Reply To: GET RID OF JQUERY FOR PERFORMANCE REASON

jQuery is managed by it’s own company, any configuration tool to seperate out functionality would need to be created by themselves and then provided for use. I agree it would be useful, they do a similar thing to what is being asked for here with jQuery UI, you can create an optimised file.

However as the theme creators have said, all the time jQuery (in any form) is being used in the core of WordPress or WooCommerce it’s there to be used, it’s not causing any more of a performance hit to anybody’s website and using it can be quicker to dev with and indeed quicker on the front end for queries to execute.

Gevcen, I’d target your request to John Reisig and co at jQuery, chances are as it’s popularity is waning (only a little) they won’t be looking at doing this or it may not be possible. There is a lite version, available on their downloads page that removes ajax requests etc (all do-able natively in js), i suspect the rest isn’t so easy to seperate or they’d have done it a long time ago.

If you’re looking for a fast theme then this is about as good as it gets if you want a pile of functionality thrown in. Otherwise it’s a case of build your own to your specific requirements. You could also look at using the WordPress API’s to create your own front end entirely, you then have the freedom to do as you please…