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Disable DNS Prefetch for WordPress Emoji (WP 4.6) #159
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In WP 4.6 the new DNS Prefetch feature was added. On a typical site it looks like this:
I was trying to determine where the s.w.org hostname was coming from, and tracked it down to here:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/37387/37387.diff
I've added a single line to the Soil cleanup module to disable this unnecessary DNS prefetch, and I can confirm it worked on my test site. Changing the URL to false seems to be the only way to prevent disable it.
As far as I can tell nothing else in the HEAD has changed in WP 4.6.