{"id":26,"date":"2016-04-11T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightywp.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:22:07","slug":"clean-up-wordpress-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightywp.com\/clean-up-wordpress-head\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean up WordPress wp_head and Improve Page Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started working with WordPress a couple of years ago when I decided to launch a couple of content sites. Since then, I’ve been working a lot with WordPress and generally loving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Remove Code from the WordPress Header<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WordPress includes code in the WordPress header that most people don’t need. Using a function, wp_head()<\/a>, a lot of code is added by WordPress core, plugins, and themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of this code is unnecessary for your site, and removing it will not affect your site most of the time and will help improve your site’s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we remove unwanted code?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of our options is adding code to a file called functions.php<\/strong> which is included with every theme folder. The file can be found at<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/wp-content\/themes\/your-theme\/functions.php<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What code can you remove from wp_head? I will list the most common ones you can usually remove from your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we will be removing from wp_head()<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n