WP Head Optimizer
This plugin allow you to remove unnecessary tags, links, urls, scrips and many additional things from your WordPress header to speed up site loading t …
5(5 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, WP Head Optimizer is a WordPress remove plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Hide/Remove Metadata.
5/55 reviews
300active installs
6.1K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
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
- Remo…
Ratings & Reviews
55 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0
- First release of plugin
Contributors
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