kfawcett

Please see my post in this link: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/minify-broken-in-latest-update?replies=8

Basically it appears that after upgrading the minify arrays are getting messed up and need to be manually deleted before re-adding the files and enabling minify.

It does work. You cannot network activate it. You must activate it on each site individually.

In wp-content

@tentblogger

I came across your problem too. For some reason something in the array for the minify settings has gotten messed up in the config file.

If you open your configuration file named “w3-total-cache-config-yoursitename.php” you will see a section for minify.css and minify.js

In there will be some arrays that should have locations of your minified files.

Make sure to disable Minify. Then delete only the arrays as shown below. Be careful not to delete anything else — like the beggining/ending array tags.

'c5082' => array(
			'default' => array(
				'include' => array(
					'files' => array(
						0 => 'wp-content/themes/mysite/style.css',
						1 => 'wp-content/themes/mysite/js/colorbox/colorbox.css',
						2 => 'wp-content/themes/mysite/skins/blue.css',
						3 => 'wp-content/themes/mysite/custom.css',
						4 => '/wp-content/plugins/sidebar-login/style.css?ver=3.1.3',
					),
				),
			),
		),

You should be left with these for each group.

'minify.css.groups' => array( ),
'minify.js.groups' => array( ),

Then go back and re-add your files and enable minify. That should fix your problem.

Frederick is a really busy person who doesn’t have time to monitor this board all the time. You can ask him questions on twitter @w3edge

Did the plugin cost you anything? No. Do you have to use it? No again. To come on here and complain about an added feature albeit with an affiliate link seems childish, especially from another wordpress plugin developer. I could understand your hardship if you had paid money, but you haven’t. If adding an affiliate link or two helps keep WT3C available for the thousands of websites using it for FREE, then so be it. I’m extremely grateful to have Frederick and crew making such a wonderful plugin available to all of us for free. It has greatly improved the speed of my sites with very little work on my part and I’m sure it has done the same for your client’s websites too.

Next time your clients should spend more time understanding the change log, before blindly upgrading. They’re lucky they didn’t have more serious problems with the plugin considering the amount of posts on the subject in the last few weeks.

I’m really confused. Cloudflare is an extra option like all of the other options within W3TC and it’s not on unless you enable it and signup at Cloudflare. Otherwise it sits there doing nothing.

You’re not paying for an extremely useful plugin that probably has hundreds of hours of work in it, the author adds extra functionality that isn’t enabled and you complain about it? And since when does a plugin author have to ask their users when they want to improve their plugin? Maybe they shouldn’t of included the ability to upload to S3 or enable APC for caching. What’s even more confusing is who updated the plugin and didn’t check the change log or notice the new functionality upon review that updating the plugin didn’t break anything. This would be a little more concerning to me than the addition of Cloudflare.

If your client is calling you with such wild accusations, then they shouldn’t be given admin rights and why could you not explain to them that it’s an added feature. If they were an editor or lower they wouldn’t notice the plugin in the first place.

If you do a search of www.ads-software.com you would see that there has been problems with the minify part of the plugin and if you do a little more searching you will also find solutions.

Start here:
https://www.ads-software.com/tags/w3-total-cache

If you do a search of www.ads-software.com you would see that there has been problems with the minify part of the plugin and if you do a little more searching you will also find solutions.

Start here:
https://www.ads-software.com/tags/w3-total-cache

@desertgeek Sorry I should of read more.

So I was thinking *whats the big deal* and I upgraded my W3TC and I bricked my server. I’m getting 500 errors. I guess there is something to everyone posting on here. ??

I do have these two warnings in my logs.

[Tue May 10 01:08:33 2011] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/Plugin/Minify.php on line 393

preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in //wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/inc/define.php on line 323

This is most likely a user configuration issue. While auto-minify might work for some people, if you’re running many plugins and/or lots of JS files that are potentially written improperly, you could possibly break something leading to problems with the site loading properly.

To alleviate this try switching to minify to manual and using the Help function to “help” find all of your JS and CSS files. Add all of them, making sure to take care in deciding where to add the JS files and what blocking to use. If you’re unsure try adding them to the section (head or end of body) that they are already located at in your code and use blocking.

For the first round of testing do not use any of the advanced check boxes for the JS settings.

If after adding all of the JS files and CSS without any advanced features you can try to enable comment removal and line space removal if you like.

If either of these rounds of settings breaks your site, try only adding one JS file at a time. Once one JS file has been added and you have tested it on your site add another and test again. Do this until you find the file(s) that are not working when minified. You can then try to run them through JSlint to find errors or contact whoever developed the files to help with fixing them. If you are unable to fix a file that is not working while minified then don’t minify that file. You can select as few or as many files to combine and minify as you like.

W3TC is an advanced plugin that requires time, experience, and tweaking in order to use it properly. I am personally running the development plugin on WP 3.1 Multi-site with about 10 sites. It works fantastically with no major issues.

I would like to be able to separate where each area goes (ingredients, instructions, prep/cook time, etc), so if each one was in it’s own div I could structure them.

Like how this site does it.
https://culinaryculture.com/recipe/Bahn_Mi-by-Mischa_DeHart/r,4D

I have the development plug in running on 3.1 multisite without any issues.

Maybe you should downgrade to the RC of Chrome. I don’t have any issues with logging into WordPress with Chrome 10.

And you will not lose settings if you deactivate W3TC. The settings are stored in a separate file called W3-total-cache-config-sitename in the wp-config directory. If you’re concerned just create a copy of that file and move it to another directory.

Did you upload your media files?