Title: Performance & Security Author: James Robinson Published: October 20, 2014 Last modified: July 5, 2023 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-performance-security/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2934158) 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/wp-performance-security/assets/icon.svg?rev=2934158) # Performance & Security By [James Robinson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/imaginarymedia/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-performance-security.0.9.2.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/) ## Description This plugin provides settings to modify WordPress and improve performance and security. **General settings** * Modify excerpt length, the “More” text, and allow excerpts on Pages * Change the “Read more” settings, so that the anchors to articles don’t jump * Modify custom post types so that they appear in search results and RSS feeds * Allow tags on pages and ensure all tags appear in search queries * Remove relational links * Remove the Windows Live Writer manifest link (`wlwmanifest`) * Remove the RSD link * Remove the shortlink * Enable HTML5 support for forms, comment lists, images and captions. * Enable or disable the Links Manager * Disable auto-formatting of content and/or excerpts **Performance** * Enable GZIP on Apache * Disable WordPress pings from internal links * Remove the version query string on styles and scripts * Remove the JetPack plugin `devicepx` script * Disable emoji support and remove emoji styles and scripts * Disable jQuery Migrate dependency * Disable the Block Editor Library CSS * Disable oEmbed support **Security** * Remove the WordPress version string * Modify XMLRPC features – disable entirely and/or disable XMLRPC SSL testing * Comment modifications: - Disable comments - Disable comments on media files - Disable links in comments - Remove the ‘URL’ field from the comments form - Hide existing comments **Administration** * Show statistics in the Admin section * Change the WordPress greeting, even for non US English installs * Remove dashboard widgets * Remove menu items * Include the “All Settings” menu item **Login** * Change the login page logo * Change the login page logo URL * Change the login page logo URL title * Disable detailed login errors If you have further suggestions, please contact us via the [plugin support page](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security). If this plugin is useful for managing your WordPress settings, please [review the plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/wp-performance-security). Developed by [James Robinson](https://jmr.codes). ## Installation 1. Unzip the plugin and copy the `wp-performance-security` folder to the `/wp-content/ plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Performance & Security” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ James Robinson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/imaginarymedia/) [Translate “Performance & Security” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-performance-security) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-performance-security/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-performance-security/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-performance-security/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-performance-security/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.9.2 * Removed Google Analytics section now that Universal Analytics are no longer supported #### 0.9.1 * Fixed a bug on the login screen #### 0.9 * Fixed a bug with comments being disabled by default * Remove oEmbed support option * Remove jQuery migrate option * Improved emoji removal to include dns-prefetch of image sources #### 0.8 * Tested against WP 5.0.1 * Open Sans was dropped from WP 4.6 in favour of system fonts – so this option will only show for older versions of WP * Updated Google Analytics to support Google Tag Manager (gtag.js) * Added the ability to hide existing comments * Jetpack devicepx option only shown if Jetpack is active * Improved handling of custom post type options * Added support for enabling (and disabling) the Links Manager * Removed SVG support due to changes in WP since 4.7 * Minor code improvements #### 0.7 * Added new feature to remove the styles and scripts that make up emoji support, which was added in WP 4.2 #### 0.6 * Fixed a range of alerts that appear in debug mode #### 0.5 * Fixed issue where plugin might conflict with WP Super Cache #### 0.4.1 * Minor changes to plugin settings in WP #### 0.4 Minor code changes * JS only loaded on plugin page * Changed default settings, all plugin options set to the WordPress defaults #### 0.3 * Updated plugin to allow for internationalization * Added icon #### 0.2 * Added support for adding Google Analytics tracking code * Added a toggle to remove the admin bar from front-facing pages * Added a setting to enforce and set the minimum number of characters required in a comment #### 0.1 * Initial launch ## Meta * Version **0.9.2** * Last updated **3 years ago** * Active installations **30+** * WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.2.9** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/) * Tags * [performance](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)[security](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/) [settings](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/settings/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-security/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-performance-security/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ James Robinson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/imaginarymedia/) ## Support Got something to say? 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