Title: Inline JS exclusion and minify functionality
Last modified: December 3, 2016

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# Inline JS exclusion and minify functionality

 *  [mojamba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojamba/)
 * (@mojamba)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/)
 * The ability to exclude certain inline javascript is great but it seems that in
   addition to excluding it from the consolidated AO JS file, it also gets excluded
   from the minify functionality. Is there a reason for this? It’s not usually much
   code so it is a pretty small issue, but I am just curious why it isn’t minified
   like all the rest of the code.

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8509513)
 * AO (currently) only minifies the autoptimize-files, so whatever you exclude is
   indeed not minified. This might change in the future though 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mojamba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojamba/)
 * (@mojamba)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8509905)
 * But AO optimizes the HTML code as well, right? And, if you exclude inline JS,
   it will remain in the HTML and thus would get minified? Or, is your minify algorithm
   set to ignore any JS/CSS?
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8510315)
 * > Or, is your minify algorithm set to ignore any JS/CSS?
 * it is.
 *  Thread Starter [mojamba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mojamba/)
 * (@mojamba)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8510361)
 * Well, as I mentioned, it isn’t such a big thing (although maybe it is for others),
   but if there is no specific reason for it disabling that, perhaps you can add
   inline JS/CSS minify options in a future release?
 * Regardless, great plugin. Thanks for your hard work on it.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8510613)
 * > perhaps you can add inline JS/CSS minify options in a future release?
 * I might indeed add minification of non-aggregated JS/ CSS in a future release
   🙂
 * If you’re into PHP-development; feel free to join in on the fun on [the GitHub repo](https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/),
   it could help speed up landing that feature 😉

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inline-js-exclusion-and-minify-functionality/#post-8510613)
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