Ordering StyleSheet and JavaScript (external and inline) for performance optimization.
As of April 2026, Performance Optimization: Order Styles and Javascript is a WordPress css plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
Did you ever read about Optimization of website/blog through ordering styles and Scripts in head section?
If you like your website load in browser as quickly as possible then you may have read in performance optimization tips that
you should move all CSS files on top and script at last in HTML head section <head></head>.
How do you order those calls? If you are manually putting CSS and JavaScript files in head section (<head></head>),
then you can do this very easily. Just modify once and optimization for this is over.
What if you are using plugins and that are adding calls to JavaScript and CSS files dynamically. This is case of WordPress blog,
where we use many plugins and those plugins add various Styles and Script files dynamically from wp_head() call.
If above…
| WordPress | 2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 3.6.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Just a ReadMe Refresh to tell WP that everything is still fine and work perfectly.
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