an enhancement suite 
for every WordPress site

Explore ASE Features

71
modules
in total
57
free
modules
30
have Pro 
features
14
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Content Management

Extend and enhance WordPress as a content management system.
ASE Pro

Custom Content Types

Conveniently register and edit custom post types, custom taxonomies, custom field groups and options pages. Compatible with Gutenberg / the block editor and integrates with:
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ASE Free with Pro features

Content Duplication

Enable one-click duplication of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated. Duplication link is shown on the post list view's post action row and the admin bar. 

ASE Pro adds:
• duplication link in post edit screen's publishing section
• an option to choose where to show duplication link
• an option to choose on which post type(s) duplication is enabled
• an option to enable duplication only for certain user roles
ASE Free with Pro features

Content Order

Enable custom ordering of various "hierarchical" content types or those supporting "page attributes". Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• custom ordering for post types that are non-hierarchical and does not support page attributes, including media / attachments.
• reorder and change the parent of child posts
• toggling featured images, taxonomy terms and / or excerpt on the ordering page 
• applying the custom order on the frontend, including for displaying adjacent post links
ASE Pro

Terms Order

Enable custom ordering of terms from various “hierarchical” taxonomies. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend.
ASE Free with Pro features

Media Files Visibility Control

Limit media files visibility so only administrators can see all media files. Non-administrator users will only see media files they uploaded themselves in the media library and in the modal window to add/insert media.

ASE Pro adds an option to specify which non-administrator user roles will have such limitation.
ASE Pro

Media Categories

Add categories for the media library and enable drag-and-drop categorization of media items. Categories can then be used to filter media items during media insertion into content.
ASE Free with Pro features

Media Replacement

Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break. 

ASE Pro allows replacing media from the grid view of media library as well.
ASE Free

SVG Upload

Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
ASE Free

AVIF Upload

Enable uploading AVIF files in the Media Library. You can convert your existing PNG, JPG and GIF files using a tool like Squoosh.
ASE Pro

Public Preview for Drafts

Enable public preview for draft posts from some or all public post types. Useful for editorial collaboration with people who are not users on your site.
ASE Free with Pro features

External Permalinks

Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Compatible with links added using Page Links To.

ASE Pro adds an option to enable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types.
ASE Free

Open All External Links in New Tab

Force all links to external sites in post content to open in new browser tab via target="_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
ASE Free

Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab

Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
ASE Free

Auto-Publish Posts with Missed Schedule

Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited.

Admin Interface

Clean up, organize and enhance various admin screens and elements.
ASE Free with Pro features

Clean Up Admin Bar

Remove various elements from the admin bar. 

ASE Pro enables removal of admin bar items from other plugins.
ASE Free with Pro features

Hide Admin Notices

Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar. 

ASE Pro adds:
• the option to also hide admin notices for non-admins.
• the option to hide the 'Notices' menu in the admin bar for non-admins.
ASE Free

Disable Dashboard Widgets

Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
ASE Free with Pro features

Hide Admin Bar

Hide admin bar on the frontend for all or some user roles. 

ASE Pro also allows hiding the admin bar on the backend for all or some user roles.
ASE Free

Wider Admin Menu

Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items.
ASE Free with Pro features

Admin Menu Organizer

Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items. 

ASE Pro enables:
• always hiding parent and submenu items for some or all user roles 
• adding new separators
• reordering submenu items
ASE Pro

Admin Columns Manager

Manage and organize columns in the admin listing for pages, posts and custom post types. 

• Set order and widths of default WordPress columns and those added by plugins like SEO and language translation plugins.
• Supports displaying custom field values from ASE, ACF and Meta Box, including repeater, flexible content and cloneable group fields. 
• Horizontal scrolling auto-enabled when the total width of columns in pixels exceed the default listing table width. Optionally turn it off as needed.
- Option to freeze the column header row on scroll and to freeze the first n columns when horizontal scrolling is enabled.
• Sorting by column values also auto-enabled for applicable column types, including custom field columns. 
• Choose one of the sortable columns as the default, sorted view, ascending or descending, when viewing the "View All" list table.
• Set custom formatting for number and date/time column values.
ASE Free with Pro features

Show Custom Taxonomy Filters

Show additional filter(s) on list tables for hierarchical, custom taxonomies.

