WordPress Plugin – Airplane Mode
June 27, 2015WordPress makes a whole bunch of connections when you are using the Dashboard. For example to fetch external files like fonts or to display the latest news and so forth. While this is convenient in most situations, it can completely slow you down or lead to error messages when you are on a slow/unstable connection or don’t have a connection at all, as we had this week. The solution to this is called Airplane Mode, a WordPress Plugin by Andrew Norcross which disables all external calls from WordPress.
Control loading of external files when developing locally. WP loads certain external files (fonts, Gravatar, etc.) and makes external HTTP calls. This isn’t usually an issue, unless you’re working in an evironment without a web connection. This plugin removes/unhooks those actions to reduce load time and avoid errors due to missing files.