In customising Wordpress you may find a need to occasionally remove or add to the Link elements that Wordpress automatically outputs in the function call wp_head(). I’ve recently had a need to remove the rel=’prev’ and rel=’next’ link elements and in trying to avoid customising the core Wordpress functions the following solutions works.
Ensure you have a functions.php file in your theme directory that you are using. If not create the file and edit the file. The following lines will help remove select lines from your wp_head() function:
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); // Removes the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); // Removes links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link'); // Removes the link to the Really Simple Discovery service endpoint, EditURI link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link'); // Removes the link to the Windows Live Writer manifest file.
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'index_rel_link'); // Removes the index link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link'); // Removes the prev link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link'); // Removes the start link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link'); // Removes the relational links for the posts adjacent to the current post.
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator'); // Removes the Wordpress version i.e. - WordPress 2.8.4
Don’t remove these items unless you have a need to. The Wordpress generator removal could be useful if you are not religiously upgrading your Wordpress install as it helps hide the WP version from potential hackers to a certain degree.
Great info. Not sure when you would need all of these, but I needed to remove the Wordpress version and this worked great.
Thanks
I wish I had something more significant to add… but thanks. Great info.
Thanks for sharing! Just what I was looking for.
Was looking for this! Any solution on how to remove the canonical tag?
Excellent quick reference. Thanks so much!
When I did this, I got an error when I tried to edit a post.
what error did you get?
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links’, 2 );
That one does nothing for me…
does not work
added to my theme functions.php
i am using atahualpa theme
wonder why?
please help