Abhishek Site Cleanup Controls vs DietPress

Abhishek Site Cleanup Controls gives developers and site owners fine-grained control over 35+ WordPress features that are often unnecessary. Each feature has a simple on/off toggle, organised into five logical groups inside Settings -> Site Cleanup Controls. No features are enabled by default — activate only what you need. Security User Enumeration — Block ?author=N redirect attacks that expose usernames. Author Archives — Return 404 for author archive pages. XML-RPC + Pingback — Fully disable the XML-RPC endpoint and remove the X-Pingback header. Plugin and Theme Editor — Set DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT to prevent in-admin file editing. Application Passwords — Disable the Application Passwords feature. REST API — Restrict REST API access to authenticated users only. Right Click — Disable the browser context menu on the frontend. Performance Emojis — Remove all emoji scripts, styles, and DNS prefetch hints. Embed Objects — Disable WordPress oEmbed and embed scripts. Dashicons — Prevent Dashicons from loading for non-logged-in visitors. Heartbeat — Deregister the Heartbeat API script. Block Library CSS — Remove wp-block-library and global-styles stylesheets on the frontend. Version Var (?ver=) — Strip ?ver= query strings from enqueued asset URLs. PDF Thumbnails — Skip thumbnail generation for uploaded PDF files. oEmbed — Remove oEmbed discovery links and disable autoembed. Remote Block Patterns — Stop WordPress fetching patterns from api.wordpress.org. Head Cleanup Generator Meta Tag — Remove the WordPress version meta tag from head. WLW Manifest — Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest link. Really Simple Discovery (RSD) — Remove the RSD link tag. Short Link — Remove the shortlink tag and HTTP header. Adjacent Posts Links — Remove prev/next link tags from single post heads. RSS Feeds — Redirect all feed URLs to the homepage. Admin Cleanup capital_P_dangit — Remove WordPress forced capitalisation filter. Screen Options and Help Tabs — Hide Screen Options and Help dropdowns. Howdy to Welcome — Replace “Howdy,” with “Welcome,” in the admin bar. Navigation Items in Admin Bar — Remove WP logo, site name, updates, and comments. Clean Dashboard — Remove all default dashboard widgets. Privacy Tools — Hide Export/Erase Personal Data from the Tools menu. Site Health Page — Hide Site Health from the Tools menu. WP Login Logo and Favicon — Hide the WordPress logo on the login page. Admin Email Verification Prompt — Disable the admin email confirm interstitial. Empty Trash (1 week) — Shorten automatic trash-emptying from 30 days to 7 days. Content Comments — Disable comments sitewide. Post Revisions — Disable revision storage. Search — Redirect all search queries to the homepage. WordPress Features Thumbnails / Featured Images — Remove post thumbnail support. Widgets — Disable all widgets and sidebars. Navigation Menus — Remove nav menu theme support. Tags — Unregister tags from posts. Categories — Unregister categories from posts. Post Formats — Remove post format theme support. Custom Fields — Remove custom fields meta box from editor. Excerpts — Remove excerpt support from posts and pages. Trackbacks — Remove trackback support from posts. Attachment Pages — Redirect attachment URLs to the file directly. Automatic Updates — Disable automatic core, plugin, and theme updates. Self Pings — Stop WordPress pinging your own site. jQuery Migrate — Remove jQuery Migrate script on the frontend.

