WP Disable

WP Disable 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. 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.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Use the Settings->WP Disable screen to configure the plugin

2.0.2

• Hardening: block direct access to all plugin PHP files.
• The SEO tab now only appears when a supported SEO plugin (Yoast SEO) is active, and fixed a settings message typo. Props @JeroenSormani.
• Refreshed the plugin description.

2.0.1

• Housekeeping: corrected the Contributors field to a valid WordPress.org username and shortened the short description to meet the 150-character directory limit.

2.0.0

• Major modernization for current WordPress (6.x) and PHP 7.4+ / 8.x.
• Removed the obsolete "local Google Analytics" offload (Universal Analytics was sunset by Google in July 2023). Existing GA settings, cron and cache are cleaned up automatically on upgrade.
• Fixed: spam-comment cleaner now deletes correctly; "remove links from comments" no longer blanks comment text; Google Fonts / Font Awesome saved-request counters corrected.
• Fixed: jQuery Migrate removal no longer downgrades core jQuery on modern WordPress.
• Security: output escaping, input sanitization, safe redirects, and sanitized server variables throughout.
• Compliance: unified text domain to "wp-disable", added Requires PHP / Requires at least headers, refreshed branding.
• Removed legacy duplicate/dead code and updated the plugin name per WordPress.org guidelines.

1.5.14

• Started on Documentation
• Added donation button - help us make this the best optimisation suite available on the repo. Every $ donated helps.
• Added SEO Tab
• Added ability to remove Duplicate names in breadcrumbs
• Added Remove Yoast SEO comments
• Tested on Gutenberg
• Tested on WP 4.9
• Remove Dequeue from some functions
• Disabled Dashicons in Customizer
• Minor bug fixes as per support forum

1.5.13

• Added Settings link on main Installed Plugin view
• General code tidy up
• PHP 7.1 compatabile
• WP 4.8.2 tested

1.5.12

• WooCommerce bugs fixed
• Syntax error fixed
• General improvements to GA Offload (Some cases GA code may still not work, does not appear to be a fix for this, if this happens on yours, please ignore the feature)

1.5.11

• WooCommerce tab not displaying fixed

1.5.1

• More visual cleanups
• Removed all webfonts
• Minor bug fix on reporting on dashboard
• Plugin is now under 240kb

1.5.0

• Finished redesign of plugin
• All stats now in one central dashboard
• Removed sidebar navigation completely
• Remobed Freemius
• Added check for WooCommerce, so Woo related stuff only shows if Woo is installed
• Much tighter integration between the 3 optimisation plugins
• Removed old/excess files

1.4.5

• More visual fixes/general tidy up
• Added exception to Google Maps so can be enabled per page
• Minor code fixes
• Moved Google Analytics to sidebar/addons

1.4.4

• Added ability to stop (disable) admin notices from showing
• removed the stats sub menu item, so everything is now at the top level
• "local-ga.js" file was created on activation, changed the way this works so it will work now independent of when adding the GA code

1.4.3 More dashboard visual tweaks. No new features, but this is a stepping stone. 1.4.2

• General tidy up on dashboard

1.4.1

• removed third party errors out of our dashboard to the top of the page where they belong
• cleaned out redundant data in GA cache file

1.4.0

• New Dashboard Design (Work in progress)
• Added Average load time of pages to stats
• Remove Comments navigation when comments disabled
• Added the ability to block referrer spam (using Piwik Database)
• Updated Import/Export settings to now include settings for Image Compression and Cache plugins (if active)
• General code improvements