Featherweight makes your site faster by switching off the features you don’t use. Every disabled item is one less HTTP request, one less script, or one less query — adding up to lighter pages and better Core Web Vitals. Pick only what you need; nothing is forced on.

Formerly WP Disable. Same plugin, new name. Featherweight is part of the Folium Studio suite — your existing settings carry over untouched on update.

Reduce requests & strip front-end bloat

Disable emojis (removes the emoji detection script and styles)
Remove query strings from static assets (?ver=...) for cleaner caching
Disable oEmbeds (the auto-embed script that loads site-wide)
Disable Gravatars
Remove jQuery Migrate on the front end
Combine and asynchronously load Google Fonts and Font Awesome
Add DNS-prefetch hints for external hosts
Remove the password-strength-meter script where it isn’t needed
Drop Dashicons on the front end when the admin toolbar is hidden

Clean up the page header

Remove the generator tag, shortlink, RSD, Windows Live Writer, and REST API link tags

Comments & discussion

Disable comments everywhere, or selectively per post type
Close comments on older posts and paginate long threads
Strip links from comments
Disable pingbacks and trackbacks
Schedule automatic spam-comment cleanup

Admin & performance controls

Limit or disable post revisions and autosave
Control the WordPress Heartbeat (frequency and where it runs)
Disable the REST/XML feeds (RSS), XML-RPC, author archive pages, and admin notices

SEO helpers

Remove the Yoast SEO HTML comment from the head
Remove duplicate names in Yoast breadcrumbs

Optional WooCommerce optimisations

When WooCommerce is active, you can stop its scripts and styles from loading on non-store pages, defer cart fragments, disable product reviews, and skip the password-strength meter on unrelated pages.

Good to know

Disabling emojis does not affect normal emoticons — it only removes the extra emoji-detection script.
Removing query strings can interfere with some CDNs that key cache on them; leave it off if unsure.
Everything is optional and reversible — toggle a setting off and the behaviour returns.

Have an idea or found a bug? The plugin is developed in the open — see the public GitHub repo to contribute or open an issue.