How can I remove jquery from the frontside of my WordPress?

Question

My wordpress site is a bit heavy to download. On the frontend, its including jquery unnecessarily. In my firebug it looks like:

jquery.js?ver=1.3.2
         


        

Answer 1

Wordpress adds this jQuery call via a template tag named , which appears in most themes, and is necessary for some plugins to work.

It could be annoying, not only because of loading, but because it might kill previously loaded jQuery, and might even get in the way of some plugins who try to load jQuery as well.

The quick fix is openning up the file header.php in your theme's directory, and adding:

right before

Or just combine them both into:

A more technical explanation could be found here