[wp-testers] Gzip Compression

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Jerry D. Russell <jerry at spunpuppy.com> wrote:
> Has the option to enable/disable Gzip compression been removed from
>  2.5?  In 2.3 it was located on the Options -->Reading Tab, but I find no
>  mention of it anywhere under Settings in 2.5.  I use a plugin designed
>  to mask certain posts from my RSS feeds, and it will not work with GZip
>  Enabled (I have no idea why, I haven't had the time to look over the
>  code.)  If there is no option to turn of compression, I'm going to need
>  to find a new solution for masking certain posts from general broadcast

Yes, the option gone.  WP doesn't try to do compression, so you
shouldn't need to turn it off.  We leave compression as a decision for
the server.