Title: WP Head Optimizer
Author: gr8nilay
Published: <strong>Iyul 6, 2017</strong>
Last modified: Fevral 10, 2024

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Head Optimizer

 By [gr8nilay](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-head-optimizer.zip)

 * [Details](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-head-optimizer/)

## Description

WordPress always add many meta tags as well as links, urls scripts and many additional
things to WordPress head section and this plugin helps to remove that additional
added code stuff and that will increase site performance, security and reduce the
HTTP requests of the page and that definitely helps to the site.

For backwards compatibility, if this section is missing, the full length of the 
short description will be used, and
 Markdown parsed.

Using this plugin you can enable / disable below things that can surely helps your
site to load faster and provide some security as well.

 * Disable WP Emoji CSS & Script
 * Remove Canonical URL
 * Remove WordPress Version for security purpose
 * Remove Shortlink
 * Remove RSS Feed URL
 * Remove EditURI Link
 * Disable JSON API
 * Remove Style and Script Versions
 * Remove WLW Manifest
 * Remove Next/Previous Post URLs Links
 * Remove REST API link tag
 * Remove oEmbed Discovery Links

## Installation

 1. Extract the zip file into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory or upload through
    wordpress back end
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Dashboard -> WP Head Optimizer
 4. Remove / Disable the extra added links or ulrs or scripts from WordPress default
 5. You are done. Enjoy Plugin!

## FAQ

If you have any question do let me know on gr8nilay@gmail.com

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Good!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-7209/)󠁿

 [eighteen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/18pee/) Aprel 12, 2022

5 start

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### 󠀁[Excellent Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-5212/)󠁿

 [Gordon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwart/) Oktabr 4, 2019

Works great. Speeds up your website by removing unused scripts. Highly recommend!

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### 󠀁[Focused and simple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/focused-and-simple/)󠁿

 [visionviper](https://profiles.wordpress.org/visionviper/) May 8, 2018

Other similar plugins like this one were just too bloated. This one has a nice clean
settings page and just covers WordPress itself. It doesn’t try to clean up other
plugins which I appreciate because it keeps this plugin focused.

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### 󠀁[Nice..!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-2128/)󠁿

 [gr8nilay](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/) Iyul 6, 2017

Enjoy Plugin…

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Easy to use.!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-to-use-1495/)󠁿

 [Dswt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nilaydswt/) Iyul 6, 2017

Awesome! Increase speed of page loading by removing unnecessary HTTP requests and
scripts.

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-head-optimizer/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Head Optimizer” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ gr8nilay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

[Translate “WP Head Optimizer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-head-optimizer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-head-optimizer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-head-optimizer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-head-optimizer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-head-optimizer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release of plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **2 yil ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/)
 * Tags
 * [optimization](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/optimization/)[remove](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/remove/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-head-optimizer/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ gr8nilay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-head-optimizer/)

## Donate

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