[wp-hackers] JavaScript,wp_enqueue_script and concatenation

[Milan Dinić]

There are several scripts that do this on front end:
WP Minify
W3 Total Cache
Script Compressor
PHP Speedy
Autoptimize

Note that all of them have different features and give different results so
test results with tools like Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox or
online tools http://www.webpagetest.org/test and
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ (check cache/expiry
headers and gziping, see what scripts are concatenated (you don't want to
include popular external files like Google Analytics, AdSense, Google Ajax
Libraries or other statistics, ads and similar files which are common and
are probably already cached on user's browser) and so on).

And tell us what you did!

2009/9/4, Eric Martin <emartin24 at gmail.com>:
>
> Simon,
>
> I did not find a solution that met all of my requirements, but it
> works for me. I just put all of the scripts in a single file and load
> it using one wp_enqueue_script call. The problem is that I lose all of
> the extra features of wp_enqueue_script by doing it this way.
>
> I might look into dequeueing the scripts, but I haven't looked to see
> how that fits into the lifecycle yet. My ticket about it was closed,
> but there is another similar one still open (from 3 years ago):
>
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3372
>
> On Aug 28, 3:35 am, Simon Wheatley <si... at sweetinteraction.com> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Did you get any further with this? Any hints.
> >
> > S
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin<emarti... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, the script concatenation only works in the admin
> > > section.
> >
> > > So, I'm just trying to figure out how to usewp_enqueue_scriptfor
> > > multiple scripts, but then force WP to print out one script tag for a
> > > certain set of them. Any suggestions?
> >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > > On Aug 3, 8:14 am, Tynan Colin Beatty <junsui... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> It does not happen on its own. I chose to include a modified
> > >> load-scripts.php from wp-admin into my theme's files (modified to
> allow
> > >> concatenation of scripts from my theme as well as those in
> wp-includes/js
> > >> scripts), but haven't had time to determine an optimal method of also
> > >> including plugin scripts (there are other variables to consider when
> trying
> > >> to include them as well, since some of them need to load in header,
> whereas
> > >> I choose to load my concatenated script into the footer). The solution
> > >> speeds things up a fair amount even without including plugins in the
> > >> concatenated script (and if your theme doesn't have any js, would be
> even
> > >> easier to implement). I'm thinking a nice approach might be to have 1
> call
> > >> to the concated script in head to take care of whatever has to be
> loaded
> > >> there, and then a 2nd call to the same load-scripts.php, concatenating
> all
> > >> the files that can wait for the footer.
> >
> > >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Simon Wheatley
> > >> <si... at sweetinteraction.com>wrote:
> >
> > >> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Otto<o... at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> > >> > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Eric Martin<e... at ericmmartin.com
> >
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> > >> I use jQuery on my site and a handful of jquery plugins. I've
> been
> > >> > >> doing quite a bit of thinking about ways to concatenate the
> scripts
> > >> > >> together in order to reduce the number of requests made, while
> > >> > >> maintaining the usefulness and features provided
> bywp_enqueue_script.
> >
> > >> > > I'm pretty sure that 2.8 already has this built in. All scripts
> get
> > >> > > concatenated into a single call to load-scripts.php, if everything
> > >> > > supports it properly.
> >
> > >> > Does this happen outside the admin area? I haven't noticed it
> myself,
> > >> > but maybe my scripts calls aren't configured correctly.
> >
> > >> > S
> >
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