[wp-testers] gzip_compression

[Paolo Tresso / Pixline]

Il giorno 03/apr/08, alle ore 16:10, Frank Bueltge ha scritto:
> Why was deprecated the function gzip_compression() ?
> Give it information ?


As someone said, because now WordPress leaves it to the server.

Almost any webserver now can deal with some kind of compression, even  
shared hosting plans supports it quite everywhere, optional or built- 
in (CPanel does it), and I think the 'software' option of WordPress  
was quite unused.

If your server doesn't support it, you can check if you php ships with  
output buffer, and either activate it via an .htaccess (if supported)  
or make something like this in your index.php:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
ob_start(”ob_gzhandler”);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
ob_end_flush();
?>

Here's something to get started with:

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/01/12/http-gzip-compression-in-php/

but I'd rather check for the webserver, because 99% it already support  
mod_gzip or deflate :-)

Bests,

Paolo Tresso (Pixline)
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