WordPress Theme Minifier
As more and more smart phones and mobile internet devices enter the scene, the internet is becoming more and more available to everyone. This not only means that the internet is now available to many different people, but also to many different devices (with many different capabilities). Since the devices aren’t yet as capable as their desktop counterparts, many considerations must be taken into account.
Some major considerations include various (and smaller) screen sizes, possible touchscreen capabilities, and most importantly, slower network speeds. This is where the WordPress Theme Minifier comes in; it “minifies” WordPress themes, making them smaller so that they load faster. This minification includes removing unnecessary whitespace and comments in HTML markup, CSS, and Javascript.
The main problem with minification is that the source code becomes far less readable and thus harder to maintain. To solve this problem, the WordPress Theme Minifier creates a copy of the original theme (essentially creating a development and production version of theme). By leaving the original theme intact, future modifications can easily be made. To learn more about this plugin or to use it in your WordPress site, check it out in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
Key Features:
- Simple “one-click” interface
- Creates copy of theme, leaving original intact
- Reduces bandwidth
- Lowers page loading times
- Compresses images
- Minifies HTML markup, CSS, and Javascript
June 18th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
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June 17th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
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June 17th, 2010 at 12:38 am
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June 16th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Have used it at a blog I’ve newly created just to test it, seems good so far. I used it at http://www.taotechinglaotzu.com and hasn’t caused any problem. Was a little hesitant to download at first because it’s so new & had no ratings yet. If I’m happy with it at that new blog, will download it to my others. Thank you Kevin. It was your page at http://www.kevinknoll.com that convinced me to use it.
Cheers, Thea
June 16th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
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June 16th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Interesting plugin, I’ll have to test this on my test site first though.
June 16th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Interesting idea. I can think of a few situations in which it will break a theme though. Most themes should be fine though I guess.