Title: Breaks caching plugins
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Breaks caching plugins

 *  [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-caching-plugins/)
 * Beware — this plugin breaks caching plugins. W3 Total Cache goes so far as to
   generate a warning when you have both plugins activated. A better solution than
   using this plugin is to use .htaccess rules to compress HTML requests.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/force-gzip/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/force-gzip/)

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