Title: Feather – Elementor Performance Optimizer | Asset Cleanup, Page Speed & Database Cleanup
Author: feather
Published: <strong>May 15, 2026</strong>
Last modified: May 23, 2026

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# Feather – Elementor Performance Optimizer | Asset Cleanup, Page Speed & Database Cleanup

 By [feather](https://profiles.wordpress.org/featherr/)

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## Description

Feather is an optimizer for WordPress sites built with Elementor. It reads each 
page’s saved Elementor data, knows which widgets and assets are actually in use,
and trims the rest from your frontend.

#### What it does

 * **Per-page asset awareness.** Inspects your saved Elementor data to build a map
   of which widgets each page uses. Asset-stripping optimizations only activate 
   when the scan confirms zero usages site-wide.
 * **Safe defaults.** Universally-safe optimizations are active on first activation:
   skip Elementor’s frontend bundle on non-Elementor pages, defer JavaScript, strip
   cache-busting query strings, throttle the admin heartbeat, disable WP emojis 
   and embeds, and more.
 * **Measured impact.** Take page-weight snapshots from the dashboard and track 
   the trend across bytes, asset count, and HTTP request count, all measured against
   your real frontend.
 * **Database tooling.** One-click cleanup for expired transients, orphaned Elementor
   revisions, and oEmbed cache rows. Autoload audit flags any large always-loaded
   options.
 * **Privacy by default.** No telemetry. Scans run on your server. Page-weight measurements
   hit your own URLs. Nothing leaves your site without explicit opt-in.

#### Optimization categories

 * Elementor frontend assets: Font Awesome 4 shim, eicons, Google Fonts, JS defer,
   asset gating on non-Elementor pages, DOM-cruft removal
 * WordPress hygiene: emojis, embeds, jquery-migrate, heartbeat throttle, head cleanup,
   version disclosure
 * Lazy loading & media: iframe lazy attributes, image-dimension auto-fix, content-
   visibility for off-screen sections
 * Database: transient cleanup, Elementor revision pruning, oEmbed cache flush, 
   autoload audit
 * Reporting: page-weight history, site-scan results, database health score

#### Compatibility

Feather auto-detects WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, SiteGround Optimizer, W3 Total 
Cache, Imagify, Smush, and most other performance / image-optimizer plugins. Overlapping
optimizations refuse to enable so they don’t duplicate work another plugin already
handles.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Dashboard with measured savings and quick wins.
 * [[
 * Features browser, grouped by category, with risk badges.
 * [[
 * Site Scan view showing widget and asset usage per page.
 * [[
 * Database health and cleanup tools.
 * [[
 * Dashboard in dark mode.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `feather` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install
    the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen.
 2. Activate Feather through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
 3. Visit Feather in the admin sidebar. Run the welcome scan and apply a recommended
    preset.

## FAQ

### Will Feather break my site?

Feather’s defaults are conservative. Aggressive optimizations require a recent site
scan and an explicit confirmation. Every change is reversible from the dashboard.

### Does Feather work alongside WP Rocket / LiteSpeed Cache?

Yes. Feather detects them and disables overlapping optimizations automatically.

### Does Feather send any data to a remote server?

No. Scans, metrics, and configuration all live on your server. The Lighthouse-on-
demand feature uses your own Google PageSpeed Insights API key to call Google directly.
Feather never proxies this through a third party.

### Does Feather work on multisite?

Yes, in compatible mode (per-site configuration). Network-level controls are planned
for a later release.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Feather – Elementor Performance Optimizer | Asset Cleanup, Page Speed & Database
Cleanup” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this 
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ feather ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/featherr/)

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### Interested in development?

