Description
Fast AF caching! Optimize your website performance for the best page speed
- Minifies HTML, JavaScript and CSS files
- Defers loading of JavaScript
- Compresses JPEG and PNG images
- Generates static HTML pages
Try it and see the results for yourself…
Getting Started
No complicated settings to deal with;
- Deactivate/delete any current caching or minification plugins
- Install WP Roids
- Activate WP Roids
- Log out
- Refresh your home page TWICE
“It broke my site, arrrrrrgh!”
Do the following steps, having your home page open in another browser. Or log out after each setting change if using the same browser. After each step refresh your home page TWICE
- Switch your site’s theme to “Twenty Twenty” (or one of the other “Twenty…” Themes). If it then works, you have a moody theme
- If still broken, go to the WordPress Plugins page and disable all Plugins (except WP Roids, obviously). If WP Roids starts to work, we have a plugin conflit
- Reactivate each plugin one by one and refresh your home page each time time until it breaks
- If still broken after the above step, go to the Settings tab and try disabling JS optimisation for the Plugin which triggered an error in the previous step – this is done in the second section “Plugins JavaScript”
- Finally, if no improvement has occurred, go to the Settings tab and experiment with toggling options in the first section “Core Settings”
- If you have the time, it would help greatly if you can log a support topic on the Support Page and tell me as much as you can about what happened
How Fast Is It?
In testing, WP Roids was FASTER than:
- WP Super Cache
- W3 Total Cache
- WP Fastest Cache
- Comet Cache
- Autoptimize
- WP Speed of Light
- …and many more!
Where Can I Check Site Speed?
Either of these two sites is good:
Software Requirements
In addition to the WordPress Requirements, WP Roids requires the following:
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.htaccess
file to be writablesome security plugins disable this, so just turn this protection off for a minute during install/activation
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PHP version greater than 5.6.0
It WILL throw errors on activation if not! No damage should occur though
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PHP cURL extension enabled
Usually is by default on most decent hosts
License
Copyright: © 2019-Present Philip K. Meadows (coded in Great Britain)
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
Credits / Additional Acknowledgments
- Software designed for WordPress
- GPL License https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL
- WordPress https://wordpress.org
- Photograph of Lance Armstrong
- Source: http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0
- Used without permission, but “Fair Use” for the purposes of caricature, parody and satire
Installation
NOTE: WP Roids requires the .htaccess
file to have permissions set to 644 at time of activation. Some security plugins (quite rightly) change the permissions to disable editing. Please temporarily disable this functionality for a moment whilst activating WP Roids.
The quickest and easiest way to install is via the Plugins > Add New
feature within WordPress. But if you must, manual installation instructions follow…
- Download and unzip the latest release zip file.
- If you use the WordPress plugin uploader to install this plugin skip to step 4.
- Upload the entire plugin directory to your
/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Administration.
FAQ
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Is WP Roids compatible with iThemes Security?
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Yes. But if you have
.htaccess
protected (Security > Settings > System Tweaks), you will need to disable this when activating WP Roids. You can re-enable it after activation -
Is WP Roids compatible with Jetpack?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with Yoast SEO?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with WooCommerce?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with Storefront Theme for WooCommerce?
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Yes
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with WPBakery Visual Composer?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with Page Builder by SiteOrigin?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with Genesis Framework and Themes?
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Yes. Though I have only tested with Metro Pro theme
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Is WP Roids compatible with the “Instagram Feed” plugin?
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Yes, but you must tick the “Are you using an Ajax powered theme?” option to “Yes”
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Is WP Roids compatible with the “Disqus Comment System” plugin?
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with the “Visual Form Builder” plugin?
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Yes
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Yes
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Is WP Roids compatible with the “Revolution Slider” plugin?
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Yes, but you have to disable minification and caching of its JavaScript in the WP Roids Settings
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Is WP Roids compatible with the “WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery” plugin?
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No. This plugin intrusively removes queued JavaScript. See this support question
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Is WP Roids compatible with Cloudflare?
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Yes, but you may want to flush your Cloudflare cache after activating WP Roids. Also disable the minification options at Cloudflare
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Does WP Roids work on NGINX servers?
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Yes, it uses a fallback for non-Apache configurations
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Does WP Roids work on IIS (Windows) servers?
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Yes, it uses a fallback for non-Apache configurations
Reviews
Contributors and Developers
“WP Roids” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “WP Roids” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Change Log
v4.0.2
- Fixed: Caching already cached files is not clever :/
v4.0.1
- Rollback: Type-hinting on PHP functions as many folks not yet on PHP 7
v4.0.0
- Improved: Archive/Category/Tag pages NOW cached
- Improved: Lots of background activity reduced
v3.2.4
- Fixed: PHP warning for a foreach loop
- Improved: Type forcing in PHP functions
- Tweaked: Donation URL 😉
v3.2.3
- Improved: Error warning pedantry for PHP DOMDocument
v3.2.1
- Improved: Logic condition regarding DONOTCACHEPAGE tweaked
v3.2.0
- Fixed: Logic condition was preventing some storing of HTML files
v3.1.1
- Fixed: Bug caused by variable named incorrectly
v3.1.0
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Fixed: Image compression sometimes causing Server Errors
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Improved: Image compression levels editable in Settings
v3.0.0 MASSIVE NEW RELEASE! MUCH AWESOMENESS!
