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Why
What it disables
What it preserves
Minimum Requirements
Installation
Credits
License

Why

Kirki v6 introduced a full no-code page builder (formerly Droip) on top of the existing Kirki v5 Customizer field framework. If you use only the Customizer fields and want nothing to do with the page builder, install this mu-plugin. It removes the page builder entirely — install to disable, remove the package to re-enable.

What it disables

Admin UI

Feature	How
"Design with Kirki" button in the Gutenberg editor toolbar	Dequeues the `custom_link` script on `admin_enqueue_scripts`
"Kirki" top-level admin menu (Canvas, Submissions, Role Managers, Settings)	Removes the `kirki` menu page on `admin_menu`
"Edit with Kirki" in the WordPress admin bar	Removes the `edit_with_kirki` node on `admin_bar_menu`
"Edit with Kirki" in post and page list row actions	Unsets the `edit_with_kirki` key from `post_row_actions` / `page_row_actions`
"Kirki Full Canvas" in the page template dropdown	Filters it out of `theme_page_templates`

Frontend and global hooks

These are removed on plugins_loaded priority 20, after Kirki registers its own hooks at priority 10.

Class	Hooks removed	Why
`Kirki\ContentManager`	`parse_request`, `init`	Runs DB queries on every request to find Kirki content manager posts and register dynamic CPTs
`Kirki\Manager\PluginInitEvents`	`document_title_parts`	Runs a DB query on every page to look up Kirki SEO settings
`Kirki\Frontend\TheFrontend`	`wp`, `wp_head`, `the_content` (PHP_INT_MAX), `wp_footer`	`replace_content()` applies `html_entity_decode()` to all page content regardless of whether Kirki built it — corrupting HTML attribute escaping (e.g. shortcode attributes). Also runs DB queries on every page.
`Kirki\Frontend\TheFrontendHooks`	`wp_enqueue_scripts`, `wp_body_open`, `wp_footer`, `template_redirect`	Injects `window.wp_kirki` (nonce, AJAX URL, REST URL, site URL, post ID) as an inline script into every page footer. Starts `ob_start()` with a regex callback on every page. Runs DB queries on every page.
`Kirki\Manager\TemplateRedirection`	`template_include`, login/register redirects, `post_link`, `query_vars`	Hijacks template loading at `PHP_INT_MAX` and overrides WordPress login/register/lost-password page routing

Miscellaneous

Setting	How
`big_image_size_threshold` set to `false` by Kirki	Restored to WordPress default (2560 px) by calling `remove_filter('big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false')`

What it preserves

The Kirki v5 Customizer field framework (Kirki\Customizer and everything under customizer/) is loaded independently in KirkiBase::__construct() and is not touched by this plugin. Any Kirki Customizer fields registered in your theme or plugins will continue to work normally.

The following Kirki v6 components are also left in place as they have no impact on regular page loads:

Kirki\Ajax — admin AJAX handlers (wp_ajax_kirki_*), only fire on explicit AJAX requests
Kirki\API — REST API routes, only registered on rest_api_init
Kirki\ElementVisibilityConditions — only hooks onto Kirki-specific filters, never fires on non-Kirki pages
Kirki\Manager\PluginShortcode — shortcodes are inert unless explicitly placed in content

Minimum Requirements

PHP v8.1
WordPress v6.2

Installation

composer require itinerisltd/kirki-disable-pagebuilder

Credits

kirki-disable-pagebuilder is a Itineris Limited project created by Lee Hanbury-Pickett.

Full list of contributors can be found here.

License

kirki-disable-pagebuilder is released under the MIT License.

itinerisltd/kirki-disable-pagebuilder

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