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WordPress always add many meta tags as well as links, urls scripts and many additional things to WordPress head section and this plugin helps to remove that additional added code stuff and that will increase site performance, security and reduce the HTTP requests of the page and that definitely helps to the site.

For backwards compatibility, if this section is missing, the full length of the short description will be used, and
\nMarkdown parsed.

Using this plugin you can enable / disable below things that can surely helps your site to load faster and provide some security as well.

Disable WP Emoji CSS & Script
Remove Canonical URL
Remove WordPress Version for security purpose
Remove Shortlink
Remove RSS Feed URL
Remove EditURI Link
Disable JSON API
Remove Style and Script Versions
Remove WLW Manifest
Remove Next/Previous Post URLs Links
Remove REST API link tag
Remove oEmbed Discovery Links

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Extract the zip file into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory or upload through wordpress back end
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Go to Dashboard -> WP Head Optimizer
Remove / Disable the extra added links or ulrs or scripts from WordPress default
You are done. Enjoy Plugin!

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If you have any question do let me know on gr8nilay@gmail.com

\n","changelog":"

1.0

First release of plugin

\n"},"short_description":"This plugin allow you to remove unnecessary tags, links, urls, scrips and many additional things from your WordPress header to speed up site loading t …","download_link":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-head-optimizer.zip","screenshots":[],"tags":{"clean-head":"clean head","optimization":"optimization","remove":"remove","wphead":"wphead","wphead-clean":"wphead clean"},"versions":{"1.0.0":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-head-optimizer.1.0.0.zip"},"donate_link":"http://nilaypatel.info/donations/?plugin=wp-head-optimizer","icons":{"1x":"https://ps.w.org/wp-head-optimizer/assets/icon-128x128.jpg?rev=1691685"}},{"name":"BlankPress WordPress Cleaner","slug":"bpwp-cleaner","version":"1.1","author":"Dharma Poudel (@rogercomred)","author_profile":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dharmapoudel/","requires":"3.5","tested":"4.1.41","requires_php":false,"requires_plugins":[],"rating":86,"ratings":{"1":1,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":5},"num_ratings":6,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"downloaded":5772,"last_updated":"2014-12-20 12:59am GMT","added":"2014-05-12","homepage":"http://www.wordpress.org/plugins","sections":{"description":"

This plugin allows users to selectively clean up the WordPress header, removes unwanted dashboard widgets and tweaks annoying WordPress features.

Features

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Head Cleanup
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- removes the Generator/WordPress Version number
- removes link to Really Simple Discovery service endpoint
- removes link to Windows Live Writer manifest file
- removes displaying links to the extra feeds such as category feeds
- removes displaying links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed
- removes adjacent posts links : Index link, Next link, Start link
- removes WordPress cannonical link
- removes WordPress Shortlink
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Dashboard widgets Cleanup
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- removes help tab on dashboard screen or all whole screen
- removes WordPress Welcome Panel
- removes update submenu under ‘Dashboard’ menu
- removes wordpress update nag
- removes update browser nag
- removes wordpress dashboard widgets At a Glance/Quick Draft/WordPress News/Activity
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Misc Cleanup
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- removes versions from css and js source link
- removes javascripts and styles from header & moves to footer
- removes default styles set by WordPress recent comments widget
- removes width and height dynamic attributes to thumbnails/post images
- removes WordPress generated category and tag atributes for W3C validation
- removes admin bar from the frontend
- removes and/or changes WordPress login error message
- removes WordPress login shake effect
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Consequences

Page load speed increases drastically.
Better site performance.
Google will love your site. Also users will love your site.
Better security : stay safe, sleep well!

Recommended Plugins

The following are recommended by the author:

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Page Specific Menu Items – Allows you to selectively hide the menu items. One menu different menu items on different page(posts).
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BlankPress Theme Framework – Simple yet flexible HTML5 blank WordPress theme framework based on underscores. Use this as a base theme for your WP projects.
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\n","installation":"

via WordPress

Go to the menu ‘Plugins’ -> ‘Install’ and search for ‘BlankPress WordPress Cleaner’
Click ‘install’

Manual Installation

Unzip the zip file and upload to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu
Configure plugin from ‘Settings > BPWP Cleaner’

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How to make this plugin work?

Activate the plugin and
select what you want to clean from ‘Settings > BPWP Cleaner’

\n\n","changelog":"

1.0 (2014-5-12)

Initial Release

\n"},"short_description":"Allows user to clean up the WordPress mess. Better performance, Faster page load, Better security and Better WP experience.","download_link":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bpwp-cleaner.1.1.zip","screenshots":[],"tags":{"dashboard-cleaner":"dashboard cleaner","header-cleaner":"header cleaner","springclean-wordpress":"springclean WordPress","wordpress-cleaner":"WordPress Cleaner","wphead-cleaner":"wphead cleaner"},"versions":{"1.0":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bpwp-cleaner.1.0.zip","1.1":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bpwp-cleaner.1.1.zip","trunk":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bpwp-cleaner.zip"},"donate_link":"","icons":{"default":"https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/bpwp-cleaner_ecf1f1.svg"}}]

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