http://www.meoptometry.com/wp-content/themes/x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.woff?v=4.0.3
http://www.meoptometry.com/wp-content/themes/x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.woff?v=1.0

Thank you,
meo
http://www.meoptometry.com

I think the best way would be using a plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-query-strings-from-static-resources/ for removing query strings. And if you need live performance report in your site then you can consider to use this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gtmetrix-for-wordpress/

Hope these helps, Cheers!

meo

If you remove the font-awesome, all icons of the site won’t show. They’ll show as square dot.

If you don’t want to use a plugin, try adding the following codes into funtions.php of your child theme:

function _remove_script_version( $src ){
	$parts = explode( '?', $src );
	return $parts[0];
}
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );

Anyone have any other tips/solutions on removing them from these two items?

Thanks,
meo

the font awesome and foundation social is declared on a each CSS based on the stack used that includes query strings. You could easily remove those query string directly from those CSS files but the thing is you must not edit anything inside X core file.

Can you try adding this Instead on your child theme style.css and see how it goes,

@font-face {
    font-family: 'fontawesome';
    src: url("../x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.eot");
    src: url("../x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.eot") format("embedded-opentype"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.woff") format("woff"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.ttf") format("truetype"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/font-awesome.svg") format("svg");
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family:'foundationsocial';
  	src:url("../x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.eot");
  	src:url("../x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.eot") format("embedded-opentype"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.woff") format("woff"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.ttf") format("truetype"),
    url("../x/framework/fonts/foundation_social/foundation-social.svg") format("svg");
  	font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;
}

Let me know how it works.

Cheers

See the following report for more info.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dBWM66/http://www.meoptometry.com

How about this,

Remove the css given above, then go to /wp-content/themes/x/framework/css/site/stacks/ using your filemanager or ftp.

Duplicate all css file that you can find in there and renamed your new copies of css file into alternative-{STACK}.css (eg. alternative-ethos.css, alternative-integrity-light.css, etc. ).

Edit all alternative-{STACK}.css css files and remove all occurrences of these strings.

1. ?#fontawesome&v=4.0.3
2. ?#iefix&v=1.0
3. ?v=4.0.3
4. ?v=1.0

Save your new css files and upload them where your original stacks css files are.

Now add this code at your child theme’s functions.php

if ( ! function_exists( 'x_enqueue_site_styles' ) ) :
  function x_enqueue_site_styles() {

    //
    // Stack data.
    //

    $stack  = x_get_stack();
    $design = x_get_option( 'x_integrity_design', 'light' );

    if ( $stack == 'integrity' && $design == 'light' ) {
      $ext = '-light';
    } elseif ( $stack == 'integrity' && $design == 'dark' ) {
      $ext = '-dark';
    } else {
      $ext = '';
    }

    //
    // Font data.
    //

    $body_font_family_query         = x_get_font_family_query( x_get_option( 'x_body_font_family', 'Lato' ) );
    $body_font_weight_and_style     = x_get_option( 'x_body_font_weight', '400' );
    $body_font_weight               = x_get_font_weight( $body_font_weight_and_style );

    $headings_font_family_query     = x_get_font_family_query( x_get_option( 'x_headings_font_family', 'Lato' ) );
    $headings_font_weight_and_style = x_get_option( 'x_headings_font_weight', '400' );
    $headings_font_weight           = x_get_font_weight( $headings_font_weight_and_style );

    $logo_font_family_query         = x_get_font_family_query( x_get_option( 'x_logo_font_family', 'Lato' ) );
    $logo_font_weight_and_style     = x_get_option( 'x_logo_font_weight', '400' );
    $logo_font_weight               = x_get_font_weight( $logo_font_weight_and_style );

    $navbar_font_family_query       = x_get_font_family_query( x_get_option( 'x_navbar_font_family', 'Lato' ) );
    $navbar_font_weight_and_style   = x_get_option( 'x_navbar_font_weight', '400' );
    $navbar_font_weight             = x_get_font_weight( $navbar_font_weight_and_style );

