deliciousmedia/dm-base

Base functionality, helpers and modifications to WordPress for Delicious Media projects.

1.4.1 2026-02-26 12:20 UTC

GPL-3.0-or-later

• Delicious Media Limited

README

Base functionality, helpers and modifications to WordPress for Delicious Media projects.

Changes to WordPress.

• Disables comment/trackback functionality (Toggle with DM_DISABLE_COMMENTS; default true).
• Disables builtin search functionality (Toggle with DM_DISABLE_SEARCH; default false).
• Disables output of emoji styles/scripts (Toggle with DM_DISABLE_EMOJIS; default true) ☹️.
• Disables RSS feeds (Toggle with DM_DISABLE_RSS; default true).
• Prevents anonymous access to the REST API (Toggle with DM_DISABLE_REST_ANON; default true). By filtering dm_allowed_anonymous_restnamespaces individual namespaces can be whitelisted.
• Modifies plugin install screen to show our recommended plugins first (Toggle with DM_MODIFY_PLUGINS_SCREEN; default true).
• Removes XMLRPC functionality; X-Pingback headers; tidies up wp_head();
• Prevents enumeration of usernames via ?author=n query strings, helpful for tickybox PCI audits (toggled with DM_PREVENT_USER_ENUM; default true).
• Enables the use of real GUIDS (toggled with DM_USE_REAL_GUIDS; default false).

Additional functionality

• Tracks last login times for users accounts (Toggle with DM_LASTLOGIN; defaults to true).
• Adds logging, fatal error handler.
• Adds an environment indicator to the admin bar.
• Adds dm_developer role.
• Ability to force enable/disable plugins by environment (or other arbitrary rules).
• Ability to sync ACF fields between environments.

Installation

Install via Composer (composer require deliciousmedia/dm-base), or just clone/copy the files to your mu-plugins folder.

Built by the team at Delicious Media, a specialist WordPress development agency based in Sheffield, UK.