This plugin gives you the ability to easily manage features like Comments, the Block Editor (Gutenberg), Emojis, XML-RPC, Feeds, Updates and Automatic Updates, Cron, Heartbeat, and more. If you don't need them, you can easily toggle them off.
It also includes some handy utilities like showing your site's environment type in the admin bar, enabling maintenance or private mode, or using random URLs for media pages.
This plugin organizes these settings into sections so you can quickly find and manage what you need:
Tweak key WordPress® features to fit your needs:
- Block Editor: Prefer the Classic Editor? Disable the Block Editor for all or specific post types.
- Block-based Widgets: Turn off the Block Widgets Editor.
- Comments: Disable comments and remove related admin area elements.
- Revisions: Limit or disable post revisions to improve performance.
- Embed: Stop other sites from embedding your content.
- Self-ping: Prevent pingbacks to your own site.
- Feeds: Disable RSS feeds if you don’t need them.
Customize your admin experience:
- Dashboard Widgets: Remove unwanted or all dashboard widgets.
- Footer Text: Get rid of the
Thank you for creating with WordPress
footer text. - Update Nags: Hide update notices for WordPress, plugins, and themes.
- Admin Bar: Remove the admin bar on your site’s front end.
- Howdy Text: Replace the
Howdy
greeting in the admin bar. - Environment Type: Display site's environment type (e.g. Development, Staging, Production) in the admin bar.
Adjust media-related settings:
- Attachment Pages: Disable attachment pages or re-enable them on WordPress 6.4+.
- Attachment Slug: Use random URLs for media pages to avoid slug conflicts.
- Infinite Scroll: Restore infinite scroll in the Media Library.
- Image Quality: Adjust the quality of uploaded images (JPEG only).
Control access and assets on your site:
- Access: Make your site public, restrict it to logged-in users, or enable maintenance mode.
- Emojis: Improve performance by removing emoji scripts and styles.
- Script Version: Remove version query strings from scripts and styles URLs.
- jQuery Migrate: Disable jQuery Migrate, which most probably isn't needed anymore.
- RSD Link: Remove the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) tag.
- Generator Meta Tag: Remove the WordPress version meta tag.
- Shortlink: Remove the shortlink meta tag.
Improve your site's security by disabling or limiting access to certain features:
- File Edit: Disable the built-in file editor for themes and plugins.
- XML-RPC: Disable the XML-RPC endpoint.
- API Authentication: Require authentication for all REST API requests.
Apply additional security measures to your login page:
- Identifier: Restrict login to username only, email only, or allow both.
- Obfuscate Error: Prevent hints about which login credential is incorrect.
- Block Bots: Block known bots from accessing the login page.
- Application Passwords: Disable Application Passwords and remove related UI elements.
Only for advanced users. You configure these following features, but do it carefully:
- Updates: Enable or disable updates for WordPress, plugins, and themes.
- Cron: Disable WP-Cron and use a real cron job.
- Heartbeat: Adjust or disable the Heartbeat API to reduce resource usage.
- Visit Plugins › Add New.
- Search for Feature Flipper.
- Install and activate the Feature Flipper plugin.
- Upload the entire
syntatis-feature-flipperfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Visit Plugins.
- Activate the Feature Flipper plugin.
Learn more about installing plugins.
Is this plugin compatible with WordPress Multisite?
Not yet, but it's on the plan!
Found a bug? Open an issue or submit a pull request. Have an idea, or suggestion? Let's discuss it in the Discussions tab.
Note
This plugin serves as a showcase for Howdy, a starter kit for developing a plugin for WordPress® that encourages modern development practices, and provides pre-configured tools for a more streamlined development experience.