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Milan Petrovic edited this page Oct 2, 2020 · 1 revision

Remove Various Header Links

By default, WordPress adds a lot of links into page HEAD used by the browsers and applications to discover RSS feeds, preload pages, and more. But, some of these links can add overhead to calculate, and in many cases, there is no need to have them at all. This plugin contains simple code to disable all the extra links WordPress adds, and if you want to use some of them, simply leave the lines for the links you want to disable, and remove the rest.

What is removed:

  • RSS feed link
  • Extra RSS feed links
  • Shortlink
  • Canonical link
  • Adjacent links
  • RSD link
  • Windows Live Writer Manifest link

Pros to using this plugin

  • If you don't need these extra links, it will remove them quickly and easily.

Cons to using this plugin

  • None?

How this plugin works

This plugin just removes some of the actions WordPress hooks to disable functions that are used to generate these extra links.

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