ASE Pro enables:
• show additional filter(s) for non-hierarchical taxonomies.
ASE Free

Enhance List Tables

Improve the usefulness of listing pages for various post types and taxonomies, media, comments and users by adding / removing columns and elements.
ASE Free with Pro features

Various Admin UI Enhancements

Various, smaller enhancements for different parts of the admin interface:
• Media Library Infinite Scrolling: Re-enable infinite scrolling in the grid view of the media library. Useful for scrolling through a large library.
• Display Active Plugins First: Display active / activated plugins at the top of the Installed Plugins list. Useful when your site has many deactivated plugins for testing or development purposes.

ASE Pro adds:
• Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy: Preserve the visual hierarchy of taxonomy terms checklist in the classic editor.
• Enable Dashboard Columns Settings: Enable manual settings of dashboard columns layout in Screen Options. You can choose between 1 to 4 columns.
• Add User Role Slug(s) to Admin Body Classes: seful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user role(s).
• Add Usermame to Admin Body Classes: Useful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user(s).
ASE Free with Pro features

Custom Admin Footer Text

Customize the text you see on the footer of wp-admin pages.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to upload / insert media
• easy linking of word / phrase
• ability to switch between Visual and Text mode which helps with adding custom HTML

Log In/Out | Register

Add useful features around the log in and log out process.
ASE Free with Pro features

Change Login URL

Make the login URL more memorable and secure by customizing it. 

ASE Pro adds:
• custom redirection when accessing default login URLs, e.g. /wp-login.php
ASE Free

Login ID Type

Restrict login ID to username or email address only.
ASE Pro

Login Page Customizer

Easily customize the design of the login page.
ASE Free

Site Identity on Login Page

Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page.
ASE Free with Pro features

Log In/Out Menu

Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.

ASE Pro adds an option to set custom "Log In" and "Log Out" labels for the dynamic log in/out menu item.
ASE Free with Pro features

Last Login Column

Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.

ASE Pro makes the column sortable.
ASE Free with Pro features

Registration Date Column

Display the registration date and time in the users list table.

ASE Pro makes the column sortable.
ASE Free with Pro features

Redirect After Login

Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to set separate redirect URL for each role
ASE Free with Pro features

Redirect After Logout

Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to set separate redirect URL for each role

Custom Code

Conveniently modify various aspects of your site via custom code.
ASE Pro

Code Snippets Manager

Conveniently add and manage CSS/SCSS, JS, HTML and PHP code snippets to modify your site's content, design, behaviour and functionalities. 

• Capable Code Editor: syntax highlighting, code folding, search-replace, fullscreen view and code revisions.
• Versatile Loading / Execution Options: flexibly set how, where and when your snippets are loaded / executed.
• Automatic Safe Mode Activation: ensure your site stays up and running even if your PHP snippet produces a fatal error.
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ASE Free

Custom Admin CSS

Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
ASE Free

Custom Frontend CSS

Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
ASE Free

Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code

Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
ASE Free

Custom Body Class

Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using Custom Body Class plugin.
ASE Free

Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt

Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content.
ASE Free

Manage robots.txt

Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.

Disable Components

Selectively turn off various WordPress components that are not in use.
ASE Free with Pro features

Disable Gutenberg

Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types
ASE Free with Pro features

Disable Comments

Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types
ASE Free with Pro features

Disable REST API

Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from , HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to exclude certain API routes from being disabled
• option to enable access only for some, authenticated user roles, e.g. administrators.
ASE Free

Disable Feeds

Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
ASE Free

Disable Embeds

Prevent your site content from being embedded on other sites. Prevent embedding of non-whitelisted sites in your site. Disable all, related JavaScript. Removes support for the embed block.
ASE Free

Disable All Updates

Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
ASE Free

Disable Author Archives

Return 404 (Not Found) error when trying to load author archives. Remove or disable links to author archives. Remove authors archives from the sitemap.
ASE Free

Disable Smaller Components

Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure, load slightly faster and be more optimized for crawling by search engines.

Security

Fortify your WordPress site with simple yet powerful features.
ASE Free with Pro features

Limit Login Attempts

Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address. You can set the preferred HTTP header to get IP address from, which is useful, for example, when your site is behind a trusted proxy.

ASE Pro adds: 
• IP whitelisting, which is also useful to unblock users
ASE Pro

CAPTCHA Protection

Add CAPTCHA protection to various forms in your site to help prevent automated bot, spam or malicious submissions.