DietPress puts your WordPress on a diet and speeds it up. It pairs a complete set of performance optimizations (the ones that used to ship in “Zero Config Performance Optimization”) with a clean, risk-based interface to disable the WordPress features you do not use. Everything is configurable, and the performance optimizations are already on by default, so you can simply activate and enjoy a faster site, or fine-tune every detail. Coming from “Zero Config Performance Optimization”? This is the same plugin, now called DietPress and fully configurable. All your previous optimizations stay active by default; you just gained a settings page and a whole new set of WordPress-diet options. By default WordPress loads functions, services and scripts that most sites do not need. They slow down loading times and consume hosting resources. DietPress lets you trim that fat and apply battle-tested performance tweaks, with a clear description of what each option does and what might break, organized by risk level so you always know what is safe. TWO THINGS IN ONE PLUGIN 1. Performance optimizations (on by default) Automatic Critical CSS inlined in the head (optional experimental deferral of non-critical CSS) JavaScript defer parsing with smart dependency handling Image loading attributes safety net: lazy loading, decoding=async and fetchpriority for images that bypass core Automatic image dimensions for better CLS scores (including picture elements) Resource hints: preconnect and DNS prefetch for common third-party origins Theme stylesheet, critical fonts and logo preloading for a faster LCP Google Fonts display=swap RSS feed optimization (cache headers and item limit) Server rules in .htaccess: browser caching, GZIP and Brotli compression, immutable cache headers, CORS for fonts and keep-alive (master switch plus per-feature toggles) Database maintenance: daily expired-transient cleanup and safe query optimizations 2. Put WordPress on a diet (risk-based, opt-in) Light (safe for any site): emojis, RSD/WLW tags, shortlinks, self-pingbacks, comment pagination, and more Moderate (evaluate first): oEmbed, jQuery Migrate, Dashicons on the frontend, Global Styles and Duotone, remote block patterns, avatars and Gravatar, comment threading, and more Strict (site-specific): granular RSS feed control, Heartbeat API mode, post revisions and autosave, disable comments, XML sitemap, native lazy loading/fetchpriority, content types, and more Widgets: dashboard widgets (including third-party ones from Yoast, WooCommerce, Elementor, Jetpack, Wordfence, Rank Math, Gravity Forms), classic sidebar widgets, block-editor widgets and the Customizer Emails: silence the automatic emails WordPress sends on its own, grouped by area: auto-update results for core, plugins and themes (plus the new-version notice), comment moderation and new-comment notices, and new user, password and email-change notices, plus toggles for the admin email verification prompt and post-by-email. Every option is off by default, and critical notices such as a failed core update are always kept SCALE, PROFILES AND ANALYZER Savings indicator: HTTP requests removed, CSS/JS saved and active optimizations at a glance Quick profiles: Personal Blog, WooCommerce Store, Landing Page and Maximum Cleanup Site analyzer: personalized recommendations based on your active plugins and content Import and export your whole configuration as a JSON file COMPATIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY The plugin includes filters for developers: dietpress_critical_css – Customize the inline critical CSS dietpress_critical_css_handles – Define which CSS handles are critical dietpress_skip_defer_script_handles – Opt scripts out of the JavaScript defer dietpress_skip_defer_style_handles – Opt stylesheets out of the CSS deferral dietpress_preconnect_hints – Customize preconnect origins dietpress_dns_prefetch_domains – Customize DNS prefetch domains dietpress_critical_fonts – Define critical fonts to preload Compatible with: Well-coded themes and page builders (Divi, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Gutenberg) Cache plugins (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, etc.) Security plugins (DietPress focuses on performance and deliberately leaves security to them; we recommend our free Vigilant) CDNs (Cloudflare, StackPath, KeyCDN, etc.) thanks to CORS and Vary headers WordPress Multisite HOW TO VERIFY THE OPTIMIZATIONS Cache rules: check your .htaccess for a block marked # BEGIN DietPress with immutable Cache-Control headers Logo preload: view page source and look for pointing to your logo Critical CSS: view source and look for in the head Compression: test at giftofspeed.com/gzip-test Always measure with tools like Google PageSpeed, GTMetrix or WebPageTest, and run each test at least twice to account for caching. Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? Official website WordPress support forum YouTube channel Documentation and tutorials Love the plugin? Please leave us a 5-star review and help spread the word! About AyudaWP We are specialists in WordPress security, SEO, AI and performance optimization plugins. We create tools that solve real problems for WordPress site owners while maintaining the highest coding standards and accessibility requirements.