Title: Dequeue scripts on frontend
Last modified: February 15, 2019

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# Dequeue scripts on frontend

 *  Resolved [Ali Sadiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devalisadiq/)
 * (@devalisadiq)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dequeue-scripts-on-frontend/)
 * Hi I have disabled styles from plugin settings but the “jquery.colorbox-min.js”
   and “custom.js” are still being added on the front-end which are enqueued at 
   wp-rss-aggregator/includes/shortcodes.php
 * Shouldn’t disabling styling should disable colorbox on frontend too? Or maybe
   a separate checkbox in settings to disable scripts too?
 * The issue is that I have even tried dequeue-ing them from child-theme and they
   still show up on front-end.
 * I used a simple function in my child-theme
 *     ```
        function theme_abc_dequeue_script() {
          wp_dequeue_script('jquery.colorbox-min');
          wp_dequeue_script('wprss_custom');
       }
       add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'theme_abc_dequeue_script', 100 );
       ```
   
 * And
 *     ```
        function theme_xyz_dequeue_script() {
          wp_dequeue_script('jquery.colorbox-min');
          wp_dequeue_script('wprss_custom');
       }
       add_action( 'wp_print_footer_scripts', 'theme_xyz_dequeue_script', 100 );
       ```
   

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 *  [renzms](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renzms/)
 * (@renzms)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dequeue-scripts-on-frontend/#post-11244887)
 * [@devalisadiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devalisadiq/)
 * Can you please detail to us what it is your are trying to accomplish with the
   core plugin and why you would need to disable our scripts?
 *  Thread Starter [Ali Sadiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devalisadiq/)
 * (@devalisadiq)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dequeue-scripts-on-frontend/#post-11640504)
 * These scripts are not needed on the front-end of my website so this is just unused
   code and extra bytes and I want to dequeue them.
 * When it comes to performance, every byte counts.
 * Google want us to make sites faster and lighter and we can only do this together(
   Plugin developers and theme developers).

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dequeue-scripts-on-frontend/#post-11640504)
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