Title: Can't dequeue a plugin css file Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Can't dequeue a plugin css file * Resolved [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/) * Hi there is a plugin which adds a css file which I want to dequeue * ``` public function addStyles_frontend() { // Enqueue Styles wp_enqueue_style( 'prefix-font-awesome' , '//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css' , array() , '4.3.0' ); } ``` * In my child theme fucntions.php I have this code * ``` function remove_unwanted_css(){ wp_dequeue_style('prefix-font-awesome'); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'remove_unwanted_css', 100 ); ``` * But it doesn’t dequeue the css file…So what am I doing wrong? * Thanks Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271310) * Try to add the following code * ``` function remove_unwanted_css(){ wp_dequeue_style('prefix-font-awesome'); } add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'remove_unwanted_css', 100 ); ``` * Thread Starter [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271432) * Unfortunately this doesn’t help. A closer look at the plugin code reveals that the style is enqueued from a function which is called from the plugin shortcode. * ``` public function processShortcode( $p ) { // enqueue our scripts + styles $this->addScripts_frontend(); $this->addStyles_frontend(); ..... } ``` * So I guess what I have been trying so far is to dequeue a style that is not enqueued when running the child function.php and then the shortcode enqueues the style ignoring the code in functions.php which has already run. So what do I have to do? Replace the whole function processShortcode in functions.php? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271434) * Do you need to dequeue it? Can you not just override it with CSS specificity? * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271440) * Can you give me the link to that plugin so I can check it myself? * Thread Starter [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271450) * Yes the link is this [https://wordpress.org/plugins/timeline-express/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/timeline-express/) I have edited the plugin file directly which is /classes/class.timeline-express. php line 936. I guess that I will have to do it over and over again after every plugin update. * I don’t want to override it with css as I already have an http request to font awesome from the theme which is a different version than the one which the plugin uses. So I wanted to avoid the extra request. In addition I wanted to experiment with this option to see how it is possible to dequeue css files in general from plugins * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271462) * Hello drazon, If you are taking about the style from the admin end then I hope these code will work for you. * ``` function remove_unwanted_css(){ wp_dequeue_style('prefix-font-awesome'); } add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'remove_unwanted_css', 100); ``` * Thread Starter [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271465) * Hi Tremi, no I’m talking about the front end style of font awesome at line 936 * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271468) * Try these code: * ``` function remove_unwanted_css(){ wp_dequeue_style('prefix-font-awesome'); } add_filter('wp_footer', 'remove_unwanted_css'); ``` * Thread Starter [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271470) * Thank you very much this did the trick and the extra http request has been removed! Good technique * So to understand wp_footer runs after the shortcode. The shortcode enqueues the css style but before the page is rendered wp_footer dequeues the css style, so the file is not requested from the browser… Is it something like that? * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271490) * Hello drazon, * In the above code we have add a filter to the footer because the style is enqueued in the wp_footer. By filter the wp_footer it will check if the style handler “ prefix-font-awesome” is present and dequeue it. * For more information on wp_footer check this [link](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_footer) * Thread Starter [drazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drazon/) * (@drazon) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271491) * Thank you very much Tremi for Your help! * [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * (@tremidkhar) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271492) * Anytime 🙂 Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Can't dequeue a plugin css file’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [dequeue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dequeue/) * [wp_enqueue_scripts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_enqueue_scripts/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Tremi Dkhar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tremidkhar/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-deque/#post-6271492) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics