For the uninitiated, minification is the process of removing white space, semi colons or other redundant characters from JavaScript source code without altering its functionality.
Minification improves site speed and accessibility, consequently boosting the user experience. For users with limited data plans and limited bandwidth, minification proves to be a great help in limiting the use of bandwidth.
Newsfeed theme allows the option to minify both CSS and JavaScript/jQuery files as per your convenience. To do that,
- First, make sure you have purchased the pro version of Newsfeed.
- Then open the theme customizer by navigating to Appearance >> Theme.
- After that, navigate to General Settings >> Performance
- Under MINIFY CSS/JS section, toggle on the Enable minify JS/jQuery file option to enable minification of JavaScript and jQuery files
- Then, toggle on Enable minify CSS file to enable minification of CSS files.
- Eventually, don’t forget to click on
the button at the top to save and publish the changes.