Title: Disable Privacy Tools Author: Dominik Schilling Published: May 14, 2018 Last modified: January 11, 2022 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/disable-privacy-tools/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=1874319) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/disable-privacy-tools/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1873801) # Disable Privacy Tools By [Dominik Schilling](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-privacy-tools.1.1.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/#reviews) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/) ## Description WordPress 4.9.6 added a few tools to help you creating and displaying a privacy policy or assist with requests for exporting/erasing personal data. Depending on your location or type of install (the tools may not be suitable for Multisite or large networks), you may have already taken measures to comply with existing privacy laws or/and you do not need them at all. With this plugin, all the new admin screens will be disabled to prevent cluttering your admin with more unused items. It also prevents showing you the feature pointer if you install this plugin before the update. _Photo by [Dayne Topkin](https://unsplash.com/photos/0FOOcD63bek)._ ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8013a62d7397c006bae48b96d6832a573ea71a7d5d3597fe584210567b508c05? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Thanks!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thanks-1401/)󠁿 [Justin Tadlock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greenshady/) May 21, 2018 I’m just glad I didn’t have to build another plugin to disable core features. So, thanks for saving me some time. 🙂 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e9bfc6bfa914b1b6d2e0dc60f10b07e813ca849cd9ecd2918c9024ab56433e74? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[great plugin that disables core “functionality”](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-that-disables-core-functionality/)󠁿 [Pieter Bos](https://profiles.wordpress.org/senlin/) May 18, 2018 Thank you for releasing this plugin, Dominik! I think the whole Privacy Tools thing is plugin territory to begin with, but that’s probably a whole different story/discussion. Anyways, thank you for coming with this counter measure, to give people free choice again 🙂 Cheers, Pieter ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8c0ced2ad5a0c50ec3a0903b1d1946b4309a9b5e4ed01ff7f8d40bc710f49e3e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect !](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-5107/)󠁿 [nick6352683](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nick6352683/) June 4, 2018 Nice & Easy. BTW, as of today (WP 4.9.6 RC1), when the Privacy Tool erases a person’s private data in comments, it changes the commentors name to Anonymous, which is fine, but it puts a link to it which points to https://site.invalid, which will result in a bunch of broken link, which of course Google will dearly punish you for all the broken links. [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Disable Privacy Tools” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Dominik Schilling ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/) “Disable Privacy Tools” has been translated into 16 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-privacy-tools/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Disable Privacy Tools” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-privacy-tools) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-privacy-tools/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-privacy-tools/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-privacy-tools/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-privacy-tools/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog ### 1.1 * Removes the default scheduled event used to delete old export files. Props [jeremyfelt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt). ### 1.0 * Removes core privacy tools by adding the `do_not_allow` capability. * Short circuits the option for the privacy policy page. ## Meta * Version **1.1** * Last updated **4 years ago** * Active installations **100+** * WordPress version ** 4.9 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.8.13** * PHP version ** 5.2 or higher ** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (Pirate)](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [French (Canada)](https://fr-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [German (Switzerland)](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/), and [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-privacy-tools) * Tags * [core](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/core/)[GDPR](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gdpr/) [privacy](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/privacy/)[tools](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tools/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-privacy-tools/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-privacy-tools/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Dominik Schilling ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/) ## Support Got something to say? 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