Falcon – WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks
A lightweight WordPress optimization and tweak plugin for a better performance
5(10 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Falcon is a WordPress admin plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 58K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 33% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
5/510 reviews
2.0K+active installs
58K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Falcon is lightweight WordPress plugin that provide a list of optimizations and tweaks that help you improve the performance and user experience for your WordPress sites.
FEATURES & MODULES
Falcon offers a comprehensive list modules for you to tweak and optimize your WordPress websites. These options are divided into the following categories:
Disable components
General components:
- Disable Gutenberg (the block editor)
- Disable heartbeat
- Disable embeds, e.g. prevent others from embedding your site and vise-versa
- Disable comments & remove website field from comment form
- Disable revisions
- Disable self pings
- Disable privacy tools
- Disable cron
- Disable auto updates
- Block external requests
- Disable replacing text with formatted entities like smart quotes, dashes, ellipses, etc.
Media comp…
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Ratings & Reviews
510 reviews
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Recent Reviews
The plugin I didn’t realize I needed
by wiegertschouten·3 months ago
This plugin is simply great. It’s lightweight, unobtrusive, replaces a bunch of other plugins, and makes a site noticeably faster and cleaner. Definitely deserves more attention and installs!
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by David Ha·1 year ago
Plugin hoạt động hiệu quả – nhiều tính năng tối ưu cần thiết cho website mà không bị lỗi. Điểm 10 chất lượng!
Make your wordpress blazingly fast
by 3xploiton3·1 year ago
Removed Unused Asset
Great!
by mundeee·2 years ago
Finally, after manually disabling all that stuff I don’t need in my Themes and wondering why it didn’t work half of the time, I can finally rely on a simple but powerful plugin. Thanks!
Good plugin except…
by jahabar·2 years ago
Firstly I would rate this plugin with 5 stars. However I found an issue in the Assets tab section for : Cleanup nav menu item ID & classes
It was enabled by default. So mega menu pages and mega menu drop down was not working. I had to disable manually and my menus are working perfectly. I would advise the developer to disable it by default so that majority customers don’t need to fix their menu not working issues.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by jahabar.
Download Trends
Today: 24Yesterday: 23This week: 169Period total: 14K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.8
49.5%
v2.9
46.1%
Other
4.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.9.3 – 2026-01-21
- Improve check for not caching search result pages
Contributors
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