Best disable plugins for WordPress

Classic Widgets

#25

by Tonya Mork11 months ago

Enables the previous "classic" widgets settings screens in Appearance - Widgets and the Customizer. Disables the block editor from managing widgets.

Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly)

Down in the last 7 days:1#658

by Ryan Hellyer5 months ago

Disable the WordPress emoji functionality to improve performance and privacy.

Disable Search

Down in the last 7 days:2#920

by Scott Reilly1 year ago

Disable the built-in front-end search capabilities of WordPress.

Disable WP REST API

Up in the last 7 days:1#965

by Jeff Starr3 months ago

Disables the WP REST API for visitors not logged into WordPress.

Disable Everything

#1,002

by dessky12 days ago

Patch wp2shell instantly by Disabling REST API access.

Disable auto-update Email Notifications

#1,026

by Elvis Nyakangi1 year ago

This plugin performs a simple task of disabling email notifications that are sent by WordPress when a plugin or theme auto-updates.

Disable Feeds

Down in the last 7 days:3#1,205

by WPDeveloper8 years ago

Disables all RSS/Atom/RDF feeds on your WordPress site.

Disable Author Archives

Up in the last 7 days:17#1,474

by freemp2 months ago

Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.

Disable Feeds WP

Down in the last 7 days:14#1,664

by Galaxy Weblinks5 months ago

Disables all RSS/Atom/RDF feeds on your WordPress site.

Disable WordPress Update Notifications and auto-update Email Notifications

Up in the last 7 days:3#1,671

by Prem Tiwari2 months ago

Disables WordPress core update notification and plugins update notification update checks and notifications.

Disable Media Sizes

Down in the last 7 days:1#1,889

by Jeff Starr4 days ago

Provides options to disable the extra images generated by WordPress.

Disable WP Sitemaps

Down in the last 7 days:3#1,973

by Jeff Starr4 days ago

Disables the automatically generated WP Sitemaps.

Disable Generate Thumbnails

Up in the last 7 days:22#2,782

by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago

Select the thumbnails and functions to disable it.

Disable User Login

Up in the last 7 days:10#2,824

by Saint Systems7 months ago

Disable user accounts without deleting them. One-click enable/disable, bulk actions, force logout, and customizable disabled message.

WPS Notice Center

#3,767

by NicolasKulka2 months ago

WPS Notice Center makes it possible to hide all the instructions and to combine them in a single record to unfold. Take full advantage of your WordPre …

Disable Application Passwords

Up in the last 7 days:13#4,012

by Jeff Starr5 days ago

Activate this plugin to disable the Application Passwords feature that was added in WP v5.6.

Remove Author Pages

Down in the last 7 days:31#4,403

by Vinicius Braz Pinto9 years ago

Remove author pages and link authors to home page

Disable Responsive Images Complete

#4,422

by Jeff Starr4 days ago

Completely disables WP responsive images.

Disable WPautop

Up in the last 7 days:9#4,786

by Nick Momrik9 years ago

Disables the wpautop function for the_content and the_excerpt

Make Disable Admin Email Verification Prompt

Down in the last 7 days:14#4,881

by Aims Infosoft2 months ago

Disable Admin Email Verification Prompt with checkbox option in General in Settings. If you want to disable prompt then tick the checkbox.

Meks Quick Plugin Disabler

Down in the last 7 days:16#5,298

by Meks2 years ago

Temporarily disable (and restore) all currently active plugins with a single click

Disable Password Reset

Down in the last 7 days:1#5,437

by Dugonja10 years ago

Enhance security of your blogs by preventing password reset over email function.

Disable Visual Editor WYSIWYG

Down in the last 7 days:139#5,488

by stanxp8 years ago

This plugin will disable the visual editor for selected page/post..

Simple WWW Redirect

Down in the last 7 days:10#6,125

by LightPlugins2 years ago

The plugin specifies whether your domain will include www. Redirects www to non-www or non-www to www.

Simple No Comments

Up in the last 7 days:1#6,339

by jitendra59849 years ago

Easiest plugin to disable/remove comments from complete site.

