SlimPress – Disable Unused Features, Heartbeat & XML-RPC
| 开发者 | macvej |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年10月11日 01:47 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
SlimPress turns off parts of WordPress core that your site does not use - emoji scripts, XML-RPC,
the REST API for logged-out visitors, Heartbeat, comments, feeds, author and date archives,
search, revisions, image sizes, block editor extras, dashboard clutter, automatic updates,
admin emails and more - grouped by area and explained in plain language. A built-in performance test
compares your own pages with and without SlimPress, without changing your settings.
What makes it different:
- Every toggle is free. No pro tier, no upsells, no nag banners, no telemetry.
- "What might break" on every switch, plus a warning when an active plugin relies on the feature you are about to switch off.
- An honest impact badge on every toggle, including "None - cleanup only".
- A performance test that tells the truth. It loads your pages with and without SlimPress's features in the same run and says "within noise" when the difference is too small to be reliable. It also shows what each plugin, the theme and WordPress core add to the page, marking the files SlimPress can remove. It can measure each feature individually and report which autoloaded options each request loads from the database.
- Undo for every change. SlimPress keeps the last 10 versions of its settings, so any save, preset, import or reset can be undone.
- Front-end - emoji scripts, generator tag, RSD, shortlink, feed and REST links in the page head, global styles, core block CSS, Dashicons and jQuery Migrate for visitors, the image lightbox, speculative loading, smart quotes - plus "Load the next page before the click".
- APIs & connections - XML-RPC, the REST API for logged-out visitors (with an allowlist), the REST user list, Heartbeat per location, WP-Cron on page load, oEmbed, auto-embeds, application passwords, the Abilities API, the AI client and Connectors screen, and calls from wp-admin to outside servers you choose.
- Comments - comments site-wide or per post type, closing comments while keeping old ones visible, pingbacks and self-pingbacks, links in comments, avatars and Gravatar.
- Content & URLs - feeds, author and date archives, attachment pages, search, the core sitemap or
just its users sitemap,
?author=username lookups, 404 redirect guessing, a fast 404 for missing files, post formats. - Revisions & autosave - revision limits, autosave interval, trash retention, plus a one-off "delete old revisions" button that asks first.
- Media - the extra 1536px and 2048px image copies, selected image sizes, saving new images as WebP or AVIF, in-browser image processing, PDF preview images, and Openverse in the media inserter.
- Block editor - welcome guide, the default fullscreen mode, patterns from WordPress.org, the Font Library and Google Fonts, Notes, block directory, command palette, the classic editor for chosen post types and the classic widgets screen.
- Dashboard & admin - dashboard widgets, help tabs, "Howdy", admin bar items, footer text, update notices for non-admins, the Customizer on block themes, and the notices and dashboard widgets of plugins you choose.
- Updates - automatic updates for core, plugins, themes and translations.
- Emails - the admin emails WordPress sends about updates, new users and password changes, the admin email check screen and recovery mode emails.
- Security - file editing, installing from the dashboard, Post via email, the login language switcher, the front-end password meter.
- Site Health & privacy - the weekly Site Health check, the Site Health screen and the privacy tool menus.
- Assets - load a plugin's CSS and JavaScript only on the pages that use it. Choose between Everywhere, Only on chosen pages, Everywhere except, or Nowhere on the front end. Scan plugins to see which plugins load files and measure their total size.
- WooCommerce (only shown while WooCommerce is active) - shop assets and order attribution scripts on non-shop pages, product gallery effects, Analytics, the Marketing hub, remote and marketplace suggestions, usage tracking, background thumbnail regeneration, the order count in the admin menu, Action Scheduler's extra background requests from wp-admin, and how long Action Scheduler and log files are kept.
安装:
- Upload the plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/slimpress/, or install it from the Plugins screen. - Activate it. Nothing changes on your site until you say so.
- Go to Settings -> SlimPress.
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常见问题:
Does activating SlimPress change anything on my site?
