Remove rel=”EditURI” and rel=”wlwmanifest”
Here I’ll show you how to remove the EditURI and wlwmanifest links from the head section of your WordPress blog. These links are only necessary if you use or plan to use Windows Live Writer. Otherwise these 2 lines added to your blog header since WordPress 2.3.1 and above are useless.
<link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”http://mysite/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />
<link rel=”wlwmanifest” type=”application/wlwmanifest+xml” href=”http://mysite/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml” />
After removal your pages will load faster. Here’s how to do it:
- Login to your WordPress panel
- Navigate to Appearance > Editor
- Click Theme Functions (functions.php)
- Add the following code to the end of the file. Right before the closing <?php } ?> or ?> tags:
add_action(‘init’, ‘remheadlink’);
function remheadlink() {
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’);
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’);
}
- Click Update File
Done!
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