Description

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.

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🚀 PERFORMANCE

Advanced Settings 3 is optimized for extreme performance. It only loads what’s necessary. You won’t be able to measure any difference in loading speed, as it usually only loads a few lines of code.

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🩷 REQUEST A FEATURE

Advanced Settings 3 is designed to help as many people as possible. If you have a feature in mind that you’d like to see included in this plugin, let us know.

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⚙️ FEATURES

Advanced Settings 3 is brand new and the range of features is only just beginning to grow. Nevertheless, the plugin always remains extremely fast thanks to the sophisticated cache system, which only loads those features that are actually in use.

Here you will find a list of the features currently implemented:

Dashboard

Customize dashboard logo
Hide WordPress update message in dashboard
Hide the top admin bar for all users in the frontend
Hide the welcome panel in the dashboard

System

Hide default WordPress favicon
Disable comment system
Disable posts auto saving
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

Frontend

Disable author pages
Automatically add FavIcon (when favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg exists in template folder)
Automatically add description meta tag using blog description and post excerpt (SEO)
Remove WordPress generator meta tag
Remove RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
Remove shortlink meta tag
Limit excerpt length
Add “Read more” link after excerpt
Remove wptexturize filter
Remove trackbacks and pingbacks from comment count
Compress HTML code
Remove HTML comments (except conditional IE comments)
Disable author pages
Add thumbnail support
Automatically generate post thumbnail (from first image in post)
Protect email addresses from spam bots
Add Facebook Open Graph meta tags
Disable emoji image replacement

Editing

Set JPEG quality
Downsize images on upload to max size

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

Screenshots

Click on the icon in the admin bar to open the advanced settings
Search for the features you are looking for
Send a feature request if you are missing a feature

Installation

Upload the plugin to your WordPress plugins directory
Activate the plugin through the WordPress plugin menu
Go to Settings > Advanced in the WordPress admin menu
Use the tab navigation to access different settings sections
Configure your desired settings in each section

Reviews

MXPPPE April 10, 2025

Nice Plugin!

Anonymous User 15569536 Agustus 4, 2017

I had to deactivate this plugin on a client’s website. The following error was observed. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /advanced-settings/action-scripts.php on line 7. LINE “7”: $advset_removed_scripts = [];

moradpour Séptémber 3, 2016 1 reply

The risk of data loss

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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Settings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

3.0.0 – 2025-04-25

Complete redesign of admin interface with modern design
New React-based user interface
Improved performance through caching system
New modular organization of features and categories
Improved user guidance with interactive manual
Numerous code optimizations and bugfixes

2.9.0 – 2025-03-13

New feature to remove default WordPress favicon
New feature to prevent auto core update emails
New feature to prevent auto plugin update emails
New feature to prevent auto theme update emails
New config feature to show deprecated features (hidden by default)
New config feature to show experimental expert features (hidden by default)
Code optimizations

2.8.0 – 2025-03-10

Added “Config” tab with settings for the plugin itself
Performance optimizations

2.7.0 – 2025-03-10

Added support for SVG favicons in “Automatically add a FavIcon” setting
Fixed a few issues
Several code optimizations
Added tracking consent modal and tracking itself

2.6.0 – 2025-02-27

Changed navigation from multiple menu items to a single menu item with tab navigation
Marked a few settings as deprecated
Marked a few settings as experimental
Added “get in touch” notice
Tidied up a bit

2.5.0 – 2025-01-13

Add new feature: Disable author pages
Add new feature: Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates

2.4.0 – 2023-12-26

Updated code for WordPress version 6.4.2

2.3.4 – 2020-12-02

Updated code for WordPress version 5.5.3

2.3.3 – 2017-03-03

Add styles admin page
Filters admin page fix
New description

2.3.2 – 2017-03-02

Fixes for script actions & hooks

2.3.1 – 2017-02-25

Add scripts admin page

2.2.2 – 2016-07-15

Remove Trackbacks and Pingbacks from Comment Count
Add a Custom Dashboard Logo

2.2.1 – 2015-08-31

Fix delete posttype bug
Update plugin links
Add Git repository

2.2 – 2014-09-09

Fix migrate bug on update

2.1 – 2014-08-29

Fix update options bug
Remove unnecessary jQuery migrate script (jquery-migrate.min.js)
Include jQuery Google CDN instead local script (version 1.11.0)
Fix incorrect Facebook thumbnails including OG metas
Remove header RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
Remove header shortlink meta tag
Fix delete link in post types admin page

2.0 – 2014-02-17

Organized admin menu creating new menu options

1.5.3

Disable The “Please Update Now” Message On WordPress Dashboard
Unregister default WordPress widgets
Remove widget system
The comment filter don’t remove conditional IE comments now

1.5.1

Actions/Filter admin page

1.5

Add auto post thumbnail
Add resize at upload
Add allow HTML in user profiles
Update form submit method (code)
pt_BR translation

1.4.6

Fix the “Remove comments system” bug

1.4.5

Increase the size of author thumbnail to 100px

1.4.4

Fix the “Insert author bio on each post”

1.4.3

Code compactor now skips the <pre> tag