Breaks with HTML minification

Hi there!

Can’t say for sure since I’ve never used that plugin before and don’t know how its HTML minification feature works. I’ll give it a try and get back here as soon as I can.

Cool thanks for the quick reply. I looks like it uses the output buffer and regex. Not sure if somehow the regex is stripping it out or if maybe it has something to do with ajax/caching, but I tried changing the WPP plugin settings but no luck.

Anyway, thanks for any feedback, I’ll try to look into more myself and figure out in the meantime.

Hi Bryan,

The problem is that when the Stone HTML Compressor plugin minifies the HTML code it doesn’t remove JavaScript comments (including CDATA) which breaks WPP when the “Ajaxify widget” option is enabled. If the Ajaxify widget option is disabled, WPP works just fine – even if the HTML code is minified.

I’m not sure if the Stone HTML Compressor plugin should also remove JavaScript comments or not, but I think it would be good if it did. I’m sure WPP isn’t the only one affected by this issue. Maybe you should ask the developer and see what he/she has to say about it.

Anyways, I made a few changes to WPP to make sure it doesn’t break when HTML minification plugins that doesn’t strip out JavaScript comments are being used. For the time being, you’ll have to either disable WPP’s Ajaxify Widget feature or disable the Stone HTML Compressor plugin until WPP v3.3.4 is released.

Awesome thanks Hector. I’ll let the plugin author know, but I should be able to figure out how to add that feature myself… I noticed that plugin didn’t remove css comments either which is something I’ll try to get added.

Anyway, thanks for the good support. Keep up the great work.

I tested the WordPress Popular Posts plugin with my Minify HTML plugin and it appears to work just fine. You may want to give Minify HTML a try instead.

Tim