How do I “unhook” / de-register jQuery so that it’s not called as part of wp_footer();?
You don’t want to unregister the script; that would make it unavailable to be enqueued. Rather, you want to dequeue the script. You have two choices: If you know the callback function through which wp_enqueue_script( ‘jquery’ ) is called, you can simply call remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘callback_function_name’ ) More likely, you won’t know the callback function … Read more