
• Rework load and init hooks

1.1.0

• Add option to set alt attribute to title on upload
• Add option to keep taxonomy hierarchy in checklist
• Remove option to normalize attachment titles
• Update default values
• Update german translations

1.0.0

• Initial stable release