Optimize your WordPress blog with Autoptimize
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Autoptimize is a new WordPress plug-in that makes optimizing your blog a cakewalk. Adhering to it’s name, the plug-in will automagically optimize your blog’s HTML, JavaScript and CSS codes to make it leaner and faster. The plug-in is extremely simple to use, and provides just three configuration options – to optimize the HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The author recommends using Autoptimize alongside the popular WP Super Cache plug-in for giving some serious speed boosts to your WordPress blog.
Get Autoptimize (compatible with WordPress 2.6 and above)
Note – I had troubles getting the “CSS optimization” portion of the plug-in to work. Activating it simply made this blog to vanish. That might be due to conflicts with some other plug-ins I’m using. The plug-in was released just two days back and there isn’t much help at the moment.
Update 1 : The plug-in is VERY effective in combining JavaScript files and reducing their total size (reduced total JS by a whopping 60% on this blog!), but with one catch : All your ad scripts (Adsense and similar stuff) will also be ‘optimized’, rendering them useless. HTML size has been reduced by around 10%.
Update 2 : The plug-in’s author, Emilio, seems to be really enthusiastic. He has dished out a bunch of big fixing and new feature updates in the last couple of days. Autoptimize should now work for 99% of the cases. If you do run into problems, use the Support forum or drop him a reply ( @turl ) via Twitter.
Hi!
I would like to thank you for talking about my plugin
I also want to tell you that the issues you described about CSS compression making the blog disappear, and ad compression, have been fixed in version 0.4. You should no longer experience them, but if you do, get in touch with me through email or fill in a bug and I’ll examine the problem more carefully.
Once again, thanks for posting about my plugin!
Emilio
Hi,
Your plug-in is really useful and it’s great to see you actively developing it. And I’ll definitely check it out and report any bugs that I find.
yea, its good one.
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