Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Anh Tran
Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 10 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Anh Tran. With a rating of 5.0★ from 10 reviews.
AppRanks data: Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks ranks #0 in Optimize on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Performance category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 10 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
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Anh Tran — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (10) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks works
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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 & MODULES Falcon offers a comprehensive list modules for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:
Disable components General components:
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
Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.
Media components:
Remove jQuery Migrate
Disable emojis
Disable scaling down big images
Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data
Disable thumbnail generation
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
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 cleanup
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
Comment spam protection
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
Cache Falcon’s cache feature creates static HTML files of your pages, serving them instantly to visitors without processing database queries, or loading WordPress, themes and all plugins on every request.
Tweaks
Search only posts
Enable maintenance mode
Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files
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
Asynchronous load CSS to avoid blocking load of CSS files
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Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Optimize#0of 52Top 1%
- Performance#0of 760Top 1%
- Speed#0of 114Top 1%
- Tweaks#0of 7Top 1%
- Admin#102of 620Top 17%
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Frequently asked questions
What is Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks?
Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 10 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Performance 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 Anh Tran.
Who uses Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks?
Currently around 2,000 active stores have installed Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Performance category on WordPress.