Basic Optimization for WordPress

Basic Optimization provides simple on/off controls for common WordPress cleanup and performance-related tweaks. It is intentionally small, dependency-free, and designed for site owners who want practical optimization controls without a large performance suite.

The plugin adds a Basic Optimization admin screen where administrators can enable or disable each feature independently. It also includes a child Email Notifications settings page for disabling selected WordPress core auto emails.

Basic Optimization supports regular single-site WordPress installs and WordPress Multisite. On multisite, when the plugin is network activated, Super Admins configure the plugin only from Network Admin and all sites use the network settings.

Features

Multisite Support – Adds Network Admin settings pages and stores network-wide settings with WordPress network options.

Network-Only Mode – When network activated, subsite admin pages are not added and every site uses the Network Admin settings.

Disable Emojis – Removes WordPress emoji scripts, styles, filters, and emoji DNS prefetch output.

Remove Shortlink – Removes the shortlink tag from the document head.

Remove CSS/JS Version – Removes the ver query argument from enqueued stylesheet and script URLs.

Remove RSD Links – Removes the Really Simple Discovery link from the document head.

Disable Embeds – Removes WordPress oEmbed discovery links and dequeues the default wp-embed frontend script.

Disable XML-RPC – Disables XML-RPC requests and removes the X-Pingback response header.