Advanced Settings 3 is a WordPress app, with a 3.9 average rating from 7 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
Advanced Settings 3 is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Helmut Wandl. With a rating of 3.9★ from 7 reviews.
AppRanks data: Advanced Settings 3 ranks #0 in Admin on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Advanced Settings 3 is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Admin category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 7 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Helmut Wandl — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.9★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (7) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Advanced Settings 3 works
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Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface.
🚀 PERFORMANCE
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.
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🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).
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🔒 SECURITY
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.
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✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.
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FEATURES 🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME
Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this.
Admin Area
Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend
Hide WordPress update message in dashboard
Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard
Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new
Customize the admin area branding 💥 new
Frontend
Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new
Add security HTTP headers 💥 new
Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)
Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags
Remove shortlink meta tag
Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
Remove WordPress generator meta tag
Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)
Disable author pages
Remove wptexturize filter
Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new
Limit excerpt length
Add “Read more” link after excerpt
Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count
Protect email addresses from spam bots
Compress HTML code
Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)
Disable emoji image replacement
Editing
Disable posts auto saving
Limit post revisions 💥 new
Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new
Downsize images on upload to max size
Set JPEG quality
Add thumbnail support
Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)
System
Hide default WordPress favicon
Disable comment system
Disable XML-RPC 💥 new
Disable public REST API 💥 new
Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates
Disable email notifications for core updates
Disable email notifications for plugin updates
Disable email notifications for theme updates
Create custom post types 💥 renewed
Developer
Display SQL queries and page load time
Configuration
Show/hide deprecated features
Show/hide experimental features
Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics
Configure visibility of user guide
Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings
Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Admin#0of 620Top 1%
- Dashboard#0of 88Top 1%
- Editing#0of 2Top 1%
- Frontend#0of 20Top 1%
- Settings#0of 6Top 1%
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Keyword rankings
Advanced Settings 3 ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
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Where Advanced Settings 3 stands in the Admin category
Advanced Settings 3 ranks #0 of 620 apps in the Admin category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Advanced Settings 3?
Advanced Settings 3 is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.9-star rating from 7 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Admin category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Helmut Wandl.
Who uses Advanced Settings 3?
Currently around 200 active stores have installed Advanced Settings 3. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Admin category on WordPress.