Performance Tweaks

Simple but effective performance tweaks for WordPress—now with a polished, tabbed settings UI. Features are grouped like your workflow: Scripts & Assets, Network, Security, Performance & Admin, and Database. Scripts & Assets

• Contact Form 7 Smart Loader — Only loads CF7 assets on pages with a form.
• CF7 reCAPTCHA Smart Loader — Dequeues reCAPTCHA when no CF7 form is present.
• Disable Advanced Custom Fields on Frontend — Stops ACF assets from loading on the frontend.
• Emoji Unloader — Removes Emoji CSS and JavaScript.
• Defer JavaScript — Adds defer attribute to eligible scripts.
• Async JavaScript — Adds async attribute to eligible scripts.
• Async/Defer Exclude Handles — A textarea to exclude script handles from async/defer.
• Remove Query Strings — Strips ?ver= from CSS/JS URLs to improve CDN caching.
• Block CSS Smart Loader (classic themes) — Dequeues block CSS on singular pages without blocks.
• Separate Core Block CSS (WP 5.8+) — Opt-in to load only the CSS for blocks used on the page.
• Disable Dashicons for Visitors — Removes dashicons for non-logged-in users.
• Disable jQuery Migrate (frontend) — Drops jquery-migrate from frontend dependencies.
• Boost Hero Image (fetchpriority) — Adds fetchpriority="high" to the first content image on singular pages.
• Lazy‑load iframes in Content — Ensures iframes in post content use loading="lazy".
• WooCommerce Smart Loader — Loads WC CSS/JS only on WooCommerce pages (shop, product, cart, checkout, account).

Network

• DNS Single Post Prefetch — Prefetch homepage on singular pages to speed return navigation (HTTP/2).
• Resource Hints Hosts — Add domains for dns-prefetch and preconnect (one per line).
• Google Fonts Preconnect — Adds preconnect hints for fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.

Security

• Disable XML-RPC — Blocks the XML-RPC endpoint unless you need it.
• Disable WP Embeds / oEmbed — Removes discovery links and wp-embed script.
• Head Cleanup — Removes RSD, WLW, generator, shortlink, and extra feed links.

Performance & Admin

• Disable WordPress Heartbeat (Frontend) — Keep editor autosave, reduce frontend pings.
• Heartbeat Interval — Set between 15–120 seconds.
• WP‑Cron Guidance — Advisory copy to move cron to a real system cron.

Database

• Limit Post Revisions — Define WP_POST_REVISIONS to 5.
• Autosave Interval (advisory) — Suggest a wp-config constant.
• Empty Trash Days (advisory) — Suggest a wp-config constant.

UI/UX

• Tabbed settings with keyboard navigation and ARIA roles.
• Card layout, helpful tooltips, and consistent spacing.
• Sticky save bar with “unsaved changes” hint.
• “Reset all settings” link (with nonce) to clear options without uninstalling.

Installation from within WordPress

1. Visit Plugins > Add New.
2. Search for Performance Tweaks.
3. Install and activate the Performance Tweaks plugin.

Manual installation

1. Upload the entire rh-performance folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Visit Plugins.
3. Activate the Performance Tweaks plugin.

After activation

1. Visit the new Settings > Performance Tweaks menu.
2. Use the tabs to navigate categories and enable only what you need.
3. Optional: Click “Reset all settings” to clear options (no uninstall required).

0.7.3 Major update with new features and a refined UI. Features

• WooCommerce Smart Loader (only load WC assets on Woo pages)
• Separate Core Block CSS (WP 5.8+)
• Block CSS Smart Loader for classic themes
• Disable Dashicons for visitors
• Disable jQuery Migrate on the frontend
• Resource Hints hosts + Google Fonts preconnect
• Heartbeat interval + frontend-only disable
• Hero image fetchpriority and iframe lazy‑loading
• CF7 reCAPTCHA smart loader
• Async/Defer exclude handles

Security/Head

• Disable WP Embeds / oEmbed discovery
• Head cleanup (RSD, WLW, generator, shortlink, extra feeds)

UI/UX

• Tabbed settings with accessible ARIA roles and keyboard nav
• Card layout and spacing improvements
• Sticky “unsaved changes” save bar
• “Reset all settings” helper (nonce-protected)

0.6.6 Tested with WordPress 6.7 0.6.5 Tested with latest WordPress and PHP 8.1 0.6.4 Features Added an option to limit Post Revisions to a maximum of 5 0.6.3 Bug Fixes

• The 'defer' tag for JavaScript is now only inserted on the frontend.