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Advanced Settings 3

by Helmut Wandl on WordPress.org

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

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Click on the icon in the admin bar to open the advanced settings

Click on the icon in the admin bar to open the advanced settings

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.

πŸš€ PERFORMANCE
Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It even loads only necessary PHP.
details in FAQ

πŸͺΆ LIGHTWEIGHT
Advanced Settings 3 is lightweight (only about 0.5 MB) and discreet (no dashboard hijacking).
details in FAQ

πŸ”’ SECURITY
Advanced Settings 3 has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities via Patchstack.
details in FAQ

✳️ INFO ABOUT THE 2 BAD RATINGS
Bad ratings occurred in 2017 because users used outdated PHP versions, but can’t happen again.
details in FAQ

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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 πŸ’₯ new
  • Customize the admin area branding πŸ’₯ new

Frontend

  • Remove PHP version from HTTP headers πŸ’₯ new
  • Add security HTTP headers πŸ’₯ 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 πŸ’₯ new
  • Limit excerpt length
  • Add β€œRead 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 πŸ’₯ new
  • Allow SVG uploads for admins πŸ’₯ 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 πŸ’₯ new
  • Disable public REST API πŸ’₯ 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 πŸ’₯ 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

Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings

Active installations200+
Weekly downloads
48-70.55%
Version3.3.0
Last updated2/7/2026
WordPress version5.0.0
Tested up to6.9.1
PHP version7.4
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