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Just sharing my experience over the yearsā€¦

Many different caching plugins get hyped up over the yearsā€¦ (but caching is essential).

Switching to a host that does it all for me has been a breath of fresh air, and I only enqueue scripts & styles on pages & post-types that require it.

My first experience of this was @ Pressable.comā€¦ I had a good experience, but with so many eCommerce plugins I need, the backend was about 2-3s loadā€¦ (they used batcache with memcache)ā€¦ I didnā€™t like how it took 2 page loads to cache, and would not stay cached all the timeā€¦

I then switched to Rocket.net which does full-page cache & object cache (caches after first page load)ā€¦ same site backend is under 1.5s, and front-end is typically 750ms. (So I would assume more powerful CPUā€¦)

I do not have any asset management plugins for minifying, etc. (I was manually minifying assets for a bit, but very small gains for work involved).

Iā€™ve found dequeuing assets from plugins has provided the most benefitsā€¦ as many plugins enqueue many scripts & styles on non-relevant pages.

Takes a bit to setup, but donā€™t have to rely on plugins, and more control. :+1:

Dequeue example:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', function() {

  if ( !is_admin() ) {
    wp_dequeue_style('wcv_vendor_store_style');
  }

}

Enqueue Example:

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', function() {

  if ( is_home()  ) {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'home-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/your/folder/home-example.css' );
  }

}

In short: Plugins are annoying. Custom code that sticks to WordPress core Iā€™ve found easier to maintain with less changesā€¦ (and a host that does both Page & Object Cache, and one less thing to worry about on your site!)

This also goes for firewall & security pluginsā€¦ a host that does it for you has been such a nice approach.

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