[wp-hackers] JavaScript,wp_enqueue_script and concatenation

[Simon Wheatley]

Hi Eric,

Did you get any further with this? Any hints.

S


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin<emartin24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the script concatenation only works in the admin
> section.
>
> So, I'm just trying to figure out how to use wp_enqueue_script for
> multiple scripts, but then force WP to print out one script tag for a
> certain set of them. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Aug 3, 8:14 am, Tynan Colin Beatty <junsui... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It does not happen on its own. I chose to include a modified
>> load-scripts.php from wp-admin into my theme's files (modified to allow
>> concatenation of scripts from my theme as well as those in wp-includes/js
>> scripts), but haven't had time to determine an optimal method of also
>> including plugin scripts (there are other variables to consider when trying
>> to include them as well, since some of them need to load in header, whereas
>> I choose to load my concatenated script into the footer). The solution
>> speeds things up a fair amount even without including plugins in the
>> concatenated script (and if your theme doesn't have any js, would be even
>> easier to implement). I'm thinking a nice approach might be to have 1 call
>> to the concated script in head to take care of whatever has to be loaded
>> there, and then a 2nd call to the same load-scripts.php, concatenating all
>> the files that can wait for the footer.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Simon Wheatley
>> <si... at sweetinteraction.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Otto<o... at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Eric Martin<e... at ericmmartin.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >> I use jQuery on my site and a handful of jquery plugins. I've been
>> > >> doing quite a bit of thinking about ways to concatenate the scripts
>> > >> together in order to reduce the number of requests made, while
>> > >> maintaining the usefulness and features provided by wp_enqueue_script.
>>
>> > > I'm pretty sure that 2.8 already has this built in. All scripts get
>> > > concatenated into a single call to load-scripts.php, if everything
>> > > supports it properly.
>>
>> > Does this happen outside the admin area? I haven't noticed it myself,
>> > but maybe my scripts calls aren't configured correctly.
>>
>> > S
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