Title: The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)
Author: Abhishek Deshpande
Published: Ẹrẹ́nà 25, 2010
Last modified: Èbìbí 20, 2026
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# The Off Switch (formerly WP Avoid Slow)
Láti ọwọ́ [Abhishek Deshpande](https://profiles.wordpress.org/deshabhishek007/)
[Ṣe ìgbàsílẹ̀](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-avoid-slow.1.9.13.zip)
* [Àwọn àlàyé](https://yor.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#description)
* [Àwọn àgbéyẹ̀wò](https://yor.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#reviews)
* [Ìgbéwọlẹ̀](https://yor.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#installation)
* [Ìdàgbàsókè](https://yor.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-avoid-slow/#developers)
[Ìrànlọ́wọ́](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-avoid-slow/)
## Àpèjúwe
WordPress prioritises backwards compatibility.
ThatÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s a feature.
It also means every install ships with things you didnÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’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 youÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’re
running.
None of these are bugs. TheyÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’re just not needed on most sites.
Disable what you donÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’t need. Keep what you do.
**The Off Switch lets you disable each one, individually.**
#### The Off Switches
* **Emoji script** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – ~15 KB + 1 HTTP request. Browsers handle emoji
natively.
* **Embed script** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – ~4 KB + oEmbed discovery links in ``.
* **RSD link** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Really Simple Discovery. Only needed for legacy
XML-RPC clients.
* **WLW manifest** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Windows Live Writer has been discontinued since
2017.
* **WP version tag** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Stops advertising your WordPress version
to the world.
* **Shortlink** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Removes `` from ``
and HTTP headers. Search engines ignore it.
* **Asset query strings** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Strips `?ver=` from scripts, styles,
and WP 6.5+ Script Modules so CDNs and proxies cache correctly.
* **XML-RPC** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Closes a common brute-force attack vector.
* **XML-RPC Kill Requests** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Goes further than disabling: hard-
kills any incoming xmlrpc.php request with a 403 before WordPress loads at all.
* **Heartbeat API** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Reduces admin polling from every 15 s to every
60 s.
* **Dashicons (frontend)** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – ~35 KB (CSS + font) saved for every
logged-out visitor.
* **REST API Discovery Link** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Removes `` from ``. Safe to remove on standard sites.
* **RSS Feed Links** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – 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+)** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – 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** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Redirects all RSS and Atom feed URLs to
the homepage. For sites with no RSS subscribers.
* **Comment Auto-Links** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Stops WordPress from converting plain-
text URLs in comments into clickable links.
* **Editor Autosave** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Deregisters the autosave script that POSTs
editor content to the server every 60 seconds. For teams that prefer explicit
saves.
* **DNS Prefetch** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – Removes all `` hints
from ``. Redundant when Emojis and Embeds are already disabled.
* **Recent Comments Inline CSS** Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – WordPress outputs a small inline`