What is feather?

Feather is a WordPress plugin that makes sites built with the Elementor page builder load faster by removing unused code and turning off WordPress features that most sites never actually need. The core approach is scan first. Feather reads your saved Elementor page data and identifies exactly which widgets and assets each page uses. Based on that scan, it removes only the assets confirmed unused across the entire site, such as the Font Awesome icon shim, Google Fonts loaded by Elementor, and Elementor's own scripts on pages that were not built with Elementor. Nothing is removed by assumption, only after the scan confirms it is safe. Beyond Elementor specific trimming, Feather handles general WordPress overhead: it disables the emoji loader, removes the generator meta tag that reveals your WordPress version, slows the admin heartbeat interval to cut server load, limits how many post revisions WordPress saves, and adds lazy loading to iframes. A database cleanup tab lets you remove expired transients, prune old Elementor revision rows, and clear cached embed data. A built in measurement tool lets you take page weight snapshots, tracking bytes transferred, asset count, request count, and response time, then compare them over time from the dashboard to see the effect of each change. Feather makes zero outbound network calls in its default configuration. There is no telemetry, no remote check in, and no analytics. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer, PHP 7.4 or newer, and Elementor installed for the asset aware features. It is released under the GPL 2.0 or later license, and works alongside common caching and image optimization plugins without duplicating what they already do. The full README is longer than what was shown.