Beplus Performance Booster
Beplus Performance Booster is a no-bloat performance plugin that gives you fine-grained control over your site’s front-end assets. All features can be toggled independently from a single settings page (Settings > Beplus Performance Booster). All front-end optimisations are bypassed for logged-in administrators so you never accidentally break the admin panel or your own editing experience. Feature summary: JavaScript delay (Simple / Advanced mode) and defer with per-script exclude list JS Release Delay: image-load fallback timer for releasing delayed scripts CSS file and inline minification with cache Remove Unused CSS: per-URL cached stripping of unused CSS rules Non-render-blocking stylesheet loading Lazy load images with IntersectionObserver fallback Remove emoji, wp-embed, Gutenberg CSS, WooCommerce assets on non-shop pages HTML minification and comment stripping Browser cache and gzip/brotli rules via .htaccess Per-page option to disable the cache for specific posts/pages Custom CDN (pull-zone) URL rewriting for static assets Settings Reference Navigate to Settings > Beplus Performance Booster to configure the plugin. ⚡ JavaScript Optimization Delay JS Execution Default: off Delays all non-excluded front-end scripts until the first user interaction (click, scroll, keydown, or touchstart), or until the JS Release Delay timer fires — whichever comes first. Delay Mode — choose how scripts are intercepted: Simple — converts WordPress-enqueued external scripts to text/plain placeholders and replays them on first interaction. Low risk, no event-queue replay. Advanced — output-buffer approach that intercepts every tag on the page (including hardcoded theme scripts and dynamically injected ones) via MutationObserver. Replays DOMContentLoaded and window.load event queues in correct order. Test thoroughly before enabling on production. JS Release Delay (ms) — fallback timer (ms) that releases delayed scripts after above-fold images and fonts finish loading, without requiring user interaction. 0 = disabled — only user interaction releases delayed scripts. Defer Non-Critical JS Default: off Adds the defer attribute to every non-excluded tag so scripts are fetched in parallel and executed after the HTML is parsed. jQuery and jquery-migrate are always protected from deferral. Exclude JS Files Default: empty One URL keyword per line. Any script whose src attribute contains a listed keyword is excluded from both Delay and Defer. Use this to protect scripts that must run immediately (e.g. analytics that need to capture the first page view). Examples: jquery, woocommerce, my-critical-script 🎨 CSS Optimization Minify Inline CSS Default: off Strips block comments (/* … */), collapses redundant whitespace, and removes trailing semicolons from every inline block in . License comments (/*! … */) are preserved. Spaces around + are intentionally kept so calc(100% + 20px) expressions are never broken. Minify CSS Files Default: off Requires: wp-content/uploads/bepluspb-cache/ directory to be writable Minifies every enqueued external CSS file and serves the cached version from wp-content/uploads/bepluspb-cache/. Already-minified *.min.css files and external CDN stylesheets are skipped automatically. Cache files are named using a 12-character content MD5 hash so they self-invalidate whenever the source changes. Non-Render-Blocking CSS Default: off Converts tags to the preload + onload swap pattern: This prevents stylesheets from blocking the initial render. A fallback ensures CSS loads correctly even when JavaScript is disabled. Tip: if you see a flash of unstyled content (FOUC), add your theme’s main stylesheet URL keyword to the Exclude CSS Files list. Exclude CSS Files Default: empty One URL keyword per line. Stylesheets whose href contains a listed keyword are left completely untouched by the Non-Blocking, Inline All CSS, Minify CSS Files, and Remove Unused CSS features. Remove Unused CSS Default: off Requires: wp-content/uploads/bepluspb-cache/ directory to be writable Scans the fully rendered page and strips CSS rules whose selectors never appear in that page’s HTML, caching the trimmed stylesheet per URL. This is a static text match (not a real browser render): the first visit to a URL generates the trimmed file in the background while still serving the original CSS; later visits to the same URL load the trimmed version. Classes added dynamically by JavaScript after page load will not be detected as “used” — add them to the Unused CSS Selector Safelist below. Unused CSS Selector Safelist Default: empty One selector or keyword per line (trailing * wildcard supported). Rules matching these are always kept regardless of whether they were detected as used. Use this for JS-toggled classes (menus, modals, tabs, accordions) and plugin/page-builder dynamic states. Example: .active, .is-open*, .woocommerce-* Unused CSS URL Excludes Default: empty One URL keyword per line. Matching pages never have unused CSS removed. Recommended for checkout/cart and other heavily dynamic pages. 