Head Trimmer
by John Dalesandro on WordPress.org
Customizable plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from …
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Head Trimmer admin settings screen.
The Head Trimmer 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.
Removal options include:
- WordPress Version
- WordPress Version from URLs for Scripts and Styles
- Shortlink
- Shortlink from HTTP response headers
- Canonical
- Relational Links for Posts Adjacent to Current Post
- RSS Feeds
- Really Simple Discovery Link for xmlrpc (rsd_link)
- Windows Live Writer Manifest File Link (wlwmanifest_link)
- oEmbed Discovery Links
- REST API Link
- REST API Link Header
- Emoji Support
- Global Styles and SVG Filters (duotone filters)
- Gutenberg Block CSS Styles (or set ‘should_load_separate_core_block_assets’)
- Classic Theme Styles (classic-theme-styles)
- DNS Prefetch for //s.w.org
- DNS Prefetch for Google Fonts //fonts.googleapis.com
- jQuery
Active installations20+
Weekly downloads
21+23.53%
Version1.0.4
Last updated12/22/2025
WordPress version3.1
Tested up to6.8.1
PHP version5.1
Tags
cleanheadmetaremovesecurity
