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Optimize Scripts & Styles

Optimize Scripts & Styles combines scripts and styles on your site, minifies them and provides cachable versions for improved site performance.

By Sean Michaud·Minify·Free
5(2 reviews)
·70 active installs·Updated 5 months ago
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As of April 2026, Optimize Scripts & Styles is a WordPress minify plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Top alternative: WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images….

5/52 reviews
70active installs
11K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

Optimize Scripts & Styles optimizes your site’s JavaScript and CSS files by combining, minifying and caching them. This will help your site’s overall performance and user experience by reducing the number of files served up and the overall size of these files.

For developers, this allows you to maintain uncompressed versions for development themes or plugins, while compressing them for a production environment.

For you SEO buffs, it cleans up the number of scripts that get included and downloaded to your site visitors, helping your overall PageSpeed score.

Header and footer script locations are maintained as well as any localized data used for the scripts and the minified files are stored in the /cache folder, making it friendly for plugins like WP Super Cache. Media attri…

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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.4+ required

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Changelog

1.9.6

  • SECURITY FIX: Fixed critical directory traversal vulnerability in CSS import processing and script path handling
  • Added comprehensive path validation to prevent directory traversal attacks
  • Enhanced security checks for file operations to ensure paths are within WordPress directory structure
  • Improved input sanitization for import paths and script URLs
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Sean MichaudSean Michaud
Plugin Info
Version
1.9.6
Last Updated
Oct 30, 2025
WP Requires
4.0+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
70
Downloads
11K+
Added
Jun 20, 2018
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

S
Sean Michaud
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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