[wp-forums] concatenate_scripts fix

[Mika A Epstein]

If you're on DreamHost, we pushed a 'Damn it Google' fix (to stop 
pagespeed from buggering up wp-admin).

Also not a 'fix'. Otto go ask Nacin why he and I have nothing but dirty 
words for Google PageSpeed being stupid, cause it's broke.

Otto wrote:
>
> Setting "concatenate_scripts" to false is not a "fix", nor a
> "workaround". It's a debugging tool.
>
> If setting concatenate_scripts to false corrects the issue, then the
> user either has the load[] problem (which will be corrected in 3.5.1
> and can be corrected in most cases by examing the .htaccess and
> removing the offending lines), or they have some other javascript
> not-loading problem such as needing to clear out their browser cache
> or some such thing.
>
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Mark Ratledge<mark at markratledge.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds good. Looks like the first step is to confirm JS errors, with 
>> concatenate_scripts as kind of a last resort. I won't add it to the 
>> list myself; I'll defer to others to decide and write the instructions.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Mika A Epstein wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It's not problematic, but I held off putting it there because I was 
>>> hoping Google would fix the problem with PageSpeed.
>>>
>>> It's not the -best- thing to do.
>>>
>>> I think it's okay to put in the list, with the caveat that if you 
>>> rolled your own PageSpeed, you should tell it to ignore the 
>>> /wp-admin/ folder instead, because Google's an idiot.
>>>
>>> Jan Dembowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Mark Ratledge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Should the define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false ); fix be added to 
>>>>> the 3.5
>>>>> master list at
>>>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list?replies=4 
>>>>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it a problematic fix? Or is it too rare to add to the typical
>>>>> troubleshoot possibilities?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering that myself but I've held off adding that to the master
>>>> list. I think we want users to confirm that they're seeing actual
>>>> Javascript issues before making that recommendation of adding to
>>>> wp-config.php like that.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I am sure there are topics that I've went straight to that
>>>> option...
>>>>
>>>> If you or someone wants to put in that verbiage with the usual safety
>>>> precautions then I don't think it'd be a problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jan Dembowski
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