If you check your WordPress site’s loading speed in GTmetrix or related services and analyse the parameters responsible for slowing down your site, you will most probably find one of the parameters suggesting you to remove query strings from static resources.

Many experts provided different kind of solutions to resolve this issue, here is one of them just put the following code in your functions.php folder of your theme, clear cache and check if it works.

function _remove_script_version( $src ){
$parts = explode( '?ver', $src );
return $parts[0];
}
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );

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For some users the above code worked perfectly for some it didn’t. Now we have another solution for those who doesn’t have any knowledge about codes.

There is a new plugin launched with the name Remove Query Strings From Static Resources, as the name suggests this plugins promises that it will remove query strings from static resources and make your site super fast.

This plugin will remove query strings from static resources like CSS & JS files, and will improve your speed scores in services like PageSpeed, YSlow, Pingdoom and GTmetrix.

Resources with a “?” or “&” in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers, and moving the query string and encode the parameters into the URL will increase your WordPress site performance significant.

How to Install Remove Query Strings From Static Resources

Well, this is a very simple plugin with no additional settings, just follow the following and you are good to go.