• Support ALTCHA self-hosted version (GDPR-compliant, open source, free), Google reCaptcha v2 and v3, and Cloudflare Turnstile.
• Add protection to WordPress default login, password reset, registration and comment forms.
 • Add protection to WooCommerce login, password reset and registration forms. 
ASE Free

Obfuscate Author Slugs

Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint.
ASE Free with Pro features

Email Address Obfuscator

Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• shortcode option to output the email address as a mailto: link 
• an option to auto-obfuscate email addresses found in post content.
ASE Free

Disable XML-RPC

Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.

Optimizations

Keep your site lean and fast by granular control of various features.
ASE Free with Pro features

Image Upload Control

Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• custom JPG conversion quality
• conversion to WebP instead of JPG 
• custom WebP conversion quality
• option to only apply resize and conversion to media library and block editor uploads when creating or editing a page or a post..
• option to only resize without conversion to JPG/WebP
• prevention of intermediate size(s) generation
ASE Free

Revisions Control

Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
ASE Free

Heartbeat Control

Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.

Utilities

Various tools useful throught the lifecycle of site building and management.
ASE Free with Pro features

Email Delivery

Set custom sender name and email. Optionally use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.

ASE Pro adds the option to:
• specify a custom reply-to name and email
• specify custom Bcc email(s)
• disable authentication
• log email delivery and set max number of entries to keep
• allow resending emails via the log page
ASE Pro

Form Builder

Easily create various types of forms to collect information from site visitors, users and members.

• Intuitive Builder: Clean and simple UI. Drag-and-drop form creation. Visual form style customization.
• Versatile Field Types: 33 available field types to create various types of forms.
• Essential Features: Multi-columns layout. Email notifications. Auto responder. Entries management.
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ASE Pro

File Manager

Easily manage files and folders in your WordPres installation.

• Essential File and Folder Operations: Create, upload, download, rename, copy, cut, paste, delete, compress, extract and change permission.
• Text File Editing: Open and edit text-based files like .htaccess and wp-config.php with syntax highlighting.
• Safety Built-In: WordPress core files are protected by default. Optional read-only mode available.
ASE Pro

Local User Avatar

Enable usage of any image from WordPress Media Library as user avatars.
ASE Free

Multiple User Roles

Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
ASE Free with Pro features

Image Sizes Panel

Display a panel showing and linking to all available sizes when viewing an image in the media library. Especially useful to quickly get the URL of a particular image size. 

ASE Pro adds a convenient button to copy the image URL on click.
ASE Free

View Admin as Role

View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
ASE Free with Pro features

Password Protection

Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access the site as usual. 

ASE Pro adds: 
• IP whitelisting 
• Option to set preferred header to get IP address from
• bypassing via URL parameter
• auto-application of design from the Login Page Customizer module
ASE Free with Pro features

Maintenance Mode

Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual. 

ASE Pro adds: 
• customization of page title shown in the browser tab
• WYSIWYG editor for heading and description
• option to use an image or a solid color as the background
• option to add custom CSS
• option to use an existing page as the maintenance page
ASE Pro

Redirect Manager

Easily manage various types of redirects / redirections:
•  support for wildcards and regular expressions (regex).
• support for redirection wtih 3xx HTTP status codes (301 Moved Permanently, 302 Found, 303 See Other, 304 Not Modified, 307 Temporary Redirect, 308 Permanent Redirect).
• support for showing error message with 4xx (400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found, 410 Gone) and 5xx (500 Internal Server Error, 501 Not Implemented, 503 Server Unavailable) HTTP status codes. Option to customize the error message shown.
• option to not pass URL / query parameter in the redirect target URL.
• option to create groups for redirects for easier organization.
• option to add notes to provide context for each redirect.
• built with performance in mind, by using the transients API to cache redirects.
• loop detection included to prevent infinite loop during redirections.
ASE Free with Pro features

Redirect 404

Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to choose the redirect URL
ASE Free with Pro features

Display System Summary

Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software.

ASE Pro adds info on site, database and root, wp-content, plugins, themes and upload folders size.
ASE Free with Pro features

Search Engines Visibility Status

Show admin bar status and admin notice when search engines are set to be discouraged from indexing the site. This is set through a "Search engine visibility" checkbox in Settings >> Reading.

