Plugin of The Day "WP Minify" To Improve WP Load Time

If you have done some research on how to improve loading speed of WordPress site, I’m sure you have already come across a plugin called WP Minify.

Minification is the process of removing unnecessary characters or code from the source code without changing its functionality of the code supposed to perform.

As the loading time of your site is very critical from the SEO and user experience point of view, proper minification of your site code is very important.

If you check loading time of your WordPress site using GTMatrix you will find most of the issues are with CSS & Javascript files because they are not well optimized.

WP Minify Plugin could be really effective in making your site real fast by optimizing your CSS & Javascript files. This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

How Does WP Minify Work?

WP Minify grabs JS/CSS files in your generated WordPress page and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header.

WP Minify Features

Easily integrate Minify into your WordPress blog.
Minifies JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
Debug tools to help you debug your issues.
Ability to include extra JS and CSS files for Minifying.
Ability to exclude certain JS and CSS files for Minifying.
Minified JS and CSS files can be placed wherever you want.
Support for to minifying external files via caching.
Ability to pass extra arguments to Minify engine.
Expire headers for minified JS and CSS files.
Detection and elimination of duplicate sources.
Plugin hooks!

WP Minify Configuration

After you install and activated the plugin, go to Settings -> WP Minify for configuring the plugin. This plugin automatically configures itself, however you can check and enhance the settings as per your requirement.