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Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

v2.8.5
by Anh Tran · 5.0 (9 reviews)

A lightweight WordPress optimization and tweak plugin for a better performance

1K+ active installs Updated Feb 06, 2025 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 7.4
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Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

About Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks

Falcon is a lightweight WordPress plugin that offers a comprehensive list of 49 free modules to optimize your WordPress website. These modules include options to disable Gutenberg, remove unnecessary elements from your header, optimize media files, configure email settings, customize the admin dashboard, enhance security, and more. If you're looking to improve the performance and user experience of your WordPress site, Falcon is a great option.

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Changelog

2.8.5 – 2025-02-06

  • Search posts only: exclude admin and rest API requests
  • Do not enable “No Gutenberg” and “Search Posts Only” by default
  • No Gutenberg: remove support for post types

2.8.4 – 2024-11-22

  • Fix not showing site icon in the login page
  • Fix security for sending test email

2.8.3 – 2024-05-17

  • Disable XML-RPC methods
  • Fix: activation error on ajax request
  • Update fix word disable detailed login errors

2.8.2 – 2024-03-17

  • Add a link to the settings page in the plugin meta row
  • Auto redirect to the settings page after activation

2.8.1 – 2024-02-28

  • Add options to change default email from name and address
  • Add more AI bots to the block list

2.8.0 – 2024-02-20

  • Add SMTP configuration
  • Add maintenance mode
  • Add block AI bots option
  • Add force login option

2.7.2 – 2023-12-11

  • Fix not loading email options
  • Fix remove dashboard widgets not removing welcome panel

2.7.1 – 2023-12-07

  • Add options for no emails when a new user is registered and users reset their passwords
  • Fix error when disabling all features. Closes #17.

2.7.0 – 2023-12-07

  • Update hook for disable core update email notification
  • Fix removing update nag not working
  • Add a new security tab with options to disable login errors and restrict upload file types

2.6.0 – 2023-12-03

  • Update the plugin style

2.5.0 – 2023-09-18

  • Add: Disable comments
  • Add: Remove website field from comment form
  • Add: Search only posts
  • Add: Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.
  • Add: Disable scaling down big images
  • Add: Disable automatic image rotation based on EXIF data
  • Add: Disable thumbnail generation

2.4.1 – 2023-08-14

  • Remove classic theme styles for button blocks
  • Remove Jetpack widget

2.4.0 – 2023-08-02

  • Add asynchronous load CSS

2.3.0 – 2023-07-11

  • Disable cron
  • Disable auto updates
  • Block external requests
  • Fix missing current ancestor class for menu

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

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