Description

Bloat is the silent killer of your site’s performance, often slowing down your entire website. Make sure your site is fast by using Disable Bloat, an all-in-one plugin to disable unnecessary features that slow down your site.

By default, the WordPress admin panel is cluttered with preinstalled elements that may distract you from your work. Make the admin panel smooth and clean, by removing unnecessary elements.

Wasting your time on a slow and bloated site is a thing of the past. With Disable Bloat you can finally have the fast site you deserve. Plugin works as a top-notch precision scalpel for your site, removing the clutter from your site’s front-end and admin panel. It makes WordPress and WooCommerce clean and fast again.

With Disable Bloat, you will:

Make your admin panel fast and clean by disabling unwanted features
Accelerate your WordPress website
Enhance security by turning off features that you don’t use
Disable third-party plugins bloat
and many more!

You deserve the best of both worlds: aesthetics and speed. Disable bloat, get faster loading time and make your WordPress admin panel clean again. Feel free to customize WordPress to your liking where every tweak is seamless and live.

WooCommerce plugin is not required to run the plugin.

Premium Version

Unlock all features by upgrading to Disable Bloat for WordPress & WooCommerce PRO.

Disable WooCommerce Bloat

Disable WooCommerce Admin which makes your back-end heavy. Turn off all WooCommerce promotions appearing in different places in the admin panel. Reduce the size of CSS and javascript scripts loading in the background of your site’s front-end and back-end.

WooCommerce Admin

WooCommerce Admin is a built-in feature in WooCommerce. It is a javascript-driven dashboard. WooCommerce Admin’s features continue to become increasingly blended into the merchant experience in WooCommerce. It can cause performance issues and slow down your website. Disabling the feature can help speed up your website and improve the user experience for your customers. Using the options below, you can effectively disable WooCommerce Admin, Analytics, Home screen and other features that are making your admin panel slower:

Disable WooCommerce Admin
Choose which WooCommerce Admin features to disable
Disable Marketing Hub

WooCommerce promotions

WooCommerce is constantly trying to promote and advertise add-ons by adding nags to your admin panel. Now you can turn off or hide them:

Disable WooCommerce.com notice
Disable Extensions & My Subscriptions submenus
Disable Recommended shipping solutions metabox
Disable Recommended payments plugins metabox
Hide marketplace link on the Payments Settings screen

WooCommerce emails

The company behind WooCommerce actively promotes its add-ons, plugins, and extensions. They also affect the emails you receive from your webshop. This behavior can be seen as annoying or nagging by some users. Use the option below to stay balanced:

Disable WooCommerce guide emails
Remove the “Get the app” from WooCommerce emails

WooCommerce back-end scripts

Speed up your site by turning off unwanted scripts that are being loaded in the background in the admin panel:

Disable WooCommerce Status Meta Box
Disable WooCommerce Dashboard Setup Widget
Disable WooCommerce Blocks (back-end) [PRO]

Your Store’s Front-end

By default, quite a lot of scripts and styles are automatically loading while browsing the front-end of your shop. Use the options below to disable them:

Disable WooCommerce Widgets
Disable WooCommerce scripts and styles
Disable WooCommerce Cart Fragments
Disable WooCommerce Blocks (front-end) [PRO]
Disable unnecessary Stripe scripts [PRO]

Optimize WordPress admin panel

By default, the WordPress admin panel is cluttered with preinstalled elements that may distract you from your work. Make the admin panel smooth and clean, by removing unnecessary elements.

