Bloat-off – bloat removal and utilities

The basic idea is to give administrators easy access to disable typical bloat, non-utilized functions or whole modules with just a few clicks.

There are no fancy UIs, external libraries, or hidden features — just clean, fast and easy way to disable things you might not want in your project or website.

Functionalities for current version:

Bloat

• Gutenberg styles removal
• WordPress emojis removal
• RSS feeds removal
• Really Simple Discovery removal
• Shortlink removal
• REST Discovery link removal
• oEmbed discovery link removal
• Admin widgets in dashboard removal
• Native XML sitemap removal
• Admin help tabs removal
• About WP sub-menu and thank you message removal
• Site Health disabling/removal
• Import/Export page removal

Utilities

• Comments system removal
• Widgets removal (those under “Appearance”)
• oEmbed restriction
• Self-pingbacks removal
• Heartbeat interval option
• Image Process Engine – force GD
• Limit number of revisions
• Tags taxonomy removal
• Author archive pages disabling

Docs / Source

All the required information about usage can be found on the plugin settings page; each function is fully described.

Source code can be found on official GitHub repository

Privacy

The plugin does not:

• track users;
• send any personal data to external services;
• use cookies.