Snippets

Cleanup & Optimization

Reduce bloat and improve performance by disabling unused WordPress features and cleaning up unnecessary elements.

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  • Remove WordPress Version Number — Hide the WordPress version from the page source and feeds.
  • Remove Query Strings from Assets — Strip the ?ver= string from front-end CSS and JS for
    better caching.
  • Disable Heartbeat on Front End — Stop the Heartbeat API on the front end (admin autosave is
    kept).
  • Remove jQuery Migrate — Drop the jquery-migrate script from the front end.
  • Disable Dashicons on Front End — Don’t load the Dashicons stylesheet for logged-out visitors
    (the admin bar keeps its icons).
  • Disable Attachment Pages — Redirect attachment pages to the parent post, or the homepage when
    there’s no parent.
  • Disable RSS Feeds — Turn off all default RSS feeds and remove the feed links from the head.
  • Disable Search — Turn off the built-in search, including the search widget, form, block and
    admin-bar search box.
  • Disable wlwmanifest link — Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest tag.
  • Remove RSD Link & X-Pingback — Remove the Really Simple Discovery link and the X-Pingback
    header.
  • Disable Automatic Trash Emptying — Stop WordPress emptying the trash every 30 days; items stay
    until deleted manually.
  • Redirect 404 to Homepage — Send all 404 pages to the homepage with a 301 redirect. ⚠ A 301 is
    permanent and may be cached by browsers; it also hides genuine 404s, which can affect SEO. Use it
    only if you intentionally want to funnel bad URLs home.
  • Enable Image Lazy Load — Lazy-load content images and add decoding="async", while skipping
    images marked as high-priority (LCP). ⚠ Conflicts with Disable Lazy Load — don’t enable both.