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title: "Get Performance Settings Ability: Read All Performance Feature States in WordPress"
url: https://nexterwp.com/docs/nexter-get-performance-settings/
date: 2026-05-29
modified: 2026-05-29
author: "sandip patel"
description: "The nexter/get-performance-settings ability reads the current state of all Nexter Extension performance features, returning enabled status and configuration for each."
word_count: 210
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# Get Performance Settings Ability: Read All Performance Feature States in WordPress

## Key Takeaways

- nexter/get-performance-settings ability reads the current state of every Nexter Extension performance feature, including heartbeat control and lazy loading.
- The ability returns a features object with enabled flags and feature-specific settings, allowing for programmatic audits of performance configurations.
- nexter/update-performance-settings is used to change individual feature states after retrieving current values with nexter/get-performance-settings.

The **nexter/get-performance-settings** ability reads the current state of every Nexter Extension performance feature. It returns enabled status and configuration values for heartbeat control, image upload optimization, emoji removal, lazy loading, and more. Use this ability to audit or display current performance settings programmatically.

## Key Takeaways

This ability takes no input parameters.

It returns a features object containing one key per performance feature.

Each feature entry includes an enabled flag and a values object with feature-specific settings.

This ability is read-only. It never modifies any settings.

Use nexter/update-performance-settings to change individual feature states.

## Required Setup

This ability ships with Nexter Extension (Free). If you do not have it installed, follow the guide on how to install and activate Nexter Extension first.

## What It Returns

The ability returns a **features** object. Each key is a feature identifier. Each value contains **enabled** (boolean) and **values** (object with feature-specific config). Features returned include: heartbeat-control, image-upload-optimize, disable-emojis, lazy-load, disable-rsd-link, disable-wlw-link, disable-feed, disable-self-ping, google-font-cache, css-combine, js-combine, defer-js, move-js-footer, and more.

## When to Use This Ability

Audit which performance features are currently active on a site.

Read current values before calling nexter/update-performance-settings to avoid overwriting existing config.

Display a summary of performance configuration in a dashboard or reporting tool.

## Related Documentation

Update Performance Settings Ability: nexter/update-performance-settings

Get Security Settings Ability: nexter/get-security-settings

List Extensions Ability: nexter/list-extensions