TEC Pro exclusions for W3TC minification of JS/CSS

[Carol]

I am attempting to utilize W3TC minification for JS and CSS, but disabled it per this KB article – https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/w3-total-cache-breaking-calendar-view/. Disabling minification reduced performance of pages on my site.

Is there a more optimum way to enable W3TC minification, possibly with certain exclusions for TEC?

Matt Q

[Geoff]

Hi Zena,

Good question! You’re spot on in that the conflict is that W3TC will attempt to re-minify the styles and scripts that The Events Calendar have already minified.

The best workaround for this that I am aware of is to configure the W3TC settings to:

• General > Minify, select “Manual” instead of “Auto”
• Minify > HTML & XML, uncheck the “Inline JS minification” option

I think that might have the effect of taking place across the entire site rather than just acting as an exclusion for The Events Calendar. If that’s the case, then I think that might be a good question for the W3TC community to see if the plugin allows exclusions.

Does this make sense and will it work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Carol]

That seemed to fix TEC events not displaying correctly – thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into the W3TC community for a solution that may allow me to exclude TEC.

Matt Q.

[Geoff]

My pleasure! Thanks a ton and please do feel free to follow-up if you are able to find a method for excluding specific styles and scripts — I’m sure others would find that super useful as well.

Cheers and have a great weekend!
Geoff

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