ASE Pro adds a way to prevent dev / staging sites from having search engine visibility enabled. This is done by adding an option to set the live / production site's URL.
ASE Pro

Export / Import ASE Settings

Easily copy your preferred ASE settings to other sites. Available on all ASE Pro plans (SOLO, TEAM and AGENCY).

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ASE is easily the most useful plugin I think I've ever seen.
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ASE helps remove bloat and improves your site's efficiency.
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ASE has significantly improved my WordPress workflow.
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Every single thing works as expected.
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One of my core plugins - super useful!
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The PRO version has some very good and useful features.
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What a beauty ASE is!
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Support were extremely fast to respond and extremely helpful.
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Must have for every site.
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First plugin you should install.
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King of the plugins, awesome work, game-changer.
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I'm using ASE on all of my sites now, so happy with it!
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@cbac
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ASE is easy to understand and work with as novice DIYer.
Brad Hazel
ASE replaces so many plugins and still removes bloat.
Mary C. Dunford
Great compilation of settings and options.
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Excellent plugin. I install it on every WP site.
@contrastxxx
It’s a relief to have everything streamlined.
Tao Sheng
I love the modular approach.
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So many useful features it blows my mind.
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A WordPress Essential and everyone should get it!
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Works like a treat.
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Life-Saver
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Fabulous plugin – amazing support.
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ASE is a really useful tool.
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Simply amazing.
Peter Duchnovsky
It’s fantastic that so many functions are available at once!
Radics József Géza
Fantastic Enhancements!
Chuck Smith
ASE is worth 10 stars (or more). It all works fine.
Angelika Reisiger
Great Swiss-Army Knife
@calvinc410
This tool is a game-changer!
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I can’t do without ASE anymore!
@igorel
Works well
Alan Crawford
I really like it
Lars Ritter
Master of all trades.
@masvil
Awesome Multifunctional Plugin!
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ASE is easy to use and does a great job.
@ahmetbilgic
Pure Magic!
@ben099
Master Plugin!
@kabane100
I won’t build a site without ASE… EVER.
@markbratton111
Absurdly Fantastic!
@albertcorbett
Perfect for all sites.
Pierre Gazzola
It’s modular, lightweight, and honestly? It’s brilliant.
Anthony Richter
Great features and stellar support. What is not to love?
@timbre-design
The best all-in-one admin plugin.
Fernando Kylas
Necessary plugin to every WordPress site.
@ntamas
ASE works fast with no problem!
@maxbarbul
Support is very helpful and they respond quickly.
Craigbeaman
One plugin to rule them all :)
@catalinx777
First-rate plugin with excellent support.
@johnwebman
ASE is absolutely brilliant.
@goldenagemedia
Very usefull WordPress tool!
@peterfrisch
What a great product. It does so much.
John Anderson
ASE replaces a lot of other plugins.
@gerold1968
ASE is lightweight and constantly improved!
@soyoo
One plugin that replaced many.
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Best of its kind.
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Absolutely outstanding!
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ASE is very helpful for reducing plugins
@eide
What a dynamo of a plugin!
@markbratton111
Simply the best! Still looking for the sixth star for you.
@springbreak
Easy to use, well-designed, and a real time-saver. Highly recommended!
Ainis Jankauskas
Amazing! Game changer.
@ioulios92
Must Have WP Utility Tool!
Ken Sim
Can't use WordPress without this amazing plugin (and support)!
@giannisgx89
ASE is seriously amazing! Even the free version is strait forward TOP!
@shoushan
Best toolset.
Kim Guercke
Good Consolidation of Features!
Cory Lamle
Awesome utility plugin.
John Anderson
Why more plugins when one is enough?
Radics József Géza
Super Plugin
Marcel Smeets
One great plugin for many tasks
@mstylz
Very useful plugin and great support
Philippe Grand
Simple yet powerful.
@gulpman
I use ASE on all my sites.
@thesilkywitch
A WordPress Essential
Max Fils Remfort
Game changer. A lot of useful features in ASE.
Coki Siregar
Wow! Lightweight, fast, and so very very useful!
@outboxed
Excellent plugin, making my workflow much easier.
@nassukesso
All WP’s Missing Admin Features Wrapped into One Plugin.
Lee Hodson (VR51)
ASE is installed in every new website we build.
@goldenagemedia
Fantastic Plugin
@wjbrob
Super plugin
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First plugin that I install.
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