Stop Ajax Search Lite loading on my blog posts

I am optimizing performance on my company’s wordpress blog for https://www.nownovel.com/blog and would like to deactivate the ajax-search-lite plugin on my blog posts because I only use the search on the blog home and search pages.

I have tried a couple different things to stop the ajax-search-lite code from loading on blog posts, but haven’t been successful. I suspect that the plugin is being loaded differently to other plugins.

Does someone know how to do this?

This is all the code I have tried so far – none of it works:

function conditional_load_ajax_search_lite() {
  if ( is_home() || is_search() ) {
    include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/ajax-search-lite/ajax-search-lite.php' );
  }
}
add_action( 'wp_loaded', 'conditional_load_ajax_search_lite' );

function conditional_load_ajax_search_lite() {
  if ( !is_single() && ( is_home() || is_search() ) ) {
    include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/ajax-search-lite/ajax-search-lite.php' );
  }
}
add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'conditional_load_ajax_search_lite' );

function remove_ajax_search_lite_on_posts() {
  if ( is_single() ) {
    remove_all_actions( 'plugins_loaded', 'ajax-search-lite' );
  }
}
add_action( 'init', 'remove_ajax_search_lite_on_posts' );

function conditional_load_ajax_search_lite( $plugins ) {
  if ( is_single() ) {
    if( ( $key = array_search( 'ajax-search-lite/ajax-search-lite.php', $plugins ) ) !== false ) {
      unset( $plugins[$key] );
    }
  }
  return $plugins;
}
add_filter( 'option_active_plugins', 'conditional_load_ajax_search_lite' );

I also tried using mu_plugins, like so:

function conditional_load_ajax_search_lite( $plugins ) {
  if ( is_single() ) {
    $key = array_search( 'ajax-search-lite/ajax-search-lite.php', $plugins );
    if ( false !== $key ) {
      unset( $plugins[$key] );
    }
  }
  return $plugins;
}
add_filter( 'mu_plugin_active', 'conditional_load_ajax_search_lite' );

and so:

function conditional_load_ajax_search_lite( $plugins ) {
  if ( is_home() || is_page( 'search' ) ) {
    $plugins[] = 'ajax-search-lite/ajax-search-lite.php';
  }
  return $plugins;
}
add_filter( 'mu_plugin_active', 'conditional_load_ajax_search_lite' );

All solutions had no effect

• This topic was modified 2 years ago by dkti.

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