[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 (Ryan) 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();
?>


Bests,

Paolo Tresso (Pixline)
online media developer
techblog: http://pixline.net