This plugin is meant to be a drop-in to your wordpress installation with no additional configuration. The goals/features of this plugin are:
- Load javascript files in an asynchronous manner to improve time to DomReady/OnLoad
- Use existing wordpress APIs for backwards compatability and prevent coupling to this plugin
- Leverage dependency model wordpress provides for assets to improve loading performance
Please submit bugs or contributions to the github location and not here on wordpress’ system:
https://github.com/parisholley/wordpress-asynchronous-javascript/
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Incompatibility
This plugin will not work out the box with the following plugins (unless they are modified to support asynchronous loading).
- Jetpack by WordPress.com (social plugin)
- WP Most Popular
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.