Tweakr – Utility Toolkit

Description

This plugin is a collection of common used tweaks and features – each of them can be controlled independently
It is designed as compact all-in-one solution espacially for Web-Agencies and Advanced Users with security in mind: just audit and trust a single plugin.

Visual Editor

• VisualComponent Extension visualizes the HTML Element Structure (headings,section,p)
• Remove the fixed-width restriction of the Editor-Area (set to 80% max)

E-Mail

• Use External SMTP Mailserver to deliver mails transmitted by wp_mail
• No Third Party libraries required! WordPress Internal PHPMailer class is used
• Support for TLS/SSL Connections
• Set the Mail-From-Name and Mail-From-Address manually
• Fix phpmailerExceptions by setting the mail-from parameter to a valid address
• Control New User Registration E-Mails (send to admin and/or user)

Automatic Updates

• Control Automatic-Update policy
• Enable automatic Theme Updates
• Enable automatic Plugin Updates
• Disable Automatic Updates
• Disable Update Notification (E-Mail)

Permalinks/Rewrite Rules

• Add .html extension to pages – e.g. privacy-protecton.html
• Add .html extension to categories – e.g. category/uncategorized.html
• Optional or enforced html extensions (backward compatibility)
• Remove embed Rewrite Rules
• Remove feed Rewrite Rules

Virtual Permalink URLs

• Placeholders like link://post.local/1234 can be used within the Link-Insert-Dialogs and got replaced by the real link during rendering – this avoids problems with different domains names.

XML Sitemap

• Automatical XML Sitemap generation sitemap.xml (SEO)
• Modern Search-Engines like Google, Bing can easier index your posts/pages
• Only Posts and Pages are displayed
• Password protected posts/pages or unpublished content is ignored!
• XML Format regarding the sitemaps.org specification

Security

• Disable XMLRPC API (Really!)
• Restrict REST (JSON) API Access to Admin and Editor User

System Tweaks

• Disable Emojis
• Disable Smileys
• Disable oEmbeds
• Hide Admin Toolbar
• Hide WordPress Generator Tag
• Hide Windows Live Writer manifest file link
• Hide Meta Pagination Links
• Hide Feed Links
• Hide Resource Hints
• Disable RSS Feeds
• Disable Atom Feeds
• Disable RDF Feeds

Google Analytics

• Google Analytics Support – just add your Tracking-ID
• AnonymizeIP Option
• OPT-OUT Shortcode/Button (required by GDPR/DSGVO) – also works with Caching Plugins or CDN Servers
• IE8 Compatible

Matomo/Piwik Analytics

• Matomo v3 Support – add your Host URL + Site ID – thats it!
• OPT-OUT Shortcode/Button (required by GDPR/DSGVO) – also works with Caching Plugins or CDN Servers
• Simple Page Name Option (Records the Document Title without Blog Name)
• DoNoTrack Option
• Option to add the Hostname to your Document Title (useful for multidomain sites)

Screenshots

Installation

System requirements

• PHP 5.4 or greater
• WordPress 4.7

Installation

1. Upload the complete tweakr folder (WordPress Plugin) to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to Settings -> Tweakr and configure it

FAQ

A lot of the Tweaks/Extensions are already available as Single Plugins

Of course! But as a professional Web Agency it is much easier to develope, maintain and audit a single plugin instead of a set of 20+ plugins from different authors!

Why do you use your custom tracking code for Piwik/Google Analytics

Because of the Opt-Out Buttons code and the possibility to control the options via the settings page.

I miss some features / I found a bug

Send an email to Andi Dittrich (andi _D0T dittrich At a3non .dOT org) or or open a New Issue on GitHub

Reviews

Gets the job done, many useful options

neoqueto March 5, 2018

Thank you for this plugin. It allows to configure many WP “obscurities” that otherwise would need to be disabled by digging deep into PHP hooks. The trailing slash removal and disablement of user registration notification emails are killer features.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.1

• Added: option to set the .html extension as optional
• Changed: new plugin menu structure
• Changed: wp-skltn library updated to 0.22.1 – MPL 2.0 License
• Changed: applied new wp-skltn plugin structure – files moved into modules/ directory
• Bugfix: invalid regex in .html extension rewrite rule accepted any character instead of a dot
• Bugfix: metadata generator throws a php notice due to non extisting global $post object

2.0

License changed to GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 (GPL-2.0)

• Added: option to control automatic updates (enable/disable updates by each component)
• Added: option to hide privacy-policy page from search engines
• Added: option to advertise the sitemap.xml in robots.txt file to be autoamitcally recognized by search engines
• Added: option to disable smiley images (convert_smilies)
• Added: option to center TinyMCE (VisualEditor) content within editing area (enhancement for large screens)
• Added: VisualComponent styles for list elements ul, ol
• Changed: updated the UI components
• Changed: wp-skltn library updated to 0.16.0 – MPL 2.0 License
• Changed: sessionStorage is used to store the current active tab instead of cookies
• Changed: moved sitemap settings to content section
• Changed: renamed Piwik Analytics to Matomo – see https://matomo.org/blog/2018/01/piwik-is-now-matomo/
• Removed: jquery-cookie dependency

1.4

• Added: Option to remove trailing-slashes from all permalinks
• Added: Option to add .html extensions to custom taxonomies – feature requested on www.ads-software.com Forums
• Added: Virtual Permalinks to the Link-Insert-Dialogs. Placeholders like link://post.local/1234 are used and replaced by the real link during rendering – this avoids problems with different domains
• Added: Virtual Permalinks to the Media-Insert-Dialogs. Placeholders like link://attachment.local/1234 are used.
• Added: Option to remove shortlink from HTTP-Header
• Added: Option to remove REST-API URL from HTTP-Header
• Added: Option to disable pingbacks/trackbacks for all posts/pages (set to closed)
• Added: REST API Monitoring endpoint <hostname>/wp-json/tweakr/v1.0/monitoring
• Changed: By disabling the XMLRPC API the related HTTP-Header X-Pingback will be disabled
• Changed: Permalink Settings are moved to the Content pane

1.3

• Added: XML Sitemap Generator
• Bugfix: Plugin Re-Activation doesn’t flush (initialize) the rewrite rules

1.2

• Added: VisualComponents Extension to visualize the HTML Element Structure in Visual Editor Mode (headings,section,p)
• Added: SMTP Mail Transport settings to deliver mails via external Mailserver
• Added: Option to remove Rewrite Rules for all types of Feeds (RSS, RTF, ATOM, RSS2)
• Added: Option to add .html extensions to Pages or Categories
• Added: E-Mail settings to set the mail-from-address as well as mail-from-name manually
• Changed: Settings Page Structure has been modified
• Changed: New Piwik and Google Analytics Code
• Changed: “Disable XMLRPC” will now force the xmlrpc.php Endpoint to return a HTTP403 Response
• Changed: TinyMCE Autowidth is set to 95%
• Changed: Disable oEmbeds removes also the related Rewrite Rules as well as the endpoint (embed.php template page)
• Changed: Renamed the setting of “Fix Mail-From” – has to be activated again

1.1

• Added: Google Analytics Tracking Option
• Added: Piwik Analaytics Tracking Option
• Added: Option to set the VisualEditor width to auto (max 80 percent)
• Added: Mailfrom-Fix – it solves problems with phpmailerExceptions which are caused by a malformed/invalid email-from-address.
• Added: New User Notification Control – enable/disable notification E-Mails for admin and/or the new user
• PHP >= 5.4 is required

1.0

• Initial public release.