CSS Above The Fold
by Pau Iglesias 5 (1 reviews)

CSS Above The Fold

Faster CSS browser rendering displaying selected fragments of your theme stylesheet file directly into the head section.

CSS Above The Fold ranks #12,745 among WordPress.org plugins with 200+ active installations, is #299 of 1,523 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Aug 31, 2015. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.3 (Current: 7.1)
v1.0 Current Version v1.0
Updated 11 years ago Last Update on 31 Aug, 2015
Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#299 of 1,523 in Performance Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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#12,745
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Active Installs
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-10.7%
KW Avg Position
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Downloads
16.2K
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Support Resolved
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Rating
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (1 reviews)

Next Milestone 300

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Security History

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No known vulnerabilities on record for CSS Above The Fold. Checked 1 month ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress theme developers who want faster perceived page load times. It solves slow CSS rendering by letting specific stylesheet fragments marked with special tags be inlined directly into the page head.

  • Inlines above-the-fold CSS in head
  • Special open/close markup tags
  • Two comment syntax options
  • Comment whole section method
  • Comment only tags method
  • Combinable markup styles
  • Minifies and compacts CSS fragments
  • Caches results via WP options API

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about CSS Above The Fold

Only if you use the Comment whole section type of fragment selection. However, it is easily reversible uncommenting the sections. If you want an independent stylesheet use the Comment only the tags technique.
Prioritizing above-the-fold content it's an important factor to speed-up your website, rankings improvement and conversion.
The aim is simplicity, editing a single file avoids having to maintain two separate stylesheets.
That is the million dollar question, this plugin does not do this task automatically, only provides a method for easy and quick implementation. There are some tools to help you in the process of select the rights fragments of code, and maybe you will have to modify your stylesheet structure to properly isolate these CSS fragments. You can find a lot of resouces about this topic performing a simple Google search like "css above the fold".

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