Clean admin interface

If you love a simple and flexible interface, use the options below to maximize your performance while browsing through the WordPress admin panel. By removing unnecessary elements, you will be 100% focused on your tasks:

Hide update notice for non-admin users
Disable WordPress Dashboard widgets [PRO]
Remove the WordPress logo from the admin bar [PRO]
Remove admin footer text [PRO]

WordPress login page

There are situations when you may prefer to hide or change the standard WordPress branding on the Login Page:

Hide the standard WordPress Logo from Login Page
Change the Logo Link on the WordPress Login Page
Change the Logo title parameter on the WordPress Login Page
Disable WordPress Login Language Switcher

Boost your site’s performance

Get rid of slowing down the page features that you never use, like Password Strength Meter. Clean up your site’s HTML Header section, by removing unwanted scripts. Disable deprecated Emoji scripts, as every modern browser supports emojis. Page load time is very important for your visitors. To improve page load time, try to disable scripts, features, and unnecessary queries:

Speed up your site

Use the settings from this section to reduce page load time on the front-end of your WordPress site:

Disable Password Strength Meter
Load Comments script only when needed
Prevent auto-linking URLs in comments
Disable WordPress Dashicons on the front-end
Remove DNS prefetch to s.w.org [PRO]
Disable jQuery Migrate [PRO]
Disable Sidebar WordPress Widgets [PRO]
Remove WordPress & WooCommerce Meta Generator Tag [PRO]
Remove emoji styles and scripts [PRO]
Disable wp-embed [PRO]

Remove scripts from Header

Remove unwanted scripts from the Header section of your site. The header section is used on all of your subpages and in most cases you do not need to load all the default scripts:

Remove RSS Feed Links [PRO]
Disable all RSS feeds [PRO]
Remove the Generator Tag From RSS Feeds [PRO]
Remove link to the Windows Live Writer Manifest File [PRO]
Remove RSD link [PRO]
Remove Shortlink From HTTP Header [PRO]

Disable unused core WordPress features

WordPress by default comes with a lot of powerful features. In fact, you will probably never use some of them. Disabling them will not only improve performance but will also give your site a higher security level. Disabling them can prevent attacks and make your WordPress site and admin panel faster.

Enhance speed and security by disabling the insecure XML-RPC API feature.

By default, WordPress saves each post revision in your database which may lead to the enormous size of your database. Disable post revisions and sleep well.

Turn off the built-in WordPress File Editor to improve your site’s speed and performance.

Updates

Keeping your website updated is important. But some people prefer to do it manually. In these cases, using a built-in update system is not recommended, as it is highly resource-consuming:

Disable themes auto-updates
Disable plugins auto-updates
Disable all WordPress core updates [PRO]

Speed and security

If you leave some of the core WordPress features active, they may result in a bloated database, lower security level, and lack of website speed optimization:

Disable File Editor [PRO]
Disable post revisions [PRO]
Disable Application Passwords [PRO]
Remove script/style version parameter [PRO]

WordPress API

The WordPress API includes a variety of different APIs which you can disable using this plugin:

Disable XML-RPC API [PRO]
Disable WordPress Heartbeat API [PRO]
Disable WordPress REST API [PRO]

Block Editor

Using Block Editor can significantly slow down your page during editing posts and while browsing through your site. If you are not using Block Editor, you can disable it completely:

Disable Gutenberg

If you use Block Editor, you can keep it enabled and only disable some of its features, like:

Auto-close Welcome Guide [PRO]
Disable WordPress Block Directory [PRO]
Remove the default block patterns [PRO]
Auto-exit the Fullscreen Mode on editor load [PRO]
Deactivate the Template Editor [PRO]

Third-party plugins bloat

Plugin integrates with third-party plugins and also removes bloat which comes with these plugins:

Jetpack

WordPress often encourages you to install Jetpack and connect your site to WordPress.com. If you do not want Jetpack, you can remove the installation notice. If you are using Jetpack, you can disable Jetpack promotions.

Remove Jetpack installation notice
Disable Jetpack promotions

Elementor

Elementor is a great tool, but it may also lead to cluttering your WordPress Dashboard.

Disable Elementor Dashboard widget

SkyVerge

SkyVerge plugins are adding their own top-level admin menu item with their Dashboard:

Disable SkyVerge Dashboard

Yoast SEO

Yoast is a very handy plugin, but it may add to your admin panel some elements that would not be your first choice.

