Title: Autoptimized conflicts with other plugins
Last modified: September 1, 2016
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# Autoptimized conflicts with other plugins
* [jm2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jm2016/)
* (@jm2016)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/)
* Hi,
I just installed Autoptimized today, to test it. I am using X theme. I am
heavy on using X-theme’s Cornerstone plugin and Thriveleads plugins. None of
these are working after I installed Autoptimizer. I cannot edit a page in Cornerstone,
or I cannot edit a Thrivelead form. When I click on either one of these options,
the page reloads with the homepage. I tried almost everything that I read, options,
settings, etc, but still doesn’t work. I tried deleting plugins, including Autoptimizer
and other plugins, still won’t work. Now I feel like I have to delete the entire
site and re-do it from scratch. Please let me know what I should do.
* Thank you!
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/)
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* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487404)
* ouch jm2016, that sounds bad …
* what you should know regarding autopitimize;
1. it aggregates & minifies the
JS & CSS from the frontend (so now /wp-admin) 2. it doesn’t touch the original
JS & CSS, but removes references to it from the HTML on the fly 3. if you disable
autoptimize all should go back to how it was before (you might have to purge
your page cache)
* now some questions;
* given (1), I assume Cornerstone & Thrivelead are active
on the front-end, for you as an admin and that is that what broke? * did you
try simply disabling JS optimization? what errors did you have on your browser’s
error console? * after disabling (removing) AO, did you purge your page cache
as per (3)?
* I’ll be happy to take a look at your site, if you provide me with the URL. Maybe
I can see what is going on (and if AO is still active somehow)?
* frank
* Thread Starter [jm2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jm2016/)
* (@jm2016)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487452)
* Hello Mr. Frank,
* Thank you for your response!
* I have tried several times to disable, and clear the cache etc, but still those
plugins will not work.
* 1. Yes sir, they are active on front-end. Those two plugins won’t work. I tried
to contact the staff on Themeco – X-Theme, they said this:
* “Hello There,
* Cornerstone doesn’t play along with Autoptimize script. The Cornerstone builder
takes place on the front end, most of the times Autoptimize tries to cache its
resources. This can cause stale data to be loaded. To resolve this, you’ll need
to exclude the css and js files of Cornerstone.
* Both CSS and JS optimization can skip code from being aggregated and minimized
by adding “identifiers” to the comma-seperated exclusion list. The exact identifier
string to use can be determined this way:
* – If you want to exclude a specific file, e.g. wp-content/plugins/cornerstone/
assets/css/style.css, you could simply exclude “cornerstone/assets/css/style.
css”
– If you want to exclude all files of a specific plugin, e.g. wp-content/
plugins/cornerstone/assets/js/dist/site/*, you can exclude for example “cornerstone/
assets/js/dist/site/” or “plugins/cornerstone”
* Hope this helps.”
* Well, I did this, but still did not work.
* 2. I tried disabling JS, but I did not check the console.
3. I did not purge,
i am not sure how to do this. 🙂
* Yes sir, please please take a look at this: [https://joelmadasu.com](https://joelmadasu.com)
* Thank you!
* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487474)
* OK, what we can do is disable Autoptimize for logged in users with a couple of
lines of code. Install [the code snippets plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)
and use that to add this snippet (Save & activate with “Only run on site front-
end” checked);
* ```
add_filter('autoptimize_filter_noptimize','loggedon_noptimize',10,0);
function loggedon_noptimize() {
if (is_user_logged_in()) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
```
* Can you try that?
* frank
* Thread Starter [jm2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jm2016/)
* (@jm2016)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487503)
* Hi,
* I installed the plugin, and also added the code you provided. The problem still
remains the same. When I click on Thriveleads, or Cornerstone to edit, the page
refreshes and loads the home page. I also tried disabling all the plugins and
tried to edit with these two plugins, the page still refreshes and loads the
home page.
* Please let me know what to do.
* Thank you!
Joel
* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487528)
* Sounds like this isn’t autoptimize-related then, but hard to confirm as I can’t
see what’s going on, as this only occurs for you, as a logged on admin Joel …
What do you see in your browser’s error console?
* frank
* Thread Starter [jm2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jm2016/)
* (@jm2016)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487539)
* Hi,
* There are no errors showing. What I did was, accessed the .htaccess and deleted
this code:
* ```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !=””
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^s=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^cx=.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L]
```
* That is it. It started to work normal! I am not sure what this is and how it
came there. And I am not sure if I NEED to leave this in the .htaccess file.
Do I? Please let me know!
* Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* (@futtta)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487540)
* Is that in the .htaccess in the root wordpress-folder? Because there one normally
has just these;
* ```
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
# END WordPress
```
* No idea which plugin added the rules you have (or rather, had) there I’m afraid,
so can’t answer if you need those.
* frank
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* Last reply from: [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
* Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimized-conflicts-with-other-plugins/#post-7487540)
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