Title: The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)
Author: Abhishek Deshpande
Published: 25 مارس 2010
Last modified: 25 مارس 2026
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# The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)
توسط [Abhishek Deshpande](https://profiles.wordpress.org/deshabhishek007/)
[دانلود](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-avoid-slow.1.9.8.zip)
* [جزئیات](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#description)
* [نقد و بررسیها](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#reviews)
* [نصب](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#installation)
* [توسعه](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#developers)
[پشتیبانی](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-avoid-slow/)
## توضیحات
WordPress prioritises backwards compatibility.
That’s a feature. It also means
every install ships with things you didn’t ask for.
An emoji CDN script. An oEmbed script. A Windows Live Writer manifest (discontinued
2017).
Dashicons loaded for logged-out visitors. Heartbeat polling every 15 seconds.
A version tag that tells the world exactly which WordPress you’re running.
None of these are bugs. They’re just not needed on most sites.
Disable what you don’t need. Keep what you do.
**The Off Switch lets you disable each one, individually.**
#### The Off Switches
* **Emoji script** – ~15 KB + 1 HTTP request. Browsers handle emoji natively.
* **Embed script** – ~4 KB + oEmbed discovery links in ``.
* **RSD link** – Really Simple Discovery. Only needed for legacy XML-RPC clients.
* **WLW manifest** – Windows Live Writer has been discontinued since 2017.
* **WP version tag** – Stops advertising your WordPress version to the world.
* **Shortlink** – Removes `` from `` and HTTP headers.
Search engines ignore it.
* **Asset query strings** – Strips `?ver=` from scripts, styles, and WP 6.5+ Script
Modules so CDNs and proxies cache correctly.
* **XML-RPC** – Closes a common brute-force attack vector.
* **Heartbeat API** – Reduces admin polling from every 15 s to every 60 s.
* **Dashicons (frontend)** – ~35 KB (CSS + font) saved for every logged-out visitor.
* **REST API Discovery Link** – Removes `` from `
`. Safe to remove on standard sites.
* **RSS Feed Links** – Removes feed autodiscovery `` tags from ``.
Modern browsers no longer act on them. Leave enabled if you publish an RSS feed.
* **Speculation Rules (WP 6.8+)** – Disables the WP 6.8+ Speculation Rules API
that prefetches links before users click. Can inflate analytics, increase server
bandwidth, and trigger consent flows on unfetched pages.
* **Disable All Feeds** – Redirects all RSS and Atom feed URLs to the homepage.
For sites with no RSS subscribers.
* **Comment Auto-Links** – Stops WordPress from converting plain-text URLs in comments
into clickable links.
* **Editor Autosave** – Deregisters the autosave script that POSTs editor content
to the server every 60 seconds. For teams that prefer explicit saves.
* **DNS Prefetch** – Removes all `` hints from ``.
Redundant when Emojis and Embeds are already disabled.
* **Recent Comments Inline CSS** – WordPress outputs a small inline `