Moving Scripts to the Footer

  • PandaJuggler

    (@pandajuggler)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I’ve been trying to improve my page loading speed, and have been looking at moving my jQuery load to the foot of the page. I moved the call successfully without adverse effects while the EDD plugin was deactivated; but when the plugin is activated, my script reverts to appearing in the page head. Is this strategy incompatible with the plugin?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/

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  • Moderator Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    How are you moving the scripts? Can you show me?

    Thread Starter PandaJuggler

    (@pandajuggler)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the quick response. I put the following in functions.php:

    function my_scripts_method() {
	wp_deregister_script('jquery');
	wp_register_script('jquery','/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js',false,null,true);
	wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}    

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_scripts_method');

    Initially I only had the wp_enqueue_script line in my function with $in_footer set to true, but this didn’t work. I added the deregister/register lines after reading that WordPress registers certain core scripts (like jQuery) in an array which prevents them from being moved from the head – perhaps for good reason, I’m just trying to see what’s possible.

    Moderator Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    You would need to do the same thing with all of the scripts loaded by EDD (and other plugins), not just jQuery itself.

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