Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks Plugin
A lightweight WordPress optimization and tweak plugin for a better performance
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 of 49 FREE modules (and growing) for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:
General
- 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
- Search only posts
- Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.
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
Media
- Asynchronous load CSS to avoid blocking load of CSS files
- Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files
- Remove jQuery Migrate
- 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
- Disable emojis
- Disable scaling down big images
- Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data
- Disable thumbnail generation
- Enable maintenance mode
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
- 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
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Installation
Go to Dashboard | Plugins | Add New and search for Falcon. Then install and activate the plugin.
Screenshots
Changelog
2.8.3 – 2024-05-17
- Disable XML-RPC methods
- Fix: activation error on ajax request
- Update fix word disable detailed login errors
2.8.2 – 2024-03-17
- Add a link to the settings page in the plugin meta row
- Auto redirect to the settings page after activation
2.8.1 – 2024-02-28
- Add options to change default email from name and address
- Add more AI bots to the block list
2.8.0 – 2024-02-20
- Add SMTP configuration
- Add maintenance mode
- Add block AI bots option
- Add force login option
2.7.2 – 2023-12-11
- Fix not loading email options
- Fix remove dashboard widgets not removing welcome panel
2.7.1 – 2023-12-07
- Add options for no emails when a new user is registered and users reset their passwords
- Fix error when disabling all features. Closes #17.
2.7.0 – 2023-12-07
- Update hook for disable core update email notification
- Fix removing update nag not working
- Add a new security tab with options to disable login errors and restrict upload file types
2.6.0 – 2023-12-03
2.5.0 – 2023-09-18
- Add: Disable comments
- Add: Remove website field from comment form
- Add: Search only posts
- Add: Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.
- Add: Disable scaling down big images
- Add: Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data
- Add: Disable thumbnail generation
2.4.1 – 2023-08-14
- Remove classic theme styles for button blocks
- Remove Jetpack widget
2.4.0 – 2023-08-02
- Add asynchronous load CSS
2.3.0 – 2023-07-11
- Disable cron
- Disable auto updates
- Block external requests
- Fix missing current ancestor class for menu
2.2.0 – 2023-01-18
- Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes
- Disable privacy tools
- Remove application passwords
2.1.0 – 2022-12-27
- Add disable XML-RPC
- Add disable Gutenberg
- Add disable REST API
- Add a set of admin tweaks
- Organize features in tabs and update styling
2.0.5
2.0.4
- Fix missing vendor folder
2.0.3
- Remove jQuery Migrate in the WordPress admin as well
2.0.2
- Fix PHP warning when blocking self-pings
- Fix textdomain
2.0.1
2.0.0
- Re-add settings page
- Update disble embeds module
1.3.1
- Update compatibility with the latest version of WordPress
- Fix not working with WP-CLI
1.3.0
- Remove settings page
- Do not use jQuery from Google CDN for better compatibility
- Remove support for loading CSS async
1.2.4
- Add option to use latest version of jQuery
- Add option to exclude static resources from removing query string
1.2.3
- Downgrade jQuery to 2.2.4 for better compatibility
1.2.2
- Fix: File name case-sensitive
1.2.1
- Fix: Load PHP file using absolute path.
1.2
- New: Load CSS asynchronously (and selectively).
- Fix: No error in the login page.
- Requires PHP 5.4
1.1.1
- Fix not loading file for media.
1.1
- Remove Jetpack devicex script.
- Requires PHP 5.3.
1.0.3
1.0.2
- Use jQuery from Google CDN
1.0.1
- Sets scheme-less URLs for JS and CSS files, e.g. removes ‘http:’ and ‘https:’ from URLs.
1.0.0