axanet Tools

Essential tools to edit login logo and login security, disable comments site-wide with optional deletion, disable system pages, manage admin bar visibility, search & replace database strings, clean up database and control maintenance mode.

Features include:
* Login Logo
* Login Security
* Comments
* WP Pages
* Admin Bar
* Disable REST API
* Search & Replace
* Clean-Up Database
* Maintenance Mode

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/axanet-tools directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Use the plugin settings page to configure options.

1. 

   Main settings screen showing the tabbed interface for managing plugin features.

1.1.8

• Added: Disable REST API tab, restricting REST API access to logged-in users (including via Application Passwords) with a single toggle.
• Added: Feature Status overview on the dashboard’s Home tab, listing every feature’s current on/off state (and, for WP Pages, how many page types are disabled) without needing to open each tab.
• Fixed: Uninstalling while Comments was disabled left default_comment_status/default_ping_status closed, silently defaulting new posts to closed comments; uninstall now restores both to open in that case.
• Changed: Renamed the “Disable Comments” tab and dashboard references to “Comments,” since the tab toggles comments both on and off.

1.1.7

• Fixed: Database Cleanup’s “Trashed Posts & Pages” option only ever cleaned up posts; trashed pages and other post types are now included as the label always said.
• Fixed: Database Cleanup’s orphaned post meta/comment meta cleanup could delete legitimate data some plugins store under post/comment ID 0 as a global key-value store; that data is no longer treated as orphaned.
• Fixed: Search & Replace could silently corrupt data on tables with a composite (multi-column) primary key by updating on only the first key column; such tables are now safely skipped, matching the existing no-primary-key protection.
• Fixed: Search & Replace no longer overwrites a value with a raw string replace when it looks serialized but fails to unserialize; the row is left untouched instead.
• Added: Search & Replace now shows a confirmation prompt before a real (non-preview) run, matching the other destructive actions in the plugin.
• Fixed: Login Security’s blocked IP list is no longer autoloaded and is pruned continuously, preventing site-wide slowdown from a large, sustained brute-force attack.
• Fixed: Disabling comments with “delete all existing comments” selected could leave the plugin’s own enabled/disabled state out of sync with the site’s comment settings if the request timed out partway through a very large deletion; bulk comment deletion also now uses less memory.
• Fixed: Uninstalling the plugin now also removes its login-logo reachability cache instead of leaving it behind.

1.1.6

• Security: Login Security no longer trusts spoofable client headers (X-Forwarded-For / Client-IP) for IP blocking by default, and blocked IPs can no longer have their block indefinitely renewed by repeated attempts.
• Fixed: Search & Replace could corrupt PHP-serialized values (widgets, theme mods, plugin settings); replacements are now serialization-aware and applied per-row via each table’s primary key, with unsafe tables skipped and flagged instead of modified.
• Fixed: Maintenance Mode could enter a redirect loop when the redirect URL matched the currently requested page.
• Fixed: Login page logo reachability was checked on every single login page view; now cached to reduce load time.
• Fixed: Database Cleanup item counts could show stale numbers after running a cleanup, and the results message wasn’t fully translatable.
• Fixed: Confirmation dialogs no longer appear on safe actions (Save, Enable) that don’t need one.
• Changed: Tab navigation no longer relies on an expiring nonce, so bookmarked or shared links to a specific tab keep working.

1.1.5

• Fixed: Bug fixes

1.1.4

• Fixed: Bug fixes

1.1.3

• Optimised: Clean-up script optimised

1.1.2

• Fixed: Login security improvements

1.1.1

• Fixed: Login security improvements

1.1.0

• Added: Database Cleanup
• Change: Removed tabs for better display and added breadcrumbs

1.0.1

• Fixed: Version missmatch.
• Fixed: Text corrections.

1.0.0

• Initial release with features for disabling comments, customizing login logo and login security, disabling WP pages, managing admin bar, search & replace and maintenance mode.