Using too many plugins for your wordpress blog never be a good idea when you know that it's not so hard to hack your wordpress engine. Why don't try to reduce the use of plugins? Coz some plugins can be added easily by appending the plugin's code to your template function. Including this unique trick to minify HTML, javasript and CSS, it takes only one step to do it.
Minifying html, inline javascript and CSS is basically reducing the size of those files so it will be smaller and faster to download and shown on your browser. The implementation of this minify function is basically simple, by removing the white spaces, arguments and comments of inline javascript, CSS and HTML files. This minify function can be found in WP-Minify plugin, or if you use W3 Total Cache plugin you can simply activate this feature. But since we are now trying to cut the use plugins, we better try this manual way coz I also found the minify function doesn't really work well in W3 Total cache.
You know, it's so easy to do this, simply copy this magic minifying code (View Code) and add it to functions.php file in your theme directory, save, and it's done!
By adding this minify function, you will see the source of your html, inline javascript and CSS are now compressed. The size will be smaller and quite helpful to improve your pageload speed as well as google pagespeed and yslow grade (if you care). To see whether the minify function works properly, simply see your site source or press Ctrl + U from your keyboard. In the end of the source, you should see this message:
You know, it's so easy to do this, simply copy this magic minifying code (View Code) and add it to functions.php file in your theme directory, save, and it's done!
By adding this minify function, you will see the source of your html, inline javascript and CSS are now compressed. The size will be smaller and quite helpful to improve your pageload speed as well as google pagespeed and yslow grade (if you care). To see whether the minify function works properly, simply see your site source or press Ctrl + U from your keyboard. In the end of the source, you should see this message:
<!–-HTML compressed, size saved ...%. From ...bytes, now ...bytes-–>Well, that's it! Easy, eh? Try to reduce the use of unnecessary plugin when you know it's easy and fun to do it by yourself. Also try to cut your plugin by creating WP Page Navigation without Plugin or another mostly used wordpress feature Related Post by Tags and Category Without Plugin. Have a try and Happy Blogging!