Woocommerce Remove Select2 / SelectWoo

woocommerce-select2-selectwoo-remove

// Add to your theme's functions.php file. De-queues Select2 styles & scripts. Useful to keep Boostrap form control formatting

/**
 * Remove Woocommerce Select2 - Pre WC 3.2.1-ish
 */
function woo_dequeue_select2() {
    if ( class_exists( 'woocommerce' ) ) {
        wp_dequeue_style( 'select2' );
        wp_deregister_style( 'select2' );

        wp_dequeue_script( 'select2');
        wp_deregister_script('select2');
    } 
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'woo_dequeue_select2', 100 );

/**
 * Remove Woocommerce Select2 - Woocommerce 3.2.1+
 */
function woo_dequeue_select2() {
    if ( class_exists( 'woocommerce' ) ) {
        wp_dequeue_style( 'select2' );
        wp_deregister_style( 'select2' );

        wp_dequeue_script( 'selectWoo');
        wp_deregister_script('selectWoo');
    } 
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'woo_dequeue_select2', 100 );

I've seen sites that have had select-2 enqueued 4 times. Most of my builds these days are custom and I hardly ever use any plugins apart from ACF and WooCommerce. Too much of a headache trying to unpick things...

This is the stupidest solution ever seen. What if other plugins require select2?

Pretty simple, you check if they do, and make conditions to allow it load where needed, and otherwise you improve page load speed and rank by eliminating unnecessary render blocking resources. Congrats for the stupidest comment on this page.

@sean-mystyle What if other plugins require selectWoo?

wp_enqueue_script ('custom_js', plugins_url ('js/custom.js', __FILE__), array ('selectWoo'));

@sean-mystyle What if other plugins require selectWoo?

wp_enqueue_script ('custom_js', plugins_url ('js/custom.js', __FILE__), array ('selectWoo'));

Instead of wondering "what if", just check if it's being used or not and know where it's safe to remove it or not. For example, this is for select boxes UI right? Well, if there's no select boxes on the page, then it's not being used and is adding bloat to the page for no reason.

Write some code that only dequeues it on pages that don't use it. For me the only pages that need this are product pages, cart, and checkout. So the code says is it one of those pages? If not, dequeue it, and it speeds up the page load time with one less render blocking resource.

For newer versions of WooCommerce, the handle that should be removed is wc-country-select :

wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-country-select');
wp_deregister_script( 'wc-country-select' );