Filename based asset cache busting

Filename based cache busting for WordPress scripts/styles using last modified date.

Stop telling clients or users to hard refresh / shift refresh. The url to all of the css/js files on your site will change automatically whenever the files are modified. You can set proper long cache lifetimes to help get top scores on Google Pagespeed without running into cached css/javascript problems.

Based on this gist https://gist.github.com/ocean90/1966227 from Dominik Schilling, I’ve enhanced it by automatically replacing the asset version with the files modification time and automatically editing htaccess – making it install + forget.

Includes querystring option as a fallback – which works in more scenarios.

Webservers

Apache

The plugin should add what it needs to your .htaccess f…