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Fixed: Inline JavaScript was not being loaded correctly – several previous conflicts resolved by this
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Improved: NEW! Settings page added with several options for configuration, though WP Roids should still work just fine for most users simply by activating it
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Improved: NEW! Optional image compression (is on by default)
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Improved: NEW! WP CRON scheduler to clear cache at a choice of intervals (weekly by default)
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Improved: NEW! Optional caching and minification of CSS and JavaScript loaded from external CDN sources
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Improved: NEW! Debug logging mode
v2.2.0
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Improved: Regex for stripping CSS and Javascript comments rewritten and separated
- The Javascript one, in particular, was treating
base64
strings containing two or more//
as a comment and deleting them
- The Javascript one, in particular, was treating
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Improved: Fallback serving of cache files via PHP when
.htaccess
has a hiccup was sometimes pulling single post file on achive pages :/
v2.1.1
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Fixed: Regex tweak for handling
data:image
background images in CSS -
Fixed: Regex tweak where some
base64
encoded strings containing two or more/
being stripped believing they were comments
v2.1.0
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Fixed: There is a teeny-tiny glitch in WPBakery’s Visual Composer that was causing massive display errors
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Improved: Negated the need to deactivate and reactivate to remove v1
.htaccess
rules -
Improved: HTML
<!-- WP Roids comments -->
with better explanations -
Improved: Some additional cookie and WooCommerce checks
v2.0.1
- Minor Fix: Code to remove v1 rules from
.htaccess
DEACTIVATE AND REACTIVATE WP ROIDS ASAP
v2.0.0 Big Improvements!
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Fixed: CSS and Javascript minifying and enqueuing had issues with:
- Some inline items were being missed out or rendered improperly
- Absolute paths to some assets such as images and fonts loaded via
@font-face
were sometimes incorrect - Some items were queued twice
- Some items were not queued at all!
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Fixed: HTML minification was sometimes removing legitimate spaces, for example between two
<a>
tags -
Fixed: Caching function was sometimes running twice, adding unecessary overhead
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Improved: Some
.htaccess
rules - New: Function checking in background
.htaccess
content is OK, with automatic/silent reboot of plugin if not - New: Additional explanatory HTML
<-- comments -->
added to bottom of cache pages
v1.3.6
- Fixed: Issue with PHP
is_writable()
check on.htaccess
was causing plugin to not activate at all or silently deactivate upon next login
v1.3.5
- Fixed: Regex to remove inline JS comments was failing if no space after
//
- Imprevement: Compatability check when activating new plugins. On failure automatically deactivates WP Roids and restores
.htaccess
file
v1.3.4
- Fixed:
.htaccess
rewritebase error, was killing some sites dead AF, sorry
v1.3.3
- Fixed:
.htaccess
PHP fallback has conditions checking user not logged in - Fixed: WordFence JS conflict fixed
v1.3.1
- Disabled the debug logging script, you don’t need me filling your server up!
v1.3.0
- Fixed: Directories and URLs management for assets
- Fixed: Localized scripts with dependencies now requeued with their data AND new cache script dependency
v1.2.0
- Fixed: Combining and minifying CSS and Javascript MASSIVELY IMPROVED!
- For CSS, now deals with conditional stylesheets e.g.
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
, this was causing a few hiccups - For Javascript, now deals with scripts that load data via inline
<script>
tags containing/* <![CDATA[ */
- Minification process now does newlines first, then whitespace. Was the other way around, which could cause issues
- For CSS, now deals with conditional stylesheets e.g.
v1.1.4
- Fixed: Sorry, I meant site domain !== FALSE. I’m an idiot, going to bed
v1.1.3
- Fixed: Removed googleapis.com = FALSE check of v1.1.1 and replaced with site domain = TRUE check
- Fixed: Check for WooCommerce assets made more specific to WC core only, now excludes “helper” WC plugins
v1.1.2
- Fixed: Version numbering blip
v1.1.1
- Fixed: Encoding of
.htaccess
rules template changed from Windows to UNIX as was adding extra line breaks - Fixed: Additional check to avoid googleapis.com assets being considered “local”
- Fixed: Removed lookup of non-existent parameter from “Flush Cache” links
v1.1.0
- “Flush Cache” links and buttons added
- Five minutes applied to browser caching (was previously an hour)
- Whole HTML cache flush on Page/Post create/update/delete, so that home pages/widgets etc. are updated
- Fixed: PHP Workaround for hosts who struggle with basic
.htaccess
rewrites :/ #SMH - Fixed: Additional checks before editing
.htaccess
as sometimes lines were being repeated, my bad - Fixed: For you poor souls who are hosted with 1&1, a bizarre home directory inconsistency
- Fixed: Scheduled task to flush HTML cache hourly wasn’t clearing properly on deactivation
v1.0.0
- Initial release