Remove rel='dns-prefetch' href='//maps.google.com' from wp-head

Question

How to remove this from WP head:

<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//maps.google.com'>

I had this also:

<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s.w.org'>

But, I removed it with this code inside my functions.php

add_filter( 'emoji_svg_url', '__return_false' ); 

Probably, this is added by one plugin exifografy, which can show map of location where image is taken. But, there is just few posts with map, so having this on all URL-s is just one more line of not used HTML code.

Answer 1

Resource Hints is a smart feature added to WordPress version 4.6. I think it might improve your site speed. But if you want to disable it, try this:

remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_resource_hints', 2);

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References

• wp_head resource hints
• wp_resource_hints filter

Answer 2

/*
 *  Removes <link rel="prefetch" for WP assets not used in the theme
 * */
function remove_dns_prefetch($hints, $relation_type)
{
    if ('dns-prefetch' === $relation_type) {
        return array_diff(wp_dependencies_unique_hosts(), $hints);
    }
    return $hints;
}

add_filter('wp_resource_hints', 'remove_dns_prefetch', 10, 2);

I would suggest to remove it only if not used in the theme, this is the helper function I'm using

Answer 3

I did this by using wp_resource_hints filter and preg_match :

    /**
     * Removes dns-prefetchs links in header
     */
    public function remove_prefetchs($urls) {
        foreach ($urls as $key => $url) {
            if(preg_match('/google.com|code.jquery.com$/', $url) === 1) {
                unset( $urls[ $key ] );
            }
        }
        return $urls;
    }

add_filter( 'wp_resource_hints', array( $this, 'remove_prefetchs' ), 10, 2);