No. Every feature is off by default and activation writes nothing.
What happens if I deactivate SlimPress?
WordPress returns to its default behaviour on the very next request. SlimPress applies its changes through runtime filters and actions, so there are no core settings to restore. Deleted data does not come back: this includes revisions removed by the "Delete old revisions" button (which asks first) or by a revision limit when a post was saved, trash emptied under a shorter retention period, and WooCommerce scheduled actions and logs deleted under shorter retention limits. Image copies omitted during uploads while a Media switch was on are not recreated.
Which toggles are risky?
Every toggle that can cause a visible problem is marked Careful and explains what might stop working. The ones most likely to cause problems are:
- Disable the REST API for logged-out visitors - contact forms, booking plugins and WooCommerce blocks often use it. Add their namespaces to the allowlist.
- Disable WP-Cron on page load - scheduled posts, backups and automatic updates stop until
a real server cron job runs
wp-cron.php. Set that up first. - Disable XML-RPC - the WordPress mobile app, Jetpack and pingbacks use it.
- Disable comments site-wide - WooCommerce product reviews are comments too.
- Disable global styles - block themes rely on these styles for spacing, colours and typography.
- Disable installing and updating from the dashboard - also stops security updates. Use this only on sites that are updated another way.
- Disable recovery mode emails - these emails help you regain access after a fatal error.
Why doesn't SlimPress remove ?ver= query strings?
The version string is what makes browsers fetch a fresh file after an update. Removing it offers
no measurable benefit and can leave visitors with outdated CSS and JavaScript. SlimPress also
has no switch for turning off lazy loading, automatic sizes attributes on lazy-loaded images
or big-image scaling, because disabling these features makes sites slower. The Media tab explains big-image scaling on an info card instead.
Does SlimPress need WooCommerce?
No. It works on any site. On a WooCommerce store, it warns you about switches that affect features the shop relies on, and the WooCommerce store preset preserves those features. A WooCommerce tab with its own switches (admin nags, tracking, background jobs and more) appears automatically while WooCommerce is active, and disappears - without losing your choices - if you deactivate it.
Will it conflict with my caching plugin?
SlimPress does not cache, minify or combine anything, so it does not overlap with a caching plugin. The performance test asks for uncached pages, and if a page cache responds anyway, it says so rather than showing you the cache's numbers.
Does SlimPress contact any external service?
Only if you click the optional PageSpeed button on the performance test tab. See "External services" below.
Can I move my settings to another site?
Yes. The Tools tab exports your settings as a JSON file and imports them on another site. The tab also lets you reset every switch to off.
I changed something and the site broke. How do I go back?
Open Tools -> Undo a change. SlimPress keeps the last 10 versions of its settings - every save, group pause, preset, import and reset - and restores the version you choose. To find the cause first, pause one group at a time from its tab.
更新日志:
1.7.0
- New: "Check it yourself" links on switches with a visible effect, opening the page or screen where the change shows.
- New: hide admin notices and dashboard widgets from plugins you choose. A plugin's own pages still show its notices.
- New: fast 404 for missing images, scripts, stylesheets and fonts instead of a full theme page.
- New: block calls from wp-admin to outside servers you choose, including redirects to them. A table shows which servers were called and by which plugin. WordPress.org and your own site are never blocked, and public form handlers are left alone.
- WooCommerce: remove the order count from the admin menu (part of the WooCommerce presets), and stop Action Scheduler's extra background requests from wp-admin.
- Fixes: clearing the test history or plugin scan reports a failed delete, and a performance test or plugin scan does not start, with an error, when the database refuses its access token.
- Performance test and plugin scan: database errors, dropped connections and stalled runs are handled with error reports, retries or cancellations instead of leaving the test hanging. The Stop button works while a step is running and no longer cancels a newer test from an out-of-date tab. Leaving the page mid-run cancels the run.
- Assets: large rule sets are no longer truncated, the page picker indicates when only the first 200 pages are listed, and importing settings lists pages referenced by rules that do not exist on this site.