🖼️ Lazy Load Images Enable Lazy Loading Default: off Adds loading="lazy" to qualifying tags found in post content, featured images, widget text, and elements. For browsers that do not support the native loading attribute, a small IntersectionObserver polyfill is injected into wp_footer (activates only when native support is absent). Skip First N Images Default: 1 Images 1 through N are marked loading="eager" instead of loading="lazy". Set this to at least 1 to protect the hero/LCP image from being lazy-loaded, which would hurt Core Web Vitals. Accepts 0–20. Exclude by CSS Class Default: empty Comma-separated CSS class names. Any that has one of these classes loads eagerly (not lazily). Example: hero-image, no-lazy, skip-lazy Exclude by Element ID Default: empty Comma-separated element IDs. Any with a matching id attribute loads eagerly. Example: hero-banner, site-logo Exclude by Filename Default: empty Comma-separated partial filename strings. Any whose src URL contains one of these strings loads eagerly. Example: logo, hero, banner 🗑️ Remove Unused Assets Remove Emoji Scripts Default: off Removes the WordPress emoji detection script, its inline stylesheet, and the s.w.org DNS prefetch hint. Safe to enable if you use real Unicode emoji in your content — browsers display them natively without the WordPress helper. Remove oEmbed / wp-embed Default: off Removes the wp-embed.js script and the oEmbed discovery links added to . Also unregisters the oEmbed REST API endpoint. Disable only if you rely on embedding your WordPress posts inside other websites. Remove Block / Gutenberg CSS Default: off Dequeues wp-block-library, wp-block-library-theme, and global-styles stylesheets on the front-end. Disable if your theme or content depends on Gutenberg block styles. Disable WooCommerce Assets on Non-Shop Pages Default: off Requires: WooCommerce active Dequeues WooCommerce scripts and styles on pages that are unrelated to the shop, cart, checkout, or account. WooCommerce assets are always kept on those pages. 📄 HTML Optimization Minify HTML Output Default: off Collapses redundant whitespace between HTML tags in the full page output. Content inside , , , and tags is always preserved exactly as-is. Remove HTML Comments Default: off Strips HTML comments (e.g. theme generator tags, plugin banners) from the page output. Conditional IE comments are also removed. Remove Inline JS Comments Default: off Removes // single-line and /* … */ block comments from inline blocks in the HTML output. String literals and template literals are never modified. License comments (/*! … */) are preserved. Remove Inline CSS Comments Default: off Removes /* … */ block comments from inline blocks in the HTML output. 🚀 Browser Cache Headers (.htaccess) Enable Browser Caching Default: off Requires: Apache with mod_expires, mod_headers, mod_deflate. .htaccess writable. Injects the following directives into the root .htaccess file inside a clearly labelled block that is never duplicated: Gzip compression (mod_deflate) for HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, SVG, and fonts. Brotli compression (mod_brotli, Apache 2.4.26+) for the same types. Expires headers (mod_expires): 1-year cache for static assets; no-cache for HTML and API responses. Cache-Control headers (mod_headers): max-age=31536000, public, immutable for CSS, JS, images, and fonts. Disabling this option or deactivating the plugin removes the injected block cleanly. 📦 JS File Minification & Cache Minify JS Files Default: off Requires: wp-content/uploads/bepluspb-cache/ directory to be writable Minifies every enqueued JavaScript file using a safe character-by-character comment stripper that correctly handles string literals, template literals, and URL protocol slashes (https://). Already-minified *.min.js files and external CDN scripts are skipped. Cache files use a 12-character content MD5 hash for automatic cache busting. Lines are never joined to avoid breaking JavaScript’s Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI) rules. Cache Status Shows how many CSS and JS files are currently stored in the cache directory (wp-content/uploads/bepluspb-cache/). Use the “Clear CSS/JS Cache” button to delete all cached files; they