AEH Speed Optimization vs Transient Cleaner

AEH Speed Optimization boosts site speed with caching, minification, lazy loading, and image optimization to improve performance and SEO. Advantages 1) Serves static assets with an efficient cache policy helps to leverage browser caching. 2) Reduces page loading time of website. 3) Improves user experience as page loads very quickly than before. 4) Decreases total data-size of page. 5) Larger band of predefined file types are covered so it will increase bandwidth of files which can have expiry headers. 6) You can have different expire time for cache base on type of resources. 7) Merge multiple CSS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed. 8) Async loading of processed CSS files. 9) Minify CSS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed. 10) Inline small footer CSS files which helps to improve page speed. 11) Escape admin users from minification to avoid page builders related issues. 12) Lazy loading support for images, iframes, and videos. 13) Widgets and shortcodes can also be lazy loaded. 14) Lazy loading fully supports responsive images for better performance across devices. 15) Custom placeholder images can be used during lazy loading. 16) Exclude critical elements from lazy loading to ensure essential visuals load immediately. Pro Features 1) Ability to add expires headers to External Resources 2) Adding new file types for adding expires headers 3) Refresh cache periodically 4) Unset Entity Tags 5) HTTP(Gzip) compression 6) Prevent Specific files from caching 7) Removing version info from files 8) Inline google fonts helps to load page faster and reduce external http requests. 9) Merge multiple JS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed. 10) Minify JS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed. 11) Plugin offers Defer scripts option to speed up rendering process. 12) HTML minification helps to reduce overall data size of page. 13) Automatically convert images to optimized formats like WebP or AVIF for faster delivery without manual effort. 14) Smartly resize and serve images based on screen size and device type to minimize bandwidth and boost speed. 15) Support next-gen formats like WebP and AVIF for superior compression, smaller files, and sharper visuals. 16) Track image optimization stats, savings, and performance improvements directly from your WordPress dashboard. 17) Automatically deliver the perfect image size for every device, ensuring crisp visuals and smooth performance. 18) Optimize images without visible loss in clarity—maintaining pixel perfection while reducing file size. 19) Works out-of-the-box with WordPress and major themes or plugins, no setup hassles or coding required. Documentation For Plugin documentation, please refer our plugin website. Requirements 1) Make sure that the “mod_expires” module is enabled on your website hosting server. 2) It is necessary to have read/write permission of .htaccess file to plugin. If not then update file permissions accordingly. 3) check status page of plugin for more info. Usage To use this plugin do the following: 1) Firstly activate Plugin. 2) Go to plugin settings page. 3) Check Files types you want to have expires headers and also add respective expires days for mime type using input box and make sure you enable respective mime type, for which group of files you want to add expires headers. 4) Once you hit “submit” button all options you selected in settings page saved database of website and accordingly .htaccess file will updated and add expires headers for respective selected files. 5) For Minification check respective settings at Minification Tab of plugin settings page. 6) For Lazy Loading check respective settings at Lazy Loading Tab of plugin settings page.

Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best! Transient housekeeping was added to the core of WordPress after version 5.8. However, I have decided to open up this plugin to all versions to allow for manual transient cleaning. Longer term I am working on a new version of the plugin, designed specifically for all WordPress releases. Tested up to PHP 8.2 Fully complies with WordPress coding standards Compliant with the stronger WordPress VIP coding standards, as well as compatibility with their platform Community plugin – visit the Github page to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues “Transients are a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the WordPress database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted.” Unfortunately, expired transients only get deleted when you attempt to access them. If you don’t access the transient then, even though it’s expired, WordPress will not remove it. This is a known “issue” but due to reasons, which are explained in the FAQ, this has not been adequately resolved. Why is this a problem? Transients are often used by plugins to “cache” data (my own plugins included). Because of this it means that expired data can be left and build up, resulting in a bloated database table. Meantime, this plugin is the hero that you’ve been waiting for. Simply activate the plugin, sit back and enjoy a much cleaner, smaller options table. It also adds the additional recommendation that after a database upgrade all transients will be cleared down. The Settings Screen Within Administration -> Tools -> Transients an options screen exists allowing you to tweak when you’d like cleaning to happen, including the ability to perform an ad-hoc run, and when you’d like the to be automatically scheduled. You can even request an optimization of the options table to give your system a real “pep”! Running in Lite mode A “lite” mode is available. By activating this the options screen will no longer appear and default settings will be used. The advantage? Improved performance to Admin and, especially if you’re running multi-site, no chance of anybody “tinkering” with the settings. To activate, use the following… define( 'TC_LITE', true ); This should be added to your wp-config.php file. Using hooks If you’re the type of odd person who likes to code for WordPress (really?) then I’ve added a couple of hooks so you can call our rather neat cleaning functions… housekeep_transients – this will clear down any expired transients clear_all_transients – this will remove any and all transients, expired or otherwise Acknowledgements I’d like to thank WordPress Developer Andrew Nacin for his early discussion on this. Also, I’d like to acknowledge the useful article at Everybody Staze for ensuring the proposed solution made sense, and W-Shadow.com for the cleaning code. Iconography is courtesy of the very talented Janki Rathod.