Title: Not able to defer javascripts
Last modified: May 29, 2018

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# Not able to defer javascripts

 *  [treeflips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treeflips/)
 * (@treeflips)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/)
 * I’m trying to defer a whole bunch of JS’s files. I put just filenames in but 
   it doesn’t seem to work. Do I have to put the query strings as well?

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10334398)
 * morning [@treeflips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treeflips/);
    the “async”
   field expects a list of comma-separated values.
 * so;
    * what do you have there now * can you share your URL?
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [treeflips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treeflips/)
 * (@treeflips)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10334412)
 * I’ve got it turned off…but it was something like:
 * something.js,something.min.js,something.js
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10334461)
 * provided those “somethings” were in your HTML source, it should have worked. 
   my money is on a page cache that needed flushing maybe?
 *  Thread Starter [treeflips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treeflips/)
 * (@treeflips)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10334482)
 * I had caching off. Will try again just to make sure.
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10335783)
 * OK, feel free to follow up here.

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 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-able-to-defer-javascripts/#post-10335783)
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