Heads Up W3TC breaks pre-minified JS file

  • Resolved Tim Reeves

    (@tim-reeves)


    7 months, 1 week ago

    First of all, many thanks for a great plugin, it does just what I wanted!

    It took me a few hours to find this, so I wanted to share it. W3 Total Cache must not be allowed to minify these two files (exclude them in its advanced settings):

    wp-content/plugins/simple-comment-editing/dist/sce-editing.js
wp-content/plugins/simple-comment-editing/dist/integrations-admin.js

    The former is large, the latter huge, and both are pre-minified but do not have .min in the file name. When they are not excepted, W3TC tries to minify (again) and sadly, truncates src-editing.js to about half its original size. For sure this a problem with W3TC (or its minifier); but the problem is, when “Minify and Combine” is selected, then the truncated file is packaged up with others, and as it runs to a JS syntax error, quite a bit of the frontend stops working )-:

    So this is just a “Heads up” – with one question: Why do you pre-minify? That is probably what is causing the W3TC minifier to stumble. Perhaps it would be enough to put “.min” in the file names?

    Cheers, Tim

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