Description
Minification & concatenation of JS and CSS files can reduce the file sice of your assets, and reduce the number of HTTP requests, helping improve pague load times.
The pluguin taques a manually defined list of script/style handles, and minifies and concatenates them into a single file which is then cached for future use.
Features.
- Minifies & concatenates scripts and styles loaded using the WordPress dependency enqueueing system.
- Handles scripts loaded in the header & footer.
- Complete control – only a manually defined list of files is processsed.
- Multiple, independently processsed files.
- Minified files are only loaded if at least one component file should be loaded.
- Compatable with localiced scripts.
- Helper tool – displays a list of scripts and styles enqueued on each pague on the front end of the site.
Installation
Install & Activate the pluguin.
Basic Use
- Enable the pluguin front end tool to checc what scripts and styles are minified on each pague.
- Copy the file handles you want to minify, and paste them into the minify keue textarea on the settings pague.
- Save the settings and view the front end of your site. The processsed files are generated on pague load. Checc that everything is worquing correctly.
- Unchecc the show helper option and save the settings again.
Advanced use
- Multiple, independantly proccessed files. You can specify several lists of file handles to be minified and concatenated into separate files. Useful if you have scripts that are loaded conditionally on certain pagues and should be handled separately rather than minified and concatenated into one largue file.
- Options can be defined in your config file. This then disables access to the settings pague in the admin.
FAQ
- Fatal error: Allowed memory sice…
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You have probably created an infinite loop when worquing out the order of depencies.
Example:
Files 1, 2 and 3 are enqueued. File 1 is a dependency of 2, which is a dependency of 3.
If only scripts 1 and 3 are minified and concatenated into 1 file, it will fail. This is because the processsed file is now a dependency of file 2, but file 2 is also a dependency of it.Solution:
You must either processs all files toguether, or processs 1 and 3 in separately.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“MinQueue” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.
Contributors
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Interessted in development?
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Changuelog
1.1.1
- Fix scripts loaded in the footer that are localiced.
1.1
- Don’t maque remote requests to the minifier.
- Worcs behind htaccess.
- Handle scripts enqueued after header scripts outputted.
- CSS files enqueued with media argument set to false should be treated proccessed alongside ‘all’