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check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/feather-performance/),
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## Changelog

#### 0.2.9

 * Fixed: “Remove Edit with Elementor from the admin bar” optimizer now actually
   removes the node. Elementor 4.0.x registers the node late in the `admin_bar_menu`
   lifecycle, so the previous priority-999 hook fired before the node was added 
   and removed nothing. Switched to `wp_before_admin_bar_render` (which fires after
   all menu callbacks complete) and added a CSS belt-and-braces hide that guarantees
   the item never renders even if a third party re-adds the node after our removal.
 * Fixed: The three Elementor telemetry component features (telemetry, phone-home,
   AI module) no longer appear as duplicate cards on the Features page. They’re 
   surfaced through the Dashboard “Block Elementor telemetry” composite toggle; 
   the underlying optimizers still apply at runtime.
 * Fixed: Site Scan results now appear as soon as the scan completes instead of 
   requiring a page refresh. The polling tick now refreshes aggregate + results 
   progressively (every 1.5 s) so the UI converges in real time even when object
   caches briefly desync the scan state.

#### 0.2.8

 * New: WordPress 7.0 and Elementor 4.0.9 compatibility. Tested up to WordPress 
   7.0; scanner recognises Elementor 4.0.x atomic Self-Hosted Video and standalone
   Video elements.
 * New: Dashboard “Block Elementor telemetry” toggle. A single switch bundles Elementor’s
   tracker flags, my.elementor.com phone-home (banners, what’s-new feed, update 
   prompts, upsells), and the AI editor bundle.
 * New: Optimizer that removes the “Edit with Elementor” item from the WordPress
   admin bar at the top of the site. Post-edit screen buttons still open the editor
   as usual.
 * New: Background auto-rescan on post save. When an Elementor page is saved, Feather
   refreshes that post’s scan row so gated optimizations stay accurate without a
   manual rescan. Throttled to one rescan per 60 seconds per post.
 * New: Per-page feature overrides. A sidebar meta box on the post edit screen lets
   you disable specific Feather features on a single page without touching the sitewide
   setting. Wired into JS defer, frontend asset gate, per-page asset trim, iframe
   lazy-load, image dimensions, and below-fold rendering.
 * New: Settings export / import. Download your Feather configuration as JSON and
   re-import on another site. Scan history and metrics history are not included.
 * New: Core Web Vitals signals on the Dashboard. The page-weight probe now records
   response time, a TTFB estimate, and the hero-image byte size (HEAD-probed for
   same-origin images).
 * New: Elementor 4.0.x Global Classes detection in the site scan. Gated optimizers
   can now factor in Global Class usage when deciding whether a handle is safe to
   strip.
 * New: Database cleanup adds Spam Comments and Auto-Draft Posts tools. Batched 
   in groups of 200 per click.
 * Changed: Pause-all card copy clarified — the toggle is now explicitly labeled“
   Pause all optimizations for editing”, with a Resume optimizations button in the
   paused state.
 * Changed: The three Elementor experiment-forcing toggles (`force_experiments`,`
   force_extra_experiments`, `element_cache`) are now one feature card, “Force-enable
   Elementor performance experiments”. Existing installs keep their behavior — sub-
   toggles for the extra experiments and element cache live under `advanced.experiments`.
 * Changed: Heartbeat throttler now tunes the block editor and other admin pages
   separately, with the public-frontend disable still default-on.
 * Fixed: Brand mark in the topbar briefly rendered the wrong variant (cream on 
   a light page or vice versa) when the OS color preference disagreed with the saved
   Feather theme. The theme is now applied synchronously and passed down to the 
   mark.
 * Fixed: Several pre-existing lint warnings (nested ternaries, unused catch bindings)
   cleaned up across the admin UI.

#### 0.2.7

 * Fixed: Optimizations briefly showed as “not applied” after toggling them, on 
   sites using persistent object caches (Redis, Memcached, LiteSpeed). The settings
   option now busts the WordPress options cache explicitly after every save so follow-
   up requests see the canonical database value immediately.
 * Fixed: Site Scan results and “Take measurement” output sometimes appeared stale
   until a page reload on sites with page caches (LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, Cloudflare).
   The feather/v1 REST namespace now returns strict no-store, no-cache headers so
   page caches stop holding onto authenticated responses.
 * Changed: In-WordPress plugin name shortened to “Feather” so the Plugins list 
   and Updates screen show a clean brand name. The longer descriptive title remains
   on the WordPress.org listing for search visibility.

