Comments on: WP Minify WordPress Plugin

By: Sire

Sire — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:02:20 +0000

Hi, I tried the plugin, but it gives me the following error Error: Could not fetch http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/b?url=http:… for caching. You might need to exclude this file in WP Minify options

It's talking about a script, alexa, that I have running in the side column. I tried a couple of things but they don't work.

The plugin also stuffs up the TwitterRemote plugin.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:49:07 +0000

I think he just means that one of the CSS files were not minified properly. The best solution for this is to just exclude the CSS from minify. Instructions are on the troubleshooting document.

By: Milan

Milan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:36:37 +0000

What does it mean "it made site look very simple"?

By: V.C

V.C — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:09:54 +0000

I used your plugin for a few days.
It really worked but one problem: all of my files was compressed and it made my site look very simple. So I decided remove it.

By: FreewareMatter

FreewareMatter — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:18:29 +0000

This way does not work with JS files. When I use this code, it redirects my home page to {mydomain.com}/min/index.php?f=index.js. I don't know why . Can you help me to fix this.

Now I use only this for CSS files:

RewriteRule (.*.css)$ {path-to}/min/index.php?f=$1&debug=0 [L,NC]

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:34:00 +0000

Lock up this comment thread so people can post support questions in the support forum.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:08:57 +0000

How can i get wp-geo working with this? Great work, thanks in advance!

By: thaya

thaya — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:41:17 +0000

Thanks for reporting this Darren. I will look into this for the next version.

By: thaya

thaya — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:38:29 +0000

Yup, as specified in the plugin description.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:54:13 +0000

WPMinify seems to break lightbox scripts…

By: Avinash

Avinash — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:15:10 +0000

Can i use it with WP-Super cache and will it produce better loading than WP-Super cache.??

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:03:05 +0000

Released 0.1.1
- Fixed array_slice() warning in the admin dashboard.
- Fixed version check to not break page when $wp_version is empty.

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:54:13 +0000

Installed plugin on this site, http://www.cpajohn.com and it caused the ">" to disappear in the PixoPoint Multi-level Navigation Plugin that indicates there is a dropdown menu with subpages. The plugin mentions this feature uses jquery.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:50:07 +0000

I'll see what I can do to work the IE switch into the code (not sure yet though).

About the "don't gzip" option, I will have to look into the Minify documentation to see if it's possible.

Thanks for the suggestions! Stay tuned to the RSS feed to see what happens within this week!

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:39:07 +0000

Thaya,

Thanks for putting together this great plugin. I've been using minify for a while now with wordpress and it's great to see a plugin implementation of the library. I've got a couple suggestions based on things I've run into with my particular setup.

This might be a limitation of wp_enque_styles, but is there any way to implement support for conditional comments? I usually have at least one stylesheet in a conditional comment for IE after my main stylesheets.

I was also wondering if it would be possible to implement a "don't gzip" option. My host tends to gzip things on the fly which sometimes causes problems with scripts that also gzip things. It would be nice to have the option to minify and concatenate and then let the server do the gzipping part.

Keep up the good work! Great to see you bringing this great library to WordPress.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:26:05 +0000

Hmm… let me look into getting a WPMU installation up to try to reproduce this bug. Thanks Jacob!

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:23:50 +0000

Doh! The readme says 0.1b3 too.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:30:35 +0000

Hi Jacob. Thanks for testing this. I thought I have fixed this bug in version 0.1b3, can you check which version you have?

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:02:03 +0000

Currently, I minify files before I push them out to my site so this sounds like a timesaver. Plus, if I can use it to dynamically minify and cache remote js files (like Google Analytics'), I will donate $ once I can get it to work.

Testing it out on my WPMU 2.7 test environment, I'm seeing some strange behavior. Using Firebug to see which js files are being called, I can see that when WP-Minify is activated in its default configuration (no custom additions in the admin panel), the minified js file is being generated but there's also a separate call for '…/wp-includes/js/prototype.js?…'. Before I activated WP-Minify, that tested page didn't make a call to prototype.js, but it was making a call to jquery (which was caught by WP-Minify later). Since prototype is fairly large, having WP-Minify activated actually increases the page weight in this example.

Any idea where prototype is coming from here?

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:01:27 +0000

@jasondrohn
Thank you very much for your kind words!