Sean Thompson

Thanks for your reply.

I decided to give it another try on a different site. This one isn’t using Above the Fold Optimization. I installed WPSSS and when I activated it I got a blank white screen. I removed the WPSSS folder and I still couldn’t access plugins or settings. I had to remove the code it added to .htaccess and clear my browser for everything to work again.

# WP Super Simple Speed by Rynaldo Stoltz Starts - https://wpemergencyroom.com/ #

# Hotlink Protection Start #

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?homebizgreen.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

# Hotlink Protection End #

# GZip Compression Start #

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>

# GZp Compression End #

# Leverage Browser Cache Start #

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>

# Leverage Browser Cache End #

# Caching of common files Start #

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|swf|js|css|gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico|txt|html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# Caching of common files End #

# Enable Keepalive Start #

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Connection keep-alive
</ifModule>

# Enable Keepalive end #

# Use UTF-8 encoding Start #

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

# Use UTF-8 encoding End #

# Enable Vary: Accept-Encoding Start #

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# Enable Vary: Accept-Encoding end #

# WP Super Simple Speed by Rynaldo Stoltz Ends - https://wpemergencyroom.com/ #

The only other performance plugins I have on this site are Hyper Cache and Heartbeat Control.

…Sean