Fresh LESS Compiler - Documentation

Introduction

Fresh Performance Cache boosts your WordPress site performance by minifying, combining, compressing and caching your files.

NOTE: All our "Fresh" plugins are dependent on the "Fresh Framework" plugin that is always bundled with all our "Fresh" plugins for FREE. "Fresh Framework" should auto-install and auto-activate upon Activation of one of the "Fresh" plugins.

NOTE: Please do not make any changes directly in the source code of Fresh Plugins - you or your customers won't be able to Update the item later on via WP-Admin. If you need to modify our Plugins, we kindly ask you to do it via a different theme/plugin or simply tell us what you want and we will try to implement it directly and for everyone.

Installation

Unzip the package you have downloaded from the Marketplaces and inside you should find another ZIP file with the product itself. This ZIP file can be upload either via "WordPress Admin -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload" or FTP to /wp-content/plugins/

Usage

You can access the interface of this plugin at "WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Performance Cache".

General

In this section you can set what do you want to Minify.

Minification is a process of removing all unnecessary characters from source code without changing its functionality. These unnecessary characters usually include white space characters, new line characters, comments, and sometimes block delimiters, which are used to add readability to the code but are not required for it to execute.

All minified files are also then combined together into one (or so) cache files to save server requests.

For the best compression, we also recommend having the gzip compression turned on. Gzip is available on most servers.

When needed, you can also press the Clear Cache button. This will restart the whole minify/combine/cache process back to square one and creates a clean slate. You will then need to browse around your site again so the cache can regenerate based on what is being loaded - you can leave this step up to your visitors as well, it doesn't matter who will browse around but once somebody does, the cache and Assets List will update.

Exclude Assets

There might be times when you will need to exlude some asset(s) from the whole minify/combine/cache process because they are causing you problems/console errors. These problems are usually because that file in question is not in line with the basic coding and programming standards.

Example of an Exclusion process where we will exclude a file called "badfile.js"

CASE 1

Files loaded without Exclusion of "badfile.js" will be loaded in this order:
1. cachefile.js

CASE 2

Files loaded with Exclusion of badfile.js will be loaded in this order:
1. cachefile_part1.js
2. badfile.js
3. cachefile_part2.js

The example above was very simple in order to give you an idea of what goes on under the hood, but it reality it can be a little more complex.

Conditional stylesheets and scripts are silently excluded automatically.

Updates

You can simply update this product from "WordPress Admin -> Dashboard -> Updates". You do not need any purchase code to update our products this way.

Bug reports and feature requests

Please let us know your concern via our support channel.

Support

We offer free support to our paying customers for general installation/usage/bugs, etc. The most up-to-date information on where to get support are provided right where you have purchased this product.