Asset CleanUp Pro

Inspect a page before changing its rules

WordPress themes and add-ons can load stylesheets and scripts on pages that do not use them. Asset CleanUp Pro shows the resources loaded for a page so you can review them and set rules to unload assets where they are unnecessary. Manage assets from the Dashboard, a post or page edit screen, or the front-end view. Rules can apply to the homepage, individual posts and pages, and custom post types.

Use Test Mode to check changes as a logged-in administrator before they affect users. The Dashboard Overview brings together unload rules, exceptions, asset attributes, page options, and leftover entries for review.

Asset rules and execution scope

Standard asset rules control CSS and JavaScript documents. The Pro Plugins Manager can prevent entire add-ons from running on selected frontend or Dashboard pages, going beyond removal of their stylesheets and scripts. Pro also includes hardcoded asset management, broader conditional and device-specific rules, and advanced controls for JavaScript attributes and placement. When a extension is unnecessary in a selected context, preventing it from running may reduce PHP work and database queries before the page is generated.

CSS, JavaScript, and Critical CSS

• Unload unnecessary CSS and JavaScript on the homepage, posts, pages, and custom post types.
• Minify and combine supported CSS and JavaScript, including supported inline code.
• Preload selected CSS and JavaScript files when earlier discovery is useful.
• Add, edit, and remove manually prepared Critical CSS for supported page contexts.

Critical CSS is not generated automatically. The manager lets you organize CSS you prepare by supported page context instead of keeping it in one large global block.

Font, image, and WordPress controls

For Google Fonts requests, you can combine, preload, load asynchronously, or remove them, with font-show and preconnect controls. Preload local font files and apply font-display as needed. For images, set fetchpriority, loading, and decoding attributes using simple matching or regular expressions, and lazy-load images where appropriate.

Cleanup options can remove Emojis, Dashicons for guests, Comment Reply, selected discovery links, metadata, and oEmbed resources from the document head. You can disable RSS feed links or feeds, restrict or disable XML-RPC when the site does not need it, and strip supported HTML comments while keeping required exceptions.

Apply and verify an optimization

1. Enable Test Mode in Asset CleanUp options so rules apply only to you as a logged-in administrator.
2. Open the CSS and JavaScript Manager, select a page, and start with an asset that is clearly unnecessary there.
3. Save the rule and check the page on desktop and mobile, including its menus, forms, popups, sliders, and other interactive elements.
4. Clear the active page, server, browser, and CDN caches. Avoid applying the same minify or combine operation in multiple optimization plugins.
5. When the page works as expected, disable Test Mode and verify it again as a logged-out visitor.

Asset CleanUp controls what WordPress outputs; it does not provide page caching. A page cache, server cache, or CDN can store and deliver the resulting page alongside the asset rules.