Title: [Plugin: Autoptimize] Problem with CSS / JS minification
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Autoptimize] Problem with CSS / JS minification

 *  [erick_paper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erick_paper/)
 * (@erick_paper)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-autoptimize-problem-with-css-js-minification/)
 * Hi, thanks for this plugin. MUCH better and simpler than WP-Minify.
 * Now, the CSS minification breaks my site. I can understand that JS can be tricky,
   but CSS should be harmless?!
 * Thanks for any ideas.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autoptimize/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autoptimize/)

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 *  Thread Starter [erick_paper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erick_paper/)
 * (@erick_paper)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-autoptimize-problem-with-css-js-minification/#post-2509962)
 * Stupid plugin. After rooting my hair for over a day, I’ve given up on this nonsense.
 * Instead of giving me a gazillion features like YUI compression etc, just make
   sure the basics work.
 * In my `<head>` I had two lines of CSS code on a simple site:
 * 1. One CSS include from the same website, with full path: `http://mysite.com/
   css/site.css`.
    2. Some inline CSS in `<style>` tags.
 * This wonderful plugin only minified and “combined” the #2 above, just the one
   line of inline CSS.
 * Way to go!
 * Everybody’s a programmer these days. I’ll be waiting for something that bloody
   works.
 *  [G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnetworkau/)
 * (@gnetworkau)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-autoptimize-problem-with-css-js-minification/#post-2510168)
 * try this:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/js-css-script-optimizer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/js-css-script-optimizer/)

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 * Last reply from: [G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnetworkau/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-autoptimize-problem-with-css-js-minification/#post-2510168)
 * Status: not resolved