Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface.

🚀 PERFORMANCE
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.
details in FAQ

🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).
details in FAQ

🔒 SECURITY
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.
details in FAQ

✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.
details in FAQ

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FEATURES

🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME
Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this.

Admin Area

Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend
Hide WordPress update message in dashboard
Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard
Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new
Customize the admin area branding 💥 new

Frontend

Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new
Add security HTTP headers 💥 new
Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)
Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags
Remove shortlink meta tag
Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
Remove WordPress generator meta tag
Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)
Disable author pages
Remove wptexturize filter
Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new
Limit excerpt length
Add “Read more” link after excerpt
Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count
Protect email addresses from spam bots
Compress HTML code
Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)
Disable emoji image replacement

Editing

Disable posts auto saving
Limit post revisions 💥 new
Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new
Downsize images on upload to max size
Set JPEG quality
Add thumbnail support
Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)

System

Hide default WordPress favicon
Disable comment system
Disable XML-RPC 💥 new
Disable public REST API 💥 new
Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates
Disable email notifications for core updates
Disable email notifications for plugin updates
Disable email notifications for theme updates
Create custom post types 💥 renewed

Developer

Display SQL queries and page load time

Configuration

Show/hide deprecated features
Show/hide experimental features
Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics
Configure visibility of user guide

Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings