How to remove extra css in wordpress?

Some times we need to remove some css from our wordpress website or blog to speed up our website. Here below is a trick which you can use to remove unused css from your wordpress website.

First of all you have to find the stylesheet file which you want to remove and to find this open your webpage in google chrome and press ctrl+u to view the source code of the webpage, then find the link tag of css file and there you will see the id in the link tag and this is what you need to remove the css. Now paste the code given below in your functions.php file located at root_directory_path/wp-content/themes/your_theme/functions.php

And we have used here two wordpress core functions wp_dequeue_style and wp_deregister_style.

Here ‘wc-block-style’ is the id of the link tag which you have found in source code of webpage. You can also see the image below to find id of css.

function dequeue_my_css() {

    if (is_home() == true || is_single() == true) {

        wp_dequeue_style('wc-block-style');
        wp_deregister_style('wc-block-style');

    }

}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts','dequeue_my_css', 9999);
add_action( 'wp_head', 'dequeue_my_css', 9999 );

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good day dear Chetan Rohilla

many thank you so much for spending your time creating and posting this article.

i just found your article and i like it. The way you talk about removing of extra css and Wordpress-development.

Many thanks for the article it is just great!! It looks very promising and your thoughts regarding the remove of extra css in wordpress
development are interesting. Many thanks for your inspiring ideas.

i am currently working on some issues - that have to do with the CSS and google fonts.

to begin with the beginning:i have found out that my wordpress-site fetches two google fonts:

one of them is montserrat

i decided to host them locally. so i have to

a. fetch the fonts
b. correct the css code

with the following tool i fetch them

google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.c...

here i have the option to add the paths - to customize the path in the css-data

/* montserrat-regular - latin / u/font-face { font-family: 'Montserrat'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; src: url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.eot'); / IE9 Compat Modes / src: local(''), url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), / IE6-IE8 / url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.woff2') format('woff2'), / Super Modern Browsers / url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.woff') format('woff'), / Modern Browsers / url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), / Safari, Android, iOS / url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.svg#Montserrat') format('svg'); / Legacy iOS */ } Customize folder prefix (optional):

and now i have to add a path to set the correct path - (that means to customize the path )

../fonts/

some additional thought: what makes me wonder is the fact that some of the examples show full paths as reference - others dont:

see the following examples;

a. wp-ninjas.de/wordpress-google-font...

url("https://wp-ninias.de/fonts/muilti-latin-300.woff2") format (
url("https://wp-ninias.de/fonts/muilti-latin-300.woff") format (


b. pixelgrade.com/docs/advanced-custo...

Copy the URL Path field and paste it before each URL in the Embed Code field. The example code will look like this:

@font-face {
font-family: 'Name of the font';
src: url('http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/fonts/11148/name-of-the-font-file.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/fonts/11148/name-of-the-font-file.woff') format('woff');
}


c. themeisle.com/blog/custom-fonts-wo...

Once the file is in place, open up your child theme’s stylesheet. Now you’ll need to call on that font so you can use it, via a snippet that should look like this:

`

@font-face {
font-family: New Font;
src: url(yourwebsite.com/wp-content/themes/...);
font-weight: normal;
}

`

and now compare it with the following example here:

1. Copy CSS: (default is Best Support) Modern Browsers Choose Best Support if old browsers still need to be supported. Formats in this snippet: [eot,woff,woff2,ttf,svg]

Code:
/* montserrat-regular - latin */
@font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: local(''),
url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */
url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('../fonts/montserrat-v25-latin-regular.svg#Montserrat') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */


see the helper-tool google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.c...

the question: so the question is: how to set the path correct for the CSS... which path should we use here!?

Dear Chetan Rohilla i look forward to hear from you