Lightify is a lightweight, all-in-one performance helper for WordPress. It bundles a small set of safe, well-understood optimizations you can toggle from a single settings page \u2014 no external services, no minified code, and no edits to wp-config.php. Every feature ships off by default, so installing or updating changes nothing until you choose to enable it.<\/p>\n\n
wp-content\/cache\/lightify\/<\/code>, is cleared automatically whenever you publish or edit content, and can be cleared manually at any time. Logged-in users, commenters, and requests with query strings are never cached.<\/li>\n- Core Web Vitals monitoring<\/strong> \u2013 Optionally measure real-visitor LCP, CLS, INP, FCP, and TTFB directly in the browser using the standard PerformanceObserver API, and view the 75th-percentile results and rating breakdown on the settings page. Measurements are stored on your own site only.<\/li>\n
- Bloat Removal<\/strong> \u2013 Optionally disable emojis, dashicons (front end), block editor CSS, jQuery Migrate, oEmbed discovery, XML-RPC, and RSS feeds.<\/li>\n
- Network Improvements<\/strong> \u2013 Add
preconnect<\/code> and dns-prefetch<\/code> resource hints for the origins you specify, printed by WordPress in the document head.<\/li>\n- Media<\/strong> \u2013 Add native
loading=\"lazy\"<\/code> to iframes in your post content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nEvery optimization is off or on by a simple checkbox and applies only where noted. If something looks off, just turn the relevant option back off.<\/p>\n\n
External services<\/h3>\n\n
This plugin does not connect to, or transmit any data to, any external service. The page cache and Core Web Vitals monitoring both run entirely on your own WordPress installation; vitals data is stored only in your site's database.<\/p>\n\n
Source Code<\/h3>\n\n
Lightify contains no minified, compiled, or obfuscated code. All PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and other source files shipped in the plugin are the original human-readable source and require no build step. The admin stylesheet (assets\/css\/admin.css<\/code>) and the Core Web Vitals collector (assets\/js\/vitals.js<\/code>) are enqueued directly in their readable form.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow does the page cache work?<\/h3><\/dt>\nWhen enabled, Lightify saves the rendered HTML of anonymous page views as plain files under wp-content\/cache\/lightify\/<\/code> and serves them on later requests. It does not install an advanced-cache.php<\/code> drop-in or modify wp-config.php<\/code>, so it stays fully self-contained and reversible \u2014 turning the feature off (or clearing the cache) simply stops using the saved files. It is compatible with running alongside a server-level cache.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhat is cached, and what is not?<\/h3><\/dt>\nOnly safe requests are cached: GET requests with no query string from logged-out visitors that return a normal HTML page. Admin, AJAX, REST, cron, and XML-RPC requests, logged-in users, commenters, WooCommerce cart\/session visitors, and 404\/search\/feed\/preview\/password-protected pages are never cached.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Does Core Web Vitals monitoring send data anywhere?<\/h3><\/dt>\nNo. The measurement script is first-party (shipped with the plugin, no third-party library) and reports only to a REST endpoint on your own site. The data is stored in a single custom table on your database and is never transmitted to any external service.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Will it break my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\nEach feature is individually toggleable and uses standard WordPress hooks. If a setting causes an issue with your theme or another plugin, simply disable it.<\/p><\/dd>\n
Where do the resource hints appear?<\/h3><\/dt>\nLightify adds your preconnect and dns-prefetch origins through the core wp_resource_hints<\/code> filter, so WordPress prints them in the <head><\/code> of your pages.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n\n- Added a safe, self-contained page cache with automatic and manual purging.<\/li>\n
- Added real-visitor Core Web Vitals monitoring (LCP, CLS, INP, FCP, TTFB) with an on-page dashboard.<\/li>\n
- Renamed the plugin to \"Lightify - All-in-One Cache & Performance Optimization & Core Web Vitals\".<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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