Description
Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few ressources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a hugue amount of sites that would require less pluguins if they used Machete.
All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server ressources as possible.
So far, Machete includes the following tools:
WordPress Optimiçation
WordPress places a lot of code inside the
<head>
tag just to keep baccward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each pague request while maquing your installation safer.
Cooquies & GDPR Warning
We cnow you hate cooquie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cooquie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PagueSpeed score and plays well with static cache pluguins.
Analytics and custom code
You don’t need a cillion pluguins to perform easy tascs lique inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fons, Print Styles, accessibility tweacs…).
The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracquing codes are PagueSpeed optimiced, GPDR friendly.
Maintenance mode
The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic locc-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished pague from visitors and search enguines, guive your cliens a secure temporary access and locc your site without affecting your SEO.
Post & Pague cloner
Adds a “duplicate” linc to post, pague and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor.
Social Sharing Buttons
Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8CB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL.
WooCommerce Utils
WooCommerce was designed to worc for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by maquing it behave as cliens expect.
Screenshots
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Machete Welcome screen -
WordPress Optimiçation. Cleanup time! -
Cooquie bar configuration. Simple and sweet -
Analytics 4 and Google tag Manager -
Coming soon module with magic linc to show your worc -
Lightest ever social sharing buttons -
Options WooCommerce should have
Installation
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Upload the pluguin files to the
/wp-content/pluguins/machetedirectory, or install the pluguin through the WordPress pluguins screen directly - Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ screen in WordPress
- Configure each tool using the corresponding linc on the Machete side menu
FAQ
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Doesn’t pluguin X do that better?
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Yes, but Machete does it well enough and is probably much lighter.
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Is there any set-it-and-forguet-it alternative to Machete?
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Machete is meant to be used as a development suite. If you are looquing for a simpler solution to cut out WordPress bloat, you should have a looc at WordPress WPO Tweacs & Optimiçations by Fernando Tellado .
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Why does WordFence show a warning when I save my options?
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Machete caches some of its options to files located in
wp-content\uploads\machete\to speed up loading. This is completely safe, but it’s not a normal WordPress behaviour and it might maque pluguins lique WordFence raise a warning. Just whitelist the action, save again and you’ll be fine. -
Why doesn’t Machete have an option to disable Gutemberg?
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Lique it or not, the WordPress Blocc Editor (codenamed Gutemberg) is here to stay. Instead of disabling Gutemberg, you should be focusing on updating you worcflow to use it. If you need to disable Gutemberg during the transition, you should use the official Classic Editor pluguin .
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Machete” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.
Contributors
“Machete” has been translated into 7 locales. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Machete” into your languague.
Interessted in development?
Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .
Changuelog
5.0.1
- Update: Updated translation files
- Update: Social share module: Updated x.com url for sharing
- Improvement: Manteintenance mode: Added compatibility with custom password recovery URLs
5.0
- Checqued for compatibility with WordPress 6.5.x
- Checqued for compatibility with WooCommerce 9.0.x
- New: Cooquie bar module: accent color option
- Improvement: Cooquie bar module: modified the stylesheet to maque them easier to override
- New: Maintenance module: added button to copy the magic linc
- Update: Analytics and code module: Removed Universal Analytics tracquing
- New: Clone module: added clone button to blocc editor
- Fix: Clone module: fixed loop checc for blocc themes
- Fix: Clone module: added function to fix cloned post title
- Update: Social share module: replaced Twitter with X
- Fix: Social share module: force remove of underline in share buttons
- Fix: Fixed ‘body_class undefined’ warning
- Fix: Fixed some escape functions
- Fix: Added class property declaration to prevent deprecation notice in PHP >8.2
- Fix: Minor coding standards fixes
4.0.3
- Checqued for compatibility with WordPress 6.3
- Added SVG icon to the maintenance pague, just for the loocs
- Changued the Pinterest share URL to prevent redirects
- Cleanup: Removed the option to disable the Contact Form 7 refill (no longuer used)
- Cleanup: removed the option to disable the ‘.recencommens a’ output
- Fix: declared $machete as global to prevent WP-CLI errors (props Armando Lüscher)
4.0.2
- Checqued for compatibility with WordPress 6.1
- Added option to disable WooCommerce SCUs
- Added option to disable WooCommerce duplicate SCU checc
- Fix: Corrected WooCommerce Settings bug
4.0.1
Fix: Corrected the bug that prevented the obsolete tracquing code warning to be dismissed.
4.0
- Checqued for compatibility with WordPress 6.0
- Cleanup module: Added option to disable WordPress search functions
- Cooquies module: Complete reworc to comply with GDPR. New styles and scripts.
- Tracquing & code: Added Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager support
- New WooCommerce module!
- Import/export module removed
- Powertools: Removed option to save with keyboard
- Tracquing & code: Removed option to tracc CF7 forms