- Comments: comments on the post types you choose are hidden from recent-comment lists, feeds and the REST API for visitors.
- WooCommerce: the order screen no longer shows a script error when remote suggestions are off.
- Failed database writes are reported instead of being shown as successful saves.
- Wording: per-feature results use the viewer's language and are hidden when that feature's settings change. Page weight is no longer described as exact when a page cache is detected, the revision-limit help explains that old revisions are pruned, and counts use the number format for your language.
- New Assets tab: load a plugin's CSS and JavaScript only on the pages that use it - Everywhere, Only on chosen pages, Everywhere except, or Nowhere on the front end.
- Scan plugins: see which plugins load files on your site and measure the total size and number of files each one adds.
- After a performance test runs, it shows the savings from an asset rule.
- WooCommerce: "Turn off WooCommerce's remote admin suggestions" now works on WooCommerce 11.1 and later. While it is on, WooCommerce's own "Show Suggestions" checkbox (WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → WooCommerce.com) appears unticked, though the stored setting is not changed, and recommendation lists fall back to WooCommerce's built-in ones.
- Performance test: the PageSpeed result shows how long ago the test was run.
- Switching tabs on Settings → SlimPress no longer reloads the whole admin page: only the area below the tab bar changes. The address bar still follows the tab, so Back, Forward, reload and bookmarks work as before.
- Tabs are now normal links, so Ctrl-click or middle-click opens a tab in a new browser tab.
- Leaving a tab with unsaved changes now prompts for confirmation ("You have unsaved changes on this tab. Leave without saving?"), including when closing the browser tab.
- Six new switches: "Process uploaded images on the server, not in the browser" (Media tab), "Don't make preview images of uploaded PDFs" (Media tab), "Remove the users (authors) sitemap" (Content & URLs tab), "Don't turn web addresses in comments into links" (Comments tab), "Turn off Post via email" (Security tab), and "Turn off product gallery effects (WooCommerce)" (WooCommerce tab).
- A "Select all" checkbox in each tab's list header, replacing the previous "Turn everything in this tab off" link.
- Fix: "Disable author archives" no longer lists the home page once per author in the users sitemap.
- Fix: "Disable comments site-wide" no longer unregisters the Recent Comments widget — it now renders nothing instead, and also hides the Latest Comments block. Sites where a theme switch or saving on the Widgets screen already removed that widget while comments were off need to add it again.
- "Load the next page before the click" now shows a notice when the site uses HTTP: browsers only fetch pages early over HTTPS, so the "Fetch" level has no effect there.
- New switch, "Load the next page before the click" (Front-end tab): fetches or fully renders the next page while the pointer rests on a link, so clicks feel instant for logged-out visitors. WooCommerce's cart, checkout and My account pages are never rendered in advance.
- New switch, "Save new images as WebP (or AVIF)" (Media tab): new JPEG uploads and their smaller copies are saved in the modern format, with the original kept. Only formats the server can create are offered. Also works with WordPress 7.1's in-browser image processing.
- The performance test tab now shows what every request loads from the database: the total size of autoloaded options against Site Health's limit, the 20 largest options, an estimate of which plugin, theme or WordPress added each one, and a "maybe left over" label for option names that do not match any installed plugin. The report changes nothing and does not require a test run.
- The two Media image-size switches now say that upload plugins that create their own image copies in the browser choose their own sizes, so the switches cannot stop those.
- Removed the "Disable all update checks" option at the request of the WordPress.org plugin review team: it interfered with the WordPress update system. Automatic-update switches are unchanged. If you had it on, WordPress checks for updates again after you update SlimPress.
- Test history now shows a trend chart for HTML size, PHP time and queries across runs.
- The performance test now shows what your pages load, by source: a breakdown of CSS and JS by plugin, theme and core, marking the files SlimPress can remove.
- Now supports PHP 7.4 and later (previously required PHP 8.1).
- Initial release.