Provides a method of turning the WordPress heartbeat off as well as change some settings. We use this plugin at RD because the heartbeat was clobbering site performance when more than one editor was logged into the CMS. In the future I plan to add the ability to adjust the settings.

• Disables admin-ajax.php except on the posts, post edit & quick edit pages
• Disables hearbeat autostart
• Sets the heartbeat interval to 60 seconds

Is there a setting or options page?

Currently no, but in the future I plan to add the ability to adjust the settings.

1.4.1

• Confirmed WordPress 5.7.2 compatibility.

1.4

• Refactored the singleton creator, eliminating the reliance on get_called_class()

1.3

• minor development changes not pushed

1.2

• minor development changes not pushed

1.1

• Added 'Quick edit exclusion'
• Corrected misleading constants

1.0

• Initial stable version.

1. Upload ajax-heartbeat-tool to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. The get_called_class() kind requires PHP5.3 or newer (http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-called-class.php)