are regenerated on the next page load. The “Beplus Performance Booster” item in the WordPress admin bar (visible to administrators on both the front-end and back-end) shows cache size and file count in a dropdown panel and provides a one-click button to clear the cache. ☁️ CDN Enable CDN Default: off Rewrites matching static-asset URLs on this site to the CDN domain configured below — enqueued CSS/JS, media library images (including responsive srcset), matching URLs inside post content and widgets, and any other matching URL in the rendered page (including root-relative paths written directly into theme or page-builder markup). External URLs and already-CDN URLs are left untouched. Like other front-end optimisations, this is skipped for logged-in administrators. CDN URL Default: empty Your CDN pull-zone domain — for example, the hostname assigned when you add this site as a CDN zone with a provider such as QUIC.cloud (e.g. https://xxxxxxxx.quic.cloud), BunnyCDN, or KeyCDN, or a custom domain CNAME’d to one. This is a generic pull-zone rewriter and works with any CDN provider — it is not an official integration with any of them. File Types Default: css,js,jpg,jpeg,png,gif,webp,avif,svg,ico,woff,woff2,ttf,otf,eot,mp4,webm,pdf Comma-separated file extensions. Only URLs ending in one of these are rewritten to the CDN; everything else (PHP endpoints, REST/AJAX requests, admin URLs) is untouched by design since the matching is extension-based. Exclude from CDN Default: empty One URL keyword per line. URLs containing any of these strings stay on your own domain instead of being rewritten to the CDN. Per-Page Cache Disable (Meta Box) Every post and page edit screen includes a “Beplus Performance Booster” meta box in the sidebar. Checking Disable CSS/JS cache optimizations for this page/post stores the _bepluspb_disable_cache flag in post meta. When set, the Minify CSS Files and Minify JS Files features are bypassed for that specific URL and the original (unminified) files are served instead. Useful for debugging or resolving conflicts on a specific page without disabling minification site-wide. About BePlus This plugin is developed and maintained by BePlus, a WordPress and Shopify development studio with 10+ years of experience building themes and plugins for nonprofits and eCommerce brands. Learn more at beplusthemes.com.
Delete Expired Transients
Delete old, expired transients from the WordPress options table (wp_options), to prevent them from bloating your database and even slowing down your website. Unless you are using an object cache (like memcached), WordPress stores transient records in the options table. Many transients are given an expiration time, so in theory they should disappear after some time. In practise, because old transients are only deleted when requested again after they’ve expired, many transients stay in the database. After a while, there can be thousands or even millions of expired transients needlessly taking up space in your options table, depending on what your plugins are doing. Delete Expired Transients schedules a daily task to delete any expired transients from the options table. It performs this operation with a single SQL query, and then runs a second query to find any orphaned expiration records and deletes them too. There are a few other plugins around that clean up expired transients. This one is written for fast performance, set-and-forget scheduled housekeeping, and maximum compatibility. It uses the PHP time to determine whether transients are expired, not the database time (which can be different). It does only one job, and it does it well with the minimum of resources. Now optimised for WordPress Multisite. Translations Many thanks to the generous efforts of our translators: English (en_CA) — the English (Canadian) translation team English (en_GB) — the English (British) translation team English (en_ZA) — the English (South African) translation team French (fr_FR) — the French translation team Hungarian (hu_HU) — the Hungarian translation team Norwegian: Bokmål (nb_NO) — neonnero Norwegian: Nynorsk (nn_NO) — neonnero Russian (ru_RU) — the Russian translation team Spanish (es_ES) — the Spanish translation team If you’d like to help out by translating this plugin, please sign up for an account and dig in. Contributions Translate into your preferred language Fork me on GitHub Privacy Delete Expired Transients does not collect any personally identifying information, and does not set any cookies. It removes some old information from the database, potentially reducing a website’s exposure to leakage of personally identifying information.
