WP Tweaks
Several opinionated WordPress tweaks focused in security and performance.
5(3 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, WP Tweaks is a WordPress tweaks plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Top alternative: Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE).
5/53 reviews
200active installs
15K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Several opinionated WordPress tweaks focused in security and performance.
FEATURES
- Produces clean filenames for uploads
- Change admin footer text
- Disable author page and author search by url
- Disable emoji mess
- Disable “meta widget”
- Disable WP REST API public access
- Disable “website” field from comment form
- Disable wp embed
- Disable xmlrpc.php
- Show admin bar for admin users only
- Hide WordPress update nag to all but admins
- Remove “WordPress logo” from admin bar
- Remove “+ New” button from admin bar
- Remove some dashboard widgets
- Remove query strings from scripts (JavaScript and CSS)
- Remove <link rel=”shortlink” >
- Remove dashboard “welcome panel”
- Remove WordPress version number in <head>
- and more…
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Ratings & Reviews
53 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.4.1 – 2025-04-26
- Fix: missing author field in visual editor.
Contributors
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