StaticDelivr CDN

Description

StaticDelivr CDN is a lightweight and powerful plugin designed to improve your WordPress site’s performance. By rewriting theme, plugin, and core file resource URLs to use the StaticDelivr CDN, the plugin ensures faster loading times, reduced server load, and a better user experience.

StaticDelivr is a global content delivery network (CDN) that supports delivering assets from various platforms like npm, GitHub, and WordPress. By leveraging geographically distributed servers, StaticDelivr optimizes the delivery of your static assets such as CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts.

Key Features

• Automatic URL Rewriting: Automatically rewrites URLs of enqueued styles, scripts, and core files for themes, plugins, and WordPress itself to use the StaticDelivr CDN.
• Simple Settings: Enable or disable the functionality with a simple toggle in the plugin settings page.
• Compatibility: Works seamlessly with all WordPress themes and plugins that correctly enqueue their assets.
• Improved Performance: Delivers assets from the StaticDelivr CDN for lightning-fast loading and enhanced user experience.
• Multi-CDN Support: Leverages multiple CDNs to ensure optimal availability and performance.
• Free and Open Source: Supports the open-source community by offering free access to a high-performance CDN.

Use of Third-Party Service

This plugin relies on the StaticDelivr CDN to deliver static assets, including WordPress themes, plugins, and core files. The CDN uses the public WordPress SVN repository to fetch these files and serves them through a globally distributed network for faster performance and reduced bandwidth costs.

• Service Terms of Use: StaticDelivr Terms
• Privacy Policy: StaticDelivr Privacy Policy

How It Works

StaticDelivr CDN rewrites your WordPress asset URLs to deliver them through its high-performance network:

• Original URL: https://example.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/version/style.css
• Rewritten CDN URL: https://cdn.staticdelivr.com/wp/themes/theme-name/version/style.css

This process applies to themes, plugins, and core files:

• Themes:
  Original: https://example.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentythree/1.0/style.css
  CDN: https://cdn.staticdelivr.com/wp/themes/twentytwentythree/1.0/style.css

• Plugins:
  Original: https://example.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/frontend/woocommerce.min.js
  CDN: https://cdn.staticdelivr.com/wp/plugins/woocommerce/tags/9.3.3/assets/js/frontend/woocommerce.min.js

• Core Files:
  Original: https://example.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
  CDN: https://cdn.staticdelivr.com/wp/core/trunk/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js

This ensures faster delivery through StaticDelivr’s globally distributed network.

Why Use StaticDelivr?

• Global Distribution: StaticDelivr serves your assets from a globally distributed network, reducing latency and improving load times.
• Browser Caching Benefits: As an open-source CDN used by many sites, assets served by StaticDelivr are likely already cached in users’ browsers. This enables faster load times when visiting multiple sites using StaticDelivr.
• Significant Bandwidth Savings: Reduces your site’s bandwidth usage and number of requests significantly by offloading asset delivery to StaticDelivr.
• Optimized Performance: Ensures assets are delivered quickly, no matter where your users are located.
• Comprehensive WordPress Support: Includes support for delivering core WordPress files (e.g., those in the wp-includes directory) to enhance site speed and reliability.
• Support for Popular Platforms: Easily integrates with npm, GitHub, WordPress, and Google Fonts.
• No Configuration Required: Automatically enhances your site’s performance with minimal setup.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. See License URI for details.

Installation

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/staticdelivr directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Navigate to Settings > StaticDelivr CDN to enable the CDN functionality.

FAQ

What does this plugin do?

This plugin rewrites the URLs of your WordPress themes, plugins, and core files to use the StaticDelivr CDN for serving static assets like CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts.

How do I enable or disable the CDN rewriting?

Go to Settings > StaticDelivr CDN in your WordPress admin dashboard and toggle the setting to enable or disable the functionality.

Does this plugin support all themes and plugins?

Yes, the plugin works with all WordPress themes and plugins that enqueue their assets correctly using WordPress functions.

Will this plugin affect my site’s functionality?

No, the plugin only changes the source URLs of static assets. It does not affect any functionality of your site.

Is StaticDelivr free to use?

Yes, StaticDelivr is a free, open-source CDN designed to support the open-source community.

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Changelog

1.0

• Initial release.