Sweep

Sweep is a simple library for WordPress which removes a lot of the cruft that's included by default, including jQuery, Emojis, DNS Prefetches and more.

Installation

Installation is done through composer composer require keironlowe/sweep.

Usage

Just create a new instance of Sweep and then chain the available methods to remove what you wish.

use Sweep\Sweep;

Sweep::create()->removeAll();

Methods

removeAll()

Executes all the removal methods available within the library.

removeEmojis()

Removes the emoji scripts and styles.

removeAdminBar()

Removes the admin bar from the page.

removeBlockEditorCss()

Removes the block editor styles,

removeWpDnsPrefetch()

Removes the DNS prefetch for https://s.w.org.

removeXmlRpcLink()

Removes the XML-RPC link.

removeWordPressVersion()

Removes the WordPress version number.

removeWindowsLiveWriterLink()

Removes the Windows Live Writer link.

removeWpJsonLink()

Removes the api.w.org WP-JSON link.

removeRecentCommentsCSS()

Removes the CSS for the recent comment's widget.

removeJQuery()

Removes jQuery and in turn, jQuery Migrate. This is probably the most dangerous method, you should onlu use this if you're absolutely sure you and any plugins aren't using jQuery.

removeBlockEditor()

Disables the block editor.

removeOEmbed()

Removes any oEmbed functionality.