BlogCutter Performance Optimizer

Description

BlogCutter Performance Optimizer helps improve front-end and admin performance on every kind of WordPress site—blogs, business sites, WooCommerce stores, Elementor/CartFlows landings, classic themes, and block themes—without a paid plan. Enable page caching, defer or delay JavaScript, lazy-load media, create and serve WebP images, minify HTML, rewrite assets to your own CDN, speed up wp-admin, and clean the database—all from one settings screen.

Everything included in the plugin is free to use. There is no Pro edition, premium upgrade, subscription, usage limit, or payment required to access its features.

Your hosting plan may still impose normal server, storage, PHP, or traffic limits. Optional CDN rewrite only points to a domain you configure yourself.

Works on every WordPress site

• Blogs, business sites, portfolios, and landing pages
• Classic themes and block / full-site-editing themes
• WooCommerce shops — cart, checkout, and account stay live (never frozen inside the page cache)
• Elementor, CartFlows, and other page builders via final HTML rewrite
• Plugin-heavy sites with Force Optimize so late-enqueued CSS/JS still get optimized

100% free—all included features unlocked

• No paid plan or Pro version
• No premium-only toggles
• No form, page, or cache limits imposed by the plugin
• No subscription or recurring payment
• GPL-licensed open-source software

Page caching

• File-based HTML page cache for logged-out visitors
• Early cache serving via advanced-cache.php when WP_CACHE is enabled
• Configurable cache lifetime (5 minutes to 7 days) with hourly auto-cleanup of expired files
• Automatic cache busting on post, comment, menu, and theme changes
• URL exclusion list (path fragments)
• Browser Cache-Control headers on cacheable pages
• One-click purge from the settings screen
• Safe drop-in install that will not overwrite another cache plugin’s advanced-cache.php

CSS and JavaScript

• Delay non-critical JavaScript until first user interaction
• Configurable script-handle exclusions for delayed JS
• Defer JavaScript when delay is off
• Minify HTML (comments and excess whitespace)
• Optimize Google Fonts with display=swap and preconnect
• Option to remove Google Fonts entirely
• Optional removal of block library CSS and global styles
• Smart comment-reply script loading

SEO meta

• Auto title, description, keywords, and Open Graph tags when a page is missing them
• Existing Yoast / Rank Math tags are left alone
• Auto image alt text for empty images (decorative placeholders stay empty)

Images and media

• Automatic lazy-loading for images (loading="lazy", decoding="async")
• First-image LCP boost (loading="eager", fetchpriority="high")
• Lazy-loading for iframes and oEmbeds
• Automatic width/height attributes to reduce CLS
• Auto-resize oversized uploads to a configurable max width
• Automatic WebP generation on upload (requires PHP GD imagewebp)
• Automatic WebP serving when the file exists and the browser supports it
• Configurable JPEG/WebP quality
• Optional srcset disable (off by default)

General cleanup

• Disable emojis, embeds, XML-RPC, and pingbacks
• Remove query strings from CSS/JS
• Control Heartbeat on the front end and in admin
• Remove RSD, WLW manifest, shortlink, REST discovery link, and generator meta
• Disable Dashicons for logged-out visitors
• Disable jQuery Migrate on the front end
• Limit post revisions
• Disable self-pingbacks and the capital_P_dangit filter

Instant Page (WordPress 7.1)

• Uses WordPress 7.1 speculative loading to prefetch the next page on hover
• Cart, checkout, account, and sales landings stay excluded so LCP is not stolen
• Falls back to a Speculation Rules script on older WordPress versions

Preload and CDN

• Optional DNS prefetch for origins you list
• Optional preconnect to origins you list
• Hover link prefetch for internal navigation
• Optional CDN rewrite of static asset URLs to your own CDN domain

WP Admin speed

• Optimize assets across admin screens
• Smart Heartbeat on list screens vs editor/Customizer
• Faster post/page list queries
• Disable remote browser-capability checks
• Trim WooCommerce admin assets off non-Woo screens
• Remove heavy dashboard widgets (News/Events, Quick Draft, Site Health, optional Activity)
• Slower autosave interval
• Optional Help tab hide

WooCommerce

• Load WooCommerce CSS/JS only on shop-related pages
• Disable cart-fragments AJAX on non-cart pages

Unused media

• Scan uploads for images not in the Media Library and not referenced by pages, products, or Elementor
• Quarantine unused files (restorable) instead of deleting them immediately
• Product downloads, fonts, and WooCommerce private files are never touched

Database tools

• One-click cleanup of revisions, spam, and expired data from the settings screen
• Safe, capability-checked AJAX actions with nonces

Presets and overview

• Safe Preset and Max Speed Preset
• Overview with feature coverage score, cache stats, and quick purge/save actions
• Speed Lab section with health checks and links to external audit tools

Privacy and data ownership

• No phone-home analytics
• No submission of site content to Blog Cutter
• Settings stored in your WordPress database (bcpsf_settings)
• Cache HTML and JSON config stored in wp-content/cache/bcpsf/
• Uninstall removes plugin options, cache files, the plugin’s own drop-in, and only this plugin’s marked WP_CACHE line

External services

This plugin does not load Google Fonts, analytics, or any other remote asset on its own. The settings screen uses the system font stack only.

Optional front-end DNS prefetch / preconnect

When you enable DNS Prefetch or Preconnect and list origin URLs (for example Google Fonts or a CDN), the public site may emit resource hints to those hosts.

• What is sent: browser DNS / TLS handshake hints only (no content from your site)
• When: only if you enable the toggles and provide origins
• Why: faster connection setup to assets your theme or CDN already uses
• Default: both features are off and the origin list is empty

Front-end “Optimize Google Fonts” / “Remove Google Fonts” only affects fonts already enqueued by your theme or other plugins; the plugin does not force Google Fonts onto your public site by default.

External audit links (Speed Lab)

The Speed Lab screen includes links to PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and Pingdom. These open in the administrator’s browser when clicked. The plugin does not call those services from the server and does not send site data unless the administrator chooses to open a link.