by Fernando Tellado
5 (36 reviews)
DietPress
Put your WordPress on a diet and speed it up. Disable the bloat you do not need and enable performance optimizations, all fully configurable.
Compatible with WP 7
v3.3.0
Current Version v3.3.0
Updated 5 days ago
Last Update on 19 Jul, 2026
Refreshed 8 hours ago
Last Refreshed on
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#4,538
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2K+
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162.1K
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100%
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Tracked Keywords
Showing 5 of 5| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
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| bloat | 8 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| cleanup | 26 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| speed | 90 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| optimization | 134 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| performance | 172 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
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- Version
- 3.3.0
- Last Updated
- Jul 19, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.3+
- Tested Up To
- 7
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Fernando Tellado
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- Reviews
- 36
- Support Threads
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about DietPress
It is the same plugin, now called DietPress. All the performance optimizations you had are still active by default, so nothing breaks on update. On top of that you now get a settings page, individual control over every optimization, and a complete set of options to disable unused WordPress features.
Yes, if you want it to be. The performance optimizations are on by default, so you can just activate and go. The difference is that now you can fine-tune everything and, optionally, put WordPress on a diet by disabling features you do not use.
Nothing needs to be done by hand. When this plugin is active it detects the old "core-diet" plugin and deactivates it automatically (and core-diet 1.0.4 also steps aside on its own). Your settings are preserved because both plugins store them in the same place. The only thing left for you to do is delete the "core-diet" plugin whenever you like.
They were intentionally left out. The standalone DietPress (core-diet) included a few security toggles (disable XML-RPC, hide login errors, disable Application Passwords, hide the WordPress version, close pingbacks). Security belongs in a security plugin, where those protections are implemented properly and maintained as such; we recommend our free Vigilant. If you migrate with any of those toggles enabled, DietPress shows you a one-time notice listing them, and those features simply return to the default WordPress behavior.
The performance optimizations are designed to be safe and are tested across many sites. The diet options only change something when you explicitly enable each toggle, and every option has a description of what might break. If something fails, turn the toggle off; deactivating the plugin restores default WordPress behavior.
When you enable it (Light tab, Performance section), DietPress detects the Google Fonts stylesheets your theme enqueues, downloads the stylesheet and its font files once, stores them in your uploads folder, and serves everything from your own server. Visitors no longer connect to Google (faster fonts and GDPR-friendly, since no visitor data is sent to a third party). If any download fails, the fonts silently keep loading from the Google CDN. The local copies are refreshed when you switch themes and removed when you disable the option or deactivate the plugin. Fonts hardcoded by a theme outside the standard WordPress enqueue system are left untouched. Selective loading removed something my site needs Each selective loading module only removes assets where its target content is not detected, but unusual setups exist: a hand-coded header mini-cart, a form injected via AJAX, or a classic theme that reuses block styles everywhere. Turn the specific toggle off, or use the escape filters (dietpress_selective_wc_keep_cart_fragments, dietpress_selective_cf7_has_form, dietpress_selective_blocks_dequeue) to keep exactly what your site needs.
Yes. DietPress works alongside caching plugins and includes CORS and Vary headers for full CDN compatibility. Something went wrong after activation If a plugin or theme does not enqueue scripts correctly, the JavaScript defer may affect it; you can turn that option off or use the dietpress_skip_defer_script_handles filter. If you get a 500 error, edit your .htaccess and remove the block that starts with # BEGIN DietPress (or # BEGIN Zero Config Performance if you updated from 2.x and the rules have not been rewritten yet), or disable the ".htaccess server rules" option.
Yes. See the filters listed in the description (the dietpress_* hooks).