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I Built & Open-Sourced 12 Lightweight WordPress/WooCommerce Plugins (<15KB) + 6 Browser-Based AI & PDF Tools

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Most WordPress and WooCommerce site owners end up installing 20+ heavy plugins—or paying $49 to $99/year per plugin—just to handle basic performance optimization, WhatsApp ordering, Cash-on-Delivery (COD) fraud prevention, or JSON-LD SEO schema.

Worse, many "free" plugins inject bloated JavaScript frameworks, admin upsell banners, and external telemetry that slow down wp-admin and hurt Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS).

To solve this for my own client projects and the wider developer community, I engineered and open-sourced 12 ultra-lightweight (<15 KB each), zero-telemetry, GPLv2-licensed WordPress & WooCommerce plugins plus 6 client-side WebAssembly AI & PDF utilities.

🔗 Live WordPress Plugins Vault (.ZIP Downloads + Readme + PHP Source Viewer):
👉 https://kabeer.site/plugins.html

🪄 Live Browser-Based AI & PDF Studio Tools:
👉 https://kabeer.site/tools.html

🔌 The 12 Open-Source WordPress & WooCommerce Plugins

Every .zip archive includes the main PHP plugin file (protected with ABSPATH guards, WordPress Settings API nonces, current_user_can('manage_options'), and strict sanitization), a standard readme.txt, index.php directory protection, and a clean uninstall.php.

1. ⚡ Kabeer SpeedBoost Pro (v2.1) — Free Alternative to WP Rocket & Perfmatters

Removes WordPress core bloat (Emoji scripts/styles, oEmbeds, wp_generator, RSD/WLW links), unloads 36 KB dashicons.min.css for logged-out visitors, strips ?ver= query strings for better Cloudflare cache hit rates, disables XML-RPC, and injects a 65ms Instant Hover Link Prefetcher.

2. 💬 WooChat WhatsApp Order & Floating Chat Pro (v2.0) — Free Alternative to Join.chat Pro

Adds a customizable site-wide floating WhatsApp button and hooks into woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_button to place a direct "Order via WhatsApp" button on WooCommerce product pages with the product title, price, and permalink pre-filled.

3. 🛡️ WooGuard COD Fake Order Shield & Phone Validator (v1.5) — Free Alternative to WooCommerce Anti-Fraud

Built for Cash-on-Delivery (COD) e-commerce stores. Validates mobile phone digit length at checkout, blocks repeated fake digit strings (e.g., 00000000000), and enforces a configurable maximum COD cart total cap.

4. 🖼️ Auto WebP & KB Image Optimizer (v1.8) — Free Unlimited Alternative to Imagify & Smush Pro

Uses your server's native PHP GD/Imagick engine via wp_upload_image_mime_transforms and big_image_size_threshold to automatically convert uploaded JPEG/PNG sub-sizes to WebP and scale down oversized 4000px+ photos with zero monthly credit limits.

5. 🔍 RankSchema AI & Auto JSON-LD SEO Pro (v2.2)

Outputs clean Schema.org structured data (Article, Product, WebPage, and Organization) in wp_head without heavy metabox bloat.

6. 📌 WP CodeVault — AdSense, Meta Pixel & Header/Footer Manager (v1.6)

Safely inject your Google AdSense Publisher ID (ca-pub-...), Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, GA4, and custom <head> / <footer> scripts without editing theme files.

7. 🔒 WP IronShield Security & Login Guard (v2.4)

Brute-force login limiter (locks out offending IPs for 15 minutes after 5 failed attempts using anonymized MD5 transients), disables XML-RPC DDoS vectors, blocks /?author=1 username enumeration scans, and sends X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN & X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff headers.

8. 🛒 WooCheckout Turbo — Direct Checkout & COD Field Simplifier (v1.9)

Redirects "Add to Cart" directly to Checkout and removes unnecessary checkout fields (Company Name, Address Line 2, optional Postcode) to reduce cart abandonment.

9. 📑 WP Instant Table of Contents & Reading Time Pro (v1.4)

Automatically parses <h2...> tags on singular posts to generate an SEO-friendly Table of Contents and estimated reading time badge.

10. 🔗 WP Auto-Internal Linker & Affiliate Manager Pro (v1.7)

Automatically converts target keywords across blog posts into internal or affiliate links using safe regex matching outside existing HTML tags.

11. 🧹 WP Database Cleaner & Auto-Revision Cap Pro (v1.5)

One-click admin utility (protected with check_admin_referer) to purge post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, and expired transients, while capping future revisions at 5 per post.

12. 🎨 WP WhiteLabel & Client Dashboard Customizer Pro (v1.6)

Adds a custom Agency Support widget to wp-admin, declutters default dashboard metaboxes, and customizes the admin footer branding for client handoffs.

🪄 6 Client-Side AI & PDF Studio Tools (kabeer.site/tools.html)

Alongside the WordPress plugins, I also built 6 browser-based utilities powered by WebAssembly, HTML5 Canvas, pdf-lib, PDF.js, and Tesseract.js (100% client-side privacy—files never leave the browser):

  1. AI Background Remover & Passport Photo Studio (@imgly/background-removal WASM + Smart Edge Cutout + Transparent PNG, Passport Blue & Pure White backdrops)
  2. 5-in-1 Complete PDF Studio (Merge PDFs, Split/Extract Pages, PDF to JPG Images, Photos to PDF, and Diagonal Watermark)
  3. AI OCR Image-to-Text Scanner (Tesseract.js Neural OCR)
  4. CNIC / ID Card Front & Back Single A4 PDF Scanner (with B&W Photocopy Filter & anti-misuse watermark)
  5. Guaranteed Target-KB Image Compressor (<20KB, <50KB, <100KB)
  6. Vector PDF Invoice, Quotation & Receipt Builder

🔍 Inspect the Code & Share Feedback

You can inspect the readme.txt, step-by-step installation guide, and PHP source code for every plugin directly in your browser at https://kabeer.site/plugins.html, or test the AI/PDF tools at https://kabeer.site/tools.html.

Have a feature request or building a custom Laravel, React, or WooCommerce platform? Connect with me at kabeer.site or on WhatsApp (+92 334 2978455)!

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