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WordPress ~ Clean head HTML tag - #frontend #optimisation
<?php
/**
* Define what to clean from the theme header frontend, via the "remove_action" hook.
*
* @see https://github.com/GetOlympus/Zeus-Core
*/
$optims = [
'adjacent_posts_rel', // Removes the next and previous post links from the header
'feed_links', // Removes Automatics RSS links, which will still work with your own links
'shortlink', // Removes the shortlink url from header
'recent_comments', // Removes a block of inline CSS used by old themes from the header
'resource_hints', // Removes dns-prefetch links from the header
'index_rel_link', // Removes rel navigation links
'parent_post_rel_link', // Removes rel parent link
'rest_output_link_wp_head', // Removes REST API link tag
'rsd_link', // Removes Really Simple Discovery (RSD) links used for automatic pingbacks
'start_post_rel_link', // Removes rel first post link
'wc_generator_tag', // Removes WooCommerce meta generator tag
'wp_dlmp_l10n_style', // Removes i18n styles
'wp_generator', // Removes WordPress meta generator tag
'wlwmanifest_link', // Removes the link to wlwmanifest.xml needed to support Windows Live Writer
];
// Iterate on all optimizations
foreach ($optims as $key) {
if ('adjacent_posts_rel' === $key) {
remove_action('wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link', 10, 0);
remove_action('wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
continue;
}
if ('feed_links' === $key) {
remove_theme_support('automatic-feed-links');
remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links', 2);
remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3);
continue;
}
if (in_array($key, ['parent_post_rel_link', 'start_post_rel_link'])) {
remove_action('wp_head', $key, 10, 0);
continue;
}
if ('shortlink' === $key) {
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head', 10, 0);
remove_action('template_redirect', 'wp_shortlink_header', 11, 0);
continue;
}
if ('recent_comments' === $key) {
add_filter('show_recent_comments_widget_style', '__return_false');
continue;
}
if ('resource_hints' === $key) {
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_resource_hints', 2);
continue;
}
// Default action
remove_action('wp_head', $key);
}
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