Machete vs RefiTune – Site refiner toolkit

Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few resources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a huge amount of sites that would require less plugins if they used Machete. All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server resources as possible. So far, Machete includes the following tools: WordPress Optimization WordPress places a lot of code inside the tag just to keep backward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each page request while making your installation safer. Cookies & GDPR Warning We know you hate cookie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cookie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PageSpeed score and plays well with static cache plugins. Analytics and custom code You don’t need a zillion plugins to perform easy tasks like inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fonts, Print Styles, accessibility tweaks…). The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking codes are PageSpeed optimized, GPDR friendly. Maintenance mode The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic lock-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished page from visitors and search engines, give your clients a secure temporary access and lock your site without affecting your SEO. Post & Page cloner Adds a “duplicate” link to post, page and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor. Social Sharing Buttons Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8KB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL. WooCommerce Utils WooCommerce was designed to work for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by making it behave as clients expect.

Hungarian: Magyar nyelvű bővítmény leírás RefiTune – Site refiner toolkit is a modular Swiss Army knife for WordPress. Clean up unnecessary front-end code, harden login and uploads, tune Heartbeat and updates, or brand wp-login – each module is opt-in. Enable or disable features individually. A clean dashboard shows what is active. In-plugin Help pages document behaviour, trade-offs, and requirements. What’s Inside? (35 Modules) Performance: * Header Cleanup – Strip unnecessary wp_head output for leaner pages. * Feed Management – Control RSS/Atom feed link tags in the document head. * Disable Emoji – Remove WordPress emoji scripts and styles. * Disable jQuery Migrate – Drop legacy jquery-migrate when your stack does not need it. * Disable oEmbed – Stop automatic embeds from pasted YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter/X, and similar URLs. * Remove Asset Version Query Strings – Strip ?ver= from front-end CSS/JS (can break cache busting; prefer CDN purge or hashed filenames). * Post Revisions Limit – Cap stored revisions per post. * Auto-save Interval – Change how often the editor auto-saves. * Trash Auto-Delete – Set trash retention; expired items are removed in batches so large queues stay memory-safe. * Convert Uploads to WebP – Convert JPEG/PNG to WebP on upload, optional max size resize, then remove the original (GD or Imagick with WebP; uses unique filenames and refuses unsafe overwrites). * Heartbeat API Control – Tune or disable Heartbeat in admin, front end, and the post editor. Security: * Hide Generator Tags – Remove WordPress (and WooCommerce, when active) version meta tags. * Disable XML-RPC – Respond to XML-RPC with 404 and remove RSD discovery. * Disable Trackback/Pingback – Close pings and strip pingback methods/headers. * Disable File Editor – Set DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT so theme/plugin editors stay off. * Automatic Updates Control – Tri-state plugin, theme, translation, and core updates; reschedule update checks. Respects AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED and WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE when defined. * Login Error Messages – Generic login errors to reduce username enumeration. * Restrict Admin Access – Choose which roles may open wp-admin UI. Users with manage_options always keep access. Front-end admin-ajax.php is intentionally not blocked. * REST API Restrictions – Limit selected core REST routes to users with manage_options. * Login Limit – Rate-limit failed logins by IP and IP+username pair (REMOTE_ADDR only). Optional IP whitelist (one address per line). Covers wp-login.php and other wp_signon() paths (including WooCommerce). * Verified Upload – Block disguised uploads: double extensions, MIME/magic mismatches, and script markers. Visual: * Hide Admin Bar – Hide the admin bar for selected roles. * Block Visibility (Mobile) – Show/hide blocks by device via wp_is_mobile(); sends Vary: User-Agent (full-page caches must honour it). * Login Page Customization – Brand wp-login.php with logo and colours. Email: * Email Notifications – Disable or redirect selected WordPress system emails. * Email sending – SMTP with encrypted password storage, or disable all site emails. In production, disabling TLS/certificate verification is blocked. Miscellaneous: * Disable Comments – Site-wide comments off (optional WooCommerce review keep). * External Links in New Window – Open external links in a new tab with safe rel attributes. * Enable Page Excerpt – Excerpt support for pages. * Clean Upload Filenames – Sanitize upload filenames (accents, spaces, special characters). * SVG Upload – Role-gated SVG uploads with allowlist-based sanitization (XXE-safe parse). * AVIF Upload – Role-gated AVIF uploads (full core AVIF support needs WordPress 6.5+). * Role Redirects – Per-role login and logout redirect URLs. * Maintenance Mode – 503 maintenance page for guests; chosen roles keep access. Admin, AJAX, and cron stay available so staff can work. * Dynamic Year Shortcodes – [refi-year] and [refi-year from="2006"]. More plugins: rotistudio.com Author site: rottenbacher.hu GitHub: github.com/rotisoft/refitune Translations English (default – source strings in code and refitune.pot) Hungarian (Magyar) – refitune-hu_HU.po (compile to .mo for WordPress to load) Contribute translations under /wp-content/plugins/refitune/languages/. Text Domain: refitune.