You can enable defer js and it will work, as long as it’s not on the ignore list.
Bare in mind however, some themes need jquery to load with render blocking, so only do that if you understand how your theme works.
Understood; I tried defer before emailing you.
I’m asking if there is an async option instead of defer, thinking it might act differently.
But you may be right in that my theme might not work with async either; I tried an async plugin but activating it seemed to block my main slider in the theme.
Thank you for the reply Raul!
We don’t have an async option, because async doesn’t preserve the order of the scripts.
WP needs to load all JS and CSS files in order, so while Async would be faster, there’s no way to ensure that jquery loads earlier than other libraries that require it.
Async would make sense, only if you have a single, merged JS file per page.
