Clean WP Header

[joeuttaro]

You may want to add some / all of these to functions.php

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'clean_wordpress_header');
function clean_wordpress_header(){
    wp_deregister_script('comment-reply');

    remove_action('admin_print_styles',     'print_emoji_styles');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'print_emoji_detection_script', 7);
    remove_action('admin_print_scripts',    'print_emoji_detection_script');
    remove_action('wp_print_styles',        'print_emoji_styles');
    remove_filter('wp_mail',                'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email');
    remove_filter('the_content_feed',       'wp_staticize_emoji');
    remove_filter('comment_text_rss',       'wp_staticize_emoji');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'rest_output_link_wp_head');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links');
    remove_action('template_redirect',      'rest_output_link_header', 11, 0);
    remove_action('wp_head',                'rsd_link');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'wlwmanifest_link');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'wp_shortlink_wp_head');
    remove_action('wp_head',                'wp_generator');

    add_filter('emoji_svg_url', '__return_false');
    if(!is_front_page()){
        wp_dequeue_style('sb_instagram_styles');
        wp_dequeue_style('sb_instagram_icons');
    }
}