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Over the holiday I released a new plugin called WP Feature Disable. This new plugin is designed to help put a little more control in the hands of the user to disable certain features of the WordPress platform that may be unnecessary or undesirable for a specific installation. While it currently only provides 5 options, more will be added as the plugin continues to evolve.

Currently the plugin allows you to disable the following features:

• Editor Auto Save – Disables the auto save feature triggered by the editor when working with a post or page after a certain amount of time. Helps reduce server demand by eliminating the number of page calls made between the editor and your server while working on a post or page.
• Post Revisions – Disables the post revision feature for posts and pages which tracks changes to each entry throughout the history of the specific post or page. Helps reduce database size by eliminating the build up of revisions which exist purely for administrative purposes.
• Comment Author Hyperlink – Disables the comment author hyperlink feature such that the author’s name is no longer hyperlinked to the URL they may have provided when writing the comment. Helps prevent seemingly legitimate comments from being used to subtly promote spam websites.
• Meta ‘Generator’ Tag – Disables the Meta ‘generator’ tag that is placed in head section of the HTML output of your blog. Helps prevent visitors from easily identifying the version of your WordPress installation making it more difficult to exploit known vulnerabilities.
• Core Update – Disables the core update notification system built into WordPress. Helps eliminate any notification of new WordPress versions within the administration area. (Note: It is highly recommended that you keep your installation up to date. When disabling the core update system, please be sure to monitor WordPress releases in some other fashion.)

You are welcome to view the details of the plugin in our Playground, here.