Wordpress Essentials

A collection of useful functions and filters to help enforce best practice when working with Wordpress and common third party plugins.

Features

Security & Hardening

• Remove generator metatag to avoid exposing Wordpress version
• Disable XML-RPC access
• Disable REST API access
• Block enumeration of users

Features

• Safely enable support for SVGs in the media library
• Display previews for SVGs in the media library

Third Party Plugins

Advanced Custom Fields

• Save field group congfiguration under 'fields' folder in /wp-content. Allows field configuration to remain theme agnostic and version controlled

Gravity Forms

• Disable autocomplete on forms for enhanced end-user security

Usage

Designed to be used as a must use plugin, simply place wp-essentials.php and wp-essentials/ in your mu-plugins folder. This folder can be created uder /wp-content if it doesn't already exist.