Title: Query Strings Remover
Author: Atul Kumar Pandey
Published: <strong>April 15, 2014</strong>
Last modified: July 9, 2018

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# query-strings-remover

 By [Atul Kumar Pandey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atulkumarpandey/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-strings-remover/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-strings-remover/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-strings-remover/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/query-strings-remover/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of July 6, 2018 and is not available for download.
Reason: Guideline Violation.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Warning..!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-118/)󠁿

 [scorpiotiger](https://profiles.wordpress.org/scorpiotiger/) April 30, 2017 4 replies

Removing query strings is all well and good, but understand that they’re there for
a reason. You can always adopt another cache-busting technique such as changing 
the actual filenames of the static resources, or enqueing with a version number 
in the filename and using rewrites to resolve to the unversioned filename. None 
of this helps you with the versioning of static resources used by your plugins. 
If you update a plugin (or theme for that matter) and a static resource used by 
that plugin is updated and you use query-strings-remover to strip the updated query
string, your users will still be using the cached version. This is likely to break
your site until the cached resources expire which depending upon your headers could
be a year or more. DO NOT use this plugin unless you fully understand the implications..!

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### 󠀁[Excellent!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-4100/)󠁿

 [Skunkster](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nrharris/) January 5, 2017

Worked great – just pop it in and GTMetrix reports that the the query strings are
gone! Thanks!

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### 󠀁[Stolen and Copied Code From Another Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stolen-and-copied-code-from-another-plugin/)󠁿

 [wutsdis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wutsdis/) February 25, 2017 2 replies

https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-query-strings-from-static-resources/ Compare
the code, it’s the same plugin. It even has the same code structure.

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### 󠀁[Didn't work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/didnt-work-173/)󠁿

 [Bryan202](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bryan202/) September 3, 2016

still getting an “F” from pingdom and Google PageSpeed “Remove query strings from
static resources”> I’ve cleared cache, rebooted and ran the test on different machines
and browsers. Same result.

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### 󠀁[It works 🙂](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-1055/)󠁿

 [friend18](https://profiles.wordpress.org/friend18/) September 3, 2016

Hi, I used another plugins “Remove Query Strings From Static Resources: which break
my products page but this plugin work like charm and fix my issue with GTmetrix :).
Thank you

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### 󠀁[Awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-3764/)󠁿

 [Tintin1837](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tintin1837/) September 3, 2016

it’s working.

 [ Read all 15 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/query-strings-remover/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Query Strings Remover” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Atul Kumar Pandey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atulkumarpandey/)

[Translate “Query Strings Remover” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/query-strings-remover)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/query-strings-remover/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/query-strings-remover/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/query-strings-remover/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/query-strings-remover/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-strings-remover/advanced/)