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Asset Cleanup Pro v1.2.8.0 - Performance WordPress Plugin

Developer: Asset CleanUp for extra securityCategory: WordPress PluginsTrusted with 606 downloadsPro15 favoritesLatest v1.2.8.0Updated 6d ago

Upgrading to the premium plugin allows you to unload unused styles & scripts on extra pages such as: Taxonomy pages such as default WordPress’ categories, tags and custom created ones such as produ...

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Upgrading to the premium plugin allows you to unload unused styles & scripts on extra pages such as:

  • Taxonomy pages such as default WordPress’ categories, tags and custom created ones such as products’ categories from WooCommerce.
  • Author pages (e.g. the page showing all posts published by a specific author, detected via is_author() function)
  • Default WordPress Search Page
  • WooCommmerce Search Page (which has the same settings as the actual shop page detected via is_shop() function)
  • 404 Page (Not Found): this one has be as light as possible and it’s less likely that many of the CSS and JavaScript files that are needed here (detected via is_404() function)
  • Date Archive Page: this is any page that retrieves articles filtered by the date, detected via is_date() function

As for the loaded JavaScript files, attributes such as defer and async can be applied

There are a plethora of techniques that are often used to defer parsing; however, the simple and preferred technique is to simply Defer loading of JavaScript until it is needed. If this technique isn’t appropriate to use on your page, it is next suggested that you use the attribute where appropriate, which prevents parsing from blocking the initial page load by deferring it until the browser’s UI thread is not busy doing something else. All these settings can be applied with Asset CleanUp Pro without writing any code.

Change the location of the CSS/JS files (could be moved from HEAD to BODY to prevent render-blocking or vice-versa if you need early triggering of specific files)

“Test Mode” Functionality → Worried about making optimization mistakes? Don’t be anymore!

This allows you to optimize the website (unload useless files, set async, defer to loaded JavaScript files, clean up HTML code) without applying the changes “live” (to the regular visitor) in case you ever have any doubts that a change could break the functionality of the page/website. Any changes you’ve done will only be applied for you (the logged in administrator). Once you’re happy with how the page looks and works, you can disable “Test Mode” to push the changes live so everyone else can enjoy the faster page loads 😉

