How To Remove Scripts and Styles from Seriously Simple Podcasting Plugin for WordPress

I really like the plugin called Seriously Simple Podcasting. It does a good job and is easy to use. One thing I don’t like about it is that it loads a lot of styles and scripts into other posts and pages that don’t need them.

If you’d like to remove the styles and scripts from the SSP plugin, here’s how:

In your theme there is a file called functions.php. Place this code at the bottom of that file. If there is a closing ?> then place this code just above that.

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'podcast_conditional_loading', 11 );

function podcast_conditional_loading(){
   if( 'podcast' != get_post_type() )    
   {		
	wp_dequeue_script( 'ssp-block-wavesurfer' ); 
	wp_dequeue_script( 'ssp-block-media-player' ); 
	wp_dequeue_script( 'ssp-block-html5-player' ); 
	wp_dequeue_style( 'ssp-block-style' );
	wp_dequeue_style( 'ssp-block-fonts-style' );
	wp_dequeue_style( 'ssp-block-gizmo-fonts-style' );
	wp_dequeue_style( 'ssp-frontend-player');
   }
} 

That should do it. For any other plugin you can do the same thing. You just have to find the names of the styles and/or scripts by searching in the plugin code for the strings:

wp_enqueue_style or wp_enqueue_script

These will be followed with the names you will want to dequeue. You will also want to change the if condition from if( 'podcast' != get_post_type() ) { ... } to something else or remove it completely to dequeue the styles and scripts on every page.