Comments on: Remove Unnecessary Code from wp_head

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:34:39 +0000

Just found this post based on the adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head – This may work for you and your audience so I think it’s relevant… not trying to spam but…
I threw a handful of functions and cleanup type of stuff that I hope works for everybody’s installs to help clean it up and get rid of some of the crap like the wp_head stuff you’ve posted here.

the plugin, for lack of a better name, is Selfish Fresh Start… selfish because it’s the stuff I feel should be removed from every install lol.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/selfish-fresh-start/

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:12:22 +0000

Yes, it used wp_head. Is that something I need to worry about?

By: Leland

Leland — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:08:43 +0000

Does your theme use the wp_head hook? It sounds like that “leave this for stats” bit is hardcoded into your theme’s header.php file.

By: billbennettnz

billbennettnz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:44:05 +0000

I don’t have any of these in my header except for the WordPress generator – in my theme this is in a comment with “leave this for stats please”

What’s that about?

By: Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:19 +0000

We changed its name because we modified (improved) how it works in a backwards incompatible way. Fine for core, as it is an enhancement, but if a plugin was using the original plugin the way core does, we don’t want to alter that functionality.

The new function actually just calls the old function — http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10867

By: Adam Dunford

Adam Dunford — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:51:56 +0000

Great stuff, although I should add that there’s been a little change in WP 3.0 with adjacent_posts_rel_link. It is now adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head (not sure why it changed).

I figured that out by going to /wp-includes/default-filters.php and reversing what was listed in the add_action section.

Any idea why that would have changed?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:48:07 +0000

Hi. Do you know how I can remove jquery being called automatically? Obviously it needs to be called in the admin site, but client side, I use mootools, so don’t want two js libraries being called.

Thanks
Tom

By: Leland

Leland — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:46:31 +0000

Hey Devin, thanks for the comment. That’s a good point about plugin code. Especially when plugins like Contact Form 7 automatically load up CSS and JS on every page, when you usually only need it on one (or any page you actually have a contact form).

By: Devin

Devin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:40:00 +0000

Excellent post Leland! The relational links always bothered me a bit but I never looked into how to remove them.

I think it’s also worth mention that a lot of the code added by plugins can also be removed: http://wptheming.com/2009/12/optimize-plug-in-script-wordpress/