Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

Description

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

Falcon offers a comprehensive list of options for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:

General

  • Disable Gutenberg (the block editor)
  • Disable REST API for unauthenticated requests
  • Disable heartbeat
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Disable emojis
  • Disable embeds, e.g. prevent others from embedding your site and vise-versa
  • Disable revisions
  • Disable self pings
  • Disable privacy tools

Assets

  • Remove query string for JavaScript and CSS files
  • Remove jQuery Migrate
  • 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

Header

  • Remove feed links
  • Remove RSD link
  • Remove wlwmanifest link
  • Remove adjacent posts links
  • Remove WordPress version number
  • Remove shortlink
  • Remove REST API link

Admin

  • Show site icon on login page
  • Remove update nags
  • Remove footer text
  • Remove default dashboard widgets
  • Remove WordPress logo in the admin bar
  • Remove admin email confirmation
  • Remove application passwords

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Installation

Go to Dashboard | Plugins | Add New and search for Falcon. Then install and activate the plugin.

Reviews

November 20, 2020
Simple and works! I'm using it in all my sites. Thanks!
September 3, 2016 1 reply
This plugin makes my site faster. But it needs still a little development. I receive an error message on the backend login page.
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Contributors & Developers

“Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.2.0 – 2023-01-18

  • Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes
  • Disable privacy tools
  • Remove application passwords

2.1.0 – 2022-12-27

  • Add disable XML-RPC
  • Add disable Gutenberg
  • Add disable REST API
  • Add a set of admin tweaks
  • Organize features in tabs and update styling

2.0.5

  • Update compatibility tag

2.0.4

  • Fix missing vendor folder

2.0.3

  • Remove jQuery Migrate in the WordPress admin as well

2.0.2

  • Fix PHP warning when blocking self-pings
  • Fix textdomain

2.0.1

  • Fix auto-deployment

2.0.0

  • Re-add settings page
  • Update disble embeds module

1.3.1

  • Update compatibility with the latest version of WordPress
  • Fix not working with WP-CLI

1.3.0

  • Remove settings page
  • Do not use jQuery from Google CDN for better compatibility
  • Remove support for loading CSS async

1.2.4

  • Add option to use latest version of jQuery
  • Add option to exclude static resources from removing query string

1.2.3

  • Downgrade jQuery to 2.2.4 for better compatibility

1.2.2

  • Fix: File name case-sensitive

1.2.1

  • Fix: Load PHP file using absolute path.

1.2

  • New: Load CSS asynchronously (and selectively).
  • Fix: No error in the login page.
  • Requires PHP 5.4

1.1.1

  • Fix not loading file for media.

1.1

  • Remove Jetpack devicex script.
  • Requires PHP 5.3.

1.0.3

  • Update jQuery to 2.2.4

1.0.2

  • Use jQuery from Google CDN

1.0.1

  • Sets scheme-less URLs for JS and CSS files, e.g. removes ‘http:’ and ‘https:’ from URLs.

1.0.0

  • Initial release