It removes cookies from the requests to static resources for the modern browsers.
As of April 2026, Remove Cookies From Static Resources is a WordPress cleanup plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Top alternative: WP-Sweep.
It removes cookies from the requests to static resources for modern browsers.
When the browser requests a static resource such as an image, a stylesheet, or a script, it sends to the server all the cookies, and it does it at every request.
If your page requests 10 scripts, then it sends 10 times the cookies.
As you have probably heard, a way to solve this issue is to serve the static resources from a cookies-free subdomain.
The cookies-free subdomain is a possible solution, but sometimes you have no wish to create a subdomain only for the static assets and give instructions to WordPress for fetching them from the subdomain.
Moreover, why don’t we solve this issue directly at the root? Is the browser that sends cookies to the server, so let’s address this issue with the browser…
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
*Initial release
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