Minify toolset css

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Problem: Google's Page Speed Insight tool is flagging that my CSS is not minified for Toolset Starter Theme.

Solution: Other 3rd party tools can minify and enqueue CSS for your theme. Toolset Starter Theme's CSS is minified except for some comments required by WordPress. For simplicity, it's not likely that Toolset will begin enqueueing separate minified CSS files. The Toolset Starter Child theme is made to be modified, so it doesn't make sense for us to start with a minified file here.

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Last updated by marcB-6 6 years, 11 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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April 23, 2017 at 8:32 am #516179

marcB-6

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Hi guys,

Running a test on googe page speed insights i saw that the css of the starter theme is not minified. Is it a possibility to minify it by standard (since everyone is working with a child theme)?
Or is there a reason not to minify it by standard?

Thanks!
Marc

April 23, 2017 at 3:40 pm #516251

Christian Cox

Hi, I think Google's Page Speed Insights tool is balking at the comments at the top of each of these files. If you notice when you install Toolset Starter Child theme, there is no actual CSS included in style.css - yet the tool still complains. If you open the Toolset Starter theme style.css file, you can see the styles are minified into one line, with the exception of comments.

I think there are ways to get around this, but most of them involve the implementation of other 3rd party plugins that will scan your code and generate minified files, then enqueue them correctly. For simplicity, I don't think this is likely to be included in the Toolset Starter theme or the default child theme.

April 27, 2017 at 6:57 am #517721

marcB-6

Ok, thank you Christian!

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