Move minified js & css to footer and cdn.

Hi,

I don’t recommend you to do this if you are not a developer or if you do not understand fully what you are asking for does… it might break your functionality and not all themes and plugins are compatible with those changes you want to make.

You don’t need to move the scripts to the footer, you can enable defer javascript (the purpose to move scripts to footer is to defer them). Be advised however, if your theme uses inline jquery code anywhere on the page, you will have errors. This will happen either if you move them to the footer or if you defer them.

Make sure you use google chrome and press CTRL + SHIFT + J and refresh the page to see if there are errors after enabling this.

Moving CSS to footer causes a FOUC effect and the score will be lower on pagespeed insights, unless you have another way to add a critical path css code to the header.
Moving CSS to footer requires a critical path css to be added inline on the header.

If your css is not too big, you can select the option to inline all css.

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For the CDN part you can use the w3tc cache plugin or the cdn enabler plugin.

Thanks. Yes, i know about FOUC and other features of css/javascripts in footer.

I use CDN Enabler, but this plugin don’t change server url for generated min.js and min.css files.

Hi,

You have the same problem as me: CDN Enabler will not rewrite URLs that start with “//” and FVM converts all URLs to this dynamic path.

See my topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/compatibility-with-cdn-enabler-plugin/

@axxxxxx

Please see my reply on https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/compatibility-with-cdn-enabler-plugin/#post-8830666

I already explained that the defer js option does the same of moving the scripts to the footer, but if you must try you can follow this link: https://speedrak.com/blog/how-to-move-javascripts-to-the-footer-in-wordpress/

This still won’t work with css, only js. The reason is, wordpress doesn’t support it… unless you code it from scratch. Plugin authors enqueue files on the header for a reason, so beware of broken functionality with moving scripts to footer or using the defer option.

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