Recent releases

Release history

View all 9 versions
v1.2.8.0LatestVerified Safe
Sep 9, 20262.5 MB
* **Improvement:** Reduced Google Fonts browser discovery traffic by running the collector for approximately 2% of public browsers while preserving duplicate protection for known configurations. * **Improvement:** Made the Google Fonts discovery REST endpoint compatible with sites where WordPress pretty permalinks or REST rewrite rules are unavailable. * **Fixed:** Browser discovery is now disabled by default, preventing discovery REST traffic on new or previously unsaved configurations until the feature is enabled.
Sep 6, 20262.5 MB
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* **Added — Google Fonts:** Added local hosting for Google Fonts, allowing detected stylesheets and font files to be downloaded, validated and served from the local cache. * **Added — Google Fonts:** Added granular font removal, allowing specific Google Font families, weights and styles to be removed while keeping the remaining fonts unchanged.
Aug 21, 20262.4 MB
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* **Added — Font Preload Audit:** Added a browser-assisted audit for manually preloaded Local and Google Fonts. The audit checks representative pages in desktop and mobile viewports, identifies duplicate, invalid or unnecessary site-wide preloads and provides conservative cleanup recommendations without removing the fonts themselves. * **Added — Critical CSS:** Added a global control directly in the Critical CSS Manager to temporarily pause or resume all Critical CSS output while preserving the existing rules. * **Added — Tools / Storage:** Added a read-only Database Map showing where Asset CleanUp stores settings, optimization rules, metadata, transients and Pro-specific data. * **Added — Tools / Uninstall:** Added a dedicated, explicitly confirmed action for removing all Asset CleanUp data before uninstalling the plugin, including settings, optimization rules, metadata, transients, license data and generated cache files. * **Improved — JavaScript Optimization:** Improved handling of modern JavaScript, including module/nomodule scripts and scripts using integrity, nonce, crossorigin or referrerpolicy attributes, preventing unsafe combine, inline or Match Media transformations. * **Improved — Resource Loading:** Hardened image attribute and lazy-loading rule validation, improved compatibility with rules saved by older versions and fixed edge cases where attributes such as `src` could be confused with `data-src`. * **Improved — CSS/JS Manager Settings:** Redesigned the manager preferences area with clearer navigation and explanations, better-organized controls for management locations, access, list appearance and optimized-file cache settings. * **Improved — Settings and CSS/JS Manager:** Added unsaved-change counters and persistent save areas, making modified settings and asset rules easier to review before saving. * **Improved — Dashboard Reliability:** Improved AJAX validation, authorization and failure recovery across several Dashboard actions, including safer handling of invalid, expired or interrupted requests. * **Improved — Tools / Storage:** Added a detailed overview of generated CSS/JavaScript storage, including directory paths, file counts, disk usage, write status and filtering between optimized assets and supporting files. * **Improved — Tools / Debugging:** Redesigned the troubleshooting area with clearer diagnostic modes, copyable test URLs and protected PHP error-log downloads. * **Improved — Tools / Reset:** Added more granular reset options for Critical CSS and front-end or Dashboard Plugins Manager rules, with clearer confirmation, deletion summaries and partial-failure reporting. * **Improved — Tools / Uninstall:** Cleanup results are shown on the Plugins page and partial filesystem failures are reported instead of returning a false success. Plugin settings are not recreated after cleanup. * **Improved — Multisite Uninstall:** Network-shared user access data and the Pro MU-plugin loader are preserved while Asset CleanUp Pro remains active on another site in the network. * **Fixed — Plugin Rules:** Fixed request-context detection on sites using plain permalinks, preventing homepage, search, author, date and taxonomy requests from being incorrectly treated as the same context. * **Fixed — Multisite Plugins Manager:** Improved detection and handling of network-active plugins across Plugins Manager rules and WPACU internal requests. * **Fixed — Dashboard CSS/JS Manager:** No longer reports a false external redirect or fails to fetch assets when WordPress runs on a non-standard port (e.g. localhost:8888) * **Fixed — Usage Data Settings:** Fixed an undefined variable warning in the usage-data disclosure panel. * **Fixed — CSS and JavaScript:**: Combining now works when minification is disabled. * **Fixed — Upgrade Compatibility:** Recently introduced access-control settings now receive their correct disabled or empty-list defaults when upgrading from older versions, preventing blank fields or unexpectedly enabled checkboxes. * **Privacy — Dashboard Announcements:** Remote announcements are now disabled by default and require an explicit administrator opt-in. * **Security — Remote Asset Handling:** Further hardened remote asset retrieval and redirect validation, including safer handling of dynamically loaded resources and restricted redirect behavior. * **Security — License Administration:** Removed an unsafe legacy GET-based license-status workaround and retained the protected POST-based recovery action. * **Security — Plugin Updater:** Replaced remote PHP deserialization with native JSON collection validation. * **Security — License Server Output:** Added strict allowlist sanitization for promotional HTML returned by the license server.

Frequently asked questions

Is Asset CleanUp Pro GPL licensed?
Yes, Asset CleanUp Pro is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can legally use, modify, and redistribute it on unlimited websites.
What is the latest version of Asset CleanUp Pro?
The latest version of Asset CleanUp Pro on GPLCoffee is v1.2.8.0 (released Sep 9, 2026, 2.5 MB download size). Every new release is synced automatically, and subscribers can update directly from their WordPress dashboard with the one-click connector plugin.
How much does Asset CleanUp Pro cost on GPLCoffee?
Asset CleanUp Pro is available for $5.99 for a 1-year license or $15.99 for a lifetime license. Membership plans also include credit-based access so you can download Asset CleanUp Pro along with thousands of other plugins, themes, and PHP scripts for a single subscription.
Which WordPress and PHP versions does Asset CleanUp Pro support?
The current release of Asset CleanUp Pro requires WordPress 4.7 or higher, tested up to WordPress 7.1, PHP 5.6 or higher. Per-release compatibility details are listed in the version history.
Is Asset CleanUp Pro safe to download?
Yes. The latest release of Asset CleanUp Pro (v1.2.8.0) was scanned with VirusTotal and came back clean. Scan results are visible on each version page, and releases flagged as malicious are blocked from the catalog.

Auto-updates included

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