by
Sean Michaud
5 (2 reviews)
Optimize Scripts & Styles
Optimize Scripts & Styles combines scripts and styles on your site, minifies them and provides cachable versions for improved site performance.
Optimize Scripts & Styles ranks #21,244 among WordPress.org plugins with 50+ active installations, is #488 of 1,658 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Apr 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1.4)
v1.9.7
Current Version v1.9.7
Updated 6 months ago
Last Update on 20 Apr, 2026
Refreshed 2 days ago
Last Refreshed on
#488 of 1,658 in Performance
Top 50% by installs
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KW Avg Position
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- Version
- 1.9.7
- Last Updated
- Apr 20, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.1+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Sean Michaud
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- Reviews
- 2
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Optimize Scripts & Styles
This plugin was born out of a frustration with the method of combining scripts in W3 Total Cache. Simply disable the minification portion of W3 and use this plugin to manage it instead. Clearing the cache will also clear these scripts for you. It has also been tested with WP Super Cache. When you clear the cache in WP Super Cache, the contents of the optimized scripts and styles folders are also removed, triggering the creation of new versions.
All local scripts and styles registered via wp_register_script, wp_enqueue_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_style will be included in the optimized and versions. Plugins or themes that add scripts directly will not have their scripts or styles included. This plugin ignores off-site scripts and styles. Those will load as they normally would.
Certain custom implementations of scripts or styles that do not use the WordPress standard methods may not be included. The administrative interface provides you a quick way of tracking down exactly what is in each file so that you can make tweaks if needed.
Yes! You can provide a comma separated list of script or style handles to ignore them. View the Cached files section to get the handles you need. jQuery is always ignored as many components rely on jQuery being available.
Each file that is generated has a matching .txt file in the cache folder which gives details about what was included. The content of these files is listed in the admin area as well.
Theme and plugin developers can include their styles in multiple ways, some correct, some a bit hacky. You may need to use the Ignore Settings to ignore certain stylesheets if they are not cascading correctly. Use the Cached files section to discover which styles are included and add the handles in the Ignore styles area, separated by commas. Ignored stylesheets will load after the compressed version used by this plugin. This can be helpful if you want one file with some overrides in it.
The plugin checks for .css and .js file extensions before including them in the optimized files. If you have a theme that uses php files that masquerade as JavaScript or CSS, those PHP files will be ignored and load after the compressed scripts or styles used in the plugin. If you have a CSS file that needs to override the styles from the PHP generated styles, you may need to add that stylesheet to the ignore list so that it can load in the correct order.
No.
Optimization may be disabled for logged in users. Check your plugin settings. It is recommended to leave this option off.
