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Juliette Tworsey
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Juliette Tworsey
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Juliette Tworsey
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W3 Total Cache

The current version of W3 Total Cache is untested with my (latest) version of Wordpress. Is there another version or similar plugin that is compatible with WP version 4.4?

Also, are there any good sources available for learning how to minify your WP sites via Gulp? ...or maybe a (compatible) plugin is the best way to go?

Thanks:-)

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Samuel Schumacher
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I use WP Super Cache as it is very well maintained (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/). Automattic actually co-develops this plugin which makes it a very viable alternative for W3 Total Cache in my book.

As for your Gulp question, I'm not exactly sure. I develop my themes with SASS and just compile and minify the files before I upload the theme. There's probably a tool or plugin somewhere that allows you to minify your files from WordPress itself, but I haven't run across one yet.

Juliette Tworsey
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Thanks for your insights Samuel. I will check out WP Super Cache.

I've become a fan of Sass (from learning about it here on TH) too and based off of your explanation of how you work with Sass to minify CSS I realize that it would make perfect sense to utilize Gulp (w/Sass, etc..) in the same fashion when minifying CSS and JS files.

Cheers:-)