Disable Ads, Premium nags, Premium menu [PRO]
Disable Yoast SEO Admin bar item [PRO]
Remove Yoast HTML Comments from the Front-end [PRO]
Remove Yoast SEO Dashboard widget [PRO]

Contact Form 7

Disable Contact Form 7 JavaScript and CSS [PRO]

UpDraftPlus

Hide “UpdraftPlus” on admin toolbar [PRO]

Advanced Custom Fields

Hide Advanced Custom Fields admin menu [PRO]

WPML

Remove WPML Meta Generator Tag [PRO]

WP Desk

Disable WP Desk Dashboard widget

Usage

Go to the configuration page: Settings -> Disable Bloat.

Screenshots

Disable WooCommerce Bloat Settings
Admin panel optimization section
Site performance section
WordPress Core section
Block Editor section
Third-party plugins bloat section
Plugin data cleanup section

Installation

Please make sure that you have WooCommerce installed and activated.
Upload the entire disable-dashboard-for-woocommerce folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Go to the configuration page: Settings -> Disable Bloat

FAQ-e

Do I need WooCommerce to use this plugin?: No more! The plugin does not require installing any additional plugins.

Reviews

hollowdev 23 March 2023 1 reply

So much easier than manually maintaining a list of filters to remove! Likely will have more options than you need to get WC running lean, but each option is just that -- an option. Appreciate having this plugin available.

wayneoz 09 March 2023 1 reply

What a Waste of MY time. Your Plugin may be fantastic. BUT... Just about every option is PRO. Pathetic Don't bother downloading unless you want to pay for all the pro features. I would have thought you would offer a TRIAL with ALL options Active, then if you like the plugin after a month trial - pay to upgrade. Extremely Dissapointed !!!

Dario Ferrer 06 March 2023 1 reply

Hi Sir. Right now I'm in front of my client's computer evaluating some plugins that she bought on her own (Disable Bloat Pro among them). Just great. 💪 I mean, in a highly productive way you managed to be successful in every important aspect related to the performance of the system. Neither more nor less, just enough, that's what I like the most about this resource 😻. And in that direction are a couple of tiny proposals for improvement that I don't know if they work for you but here they go anyway 🙂: Contact Form Auto P When Contact Form 7 generates its HTML, it has a slightly awkward detail of enclosing each form field in paragraph tags. Fortunately its developer offers a quick method to fix the problem by adding this line in wp-config.php: define('WPCF7_AUTOP', false ); Maybe it would be fine if your plugin included that option. That way we could achieve the goal through the plugin without needing to edit the file. WP Memory Limit I am wondering if it is possible to increase WordPress memory using your plugin in the same way that it could be achieved via wp-config.php: define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '1024M' ); This one is very useful for themes and plugins that demand more available RAM (Some of them even give a warning). Autosave interval It's about controlling the auto save time of the editor: define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 30000 ); Personally I have it set to a high value of 30000 because I don't like that feature and so far I haven't found a way to permanently remove it. If there was an interface to control it directly from the panel, it would be useful and that's why I include it in the proposal. Block external connections I use it a lot, especially when developing projects like intranets: define('WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL', true); The problem is that WordPress generates php error reports in some parts of the interface. The point is that in some cases it would be extremely useful to make WordPress 100% free of external connections. Imagine if that could be achieved just by checking/unchecking a box. 👍👍 ---- Thank you, that is all for now. I congratulate you on the minimalist and professional way in which you are developing this plugin 😎. I like it a lot!

hebhansen 17 November 2022 1 reply

I have for years wondered why is WP core not enforcing clean code and no adds! That is ofcourse the better way. Save code, however, the noise in WP backend evaporates just like that. That alone made me wonder if WP is really the way to go. Thx... Now we just need a redesign theming of wp backend, cause dang .... it's windows 95 and WP is losing user base because of it... But thx

medteranos 28 June 2022 1 reply

Love it, works good, does what it needs to do

hellotoyou03 28 May 2022 1 reply

Amazing that is cleaning more areas now. Hope you clean more and more on the woocommerce useless parts.