Page Comments Off Please

Up in the last 7 days:20#6,355

by techism9 years ago

Page Comments Off Please - Unchecks Discussion comment checkboxes by default on pages, posts or both! Plus a simple one-click toggle to turn off comme …

Disable JPEG Compression

Down in the last 7 days:21#6,843

by Yonatan Ganot7 years ago

Disable the JPEG compression in WordPress, which enabled by default.

Disabler

Down in the last 7 days:7#7,105

by saas4 months ago

Instead of installing a million plugins to disable features you don't want, why not use just ONE plugin?

Nav Menu Manager

#7,506

by Robert Noakes1 year ago

Simplifies nav menu maintenance and functionality providing more control over nav menus with less coding.

Disable Responsive Images

Down in the last 7 days:7#8,372

by Joe Fusco7 years ago

Disables responsive images introduced in 4.4.

Disable / Hide Comment URL

Up in the last 7 days:6#8,737

by Sachin Khosla15 years ago

Disable/Hide Comment URL lets you hide the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments block.

Disable Global Style

Down in the last 7 days:147#8,846

by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago

It disables the global style inlined by WordPress since WP 5.9.

Disable WP Theme Updates Advance

Up in the last 7 days:1#8,924

by gr8nilay2 years ago

Disable all your WordPress theme updates on plugin activation.

Disable Customizer

Up in the last 7 days:26#9,249

by joppuyo2 years ago

Completely disable Customizer on your WordPress site.

Disable RSS

Down in the last 7 days:67#9,266

by Clifton Griffin18 years ago

Disables all RSS feeds.

Disable WP Revisions

Down in the last 7 days:54#9,813

by Carlos Martínez Romero3 years ago

This plugin removes the revision functionality from WordPress so that any content is deleted permanently.

Wp Disabler

Up in the last 7 days:22#11,182

by Istiyak Amin7 years ago

This plugin is used to disable Inspect Element, View Source Code, Save a page, right click and many more on website to prevent cut, copy, paste, save …

Disable WP Robots

Down in the last 7 days:34#11,396

by Jeff Starr4 days ago

Disables the robots meta tag added by WordPress.

Silencesoft Disable Menu Items

Down in the last 7 days:27#11,494

by silence11 years ago

This plugin allow to hide or show menu items,

Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]

Up in the last 7 days:114#11,572

by Puvox Software17 days ago

[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Prevent users from modifying specific Profile & Dashboard fields.

Disable Comments by click5

Down in the last 7 days:43#11,844

by click511 months ago

Best WordPress plugin to disable comments on your website and protect yourself from spammers.

Enable Default Editor

Down in the last 7 days:120#12,274

by zoynul7 years ago

Enable Default Editor is a free plugin maintained by the keendevs team (keendevs.com) that restores the previous ("classic") WordPress edito …

Remove Website URL Field From Comment Form

Up in the last 7 days:151#12,428

by Prem Tiwari2 months ago

This plugin allows administrators to globally disable the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments form on their site.

Just Output

Down in the last 7 days:17#12,838

by ZIPANG2 months ago

WordPress automatically inserts p and br tags, but disables them in shortcodes.

Disable Comment Url

Up in the last 7 days:154#13,000

by mastergraphiks9 years ago

Nice and simple plugin help you to remove URL from comment to avoid people to do spam comments by posting their urls to your website

Redirect Gravatar requests

Down in the last 7 days:8#13,267

by Bart Kuijper4 years ago

All requests to load an avatar from gravatar.com are redirected to a local image, preventing Gravatar from potentially gathering data about your site …

Remove tabs and fields from WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:108#14,050

by Puvox Software17 days ago

[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Remove or edit extra fields from WooCommerce items & checkout

Disable Automatic Updates

#14,082

by Md Jahidul Islam7 years ago

Control automatic updates feature. Enable or disable all types of automatic updates including core, plugins, themes, translation etc.

WP Basic Elements

Up in the last 7 days:93#14,259

by DamirCalusic5 months ago

Disable unnecessary WordPress features, clean up your markup, and simplify the admin. Everything is opt-in — nothing changes until you say so.

Disable Comments on Post Categories

Down in the last 7 days:76#14,303

by a.ankit12 years ago

As the name suggest, the plugin allows administrator to disable comments on specific post categories.