Description
This plugin offers settings that you might expect to find in the WordPress core.
💚 This plugin is currently being extensively revised, but it remains high performing, lightweight and largely backwards compatible. If you have any questions or wishes, just get in touch, for example by creating a topic on the plugin support page.
System
- Hide the WordPress update message in the Dashboard
- Add dashboard logo
- Disable comment system
- Disable Posts Auto Saving
- Disable author pages
- Automatically generate the Post Thumbnail (from the first image in post)
- Set JPEG quality
- Resize image at upload to max size
- Display total number of executed SQL queries and page loading time
- Prevent installation of new default WordPress themes during core updates
- Prevent sending email notifications for core updates
- Prevent sending email notifications for plugin updates
- Prevent sending email notifications for theme updates
HTML Code
- Fix incorrect Facebook thumbnails including OG metas
- Hide top admin menu
- Remove default WordPress favicon
- Automatically add a FavIcon (whenever there is a favicon.ico, favicon.png or favicon.svg file in the template folder)
- Add a description meta tag using the blog description (SEO)
- Add description and keywords meta tags in each posts (SEO)
- Remove header WordPress generator meta tag
- Remove header RSD (Weblog Client Link) meta tag
- Remove header shortlink meta tag
- Configure site title to use just the wp_title() function (better for hardcode programming)
- Limit the excerpt length
- Add a read more link after excerpt
- Remove wptexturize filter
- Remove Trackbacks and Pingbacks from Comment Count
- Insert author bio in each post
- Allow more complex HTML in user profile
- Compress all HTML code
- Remove HTML comments (it doesn’t remove conditional IE comments like: <!–[if IE]>)
- Add Google Analytics code
- Add FeedBurner code
Config
- Show/hide deprecated features
- Show/hide experimental expert features
- Configure tracking consent for feature usage statistics
Contribute on github: github.com/eHtmlu/advanced-settings
Screenshots
Menu 
The admin page 
The Filters/Actions admin page
Installation
- Upload the plugin to your WordPress plugins directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 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
Note: Some features are marked as deprecated. These can be shown/hidden in the Config tab.
Reviews
Tebax 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 = [];
Îlon 3, 2016
1 reply
The risk of data loss
Contributors & Developers
“Advanced Settings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.9.0 – 2025-03-13
- New feature to remove the 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 (by default hidden now)
- New config feature to show experimental expert features (by default hidden now)
- Code optimizations
2.8.0 – 2025-03-10
- Add “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
- Add 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