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This plugin gives you a wide range of modifications at hand <strong>without any core or theme code changes<\/strong> - making them persistent across updates or switching to another theme.<\/p>\n\n<p>th23 Specials core features include (all available as options in admin dashboard):<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Mail sending via <strong>SMTP server<\/strong> instead of default PHP mail function - and with custom subject prefix<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revision and edit restrictions<\/strong> for posts and pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlighting in titles<\/strong> of posts and pages - for custom styling via theme<\/li>\n<li><strong>Category selection<\/strong> via radio button, forcing single category assignment and option to restrict available categories - via Classic and Gutenberg \/ Block editor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Excerpts<\/strong> for pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sticky posts<\/strong> also sticky on archive pages<\/li>\n<li>Disabling <strong>author links and archives<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enforcing usage of <strong>more tag \/ block \/ separator<\/strong> in posts and pages - preventing too long full text display on home and overview pages<\/li>\n<li>Disable various <strong>headers<\/strong> - core version info, links, jQuery Migrate, inline CSS, emojis, oEmbed, legacy contact options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Usage<\/h4>\n\n<p>Simply install plugin and choose customizations required from the plugin settings page. 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