How To Enable Gzip With WP-Cache2
Everton | Jan 02, 2007 | Comments 5
I’ve made one last tweak to my site to improve performance that I’d like to highlight to other Wordpress users who use the WP-Cache2 plugin. WP-Cache2 unfortunately doesn’t work with gzip compression, which means that some of your pages might actually load slower than if you just used gzip.
Mark J as usual has provided a fix for WP-cache2 to make it it work with gzip compression, which makes WP-cache2 do the gzipping, not Wordpress.
To turn on gzip with WP-Cache2 (do not turn gzip on in Wordpress – let WP-Cache2 do the work, otherwise WP-Cache2 will disable itself) put the following line:
if ( extension_loaded('zlib') ) ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
above this line in wp-cache-phase1.php which is found in the WP-cache plugin folder:
foreach ($meta-»headers as $header) {
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.
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Do you have it installed out here?
Do you have it installed out here like this?
It is better, cpu wise, to enable it from Apache.
I always want to look after my CPU – will do now. thanks.
mod_deflate is a module specific to the Apache 2.0 series, so I can’t install it as it’s not compatible with cpanel yet :-( .