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Remove jQuery Migrate

by Hendy Tan

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Description

This plugin removes jQuery Migrate script (jquery-migrate.min.js or jquery-migrate.js) from your WordPress site’s front end when the plugin is active. To bring back the removed jQuery Migrate script, simply deactivate this plugin.

To check whether jQuery Migrate is required in the front end, you could use the development version of jQuery Migrate (unminified version) by temporarily turning on SCRIPT_DEBUG mode in wp-config.php file. The development version shows warnings in the browser console when removed and/or deprecated jQuery APIs are used.

For more info about jQuery Migrate, visit here.

GitHub: https://github.com/icaru12/remove-jquery-migrate

  1. From your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for Remove jQuery Migrate
  3. Click Install Now
  4. Activate the plugin
  5. Done!

Still working for me on WP 6.8.1

By Brian Shim (brianrshim) on May 26, 2025

This plugin is still doing its job of removing jquery-migrate from my sites with WordPress V6.8.1 - I confirmed by looking at the source code before and after activation. Many thanks!

good

By cantoostinato8989 on March 19, 2021

This plugin works very good with WP 4.9, but i can say that it is usless with WP 5.5 And they say - with the WordPress 5.5 update, the migration tool known as jquery-migrate is no longer enabled by default.

Perfect!

By Selah (tubescreamer) on January 23, 2021

Did exactly what I needed it to do after the update to WordPress 5.6 broke my site due to the jQuery Migrate plugin.

It does the job!

By gtamborero on July 23, 2019

Works correctly up to WordPress 5.2.2 and probably more

Very lightweight - only a dozen lines of code

By roam92 on February 28, 2019

Does what it says, stops the jquery-migrate JavaScript library from loading on your WordPress website. It's recommended to delete such unneeded calls & loads if your visitor-facing site uses jQuery, but none of your plugins require the jQuery Migrate library. "What is jQuery Migrate? The jQuery Migrate module (jquery-migrate.min.js) is a javascript library that preserves compatibility of jQuery code developed for versions of jQuery older than 1.9. JQuery Migrate also allows developers to detect deprecated code that is no longer supported by the latest jQuery libraries and to adapt it according to the newest versions of jQuery 1.9 and higher." jQuery is currently on version 3.x, so modern plugins should not need the migrate library. But if something does happen to break, then you can always uninstall this plugin.

Awesome keep going

By mariushosting (Marius84) on January 31, 2018

Awesome plugin, work perfect!

Worked like a charm!

By jat247 on November 24, 2017

Thanks for this, I tried several code snippets to de-queue the jquery migrate process but none of them seemed to do the trick. Now I'm loading and processing one less js file!

1.0.3

  • Minor code improvement
  • Tested up to WordPress 6.0

1.0.2

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.4

1.0.1

  • Added function_exists check.

1.0

  • Initial release.
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