WordPress wp_head call bringing in loads of crap

[Ricky55]

Just building a WP theme and I trying to create everything from scratch so I can create my own framework and also to keep things as clean as possible.

I’ve noticed that as soon as I add the wp_head call WordPress adds a few lines of crap. It looks like most of it is for the admin bar but its inserted css into the head using the old text/css.

Just wondered if I can stop or change this css?

I know I can turn off the admin bar is this the only way?

[Alen]

Put this in your functions.php file

// clean head
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘index_rel_link’);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘parent_post_rel_link’, 10, 0);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘start_post_rel_link’, 10, 0);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);
// remove admin bar
add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’);

[Ricky55]

Thanks, didn’t know about this.

By the way when I added the footer call even more was added, is there a clean up for the footer too?

Don’t mind the admin bar but I can’t cope with this amount of junk.

One other thing, is there a way to stop WP using absolute paths to assets?

[derElch]

interessting, will use it for my new theme too.

[Ricky55]

Thanks Melindrea once again!

[Ricky55]

I’ve been a bit of a numpty here, when I was seeing most of that junk I was logged in. Now I’ve logged out a lot of it has disappeared so most of it was the admin bar.

Thanks again for the links though!

[Alen]

In the past you had to edit WordPress core files to customize something. Now for most things there are [Hooks, Actions and Filters](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API). [WordPress Hooks Database](http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks) is another great resource to have handy.

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