Falcon – WordPress Optimization

Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

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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 &

Version

2.8.1
Last updated

2024.02.27
Active installations

1000
WordPress Version

5.9
Tested up to

6.4.3
PHP Version

7.4
Rating

5.00
Total ratings

8
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Description

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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