F4 Improvements

Description

There are a few features that really should be in the WordPress core. F4 Improvements adds a few more features and a lot of improvements and enhancements to your WordPress installation. They improve the performance for your WordPress, make it more secure, add a few useful new features, removes unimportant stuff and ensure better usability. It also adds some improvements for the awesome caching plugin WP Rocket and WooCommerce.

Features

WP Rocket

  • Add action to toggle caching on/off to the WP Rocket admin menu
  • Enable same cache for all users
  • Disable mobile-specific cache (WP Rocket >= 3.16)
  • Remove WP Rocket footprint comment
  • Leave empty lines in .htaccess
  • Ignore additional query strings
  • WooCommerce: Clear product cache on stock change
  • WooCommerce: Disable cart fragments cache

WooCommerce

  • Save Save ship_to_different_address
  • Remove Adjacent Links
  • Hide flatrates if free shipping
  • Hide jumping embed loader in backend
  • Set reply to email

Yoast SEO

  • Choose image size for social og images

Front end

  • Remove RSD Link
  • Remove REST Output
  • Remove oEmbed Discovery
  • Remove wlwmanifest Link
  • Remove Shortlinks
  • Remove Adjacent Links
  • Remove Feed Links
  • Remove Generator Tag
  • Remove Emojis
  • Remove oEmbed Assets
  • Remove Gutenberg Assets
  • Remove Global Styles Assets
  • Hide Author Pages
  • Hide Admin Toolbar

Back end

  • Set default color theme for new users
  • Disable WYSIWYG editor for specific post types
  • Disable WYSIWYG media button for specific post types
  • Disable Gutenberg editor for specific post types
  • Keep taxonomy hierarchy in checklist
  • Remove «Welcome to WP!» box from dashbord
  • Remove «Quick Draft» box from dashboard
  • Remove «News and Events» box from dashboard
  • Remove «At a Glance» box from dashboard
  • Remove «Activity» box from dashboard

Media

  • Change JPEG Quality
  • Enable SVG Support
  • Allow image upscaling (to ensure better image sizes handling)
  • Normalize Upload Filename (lowercase, whitespaces, umlauts etc.)
  • Use title as alt attribute on upload
  • Disable scaling for big image sizes
  • Remove specific default image sizes

Core

  • Disable Core Update Email
  • Skip default plugins and themes on update
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Disable Theme Editor
  • Set phpmailer return path
  • Disable admin email check

Features overview

  • Improvements and enhancements for frontend, backend, media and wordpress core
  • Easy to use
  • Lightweight and optimized
  • 100% free!

Planned features

  • Add more useful WordPress improvements
  • Polylang improvements
  • WooCommerce improvements

Screenshots

  • Front end improvements
  • Back end improvements
  • Media improvements
  • System improvements
  • WP Rocket improvements
  • WooCommerce improvements

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/f4-improvements directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‹Plugins› screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings -> Improvements screen to configure the plugin

FAQ

Is it really free?

Yes, absolutely!

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Contributors & Developers

“F4 Improvements” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.9.0

  • Add option to disable mobile-specific cache for WP Rocket
  • Support WooCommerce 8.9

1.8.2

  • Support WooCommerce 8.7
  • Support WordPress 6.5

1.8.1

  • Fix possible XSS vulnerability
  • Support WooCommerce 8.6
  • Support WordPress 6.4

1.8.0

  • Add option to disable admin email check
  • Declare custom_order_tables compatibility
  • Support WooCommerce 8.1
  • Support WordPress 6.3

1.7.3

  • Optimize for PHP 8.1
  • Support WooCommerce 7.4

1.7.2

  • Support WooCommerce 7.1
  • Support WordPress 6.1

1.7.1

  • Update www.f4dev.ch links
  • Support WooCommerce 6.8

1.7.0

  • Add option to remove global styles from the front end
  • Support WooCommerce 6.6

1.6.3

  • Support WordPress 6.0

1.6.2

  • Fix bug with Yoast SEO
  • Remove trailing php tags

1.6.1

  • Support WordPress 5.9

1.6.0

  • Add Yoast SEO module and og image size option
  • Support WooCommerce 6.1

1.5.0

  • Add option to disable scaling for big image sizes
  • Support WordPress 5.8

1.4.0

  • Add option to skip default plugins and themes on update
  • Add option to hide jumping embed loader in backend
  • Support WooCommerce 5.1

1.3.3

  • Support WordPress 5.7

1.3.2

  • Support WordPress 5.6

1.3.1

  • WP Rocket: Don’t generate and flush critical css if cache is disabled

1.3.0

  • Add WooCommerce improvements
  • Add new «Modern» color theme to theme selection
  • Remove all default values for new installations
  • System: Add option to set phpmailer return path

1.2.1

  • Update hook priority for rocket_remove_empty_lines
  • Support WordPress 5.5

1.2.0

  • Add WP Rocket improvements
  • Rework load and init hooks

1.1.0

  • Add option to set alt attribute to title on upload
  • Add option to keep taxonomy hierarchy in checklist
  • Remove option to normalize attachment titles
  • Update default values
  • Update german translations

1.0.0

  • Initial stable release