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Advanced Settings 3

Adds settings that you might expect to find in the WordPress core.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version3.3.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.3 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update25 Oct 20268d ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.9 / 5 from 7 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Advanced Settings 3 version 3.3.2 as active, updated 8d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

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

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Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.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

Developer

  • Display SQL queries and page load time

Configuration

  • Show/hide deprecated features
  • Show/hide experimental features
  • Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics
  • Configure visibility of user guide

com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • admin
  • dashboard
  • editing
  • frontend
  • settings
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.3 · PHP 7.4
Update activity25 Oct 20268d ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version3.3.13.3.2
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.1.3
WordPress requirement5.0.05.3
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