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WordPress WPO Tweaks & Optimizations

v1.0.7
by Fernando Tellado · 5.0 (30 reviews)

WPO Optimizations, Improvements and Tweaks to Speed Up WordPress

5K+ active installs Updated Dec 25, 2024 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 7.4
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WordPress WPO Tweaks & Optimizations

About WordPress WPO Tweaks & Optimizations

This plugin is designed to optimize the performance and load time of your WordPress website by deactivating unnecessary functions, services, and scripts. It includes various speed and performance optimizations such as removing unnecessary codes and scripts, controlling API intervals, removing query strings, and more. Simply activate the plugin and test your site's speed using your preferred tool. Please note that the plugin requires WordPress 4.8 or greater and PHP 7.3 or greater.

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Changelog

1.0.7

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.7.1

1.0.6

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.6.1

1.0.5

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.5.2
  • Added support for PHP 8.2 (props @dbase66)

1.0.4

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.4

1.0.3

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.2

1.0.2

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.1
  • Updated requisites for WP and PHP

1.0.1

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.0.2

1.0

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.0
  • Yeah! It was time to bump tu 1.x version!

0.9.31

  • Change PageSpeed URL

0.9.30

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.9

0.9.29

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.8

0.9.28

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.6

0.9.26

  • Removed the jQuery Migrate option because it’s not needed since WordPress 5.5

0.9.25

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.5

0.9.24

  • Regression to old method for defer parsing of JavaScript due to Divi theme support issues.

0.9.23

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.4.1

0.9.22

  • New method for defer parsing of JavaScript. Specially useful with YouTube iframes and other external video sources.

0.9.21

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.3.2

0.9.20

  • Changes in the jQuery Migrate code to solve Elementor last version support

0.9.19

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.3

0.9.18

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.2.2

0.9.17

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.2.

0.9.16

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.1

0.9.15

  • Added conditionals to deflate lines in .htaccess file to prevent error 500 in some hosts (Props to frayca – https://profiles.wordpress.org/frayca)

0.9.14

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.0 tag added

0.9.13

  • Tested up to WordPress 4.9.8

0.9.12

  • Added functions to disable internal self pingbacks

0.9.11

  • Added line to check if “expires” module is active to prevent error 500 in some servers where module isn’t active.

0.9.10

  • Tested up to WordPress 4.9.6

0.9.9

  • Added Browser cache expires rules to main WordPress .htaccess file. It’s a pretty secure procedure because the plugin first check if the .htaccess file exists and it’s writable, and if there aren’t previous WPO Tweaks Plugin rules too. The rules added by the plugin are removed at plugin deactivation. Props to @carloslongarela.
  • Added GZIP compression rules to main WordPress .htaccess file. It’s a pretty secure procedure because the plugin first check if the .htaccess file exists and it’s writable, and if there aren’t previous WPO Tweaks Plugin rules too. The rules added by the plugin are removed at plugin deactivation. Props to @carloslongarela.
  • This is the first release with version tags. This way you can download previous versions of the plugin. They are at the bottom of Advanced View of the plugin page at wordpress.org.

0.9.8

  • Tested up to WordPress 4.9.5. It works!

0.9.7

  • Exception added Dashicons removal in order to show them in the Customizer (Thanks to Juan Ramón Navas for reporting!)

0.9.6

  • Changed method for Hearbeat API because some users need it for autosaves, co-edits and more. From now it isn’t disabled but controlled the interval to trigger after 60 seconds instead of default 15 seconds.
  • Credits added to admin footer.
  • Plugin tested up to WordPress 4.9 RC.

0.9.5

  • Added link to WebPageTest in readme.txt to measure results.
  • Changed to the script_loader_tag filter method to Defer Parsing of JavaScript in order to solve AMP issues with Google’s CDN and parsing of scripts in several themes.

0.9.4

  • Changed method to Defeat Parsing of JavaScript to solve AMP issues with Google’s CDN (thanks to Juan María Arenas for reporting!)
  • Changed Donate URL

0.9.3

  • Changed WP min version from 4.0 to 4.1
  • Added filter to remove capital_p_dangit filter
  • Added functions to disable PDF thumbnails preview (included in WP 4.7)
  • Added action to remove link to homepage from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added action to remove extra links to rss feeds from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added action to remove prev-next links from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added action to remove prev-next links from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added action to remove random post link from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added action to remove parent post link from header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Added filter to remove generator name from rss feeds in header (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Better coding standards and ordering of functions (thanks @carloslongarela)
  • Changes in readme.txt

0.9.2

  • Added action to remove really simple discovery link from header
  • Added action to remove wlwmanifest.xml from header
  • Added action to remove shortlink url from header
  • Added action to remove WordPress generator version from header
  • Added action to remove s.w.org DNS prefetch
  • Added function to remove jquery_migrate

0.9.1

  • Fixed Text Domain for translation ready

0.9

  • Initial release

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