WP: how to remove version number in wp_enqueue_script?

Question

I'm trying to remove the version number from appearing in the URL generated by wp_enqueue_script. It seems like I should pass a null on the 4th parameter per http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script:

wp_enqueue_script('jquery', false, array(), null, false);

It's not working. I still see the version number. How do I remove that?

Also, how do I use wp_enqueue_script so that I get jQuery from the Google CDN?

Hindi

Answer 1

You can either use

wp_enqueue_script('jquery', 'URL', array(), '', false);

or

wp_enqueue_script('jquery', 'URL', array(), null, false);

or you can put a generic name placeholder

wp_enqueue_script('jquery', 'URL', array(), 'custom', false);

But particularly with "jquery" I would deregister the default if you want to replace it

wp_deregister_script('jquery');
$GoogleJqueryURI = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js';
wp_register_script('jquery', $GoogleJqueryURI, array(), 'custom', false);
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

Centri

What does this "custom" do? – Hindi

This worked for me: wp_register_script('jquery', $GoogleJqueryURI, array(), null, false);. It need the URL not to contain a query string. Putting "custom" resulted in something like this: ?ver=custom, which is not what I wanted. – Hindi

custom doesn't do anything. It is just a word placeholder for the Version. Basically would show ?ver=custom where << version does not technically have to show an actual version number. – Centri

'' won't work, null worked. Btw never use the external jquery version with WordPress, it will cause lots of conflict with inbuild WordPress jQuery – Malia

Answer 2

try something like this:

wp_deregister_script('jquery'); 
wp_register_script('jquery', ('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js'), false, NULL);
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');

The $ver and $in_footer are optional. So just leave them off.

Also, if you use the google cdn then it will be hard to hide the version any way, its in the url.

Hamrick

Yes, $ver is optional. But the default behavior is that it appears in the URL produced. I don't want the the query string. As for the Google CDN, it doesn't have the version in the query string, so it's fine. – Hindi

Answer 3

function remove_css_js_version( $src ) {
    if( strpos( $src, '?ver=' ) )
        $src = remove_query_arg( 'ver', $src );
    return $src;
}
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', 'remove_css_js_version', 9999 );
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', 'remove_css_js_version', 9999 );

Tourism

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This is not proper solution as you need to use correct value for variable #ver. – Sharenshargel

Answer 4

An example when version is not added.

wp_enqueue_script('element-plus', 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/index.full.min.js', null, null)

An output of code above will be:

<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/index.full.min.js' id='element-plus-js'></script>

According to documentation several variables are accepted:

wp_enqueue_script( string $handle, string $src = '', string[] $deps = array(), string|bool|null $ver = false, bool $in_footer = false )

If value for $ver is false (or not given), then automatically version of WP is used.

Sharenshargel