    $subsets                        = 'latin,latin-ext';

    if ( x_get_option( 'x_custom_font_subsets', 0 ) == 1 ) {
      if ( x_get_option( 'x_custom_font_subset_cyrillic', 0 ) == 1   ) { $subsets .= ',cyrillic,cyrillic-ext'; }
      if ( x_get_option( 'x_custom_font_subset_greek', 0 ) == 1      ) { $subsets .= ',greek,greek-ext'; }
      if ( x_get_option( 'x_custom_font_subset_vietnamese', 0 ) == 1 ) { $subsets .= ',vietnamese'; }
    }

    $custom_font_args   = array(
      'family' => $body_font_family_query . ':' . $body_font_weight . ',' . $body_font_weight . 'italic,700,700italic|' . $navbar_font_family_query . ':' . $navbar_font_weight_and_style . '|' . $headings_font_family_query . ':' . $headings_font_weight_and_style . '|' . $logo_font_family_query . ':' . $logo_font_weight_and_style,
      'subset' => $subsets
    );

    $standard_font_args = array(
      'family' => 'Lato:' . $body_font_weight . ',' . $body_font_weight . 'italic,' . $navbar_font_weight_and_style . ',' . $headings_font_weight_and_style . ',' . $logo_font_weight_and_style . ',700,700italic',
      'subset' => $subsets
    );

    $get_custom_font_family   = add_query_arg( $custom_font_args,   '//fonts.googleapis.com/css' );
    $get_standard_font_family = add_query_arg( $standard_font_args, '//fonts.googleapis.com/css' );

    //
    // Enqueue styles.
    //

    if ( is_child_theme() ) {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-stack', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    } else {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-stack', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/framework/css/site/stacks/alternative-' . $stack . $ext . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( is_rtl() ) {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-rtl', X_TEMPLATE_URL . '/framework/css/site/rtl/' . $stack . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( X_BBPRESS_IS_ACTIVE ) {
      if ( x_is_bbpress() ) {
        wp_deregister_style( 'buttons' );
      }
      wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default' );
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-bbpress', X_TEMPLATE_URL . '/framework/css/site/bbpress/' . $stack . $ext . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( X_BUDDYPRESS_IS_ACTIVE ) {
      wp_deregister_style( 'bp-legacy-css' );
      wp_deregister_style( 'bp-admin-bar' );
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-buddypress', X_TEMPLATE_URL . '/framework/css/site/buddypress/' . $stack . $ext . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( X_WOOCOMMERCE_IS_ACTIVE ) {
      wp_deregister_style( 'woocommerce-layout' );
      wp_deregister_style( 'woocommerce-general' );
      wp_deregister_style( 'woocommerce-smallscreen' );
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-woocommerce', X_TEMPLATE_URL . '/framework/css/site/woocommerce/' . $stack . $ext . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( X_GRAVITY_FORMS_IS_ACTIVE ) {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-gravity-forms', X_TEMPLATE_URL . '/framework/css/site/gravity_forms/' . $stack . $ext . '.css', NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

    if ( X_CONTACT_FORM_7_IS_ACTIVE ) {
      wp_deregister_style( 'contact-form-7' );
    }

    if ( x_get_option( 'x_custom_fonts', 0 ) == 1 ) {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-font-custom', $get_custom_font_family, NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    } else {
      wp_enqueue_style( 'x-font-standard', $get_standard_font_family, NULL, NULL, 'all' );
    }

  }
endif;

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'x_enqueue_site_styles' );

Last, edit your child theme’s style.css and find the line similar to this.

@import url( '../x/framework/css/site/stacks/{STACK}.css' );

And change its name into :

@import url( '../x/framework/css/site/stacks/alternative-{STACK}.css' );

Eg.

@import url( '../x/framework/css/site/stacks/alternative-ethos.css' );

These will be permanent since the new css files have new name and won’t be ovewritten by X theme update. Unless child theme is deleted. ( Same instruction can be applied to different child theme ).

Cheers!