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

[3.2.1] –

2023-03-21 =

Fixed: Option to hide the “Discover other payment providers” link on the WooCommerce Payments configuration screen
Fixed: Fatal error related to icompatibility with some plugins (Freemius SDK upgraded to 2.5.5)
Changed: PHP, JS and CSS code refactor to make the plugin faster and more flexible
Changed: Plugin settings page title visible on the top of the settings screen

[3.2.0] –

2023-03-01 =

Added: Choose which WooCommerce Admin features to disable
Added: Remove the “Get the app” from WooCommerce emails
Added: Hide the “Discover other payment providers” link on the WooCommerce Payments configuration screen
Added: Disable WooCommerce email notifications
Added: Disable WordPress Dashicons on the front-end
Added: Disable WP Desk Dashboard widget
Added: Disable WordPress REST API (PRO)
Added: Disable jQuery Migrate (PRO)
Added: Disable wp-embeds (PRO)
Fixed: API connectivity test during activation (Freemius SDK upgraded to 2.5.4 RC1)
Fixed: Compatibility with Rank Math SEO
Fixed: Minor compatibility issues
Changed: Phrases and descriptions
Changed: Location of “Select / Deselect All” button

[3.1.16] –

2023-02-06 =

Fixed: readded missing PRO functions (PRO)

[3.1.15] –

2023-01-31 =

Fixed: Warning related to WooCommerce HPOS compatibility

[3.1.14] –

2023-01-30 =

Fixed: Compatibility with WordPress multisite in sub-domains mode
Removed: Legacy settings page (WooCommerce -> Settings -> Disable Bloat)

[3.1.13] –

2023-01-20 =

Fixed: Fatal error WooCommerce HPOS – might occur if WooCommerce version is lower than 7.1.0

[3.1.12] –

2023-01-18 =

Added: Compatibility with WooCommerce HPOS (Custom order tables)
Fixed: Redirect after activating the plugin
Fixed: Plugins options cleanup during uninstallation
Fixed: javascript browser alert during activation
Fixed: Minor security issues
Fixed: Plugin icon

[3.1.11] –

2022-12-15 =

Fixed: Fatal error which might occur during upgrade

[3.1.0] –

2022-11-22 =

Added: New higher level WordPress settings menu: Settings -> Disable Bloat
Added: Option to remove plugin database options during uninstallation
Fixed: Readded missing Disable WooCommerce Dashboard Setup Widget setting
Fixed: WooCommerce is not required to run the plugin anymore
Removed: Legacy settings page (WooCommerce -> Settings -> Advanced -> Disable Bloat)

[3.0.4] –

Removed: Billing & Payments sections from Account page
Removed: Freemius tab from Account & Upgrade pages
Fixed: Deactivation feedback is now sent annonymously

[3.0.3] – 2022-06-07

Fixed: PHP warning when option “Remove WPML Meta Generator Tag” is active
Fixed: PHP warnings on PHP 8.1 (Freemius SDK upgraded to 2.5.0)
Fixed: plugin icon on activation screen

[3.0.2] – 2022-06-01

Changed: Enhanced multisite network integration
Changed: Plugin icon on activation screen

[3.0.1] – 2022-05-16

Fixed: Disable Yoast SEO Admin bar item
Fixed: Remove Yoast SEO Dashboard widget
Fixed: Hide “UpdraftPlus” on admin toolbar

[3.0.0] – 2022-05-16

Added: New higher level WooCommerce settings menu: WooCommerce -> Settings -> Disable Bloat
Added: Six new settings tabs: Main settings, Admin panel optimization, Site performance, WordPress Core, Block Editor, Third-party plugins bloat
Added: New options
Added: Integration with Freemius for handling PRO licenses