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Reply To: Better WordPress Minify plugin – Plugin Firewall, Plugin Firewall Whitelist

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I have never had any good results (no significant page load speed improvement, etc) by doing “automated minification”.  Automated minification would be installing a plugin that tries its best to do a “one size fits all” thing and minifies all js and css scripts to the best of its abilities/capabilities.  The reason I do not recommend automated minification is that I personally feel that minification is not a “one size fits all” thing and should not be automated and there is a very good chance – 80% or more of creating complications and problems for your website.  If you want to minify scripts then personally and professionally I believe there is only 1 way to do that correctly – manually combine js and css scripts that can be combined/minified and do thorough testing to ensure that you have not created problems by doing that minification.

The reason the Plugin Firewall will be broken by using automated minification is that the Plugin Firewall needs to read your website pages Source Code.  Since automated minification drastically changes (mangles your Source Code is closer to the truth) your website pages Source Code then basically your Source Code is no longer readable in a way that makes much sense.  If you do manual minification, which in my opinion is the ONLY way to do minification correctly, then the Plugin Firewall will work normally/correctly since your Source Code will still make sense and be readable.


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