John Dalesandro

<p>The <strong>Head Trimmer</strong> 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.</p>
<p>Removal options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version</li>
<li>WordPress Version from URLs for Scripts and Styles</li>
<li>Shortlink</li>
<li>Shortlink from HTTP response headers</li>
<li>Canonical</li>
<li>Relational Links for Posts Adjacent to Current Post</li>
<li>RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Really Simple Discovery Link for xmlrpc (rsd_link)</li>
<li>Windows Live Writer Manifest File Link (wlwmanifest_link)</li>
<li>oEmbed Discovery Links</li>
<li>REST API Link</li>
<li>REST API Link Header</li>
<li>Emoji Support</li>
<li>Global Styles and SVG Filters (duotone filters)</li>
<li>Gutenberg Block CSS Styles (or set ‘should_load_separate_core_block_assets’)</li>
<li>Classic Theme Styles (classic-theme-styles)</li>
<li>DNS Prefetch for //s.w.org</li>
<li>DNS Prefetch for Google Fonts //fonts.googleapis.com</li>
<li>jQuery</li>
</ul>


Head Trimmer

Customizable plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from  …

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<h4>Benefits</h4>
<p>Add additional code to your header WITHOUT editing your theme:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stylesheets (CSS)</li>
<li>Javascript (JS)</li>
<li>Google Analytics</li>
<li>Metadata</li>
<li>Anything else</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Change your downloaded theme visually without changing it, by adding an extra stylesheet. If you update your theme, your changes will still be intact.</li>
<li>Add Google Analytics without changing your theme. If you update or change your theme, Google Analytics will still be there.</li>
</ul>


Add to Header

Add additional code to your header WITHOUT editing your theme, such as CSS and Javascript.

Head Trimmer vs Add to Header