Remove Redundancy (Reduce WordPress Bloat)

The Remove Redundancy section disables unnecessary scripts and features that can slow down the frontend or add security exposure. Each option is independent, so you can enable only what is safe for your site.

Where to configure

1. Open ZiziCache → Optimization.
2. Go to the Remove Redundancy section.
3. Enable the options you need and save.

Core options

• Disable WooCommerce Fonts — Removes WooCommerce wp-fonts-local inline styles (Inter, Cardo) that load unnecessarily on all pages.
• Disable Emojis — Prevents WordPress from loading emoji detection scripts and styles on the frontend.
• Disable oEmbeds — Disables automatic embedding of content from other sites to reduce external requests.
• Disable jQuery Migrate — Removes the compatibility script when it isn’t required by your theme/plugins.
• Disable Dashicons — Prevents the Dashicons font from loading on the frontend when not needed.
• Disable Woo Cart Fragments — Stops WooCommerce from updating cart fragments via AJAX on the frontend.
• Disable Woo Assets — Prevents non-essential WooCommerce scripts and styles from loading where they aren’t needed.
• Disable XML-RPC — Disables the XML-RPC endpoint to reduce attack surface if you don’t use it.
• Disable RSS feed — Turns off RSS feeds (may affect feed readers and integrations).
• Disable block CSS — Prevents default block editor CSS from loading on the frontend if your theme already provides styles.
• Remove REST API links — Removes REST API discovery links from the page head to reduce metadata exposure. The plugin also restricts most REST API access for non-logged-in users, while allowing essential endpoints.
• Remove Google Fonts — Removes Google Fonts and injects a system font stack for faster loading and improved privacy. May conflict with Font Optimization settings.

Post revisions and Heartbeat

• Limit number of post revisions — Enables a revision limit and lets you set the number of stored revisions.
• Control WordPress Heartbeat API — Allows setting Heartbeat frequency (seconds) to reduce server load.

Additional cleanup options

• Disable self pingbacks — Prevents your site from pinging its own content.
• Disable Google Maps — Disables loading of Google Maps API scripts.
• Disable Password Strength Meter — Disables the password strength meter on unnecessary pages.
• Disable comments — Disables comments across the site.
• Hide WordPress version — Removes WordPress version information from HTML and scripts.

Extended Optimization (Advanced)

These options are intended for advanced users and may affect site functionality. Test carefully.

• Disable Classic Theme Styles — Removes classic-theme-styles CSS loaded by WordPress 6.1+ for classic themes.
• Disable Auto-Formatting (wptexturize) — Disables automatic formatting of quotes and punctuation (useful for code-heavy sites).
• Disable Smiley Conversion — Prevents converting text smileys (:-) to images.
• Disable Capital P Filter — Disables automatic correction of “Wordpress” to “WordPress”.
• Disable Widget Block Editor — Reverts to the classic widget editor (pre-WordPress 5.8).
• Disable Image Auto Sizes (WP 6.3+) — Disables WordPress automatic sizes="auto" on images (recommended when using ZiziCache image optimization).
• Disable WP Content Tags Filter — Disables WordPress native lazy loading and srcset to avoid conflicts with ZiziCache image optimization.
• Disable Shortlink — Removes the shortlink rel link from the document head.
• Disable Browser Check — Disables browser compatibility check transient to reduce database writes.
• Disable Insecure URL Rewrite — Disables automatic http:// → https:// URL rewriting (use only if your site is already fully HTTPS).
• Disable Attachment Prepend — Disables prepending attachment information to content.
• Disable Block Hooks (WP 6.4+) — Disables the block hooks system for block themes.
• Disable Akismet Hovercards — Disables Akismet mshots (comment link previews) in admin.
• Disable Block Parsing (CAUTION!) — Disables Gutenberg block parsing. Use only if you do not use block content.

Best practice

• Enable options gradually and test frontend features, especially WooCommerce and embeds.
• If you rely on REST API integrations, verify they still function after enabling the REST API option.
• Keep a record of changes so you can easily roll back if something breaks.