How To Remove Shortlink From HTTP Header WordPress

Do you want to Remove Shortlink From HTTP Header of your website . As we know that WordPress 4.2 and above version added rel=’shortlink’ in the HTTP header Response .

 

 

 

What is shortlink in Http header ?

Shortlink is nothing but the shorter version of the post or page url . Which create a separate request on respective web-page . So its better you should remove it . Mostly WordPress added this by considering the SEO factor .

For example this page has following  shortlink but you can’t search because we have already disabled this option

<link rel='shortlink' href='https://gomahamaya.com/?p=2047' />

 

In the above

?p=ID

respresent the page ID with the number . Removing Shortlink From HTTP Header of your website will not affect your website seo but it will increase your website performance little bit .

 

To remove rel=shortlink from your website you need to paste the following code inside function.php file . This is without plugin method .

add_filter('after_setup_theme', 'gomaya_remove_shortlink');
function gomaya_remove_shortlink() {
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head', 10);
remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'wp_shortlink_header', 11);
}
If you want to do same work by using plugin then you should use Remove WP version and shortlink plugin . This is free plugin but if you want premium version then you should use perfmatters . Which have so many feature apart from this

 

Once you activate the plugin just enable Remove Shortlink option in perfmatters Plugin and you are ready to rock .