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

gahia November 20, 2020

Simple and works! I'm using it in all my sites. Thanks!

Hung PD April 21, 2020

I'm using this plugin for my personal blog, it's simple but amazing.

nguyensonit810 April 20, 2020

Mình thấy plugin sài ok đơn giản chỉ những cái cần thiết cho web và dễ cấu hình mong team phát triển mạnh hơn.

Andrea October 12, 2016

...and functional.

Tremer 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.

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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