#### 0.2.6

 * Fixed: “Settings” link in the Plugins list now points to the correct admin page
   slug. Previously it linked to `admin.php?page=feather`, which produced a “Sorry,
   you are not allowed to access this page” error.
 * Fixed: Site Scan now refreshes results in the UI as soon as the scan finishes,
   instead of requiring a full page reload. The old code only refreshed when the
   scan state landed exactly on `complete`, missing edge cases where the cached 
   state briefly read as `idle` after the cron tick.
 * Fixed: Dashboard “Take measurement” now re-reads the latest snapshot from the
   server after capturing, so the “Last measured” tile and homepage-weight value
   update immediately instead of after a page reload.
 * New: Footer link on every Feather admin page that opens the WordPress.org review
   form in a new tab.
 * Changed: Plugin display title rewritten to describe what it does in search results
   and on the plugin page.
 * Changed: Replaced em dashes throughout the readme and plugin header with regular
   punctuation.

#### 0.2.5

 * Changed: Inline CSS now emitted via `wp_register_style()` + `wp_add_inline_style()`
   instead of direct `<style>` echoes. Follows WordPress.org enqueue guidelines.
 * Removed: Placeholder feature toggles that had no implementation. Every shipped
   feature is now fully functional out of the box.
 * Removed: `load_plugin_textdomain()` call. WordPress.org auto-loads translations
   for hosted plugins since WP 4.6.

#### 0.2.0

 * New: Elementor 4.0.x support. Scanner detects atomic widgets (e-heading, e-button,
   e-image, e-paragraph, e-divider, e-svg, e-self-hosted-video, e-youtube, e-component)
   and atomic element types (e-flexbox, e-div-block, e-tabs, etc.) in saved page
   data.
 * New: “Skip atomic widget JS on legacy-widget pages” optimizer (gated). Drops 
   the v4 atomic widget handler bundle, including Alpine.js, on pages built entirely
   with legacy widgets. Auto-bails on Elementor Pro.
 * New: “Pause all optimizations” master toggle on the Dashboard. Temporarily disable
   every Feather optimization while editing in Elementor, without uninstalling.
 * New: “Block all Elementor outbound HTTP except user-initiated” optimizer (gated).
   Refuses every background request to elementor.com and subdomains. Template Library,
   Connect login, and Pro flows still work because they run as AJAX/REST.
 * New: PerPageAssetTrimmer now drops `elementor-tabs-handler` and `elementor-youtube-
   handler` on pages that don’t use those atomic elements.
 * New: UnusedWidgetBundleStripper deregisters the entire v4 JS chain when no scanned
   post on the site uses atomic widgets.
 * Changed: Default theme switched from “system” to “light” on fresh installs. Existing
   users keep their preference.
 * Fixed: Third-party widget packs (Rivax, etc.) that throw inside `get_style_depends()`
   no longer leak error strings into Feather’s asset map.
 * Fixed: Elementor’s `Widget_WordPress` class incorrectly declares Swiper as a 
   dependency for every `wp-widget-*` type. Feather now strips that incorrect claim
   so sidebar widgets don’t falsely require Swiper.
 * Fixed: Dashboard “Last measured” tile no longer shows “Never” immediately after
   running a measurement.
 * Fixed: Dashboard “Pause all optimizations” card now renders with proper spacing
   between label and description.

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial pre-release scaffold.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2.9**
 *  Last updated **2 days ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/feather-performance/)
 * Tags
 * [elementor](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/elementor/)[optimization](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/optimization/)
   [Page Speed](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page-speed/)[performance](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)
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## Contributors

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