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Prevent loading unnecessary CSS and JS every page. Remove Jquery

7 months ago · Kenan SALTIK
Description

Prevent loading unnecessary CSS and JS every page. Remove Jquery. Do you really need jquery. Force people to use vanilla javascript and don't let them put their js on head section.

Declined James Nylen

>Do you really need jquery. Force people to use vanilla javascript and don't let them put their js on head section.

This would break almost every existing plugin and theme.

There is also a petition to remove jQuery from the core, which is a more reasonable direction: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/187/jquery-to-vanilla-js

Voters
Discussion
zigpress
· 7 months ago

Why force people to use Vanilla JavaScript? That smacks of WordPress's "decisions not options" philosophy which doesn't apply to ClassicPress.
In any case, they can always load jQuery themselves in a theme or plugin. And trying to prevent people putting scripts in the head section will just make them use script tags in their theme HTML instead of the proper enqueuing functions.