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Remove all the extra bloat of meta tags that WordPress adds to the <head> and disables the JSON API
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| <?php | |
| // remove some meta tags from WordPress | |
| remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); | |
| function remove_dns_prefetch( $hints, $relation_type ) { | |
| if ( 'dns-prefetch' === $relation_type ) { | |
| return array_diff( wp_dependencies_unique_hosts(), $hints ); | |
| } | |
| return $hints; | |
| } | |
| remove_action ('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link'); | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head'); | |
| //remove json api capabilities | |
| function remove_json_api () { | |
| // Remove the REST API lines from the HTML Header | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rest_output_link_wp_head', 10 ); | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links', 10 ); | |
| // Remove the REST API endpoint. | |
| remove_action( 'rest_api_init', 'wp_oembed_register_route' ); | |
| // Turn off oEmbed auto discovery. | |
| add_filter( 'embed_oembed_discover', '__return_false' ); | |
| // Don't filter oEmbed results. | |
| remove_filter( 'oembed_dataparse', 'wp_filter_oembed_result', 10 ); | |
| // Remove oEmbed discovery links. | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links' ); | |
| // Remove oEmbed-specific JavaScript from the front-end and back-end. | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_host_js' ); | |
| } | |
| add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'remove_json_api' ); | |
| //completely disable json api | |
| function disable_json_api () { | |
| // Filters for WP-API version 1.x | |
| add_filter('json_enabled', '__return_false'); | |
| add_filter('json_jsonp_enabled', '__return_false'); | |
| // Filters for WP-API version 2.x | |
| add_filter('rest_enabled', '__return_false'); | |
| add_filter('rest_jsonp_enabled', '__return_false'); | |
| } | |
| add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'disable_json_api' ); | |
| // Remove auto generated feed links | |
| function my_remove_feeds() { | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); | |
| } | |
| add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_remove_feeds' ); | |
| add_filter( 'wp_resource_hints', 'remove_dns_prefetch', 10, 2 ); | |
| //remove emoji scripts from head | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7 ); | |
| remove_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' ); | |
| ?> |
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Thanks for this! I found a few articles that only did parts, and this takes care of all of it.