Customizable plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from …
| Author: | John Dalesandro (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.9 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.4 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 26-05-2022 |
| Last updated: | 22-12-2025 |
| Rating, %: | 0 |
| Rated by: | 0 |
| Plugin URI: | https://johndalesandro.com/projects/head-trim... |
| Total downloads: | 3 157 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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The Head Trimmer plugin for WordPress is a customizable plugin to remove automatically generated information from the HEAD element across a site. These extras add bloat to a website and expose WordPress version information as well as other potential security signatures in the generated source code.
Removal options include:
- WordPress Version
- WordPress Version from URLs for Scripts and Styles
- Shortlink
- Shortlink from HTTP response headers
- Canonical
- Relational Links for Posts Adjacent to Current Post
- RSS Feeds
- Really Simple Discovery Link for xmlrpc (rsd_link)
- Windows Live Writer Manifest File Link (wlwmanifest_link)
- oEmbed Discovery Links
- REST API Link
- REST API Link Header
- Emoji Support
- Global Styles and SVG Filters (duotone filters)
- Gutenberg Block CSS Styles (or set ‘should_load_separate_core_block_assets’)
- Classic Theme Styles (classic-theme-styles)
- DNS Prefetch for //s.w.org
- DNS Prefetch for Google Fonts //fonts.googleapis.com
- jQuery
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