CleanUp WP

CleanUp WP helps you quickly set up a fresh WordPress installation by removing default content, configuring sensible defaults, and enabling performance optimizations.

Why use CleanUp WP?

Every new WordPress installation comes with demo content you don’t need: “Hello World” post, sample pages, default comments, and bundled plugins like Hello Dolly and Akismet. Manually cleaning this up takes time.

CleanUp WP handles all of this with a single click, plus offers toggleable performance and security optimizations that you can enable or disable at any time.

Cleanup Tab (One-time tasks)

These tasks run once and get marked as done:

• Delete “Hello World” post
• Delete “Sample Page”
• Delete “Privacy Policy” page
• Delete default comment
• Delete Hello Dolly & Akismet plugins
• Delete unused themes (keeps active + parent)
• Clear widget areas
• Create main navigation menu
• Set pretty permalinks (/%postname%/)
• Disable comments by default
• Rename “Uncategorized” to “News”
• Disable user registration
• Organize uploads by year/month
• Set default image link to “None”
• Discourage search engine indexing
• Set timezone
• Create static homepage

Optimize Tab (Toggleable)

These can be turned ON or OFF at any time:

• Disable WordPress emojis (~20KB savings)
• Disable oEmbed
• Remove jQuery Migrate
• Disable Dashicons on frontend
• Clean up wp_head
• Disable self-pingbacks
• Reduce Heartbeat frequency
• Disable XML-RPC
• Hide WordPress version
• Disable file editing
• Disable user enumeration
• Clean dashboard (keep only Site Health and At a Glance)