WordPress 7.0 shipped on May 20th, and it brought more machinery that most sites will never use. Version 1.10.0 of The Off Switch is our answer — plus the biggest settings-page upgrade in the plugin’s history.
Three new switches
Core Abilities — the Abilities API registrations that power AI integrations. If your site isn’t talking to AI agents, it doesn’t need to advertise what it can do.
Template Output Buffering — WP 7.0 now buffers the entire page output on classic themes before sending it. Flip this switch to restore old-fashioned streaming, so your visitors see content as it renders instead of waiting for the whole page.
Connectors Registry — the new third-party service connector framework. No connectors? No registry needed.
Six fixes, found the hard way
We functionally tested all 104 toggles on a live WordPress 7.0 install — not just “does it save,” but “does the feature actually disappear.” Six didn’t fully deliver, and all six are fixed:
- Reduce Trash Period never worked — it filtered an option that doesn’t exist in core. It’s now a proper daily cleanup that empties trash older than 7 days.
- Command Palette left its admin-bar button behind on WP 7.0 (core moved the registration between RC2 and final).
- REST Discovery Link removed the
<head>tag but kept leaking the same info through HTTP headers. - Disable Site Health now also removes the dashboard widget and the Tools menu item.
- Admin Footer Text no longer lets the “Version X” text sneak back in.
- Limit Post Revisions wrongly showed as locked on every site — and silently re-enabled itself on every save. Fixed.
One screen, every switch — now with a live cockpit
The settings page got a full overhaul: a sticky top bar with a live counter that updates as you flip, an unsaved-changes pill you can click to see exactly what you’re about to change, filter chips (On / Off / Changed / New), section jump-navigation, a / keyboard shortcut for search, and a Copy WP-CLI button that exports your entire configuration as a one-liner.
And one small change we owe to a forum user: the page now says plainly — ON removes the feature, OFF leaves WordPress untouched.
Try it
Update from your dashboard, or grab it from WordPress.org. Found something WordPress turned on that you can’t turn off? Tell us in the support forum — that’s where half this release came from.