Fast Backend
Tired of having a slow WordPress admin area? Improve your speed with "Fast Backend" - the lightweight solution for optimizing the WordPress backend.
5(1 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Fast Backend is a WordPress backend plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Top alternative: Simple Admin Language Change.
5/51 reviews
100active installs
4.9K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021
Overview
Do you think the WordPress backend is too slow? Good news, this plugin will improve the speed of your WordPress Admin backend by some efficient tweaks.
- Native Lazy Loading of Images in the backend
- Reduced WordPress Heartbeat
- Less autosaving of posts
- Loading of plugin stylesheets in the footer
“Fast Backend” will only have affects to the Admin area of WordPress and won’t have any impact on your theme.
Native Lazy Loading of Images
The plugin adds loading=”lazy” attributes to images if missing to take advantage of native lazy loading.
Reduced WordPress Heartbeat
Usually the WordPress heartbeat is every 15 seconds. The plugin extends the time period to 45 seconds.
Autosaving every 2 minutes
Instead of autosaving posts every 60 seconds, we’ll do this only…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.1
- Fixed: Account for escaping in inline scripts
Contributors
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