Philip K Meadows

Fast AF caching! Optimize your website performance for the best page speed
<ul>
<li>Minifies HTML, JavaScript and CSS files</li>
<li>Defers loading of JavaScript</li>
<li>Compresses JPEG and PNG images</li>
<li>Generates static HTML pages</li>
</ul>
Try it and see the results for yourself…
<h4>Getting Started</h4>
No complicated settings to deal with;
<ol>
<li>Deactivate/delete any current caching or minification plugins</li>
<li>Install WP Roids</li>
<li>Activate WP Roids</li>
<li>Log out</li>
<li>Refresh your home page TWICE</li>
</ol>
<h4>“It broke my site, arrrrrrgh!”</h4>
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
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<li>Switch your site’s theme to “Twenty Twenty” (or one of the other “Twenty…” Themes). If it then works, you have a moody theme</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Reactivate each plugin one by one and refresh your home page each time time until it breaks</li>
<li>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”</li>
<li>Finally, if no improvement has occurred, go to the Settings tab and experiment with toggling options in the first section “Core Settings”</li>
<li>If you have the time, it would help greatly if you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-roids" rel="ugc">log a support topic on the Support Page</a> and tell me as much as you can about what happened</li>
</ol>
<h4>How Fast Is It?</h4>
In testing, WP Roids was FASTER than:
<ul>
<li>WP Super Cache</li>
<li>W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>WP Fastest Cache</li>
<li>Comet Cache</li>
<li>Autoptimize</li>
<li>WP Speed of Light</li>
<li>…and many more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where Can I Check Site Speed?</h4>
Either of these two sites is good:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tools.pingdom.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gtmetrix.com" rel="nofollow ugc">GTmetrix</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Software Requirements</h4>
In addition to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" rel="ugc">WordPress Requirements</a>, WP Roids requires the following:
<ul>
<li>
<code>.htaccess</code> file to be writable
some security plugins disable this, so just turn this protection off for a minute during install/activation
</li>
<li>
PHP version greater than 5.6.0
It WILL throw errors on activation if not! No damage should occur though
</li>
<li>
PHP cURL extension enabled
Usually is by default on most decent hosts
</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
Copyright: © 2019-Present <a href="https://philmeadows.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Philip K. Meadows</a> (coded in Great Britain)
Released under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>
<h4>Credits / Additional Acknowledgments</h4>
<ul>
<li>Software designed for WordPress
<ul>
<li>GPL License <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/GPL</a></li>
<li>WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Photograph of Lance Armstrong
<ul>
<li>Source: <a href="http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0" rel="nofollow ugc">http://newsactivist.com/en/articles/604-103-lf/lance-armstrong-cheater-0</a></li>
<li>Used without permission, but “Fair Use” for the purposes of caricature, parody and satire</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

WP Roids

The fastest caching plugin for WordPress. FASTER than WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache and many more...

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With Browser Caching you can tell Browsers when your files usually change, e.g. every month, every week, etc. This will fasten up your website because Browser will only make requests to your Server after the declared time. PageSpeed is a Google Ranking Factor so it is important to have a fast website. 
There a several ways to enable Browser Caching. This Plugin uses Expires. The following code will be added to your .htaccess file:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/javascript “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/html “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/xhtml-xml “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 month”
The second line means that css files will be requested after 1 month. The third line means that javascript files will be requested after 1 month and so on. 
Of course you can change the periods. You will find instructions for that in the FAQ section.
In case you do not have reading rights to the .htaccess file you will get a 403 Permission Denied Error Page. So before activating this Plugin make sure you have reading rights to the .htaccess file (normally you have those rights).

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