Advanced Settings 3

Advanced Settings is a powerful WordPress plugin that provides settings you would expect to find in the WordPress core. It is lightweight, performant and offers a modern, fast and user-friendly interface.

🚀 PERFORMANCE
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.
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🪶 LIGHTWEIGHT
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).
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🔒 SECURITY
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.
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✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.
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Features

🩷 FEATURE REQUESTS ARE WELCOME
Advanced Settings 3 was developed to help as many users as possible. If you’d like to see a feature added to this plugin, please let us know. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the plugin fast and lean; this is a high priority for us. We’ll only implement features that don’t conflict with this.

Admin Area

• Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend
• Hide WordPress update message in dashboard
• Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard
• Hide the default widgets in the dashboard 💥 new
• Customize the admin area branding 💥 new

Frontend

• Remove PHP version from HTTP headers 💥 new
• Add security HTTP headers 💥 new
• Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)
• Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags
• Remove shortlink meta tag
• Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
• Remove WordPress generator meta tag
• Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)
• Disable author pages
• Remove wptexturize filter
• Disable auto embed of external content 💥 new
• Limit excerpt length
• Add “Read more” link after excerpt
• Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count
• Protect email addresses from spam bots
• Compress HTML code
• Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)
• Disable emoji image replacement

Editing

• Disable posts auto saving
• Limit post revisions 💥 new
• Allow SVG uploads for admins 💥 new
• Downsize images on upload to max size
• Set JPEG quality
• Add thumbnail support
• Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)

System

• Hide default WordPress favicon
• Disable comment system
• Disable XML-RPC 💥 new
• Disable public REST API 💥 new
• Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates
• Disable email notifications for core updates
• Disable email notifications for plugin updates
• Disable email notifications for theme updates
• Create custom post types 💥 renewed

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