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A list of switches, each with one sentence saying exactly what it removes. Emoji scripts, embeds, XML-RPC, header links, user enumeration, author archives, comments, jQuery Migrate, revisions, heartbeat. Every switch is off by default and does one thing.

Compared with the popular plugins

The Pantry Cleanup settings screen in the WordPress admin, at Plugin Pantry > Cleanup.

What it does

  • Disable the emoji detection script and styles
  • Disable oEmbed discovery and the wp-embed script
  • Disable XML-RPC and remove its pingback header
  • Remove RSD, WLW manifest, shortlink, generator and feed links from the head
  • Block REST API user listing for visitors who are not logged in
  • Disable author archives and remove author links
  • Disable comments site-wide: close them, hide the menu and admin-bar items, remove comment feeds; existing comments are kept
  • Disable self-pingbacks
  • Disable jQuery Migrate on the front end
  • Remove Dashicons on the front end for visitors who are not logged in
  • Limit the number of post revisions and set the autosave interval
  • Change the heartbeat interval or disable it on the dashboard

What it does not do

  • No per-page script manager
  • No caching or minification
  • No database clean-up
  • No image or font optimisation

Measured footprint

Zip size
20 KB
Lines of PHP
1,458
Options
pantry_cleanup_settings
Post meta
none
Custom tables
none
Post types
none
Cron events
none
Transients
none
Admin assets
includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.css on the settings screen only, includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.js on the settings screen only
Front-end assets
none
External requests
none
Measured on
2026-09-12

Compatibility

WordPress
6.4 or newer, tested to 7.1
PHP
8.1 or newer
Where it lives
Plugin Pantry > Cleanup
Licence
GPLv2 or later

Documentation

Read the documentation

Every setting on the Pantry Cleanup screen and what each one does, with the hooks it publishes: the same text that ships in the plugin README.

Pro add-on

See Pantry Pro pricing
  • Per-page script and style manager
  • Database clean-up with a dry run
  • Local Google Fonts

These modules ship in Pantry Pro now. None of this is in the free plugin, and none of it is switched off inside it: Pro is a separate plugin, and one key switches on every module whose free plugin is active.

Read the module documentation

Changelog

All notable changes to Pantry Cleanup are documented in this file, in the Keep a Changelog format.

1.1.0 - 2026-09-12

  • Added the pantry_cleanup_settings_after action, fired at the end of the settings screen so add-ons can render their own sections there.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-12

  • First release.
  • Switch: disable the emoji detection script and styles.
  • Switch: disable oEmbed discovery and the wp-embed script.
  • Switch: disable XML-RPC and remove its pingback header.
  • Switch: disable self-pingbacks.
  • Switch: block the REST API user list for logged-out visitors.
  • Switch: remove RSD, WLW manifest, shortlink, generator and feed links from the head.
  • Switch: disable author archives and remove author links.
  • Switch: disable comments site-wide while keeping existing comments.
  • Switch: disable jQuery Migrate on the front end.
  • Switch: remove Dashicons on the front end for logged-out visitors.
  • Switch: limit the number of post revisions.
  • Switch: set the autosave interval.
  • Switch: set the Heartbeat interval.
  • Switch: disable Heartbeat on the dashboard screen.