Remove WooCommerce Styles and Scripts

WooCommerce is absolutely the most brilliant and easy-to-use shopping cart for WordPress – but it’s heavy! I’ll show you how to remove the cruft!

Option 1: Use a filter

There are a couple of ways to do this. The easiest is to remove the three primary stylesheets using a simple filter in functions.php

add_filter( 'woocommerce_enqueue_styles', '__return_empty_array' );

Option 2: A bit more control

If you want fine grain control over what appears where, then this function uses a conditional tag to dequeue styles and scripts.

/**
 * Manage WooCommerce styles and scripts.
 */
function grd_woocommerce_script_cleaner() {
	
	// Remove the generator tag
	remove_action( 'wp_head', array( $GLOBALS['woocommerce'], 'generator' ) );

	// Unless we're in the store, remove all the cruft!
	if ( ! is_woocommerce() && ! is_cart() && ! is_checkout() ) {
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce_frontend_styles' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce-general');
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce-layout' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce-smallscreen' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce_fancybox_styles' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce_chosen_styles' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce_prettyPhoto_css' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'selectWoo' );
		wp_deregister_script( 'selectWoo' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-add-payment-method' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-lost-password' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc_price_slider' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-single-product' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-add-to-cart' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-cart-fragments' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-credit-card-form' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-checkout' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-add-to-cart-variation' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-single-product' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-cart' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-chosen' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'woocommerce' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'prettyPhoto' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'prettyPhoto-init' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'jquery-blockui' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'jquery-placeholder' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'jquery-payment' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'fancybox' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'jqueryui' );
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'grd_woocommerce_script_cleaner', 99 );

Option 3: Nuke it

Kill all the things, forever. You’ll write your own styles, because you’re a fucking ninja.

/**
 * Remove all WooCommerce scripts and styles! Forever!
 */
function grd_remove_woocommerce_styles_scripts() {
	remove_action( 'wp_head', array( $GLOBALS['woocommerce'], 'generator' ) );
	remove_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', array( $GLOBALS['woocommerce'], 'frontend_scripts' ) );
}
define( 'WOOCOMMERCE_USE_CSS', false );
add_action( 'init', 'grd_remove_woocommerce_styles_scripts', 99 );

Further reading:

WooCommerce has a page dedicated for style & script management. Also, take a look at the PHP Class responsible for enqueuing styles and scripts.

Thanks to everyone who’s suggested things in the comments. Peer code-review is amazing, and it’s why I share this stuff.