Turn off what you don’t use
Each of these replaces a small plugin: no comments, classic editor, no feeds, no search and more.
- Turn off comments everywhere Closes comments and pingbacks on every post and page, hides existing comments, and removes Comments from the admin menu, the admin bar and the dashboard. WooCommerce product reviews keep working.
- Use the classic editor Posts and pages open in the classic editor instead of the block editor, as with the Classic Editor plugin.
- Use the classic widgets screen Appearance > Widgets and the Customizer go back to the classic widgets, as with the Classic Widgets plugin.
- Turn off RSS feeds Every feed address (/feed/, comment feeds, category feeds) sends visitors to the home page, and the feed links leave the page head.
- Turn off site search Search results show the “not found” page, and search forms and Search blocks print nothing.
- Send attachment pages to the file Each uploaded image has its own thin page (…/image-name/). This sends visitors straight to the file instead, as new WordPress sites do.
- No email after successful automatic updates WordPress stops emailing you every time a plugin, theme or WordPress itself updates on its own. You still get an email when an update fails.
- Stop the admin email check Every six months WordPress asks administrators to confirm the site’s admin email after they log in. This turns that screen off.
- Admin bar for editors only Hides the admin bar on the public site for subscribers and customers. Users who can write posts still see it.
Move your snippets over this afternoon.
Importing changes nothing until you switch over, and your old shortcodes keep working.