Description

WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, SEO, security, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed.

The WordPress Tweaks plugin works by adding a “Tweaks” page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox.

The tweaks are as follows:

• Admin
  • Automatically scroll to the post editor
  • Disable tag autocomplete
  • Disable the Dashboard
  • Disable the Flash uploader
  • Remove the width restraint on administration pages
• Comments and Pings
  • Disable self-pinging
  • Open external comment links in new windows
  • Show comments in reverse order
• Posts
  • Open external post links in new windows
  • When displaying post excerpts on archive and search pages, display a “Read more” link instead of “[...]“
• Nofollow
  • Add to post comment links
  • Add to “Read more” links
  • Add to tag cloud links
  • Add to the “Register” and “Login” links
  • Remove from comment author links
  • Remove from comment body links
• SEO
  • Only show the tag cloud widget on the homepage
  • Show post excerpts (instead of full content) on archive pages
• Security
  • Disable directory listing for my plugins and themes folders
  • Hide WordPress’s version number from my theme and feeds
• Theme and Appearance
  • Add code references to favicon.ico
  • Remove white space from pages list
• WordPress 2.3 Legacy Fixes
  • Rename “Blogroll” admin menu item to “Links”
  • Fix: currentpageitem on pageforposts

Download it now and begin tweaking!

2 of which are released and well-vetted. Anyone interested in testing the firewall, please let me know via the comments. A few are using it already. It’s probably the most important in that list.