Add Expires Headers Plugin

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.

Installation

  1. Deactivate and uninstall any other expires headers plugin you may be using.
  2. Login as an administrator to your WordPress Admin account. Using the Add New menu option under the Plugins section of the navigation, you can either search for: add expires headers or if you’ve downloaded the plugin already, click the Upload link, find the .zip file you download and then click Install Now. Or you can unzip and FTP upload the plugin to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/).
  3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in the WordPress administration panel.

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.

Free Features

  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. Minify CSS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
  9. Inline small footer CSS files which helps to improve page speed.
  10. Escape admin users from minification to avoid page builders related issues.

Pro Features

  1. All Free Features
  2. Ability to add expires headers to External Resources
  3. Adding new file types for adding expires headers
  4. Refresh cache periodically
  5. Unset Entity Tags
  6. HTTP(Gzip) compression
  7. Prevent Specific files from caching
  8. Removing version info from files
  9. Inline google fonts helps to load page faster and reduce external http requests.
  10. Merge multiple JS files into one helps reducing http requests and improving page load speed.
  11. Minify JS files which reduce data transfer requirement hence increase page load speed.
  12. Plugin offers Defer scripts option to speed up rendering process.
  13. HTML minification helps to reduce overall data size of page.