The public side of WordPress also carries small extras: embed scripts, long lists of CSS classes on menu items, and widget styles that only matter in specific cases. Alone, each one is tiny. Together, they make pages heavier than they need to be.

The Frontend options under Cleanup in Falcon trim those extras so your public pages stay leaner. Turn on only what matches how your site is built.

Disable embeds

When you paste a link from YouTube, Twitter, or many other services into a post, WordPress can turn it into a rich embed - a playable video, a preview card, and so on. That convenience comes with extra scripts and discovery endpoints running in the background.

Disabling embeds stops that automatic behavior on both the front end and the admin. Pages load a little lighter, and you avoid embed-related scripts you may never use.

If your content relies on pasting a URL and getting an automatic preview, leave this off - or embed media another way, such as a dedicated block or HTML embed that you control.

Clean up menu item classes

Every item in a WordPress menu usually comes with a long list of CSS classes and IDs: menu item number, object type, parent relationships, and more. Themes and custom CSS sometimes need a few of those. Many sites need almost none of them.

This option removes most of that extra markup so navigation HTML stays shorter and easier to read. Pages send less unnecessary class noise to the browser.

One thing to watch: if your theme or custom CSS targets very specific default menu classes, styling could change. After enabling this, check your main navigation on desktop and mobile. If something looks off, turn the option back off or update the CSS selectors.

Remove Recent Comments widget CSS

The classic Recent Comments widget prints a small piece of inline CSS so avatars and comment lists line up. If you do not use that widget - or your theme already styles comments - that CSS is just leftover output on every page load.

Removing it is a safe, low-risk cleanup for most sites: one less bit of unused styling in the page source, with no effect on content itself.