Head Trimmer
Customizable plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from …
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·10 active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Head Trimmer is a WordPress head plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 5.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
0/5Rating
10active installs
3.2K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
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_se…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.1+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.4
- Adds option to remove classic themes CSS styles
Contributors
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