How to Remove Dashicons and Emoji Styles from WordPress

WordPress calls in some default scripts that can be removed to speed up your sites performance. Simply follow this guide to do so.

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add_action( 'wp_print_styles',     'my_deregister_styles', 100 );

function my_deregister_styles()    { 
   //wp_deregister_style( 'amethyst-dashicons-style' ); 
   wp_deregister_style( 'dashicons' ); 


}
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7 );
remove_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );