WP Tweak is a lightweight and minimalistic WordPress plugin designed to enhance your website with a curated set of tweaks. It focuses on improving performance, bolstering privacy, strengthening security, and adding other useful optimizations—all without unnecessary bloat. Perfect for users who want
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 4, 2026
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WP Tweak is a lightweight and minimalistic WordPress plugin designed to enhance your website with a curated set of tweaks. It focuses on improving performance, bolstering privacy, strengthening security, and adding other useful optimizations—all without unnecessary bloat. Perfect for users who want a simple yet effective solution to fine-tune their WordPress experience.
This plugins handles tweaks in a minimalistic way. Only files that contains tweaks that you activate are loaded!
Tweaks
Remove version query strings Removes ?ver=1.2.3 from all styles and scripts.
Disable feeds
Disable emojis
Search single result redirect
Disallow File Edits Disables the ability to edit files in the file manager. Sets DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT constant to true. Does only work if the constant is already defined, usually in wp-config.php
Admin bar greeting Replace “Howdy, {name}” with a custom message. Use {name} for the user’s display name. For example Hi, {name}! . Leave empty for no greeting. Use default for the default greeting, preventing the tweak from running.
Enable fonts to uploads Move (Google) Fonts enabled in the Block Editor from wp-content/fonts to wp-content/uploads
Disable auto trash emptying
Set trash keep days Set the number of days to keep posts in the trash. Default is 30 days.
Scroll progress bar
Scroll progress color And valid css will work. You can use this color picker! .
Remove Admin Bar WordPress Logo Requires a hard refresh of the page to take effect.
Remove Asset Attributes
Disable Non Production Emails If WP_ENV (Trellis) or wp_get_environment_type is not production, emails sending is mocked.
Remove REST API links
Remove RSD link Removes Really Simple Discovery link tag from head.
Remove shortlink Removes shortlink link tag from head and shortlink HTTP header.
Remove wlwmanifest link Removes Windows Live Writer manifest link tag from head.
Admin email check interval Time in seconds to display email verification message on login. Set to 0 to disable. Default is 15552000 (6 months).
Admin footer text a href links are allowed. Use “default” for default text.
Remove Welcome Panel Removes the Welcome Panel from the dashboard.
Remove At a Glance widget Removes the At a Glance dashboard widget.
Remove Activity widget Removes the Activity dashboard widget.
Remove Quick Draft widget Removes the Quick Draft dashboard widget.
Remove WordPress Events and News widget Removes the WordPress Events and News dashboard widget.
Remove Site Health Status widget Removes the Site Health Status dashboard widget.
404 Redirect Home Redirects 404 pages to the homepage.
Set user agent WP really hates privacy and sends this WordPress/7.1; https://symbiosistheme.test to every site it makes calls to. You can empty the field, pretend to be Chrome Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 or something else. default will change nothing.
Remove EXIF Remove EXIF data from uploaded images.
Convert jpeg to avif Convert uploaded jpeg to avif
Clean upload filenames Sanitize media filenames to remove non-latin special characters and accents
Avif compression Default is 82
Jpeg compression Default is 82
Webp compression Default is 86
Revisions for Posts
Revisions for Pages
Revisions for Custom CSS
Revisions for Patterns
Revisions for Templates
Revisions for Template Parts
Revisions for Global Styles
Revisions for Navigation Menus
Limit ALL revisions Limit revisions for all post types. This will override the limit for each post type from above!
Disable XML-RPC
Disable XML-RPC – allow Jetpack IPs Allow XML-RPC only from Jetpack IPs
Remove WP version Remove `{ tweaks }lt;meta name={ tweaks }quot;generator{ tweaks }quot; content={ tweaks }quot;WordPress 7.1{ tweaks }quot; /{ tweaks }gt; from html head Dequeue jQuery Migrate Dequeue jQuery Migrate from the jQuery script dependencies on the frontend. This is used to help devs debug from old versions of jQuery. You really do not need this on a production site.
Script Optimizer Optimize script loading by moving them into the head and adding defer` attribute. This may break your site. Use at your own risk!
Enable relative URLs Enable relative URLs on the frontend. This may break your site. Use at your own risk! Disable Contact Form 7 CSS Sets wpcf7_load_css filter to false Disable Contact Form 7 Autop Sets wpcf7_autop_or_not filter to false Enable Jetpack offline mode Enable maintenance mode Enable duplicate post Global Header Snippet Inside { tweaks }lt;head{ tweaks }gt; via wp_head hook. Global Body Snippet Right after { tweaks }lt;body{ tweaks }gt; opens via wp_body_open hook. Global Footer Snippet Before { tweaks }lt;/body{ tweaks }gt; closes via wp_footer hook. Content Prepend Snippet Output prepended to the_content via the_content filter. Content Append Snippet Output appended to the_content via the_content filter.
Contribute to add quality tweaks to the plugin reviewed by me
Unlike WP Code’s snippet database that is filled with low code quality tweaks where some do not even work at all and spam this plugin only contains high quality tweaks. If something is missing please add it.
It is very easy to contribute to the plugin. Check out the Github Readme .
If you have questions on adding a more complex tweak please feel free to ask.
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