Another 5 Things Your WordPress Site Doesn’t Need

This is the third segment in a series on removing stuff from WordPress. I recommend you check out Part 1 and Part 2.

The last couple of articles on this subject garnered plenty of interesting responses and suggestions from our readers, which I thought warranted a third post in the series.

So here we go with yet another 5 things that you can remove from WordPress, all in the name of making your site faster, simpler and more secure.

1. Your WordPress version number

Simplify WordPress Remove Junk

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4 More Things You Should Remove From WordPress

First up, a big thank you to everyone who weighed in on the discussion on our last article and offered suggestions on things that can/should be removed from WordPress. There were some interesting ideas thrown about, so I thought we’d follow this up with a sequel.

So on with the show. Here are four more things that you can remove from WordPress – for a cleaner, faster and healthier website.
1. Post revisions
When you’re writing a page or post, WordPress automatically saves revisions of your work, so you can access a previous version of your content if necessary.

Delete the unnecessary code from your WordPress site

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5 Things You Can (And Should) Remove From WordPress

How’s your WordPress site looking these days? A little overweight? Huffing and puffing more than usual?

It could be time for some housekeeping. Trimming a bit of fat from your WordPress installation will make the whole experience faster and more satisfying, both for yourself and your readers.

These are 5 unnecessary things that you can safely remove from WordPress right now, for a cleaner and healthier website.

Clutter is the enemy – show no mercy.
1. The visual text editor

There are two reasons that you should consider axing the visual text editor from your Posts page.

Things to Remove from WordPress

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