What's a good way to unenqueue all scripts for a single template page?

Question

I've found that my attachment templates are inheriting the enqueued scripts for single posts. My first instinct was to unenqueue these scripts one-by-one or to do an is_attachment() check before enqueueing them at all.

It strikes me that a more robust way to do this might be to simply be to remove any and all enqueued scripts for that page type; that way, I don't have to update code in multiple places if I add or remove an enqueued script in the future.

Offhand I can't find a way to do this. What's a good way to unenqueue all scripts for just a single page?

Answer 1

I haven't tried it, but this might do it:

global $wp_scripts;
if (is_a($wp_scripts, 'WP_Scripts')) {
  $wp_scripts->queue = array();
}

Basically just resetting the scripts queue to blank. Should work, I think. You'd want this right at the top of your attachment template, probably.

From an optimization perspective, it would be faster to use the is_attachment() method to not enqueue the ones you want at all instead.