Title: Autoptimize+W3Total Cache
Last modified: October 19, 2016

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# Autoptimize+W3Total Cache

 *  Resolved [rkhudoyberdiev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkhudoyberdiev/)
 * (@rkhudoyberdiev)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimizew3total-cache/)
 * Hello Frank,
 * Thank You very much for this amazing plugin. I found a perfect setup combo using
   Autoptimize for minifying and W3Total Cache as a caching solution.
 * However, I have a question regarding the caching. As I read somewhere, Autoptimize
   implements its own caching, so I was curious is it possible to turn it off in
   order to totally use W3 Total Cache’s caching functionality? Or maybe it is fine
   to use both and there would be no compatibility issues?
 * Finally, I was curious what does ‘By default files saved are static css/js, uncheck
   this option if your webserver doesn’t properly handle the compression and expiry’
   checkbox does.
 * Thanks in Advance,
 * Ron

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimizew3total-cache/#post-8332219)
 * Morning Ron;
    AO caches the JS & CSS, but not the HTML, so I would advice to 
   keep on using W3TC (or a similar page caching solution). If you make sure all
   minification (CSS, JS, HTML) is OFF in W3TC, there is no risk of compatibility
   issues.
 * regarding having “static css/js” on or off; off only makes sense if you’re not
   on apache and if you don’t want to bother with configuring your webserver to 
   handle gzip-compression and expiry-settings yourself. in that case your autoptimized
   JS/CSS will be .php-files and the php-code will take care of compression & expiry.
 * hope this clarifies,
    frank

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 * Last reply from: [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autoptimizew3total-cache/#post-8332219)
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