Disable Frontend-Stylesheet?

Hey, thanks for the compliments, really, we appreciate it!

That stylesheet actually has a meaning in it’s life, since it is used when inserting articles/blog posts in your editor, when composing or editing a (new) blog post. Here’s a link to our blog where you can read more about it:

https://www.zemanta.com/blog/search-everything-for-wordpress-reborn-now-with-writing-helper/

Let me know if you have any more questions or if there’s anything else not completely clear, since I’ll gladly help!

Take care & have a nice day!

Best,
Silvo

Hey Silvo,

thank you for the replay!!
I understand the need in the BACKEND, but what I wrote was that there is, as I see it, no need for the stylesheet in the FRONTEND. When you are trying to optimize you website, adding additional stylesheets unforntunately just do the opposite.

F.e. for Contact Form 7 there is the possibility to disable the stylesheet in the frontend with a line of code in the wp-config.

I would be glad if there was a possibilty.

Thanks
Perry

Hey Perry, thanks for getting back to me, much appreciated!

Well, there are two stylesheets (one in frontend, the other in backend), one for showing up the search results, the other for styling the inserted related articles in the editor, when composing new blog posts (that second image from the blog post I linked you before). Both are necessary for our plugin to function normally and the CSS styling is rather small, so it shouldn’t affect the loading speed of your site.

But, if you wish to remove it nonetheless, then I’d recommend you to add comments between the lines 892-896, in the search-everything.php file. I must state that we cannot be responsible for any inconveniences that might occur with this plugin modification (but our gut feeling tells us it should be OK). ??

Here’s what it should look like:

/*
function se_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style('se-link-styles', plugins_url('/static/css/se-styles.css', __FILE__ ));
}

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'se_enqueue_styles');
*/

Let me know if this works for you or if you have any more questions, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Take care!

Best,
Silvo

You can do it without modifying plugin files, just write in your functions.php:

function dequeue_badly_written_se() {
  wp_dequeue_style( 'se-link-styles' );
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'dequeue_badly_written_se');

@hmmux

?? badly_written

Great Name for the function *lol*

This works great for removing the CSS. But what about removing the <script> that’s inserted into the header?

Thanks!

Figured it out after looking more deeply into plugin code. Just add this to functions.php to remove the version script that’s being added to the header.

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'se_global_head', 10 );

Hey guys, glad you worked this through between yourself, but if you have any more questions in the future, do let us know (probably best in a new, fresh topic) — we’ll do our best to help you out!

Take care & have a nice rest of the day!

Best,
Silvo

@silvosaf – this would be great as an option in the plugin since the styles aren’t critical to the plugin!

@hmmux Your solution works perfectly, thanks!

I wrapped with a plugin check to be safe:

include_once( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/plugin.php’ );
if (is_plugin_active(‘search-everything/search-everything.php’)) {
function dequeue_badly_written_se() {
wp_dequeue_style( ‘se-link-styles’ );
}
add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘dequeue_badly_written_se’);
}