Disabler

I don’t like certain things, like curly ‘smart’ quotes and self pings. Instead of installing six or seven plugins to do this, I thought I’d make one plugin to cover the usual suspects. Instead of just disabling everything, Disabler lets you pick and choose what settings you want turned off, in a dead simple UI.

This plugin will let you disable/remove the following features:

Front End Settings

• Texturization (including Smart/Curly quotes, EM dash, EN dash, and ellipsis)
• The automatic capitalization of the P in WordPress (WordPress 3.0+ only)
• The <p> that is automatically inserted

Back End Settings

• Self Ping
• Autosaving of posts
• Post Revisions
• RSS Feeds
• xml-RPC

Privacy Settings

• Outputting WordPress version in your blog headers
• Sending your blog URL to WordPress when checking for updates on core/theme/plugins

All options default to off, and get cleaned up on uninstall.

• Plugin Site

No special instructions needed.

3.0.3

• Fixed various issues
• Now compatible with WordPress v4.9+ and dropping pre WordPress v4.9 support
• Opt in option, for collectin usage data

3.0.2

• Some refactoring and fixes for Coding Standards

3.0.1

• Some refactoring and tweaks done

3.0.0

• Plugin gets a new lease on life notice
• Admin page redesigned with the Settings API

2.3.1

• 29 September, 2012 by Ipstenu
• You’d like to save options, no?

2.3

• 28 September, 2012 by Ipstenu
• xml-RPC

2.2

• 24 April, 2012 by Ipstenu
• i18n – Probably still doing it wrong.
• Un/installing the right way.

2.1

• 17 April, 2012 by Ipstenu
• Readme cleanup, fixing URLs etc.

2.0

• 03 October, 2011 by Ipstenu
• Dropping pre 3.0 support
• Dropping disabling Admin Bar (since as of 3.3 you really need it)

1.3

• 17 July, 2011 by Ipstenu
• Added in removal of ‘smart quotes’ from RSS as well (thanks Ben Smith for the point that I missed that).

1.2

• 2 December, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Fixed no-RSS option so it would actually uncheck!

1.0

• 24 November, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Making it copacetic for 3.1!
• Re-renamed Typography back to Front End
• Added in removal of Admin Bar for 3.1 (thanks Ozh!)

0.4

• 14 July, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Typo! Post revisions wouldn’t stay checked. Thanks to utdemir for the catch!

0.3

• 13 July, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Renamed Front End to Typography

0.2

• 9 July, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Added in privacy and backend settings.

0.1

• 8 July, 2010 by Ipstenu
• Initial version.