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Hi everyone, welcome to K2 blogging and in this video I will show you how you can disable
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the loading of dash icon in your WordPress website. So as you can see that these are the icons so dash icon used in WordPress
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So if a user is not logged into your WordPress website then they don't need this dash icon
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So you can safely disable it on your WordPress website and improve your blog loading speed
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So when I check the website in page speed insight and when I scroll down here you will
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see this option reduce unused CSS and under that you will see this option dash icon min.css
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and again if you check the eliminate render blocking resources it is again showing the
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dash icon min.css. So this is hampering our page loading speed so we can easily disable it in WordPress in
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various method. So let's check how you can disable it using the PubMatters plugin
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So if you are using PubMatters plugin in your WordPress website then you can simply disable
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it from WordPress just by going to the settings and here in the PubMatters and here you need
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to simply enable this option disable dash icon and let's hit the save changes
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Now when you open this website in incognito mode so let me just quickly open this
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and let me click on view page source and let's search for that dash icon
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As you can see that it is not detecting that stylesheet and let me go to the page speed
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insight here and as you can see that earlier it is showing in reduce unused CSS and render
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blocking resources. So let me just quickly rerun this test and let's check if this error is gone or not
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Alright as you can see that the speed has improved significantly and as you can see
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that those errors are now gone. So in this way you can disable dash icon using the PubMatters plugin and what if you are
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not using any plugin then you can also do that using a custom code snippet
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So all you have to do is use this code in the theme function.php file
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So just copy the code and let's go to the admin panel of this website and here you can
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go to the theme file editor and here you need to go to the function.php file
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Here it is theme function and here you can simply paste this code and hit the update
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button or you can use a code manager plugin to disable dash icon in your WordPress website
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So for this let's go to the plugins and let's click on add new and you can simply search
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for code manager. And here you can see various code manager plugin
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So you can use any of the code manager plugin that allow us to add PHP snippet in our theme
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function.php file. So here I will use this wp code plugin. So I have already installed and activated this plugin and after you activate this plugin
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you will see this option code snippets. So just click on here and let's click on add new
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Now you can click on use snippets here and you can simply type like disable dash icon
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and let's copy the code and let's paste it here. Now let's change the code type to PHP snippet
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Let's click on active and let's click on save changes. And after that this dash icon will be disabled from your WordPress website and you can improve
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your block loading speed. So I hope this video helps you disable dash icon from your WordPress website and if you
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have any doubt regarding this then you can ask me in the comment section
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And if you found this video helpful then make sure to hit the like button
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So I will see you in the next one. Bye bye
