About this plugin
CleanUp WP helps you quickly set up a fresh WordPress installation by removing default content, configuring sensible defaults, and enabling performance optimizations.
Why use CleanUp WP?
Every new WordPress installation comes with demo content you don’t need: “Hello World” post, sample pages, default comments, and bundled plugins like Hello Dolly and Akismet. Manually cleaning this up takes time.
CleanUp WP handles all of this with a single click, plus offers toggleable performance and security optimizations that you can enable or disable at any time.
Cleanup Tab (One-time tasks)
These tasks run once and get marked as done:
- Delete “Hello World” post
- Delete “Sample Page”
- Delete “Privacy Policy” page
- Delete default comment
- Delete Hello Dolly & Akismet plugins
- Delete unused themes (keeps active + parent)
- Clear widget areas
- Create main navigation menu
- Set pretty permalinks (/%postname%/)
- Disable comments by default
- Rename “Uncategorized” to “News”
- Disable user registration
- Organize uploads by year/month
- Set default image link to “None”
- Discourage search engine indexing
- Set timezone
- Create static homepage
Optimize Tab (Toggleable)
These can be turned ON or OFF at any time:
- Disable WordPress emojis (~20KB savings)
- Disable oEmbed
- Remove jQuery Migrate
- Disable Dashicons on frontend
- Clean up wp_head
- Disable self-pingbacks
- Reduce Heartbeat frequency
- Disable XML-RPC
- Hide WordPress version
- Disable file editing
- Disable user enumeration
- Clean dashboard (keep only Site Health and At a Glance)