Comments on: Using GZip on Wordpress 2.5 http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm Not your everyday tech journal Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lord TCT http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm#comment-29 Lord TCT Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:46:55 +0000 http://www.thebits.info/?p=42#comment-29 Hi Carlton, AFAIK, gzip-ing images will not help...at all. It will only put unnecessary load on your server. For CSS and JScript, u can just gzip it before hand. IE7 and Firefox will happily accept pre-gzipped CSS and Jscript. Or a more radical approach would be to let php parse the CSS and JS file (and hence compressing it). This is done by adding: Addhandler php-script .js .css in your .htaccess file Hi Carlton,

AFAIK, gzip-ing images will not help…at all. It will only put unnecessary load on your server. For CSS and JScript, u can just gzip it before hand. IE7 and Firefox will happily accept pre-gzipped CSS and Jscript.

Or a more radical approach would be to let php parse the CSS and JS file (and hence compressing it). This is done by adding:

Addhandler php-script .js .css

in your .htaccess file

]]> By: Carlton Bale http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm#comment-28 Carlton Bale Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:20:40 +0000 http://www.thebits.info/?p=42#comment-28 Thanks for the tip! I was surprised that this option disappeared from WordPress 2.5 and appreciate the info on how to re-enable it. I was using the CSS compress plugin to gzip all of the images and CSS files together, but the .htaccess method you show causes this plugin not to work. But this plugin gave a small benefit compared what you have listed. Thanks for the sharing the info! Thanks for the tip! I was surprised that this option disappeared from WordPress 2.5 and appreciate the info on how to re-enable it.

I was using the CSS compress plugin to gzip all of the images and CSS files together, but the .htaccess method you show causes this plugin not to work. But this plugin gave a small benefit compared what you have listed. Thanks for the sharing the info!

]]> By: Lord TCT http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm#comment-20 Lord TCT Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:19:00 +0000 http://www.thebits.info/?p=42#comment-20 what platform are they on? I think solution No.2 will most probably work out for you what platform are they on? I think solution No.2 will most probably work out for you

]]> By: Bob http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm#comment-19 Bob Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:07:01 +0000 http://www.thebits.info/?p=42#comment-19 I'm trying to set this up on hostgator. Can anyone help me out? I’m trying to set this up on hostgator. Can anyone help me out?

]]> By: Lord TCT http://www.thebits.info/wordpress/wp25-gzi-42.htm#comment-17 Lord TCT Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:26:13 +0000 http://www.thebits.info/?p=42#comment-17 Marc, It's a matter of personal preference. If your bandwidth is narrow and connection slow, it wouldn't hurt to have all the pages gzipped would it? Marc,

It’s a matter of personal preference. If your bandwidth is narrow and connection slow, it wouldn’t hurt to have all the pages gzipped would it?

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